Oliver+Wendell+Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes
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(Portrait of a poet)

 * __Biography__**

Oliver Wendell Holmes was born on August 29, 1809. He was known for being witty and had a good sense of humor. While he was young, he rebelled against his father's strict religious beliefs. In his childhood, he attended Harvard college and studied law and medicine. He received his degree in 1836. When he graduated college, he had a large number of professions.

Holmes performed some jobs that he had and had not gone to college for. Holmes practiced medicine for 10 years and taught anatomy at Harvard for two years. In 1847, he officially became a professor at Harvard and taught anatomy and physiology and became the dean of Harvard until 1882. He proposed to doctors that sanatation was key to keeping people from getting sick from puerperal fever (which was rampant at the time). Holmes also had a family life, such as a wife named Amelia Lee Jackson, two sons, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Edward Jackson Holmes and a daughter, Amelia Holmes. He was also a poet from AT LEAST 1830, when he was a child. He died October 7, 1894.

==**__Example of Poetry__** == THE TWO STREAMS

**//by: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)//**Behold the rocky wall That down its sloping sides Pours the swift rain-drops, blending as they fall, In rushing river-tides!

Yon stream, whose sources run Turned by a pebble's edge, Is Athabasca, rolling toward the sun Through the cleft mountain-ledge. The slender rill had strayed, But for the slanting stone, To evening's ocean, with the tangled braid Of foam-flecked Oregon.

So from the heights of Will Life's parting stream descends, And, as a moment turns its slender rill, Each widening torrent bends,--

From the same cradle's side, From the same mother's knee,-- One to long darkness and the frozen tide, One to the Peaceful Sea!


 * __Old Ironsides__**

Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky;

Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar;-- The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more!

Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the flood And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor's tread,

Or know the conquered knee;--

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The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea!

Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the God of storms,-- The lightning of the gale!

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__**Work Cited**__
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Encyclopedia Brittanica. "Oliver Wendell Holmes.Biography." __biography.com.__ Briitannica. Wed. 07 Dec., 2011. []

"Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)." //DISCovering Biography//. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. //Student Resource Center - Junior//. Gale. PAUL BREAUX MIDDLE SCHOOL. 14 Dec. 2011 

**__Pictures__**

//Holmes, Oliver Wendell//. Photograph. //Encyclopædia Britannica Online//. Web. 7 Dec. 2011. <[]>

// Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. // 1853. Photograph. //Wikipedia//. Wikimedia Foundation, 13 Dec. 2011. Web. 15 Dec. 2011. [].

// Holmes in Study //. before 1891. Photograph. //Wikipedia//. Wikimedia Foundation, 13 Dec. 2011. Web. 15 Dec. 2011. .

__**Video Pictures**__

Spenceley, Andrew. //A Frozen Sea//. 2006. Photograph. Upper Loch Torridon, Torridon. //Frozen Sea//. Web. Dec.-Jan. 2011. .http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1657669

Sasser, Stephan. //Columbia Gorge.//nmcouncil. nmcouncil.org. Dec. 13, 2011. []

Allpine Adventures. //Wenatchee.//allpineadventures. allpineadventures.com. Dec. 13, 2011. []

Acanet. //Canoeing the Columbia River.//acanet. acanet.com. Dec 13, 2011. []

Tom Mangan. //Two Streams.// Flickr. Yahoo. Dec. 13, 2011. []

Eldridge, Jacki. //Bulverhythe Cliff Face//. 2006. Photograph. Bulverhythe, East Sussex, Great Britain. //Www.geograph.org.uk//. 9 May 2006. Web. 13 Dec. 2011. [].

Vinson, Jack. //River and Mountains//. 2010. Photograph. //Www.flickr.com//. Web. 14 Dec. 2011. [].


 * __Poems__**

"Old Ironsides." __Poetry-Online.__ Dec. 13, 2011. []