Oliver Wendell Holmes Home Poems Poets Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main,— The Comet by Oliver Wendell Holmes The Comet! He is on his way, And singing as he flies;