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To The Poets Who Only Read And Listen

By Oliver Wendell Holmes

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When evening's shadowy fingers fold     The flowers of every hue,     Some shy, half-opened bud will hold     Its drop of morning's dew.     Sweeter with every sunlit hour     The trembling sphere has grown,     Till all the fragrance of the flower     Becomes at last its own.     We that have sung perchance may find     Our little meed of praise,     And round our pallid temples bind     The wreath of fading bays.     Ah, Poet, who hast never spent     Thy breath in idle strains,     For thee the dewdrop morning lent     Still in thy heart remains;     Unwasted, in its perfumed cell     It waits the evening gale;     Then to the azure whence it fell     Its lingering sweets exhale.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

About Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894) was an American poet, physician, and essayist. His poems "Old Ironsides" and "The Chambered Nautilus" are American classics. He was part of the Fireside Poets group.

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