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The Wonderful One-Hoss-Shay, and Other Poems

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The title poem opens with a question: have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss-shay, built in such a logical way that it ran a hundred years to a day? The year is 1755, the year of the Lisbon earthquake, when the Deacon finishes it. He means to make the weakest place as strong as the rest, so he asks the village folk for the strongest oak, and the poem lists lancewood thills, ash crossbars, white-wood panels and hubs of the Settler's ellum.

The book also holds On Lending a Punchbowl and The Last Leaf. In the punchbowl poem the Mayflower and Miles Standish appear, and the Captain stirs a posset on a winter evening. The pages carry many illustrations by Thomas McIlvaine, with captions such as I dew vum and The Parson Takes a Drive.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), known as Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., was an American physician, poet and novelist based in Boston. He belonged to the group called the fireside poets, worked as a medical reformer and taught as a professor. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and his titles include "Elsie Venner".

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Reading time
About 10 minutes
Pages
34
Language
English
Genre
Poetry
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