This author of "The Last Leaf" wrote a poem about a figure who "left the past year's dwelling for the new", after which he "stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more".
One of this author's poems reminisces about a man who, "in his prime / Ere the pruning-knife of Time / cut him down", exhibited a "Roman nose" and a cheek "like a rose / in the snow". That poem ends with the speaker wishing that if he were the title object "on a tree / in the spring", that people should smile "at the old forsaken bough / where I cling". This author of "The Last Leaf" wrote a poem about a figure who "left the past year's dwelling for the new", after which he "stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more". His (*) "medicated novels" include one in which Bernard Langdon moves to Rockland to work in the Apollinean Female Institute, where he meets the titular girl, who is eventually revealed to be half-snake. This author of Elsie Venner wrote a poem about a "ship of pearl" which sails "the unshadowed main". For 10 points, identify this author who wrote "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul" in his poem "The Chambered Nautilus".
One of this author's poems reminisces about a man who, "in his prime / Ere the pruning-knife of Time / cut him down", exhibited a "Roman nose" and a cheek "like a rose / in the snow".
Oliver Wendell {Holmes}, Sr.