The title character of a poem by this author keeps his wife "in his mammoth fold" and fastens his children in the pen on an election day back when "people were not democrats".
The title character of a poem by this author keeps his wife "in his mammoth fold" and fastens his children in the pen on an election day back when "people were not democrats". Another of his poems describes "gulfs enchanted... where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair". This author of "The Dorchester Giant" and coiner of the term "Boston Brahmin" praised a "meteor of the ocean air" whose "thunders shook the mighty deep" in a poem whose speaker exclaims, "Tear her tattered ensign down!". This poet described a "ship of pearl" in a poem in which he hears a voice singing, "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul". For 10 points, name this author of "Old Ironsides" and "The Chambered Nautilus".
The title character of a poem by this author keeps his wife "in his mammoth fold" and fastens his children in the pen on an election day back when "people were not democrats".
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.