At the oldforsaken bough/
In one poem, this author wrote of the "stale" "fret and tumult" of ordinarylife, concluding that "men never can be still/ But in their graves". In another work,he decided that if he lived to old age to "Let them smile, as I do now/ At the oldforsaken bough/ Where I now cling". This poet of (+) Daily Trials by a SensitiveMan and The Last Leaf wrote of hearing a "clearer note...Then ever Triton blew from wreathed horn" urging him to (*) "Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast". He advocated that it was better to "give her to the god of storms", letting "her shattered bulk" and "every threadbare sail" sink in one work and lamented a "Wrecked...ship of pearls" that taught him to "Build thee more stately mansions". For ten points, name this Fireside poet of Old Ironsides and The Chambered Nautilus.
In one poem, this author wrote of the "stale" "fret and tumult" of ordinarylife, concluding that "men never can be still/
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.