The speaker of one of this author's poems wonders what would happen if the title figure "had answered No, When forth the tremulous question came that cost the maiden her Norman name" in a poem addressed to a portrait of his great-grandmother and entitled "Dorothy Q." Another poem by this man describes an object that "No more shall feel the victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee," and opens with the exhortation "tear her (*) tattered ensign down!"
The speaker of one of this author's poems wonders what would happen if the title figure "had answered No, When forth the tremulous question came that cost the maiden her Norman name" in a poem addressed to a portrait of his great-grandmother and entitled "Dorothy Q." Another poem by this man describes an object that "No more shall feel the victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee," and opens with the exhortation "tear her (*) tattered ensign down!" This man's best known poem describes an animal that continually "left the past year's dwelling for the new" "as the spiral grew," and in that poem, he asks his soul to "Build thee more stately mansions." For 10 points, name this author of "Old Ironsides" and "The Chambered Nautilus."
The speaker of one of this author's poems wonders what would happen if the title figure "had answered No, When forth the tremulous question came that cost the maiden her Norman name" in a poem addressed to a portrait of his great-grandmother and entitled "Dorothy Q." Another poem by this man describes an object that "No more shall feel the victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee," and opens with the exhortation "tear her (*) tattered ensign down!"
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.