Ad Amicos Poem Rhyme Scheme

Recent Interactions*

This poem was read 21 times,

This poem was added to the favorite list by 0 members,

This poem was voted by 0 members.

(* Interactions only in the last 7 days)

New Poems

A Simple Gift Of Clarity
by Michael Mcguire
Ring Of Fire
by N. Khanyile
A Disturbing Dream
by Marlon Pitter
Crab Lice
by Marlon Pitter
Biography Of The Anonymous
by Gilbert Sordebabari
Lost In Search Of A Saved Child
by Michael Mcguire
Dark Lens
by Gilbert Sordebabari
The Ship
by Pieter Sanders
Rose Bush
by Aubrie J Chellman
Between Condemning Bad Acts And Doing Bad Things, Which One Is Worse?
by Marlon Pitter

Popular Poets

1. Emily Dickinson(2415 poems)
2. Madison Julius Cawein(1231 poems)
3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1136 poems)
4. William Wordsworth(1016 poems)
5. Robert Burns(986 poems)
6. Edgar Albert Guest(945 poems)
7. Thomas Moore(849 poems)
8. Robert Service(831 poems)

'Dumque virent genua	A
Et decet obducta solvatur fonte senectus '	B
	-
THE muse of boyhood's fervid hour	C
Grows tame as skies get chill and hazy	D
Where once she sought a passion flower	C
She only hopes to find a daisy	D
Well who the changing world bewails	D
Who asks to have it stay unaltered	E
Shall grown up kittens chase their tails	D
Shall colts be never shod or haltered	E
	-
Are we 'The Boys' that used to make	F
The tables ring with noisy follies	D
Whose deep lunged laughter oft would shake	F
The ceiling with its thunder volleys	D
Are we the youths with lips unshorn	A
At beauty's feet unwrinkled suitors	D
Whose memories reach tradition's morn	A
The days of prehistoric tutors	D
	-
'The Boys' we knew but who are these	D
Whose heads might serve for Plutarch's sages	D
Or Fox's martyrs if you please	D
Or hermits of the dismal ages	D
'The Boys' we knew can these be those	D
Their cheeks with morning's blush were painted	E
Where are the Harrys Jims and Joes	D
With whom we once were well acquainted	E
	-
If we are they we're not the same	G
If they are we why then they're masking	H
Do tell us neighbor What 's your name	G
Who are you What's the use of asking	H
You once were George or Bill or Ben	A
There's you yourself there 's you that other	C
I know you now I knew you then	A
You used to be your younger brother	C
	-
You both are all our own to day	E
But ah I hear a warning whisper	C
Yon roseate hour that flits away	E
Repeats the Roman's sad paulisper	C
Come back come back we've need of you	I
To pay you for your word of warning	H
We'll bathe your wings in brighter dew	I
Than ever wet the lids of morning	H
	-
Behold this cup its mystic wine	A
No alien's lip has ever tasted	E
The blood of friendship's clinging vine	A
Still flowing flowing yet unwasted	E
Old Time forgot his running sand	E
And laid his hour glass down to fill it	E
And Death himself with gentle hand	E
Has touched the chalice not to spill it	E
	-
Each bubble rounding at the brim	J
Is rainbowed with its magic story	C
The shining days with age grown dim	J
Are dressed again in robes of glory	C
In all its freshness spring returns	D
With song of birds and blossoms tender	C
Once more the torch of passion burns	D
And youth is here in all its splendor	C
	-
Hope swings her anchor like a toy	E
Love laughs and shows the silver arrow	C
We knew so well as man and boy	E
The shaft that stings through bone and marrow	C
Again our kindling pulses beat	E
With tangled curls our fingers dally	C
And bygone beauties smile as sweet	E
As fresh blown lilies of the valley	C
	-
O blessed hour we may forget	E
Its wreaths its rhymes its songs its laughter	C
But not the loving eyes we met	E
Whose light shall gild the dim hereafter	C
How every heart to each grows warm	K
Is one in sunshine's ray We share it	E
Is one in sorrow's blinding storm	K
A look a word shall help him bear it	E
	-
'The Boys' we were 'The Boys' we 'll be	C
As long as three as two are creeping	H
Then here 's to him ah which is he	C
Who lives till all the rest are sleeping	H
A life with tranquil comfort blest	E
The young man's health the rich man's plenty	C
All earth can give that earth has best	E
And heaven at fourscore years and twenty	C

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Ad Amicos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

About Ad Amicos

Write your comment about Ad Amicos poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Recent Interactions*

New Poems

Popular Poets