[DOC] [TLE] Whittier Died in New Hampshire - SeacoastNH.com [PAR] Holmes, best known for his poem "Old Ironsides" was about to celebrate his 80th 
... Before the Civil War Whittier was known largely for his Abolitionist poetry and ... 
of his own work, Whittier maintained a love-hate relationship with his growing fan 
club. ... Whittier, the story goes, was last to dinner one night at Elmfield where a... [DOC] [TLE] Whittier Died in New Hampshire - SeacoastNH.com [PAR] Sensing his approaching death in the 1890s, poet John Greenleaf Whittier ... and 
as a Quaker and deeply private man, Whittier planned to leave them few tasty 
scraps. ... Whittier wrote his last poem at 84, a short congratulatory verse to his 
friend ... Holmes, best known for his poem "Old Ironsides" was about to celebrate 
his... [DOC] [TLE] As I Please - The Poem that Saved "Old Ironsides" - SeacoastNH.com [PAR] Other than a few comic poems for his Harvard newspaper, Holmes had published 
little else. In the nine-volume collected works of the poet, "Old Ironsides" appears 
on page 1. ... Holmes explained in his own footnotes how he came to write the 
poem. ... It was picked up, over the week, by major papers all across the still small
... [DOC] [TLE] Poetry: John Greenleaf Whittier  In my anguish [PAR] Dec 10, 2014 ... The Fireside Poets y got their name from this poem by Whittier but to be ... Our 
own warm hearth seemed blazing free. ... Of course there was Holmes's Old 
Ironsides which remained in popular imagination up to and including the ... After 
the Civil War, and until his death in 1892, Whittier wrote of religion,... [DOC] [TLE] Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. - Wikipedia [PAR] Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (August 29, 1809  October 7, 1894) was an American 
polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, his peers acclaimed 
him as one of the best ... In addition to his work as an author and poet, Holmes 
also served as a physician, professor, lecturer, and inventor, and although he... [DOC] [TLE] Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2, Chapter 23 ... [PAR] This was the fiery lyric on Old Ironsides, protesting against the breaking up of the 
frigate ... At last he turned from the law to medicine, the profession of his 
grandfather. ... of doctor of medicine and when he issued his earliest volume of 
poems. ... he wrote prose and verse in abundance; and in the fulness of years he 
died. [DOC] [TLE] John Brown in Poetry - Trans-Video.Net [PAR] These poems were written by northerners who lived at the time of the ... I had 
hoped to discover some southern poems but have found none of merit. ... Till the 
Rangers fired his dwelling, in his absence, in the night; .... last child, Samuel 
Gridley Howe, Jr., who was born a few weeks after John .... by John Greenleaf 
Whittier. [DOC] [TLE] Oliver Wendell Holmes Biographical Sketch - Eldritch Press [PAR] HOLMES had much to say in his writings of the problems of heredity, and was ... 
He may have speculated over his own descent when he wrote, in The Poet at the 
... With the exception of a Dutch strain a few generations before, these .... It was 
then that he wrote the poem Old Ironsides, in a burst of indignation as he has... [DOC] [TLE] Back to main Table of contents - Muscogee County School District [PAR] 1833 Poet John Greenleaf Whittier calls for the abolition of ... publishes Ballads 
and Other Poems ... 1855 Walt Whitman publishes the first edition of his book ..... 
Explain in your own words what you think Emerson and Thoreau are saying in 
the .... from the air a few weeks or months before he was shot: was the whole. [DOC] [TLE] fireside.doc - American Studies @ The University of Virginia [PAR] His earliest juvenile poems were devotional rimes and versifications of Old 
Testament ... Bryant wrote the poem when he was nine and recited it at a school 
assembly, riming ... When he died, in

Question: A few weeks before his own death, Whittier wrote his last poem "To" this "Old Ironsides" poet
Answer: Oliver Wendell Holmes