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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: greenleaf whittier Matches Found: 581 A CHRISTMAS CARMEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sound over all waters, reach out from all lands Last Line: All speech flow to music, all hearts beat as one! Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The A DAY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Talk not of sad november, when a day Last Line: For leaf and blossom when god gives us spring! Subject(s): Patience A DAY'S JOURNEY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After your pleasant morning travel Last Line: And noonday's silver into gold. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A DREAM OF SUMMER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bland as the morning breath of june Last Line: Has left his hope with all! Subject(s): Holidays; Summer; Trees A FAREWELL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I say, dear friends, to whom I owe Last Line: "the fittest prayer of parting: ""go with god!" Subject(s): Farewell; Parting A FRAGMENT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dreadful burden of our sins we feel Last Line: Thou art our father, and thy name is love! Subject(s): God A FREMONT CAMPAIGN SONG, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sound now the trumpet warningly! Last Line: Fremont and victory! Subject(s): Elections; Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Voting; Voters; Suffrage A GREETING; HARRIET BEECHER STOWE'S 70TH ANNIVERSARY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice welcome from the land of flowers Last Line: The noblest work by woman done. Subject(s): Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) A LAMENT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The circle is broken, one seat is forsaken Last Line: She hath passed to the world of the holy from this. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement A LAY OF OLD TIME, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One morning of the first sad fall Last Line: New adams and new eves! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible A LEAGACY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of my many years! Last Line: With its immortal song. A LEGEND OF THE LAKE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should you go to centre harbor Last Line: Her lost one to the fold! A LETTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis over, moses! All is lost! Last Line: "than laborers in new hampshire""!" Subject(s): Elections; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Hale, John Parker (1806-1896); New Hampshire; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Antislavery Movement - United States A MEMORIAL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thicker, deeper, darker growing Last Line: And where thou art must still be home. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A MEMORY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, while the loom of winter weaves Last Line: To cluden's hills of heather! Subject(s): Memory; Scotland A MYSTERY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river hemmed with leaning trees Last Line: The hills of heaven arise. Subject(s): Mountains; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A NAME, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The name the gallic exile bore Last Line: I leave thee with my name. Subject(s): Names A NEW ENGLAND LEGEND, SELECTION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How has new england's romance fled Last Line: "or ""webster's spelling-book." A SABBATH SCENE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scarce had the solemn sabbath-bell Last Line: Undo the heavy burden! Subject(s): Sabbath; Slavery; Sunday; Serfs A SEA DREAM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We saw the slow tides go and come Last Line: Behind him save the song he sung. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SONG FOR THE TIME, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up, laggards of freedom! - our free flag is cast Last Line: For earth wearies of them and god's over all! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs A SONG OF HARVEST, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day, two hundred years ago Last Line: If not on earth, at last in heaven. Subject(s): Holidays; Trees A SONG: INSCRIBED TO THE FREMONT CLUBS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath thy skies, november! Last Line: What may not four years do? Subject(s): Elections; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Antislavery Movement - United States A SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATION, AT THE PRESIDENT'S LEVEE ..., by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today the plant by williams set Last Line: Henceforth the road to heaven! Subject(s): Brown University; Religion; Theology A SUMMER PILGRIMAGE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To kneel before some saintly shrine Last Line: Our common earth a holy ground. Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Summer A SUMMONS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men of the north-land! Where's the manly spirit Last Line: Maintain the right! Subject(s): Censorship; Slavery; Serfs A WELCOME TO LOWELL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take our hands, james russell lowell Last Line: I speak for comrades dead! Subject(s): Diplomacy And Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets A WOMAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, dwarfed and wronged, and stained with ill Last Line: Who dare to scorn the child he loves? Subject(s): God; Shame; Women A WORD FOR THE HOUR, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The firmament breaks up. In black eclipse Last Line: Brighter shall shine the stars which still remain. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History ABRAM MORRISON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midst the men and things which will Last Line: Men like abram morrison. ADJUSTMENT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tree of faith its bare, dry boughs must shed Last Line: And the new gospel verifies the old. Subject(s): Religion; Theology AFTER ELECTION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day's sharp strife is ended now Last Line: The weary heart of freedom rest! Subject(s): Elections; Freedom; Peace; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Liberty AGAIN 'TWAS EVENING, FR. THE MINSTREL GIRL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography ALBUM VERSES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon a stranger hand that gives Last Line: His boast shall be of yankee land. ALL'S WELL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds, which rise with thunder, slake Last Line: The glaring sunshine never knew! Subject(s): Religion; Theology AMONG THE HILLS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the roadside, like the flowers of gold Last Line: With graces more abounding. Variant Title(s): The Wife;sketches Subject(s): White Mountains, New Hampshire AMY WENTWORTH; FOR WILLIAM BRADFORD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As they who watch by sick-beds find relief Last Line: Beyond its own sweet will! Subject(s): Portsmouth, New Hampshire AN ARTIST OF THE BEAUTIFUL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haunted of beauty, like the marvellous youth Last Line: Thy choice, omaster, ever was the best. Subject(s): Fuller, George (1822-1884); Paintings And Painters AN AUTOGRAPH (1), by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I write my name as one Last Line: "may god forgive him wholly!" Subject(s): Autographs; Memory; Mortality; Time AN AUTOGRAPH (2), by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The years that since we met have flown Last Line: Is better than the voice of fame. Subject(s): Friendship AN EASTER FLOWER GIFT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O dearest bloom the seasons know Last Line: The heart of christ and ours! Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; The Resurrection AN OUTDOOR RECEPTION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On these green banks, where falls too soon Last Line: With flowers of gracious womanhood! AND EACH GOOD THOUGHT OR ACTION MOVES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography AND PRESENT GRATITUDE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography ANDREW RYKMAN'S PRAYER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Andrew rykman's dead and gone Last Line: Make his prayer our own? Subject(s): Death; Prayer; Religion; Dead, The; Theology ANGELS OF GRIEF, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With silence only as their benediction ANNIVERSARY POEM; ALUMNI OF THE FRIENDS' YEARLY MEETING SCH., by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more, dear friends, you meet beneath a clouded sky Last Line: The crown for cross! Subject(s): Alumni; American Civil War; Friends, Religious Society Of; U.s. - History; Quakers APE'S SHOP, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An ape and an owl once kept a shop APRIL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the noon of the spring-time Last Line: And, as sun to the sleeping earth, love to the soul! Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ARISEN AT LAST, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said I stood upon thy grave Last Line: In freedom's holy pentecost. Subject(s): Freedom; Massachusetts; Slavery; Liberty; Serfs AS ON THE SEA OF GALILEE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography ASTRAEA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O poet rare and old! Last Line: As now in heaven! Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Millenium; Poetry & Poets; Social Protest ASTRAEA AT THE CAPITOL; ABOLITION SLAVERY, DISTRICT COLUMBIA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first I saw our banner wave Last Line: Of judgment fringed with mercy's light! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Washington, D.c.; Antislavery Movement - United States AT EVENTIDE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor and inadequate the shadow-play Last Line: And judge our frailty by the life we meant. AT LAST, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When on my day of life the night is falling Last Line: The life for which I long. Variant Title(s): To Paths Unknown Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology AT PORT ROYAL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tent-lights glimmer on the land Last Line: Their broken saxon words. Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; Port Royal, Battle Of (1861); United States - History AT SCHOOL-CLOSE; BOWDOIN STREET, BOSTON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The end has come, as come it must Last Line: "and proudly whisper, ""these were mine!" Subject(s): Schools; Students AT WASHINGTON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a cold and wintry noon-light Last Line: Ere the long night-silence cometh, and with us it is not day! Subject(s): Slavery; Washington, D.c.; Serfs AUTUMN THOUGHTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone hath the spring, with all its flowers Last Line: Nor summer warm thy frozen heart. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall BANISHED FROM MASSACHSETTS; 1660 (PAINTING BY E. A. ABBEY), by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the threshold of his pleasant home Last Line: The gain was theirs, the loss alone was thine. Subject(s): Abbey, Edwin Austin (1852-1911); Exiles; Paintings And Painters; Pilgrim Fathers BARBARA FRIETCHIE [SEPTEMBER 13, 1862], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the meadows rich with corn Last Line: On thy stars below in frederick town! Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Courage; Flags - United States; Frietschie, Barbara (1766-1862); Maryland; Patriotism; United States - History; United States; Valor; Bravery; American Flag; Fritchie, Barbara (1766-1862); America BARCLAY OF URY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up the streets of aberdeen Last Line: Paint the golden morrow! Subject(s): Courage; Scotland; Valor; Bravery BAYARD TAYLOR, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And where now, bayard, will thy footsteps tend? Last Line: Of his rapt gaze on unfamiliar skies! Subject(s): Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878) BELATED, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A single buttercup I found Subject(s): Holidays; Trees BENEDICITE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God's love and peace be with thee, where Last Line: I greet thee, dearest, far away! Subject(s): Friendship BENEVOLENCE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, heavenly gift! Within the human breast Last Line: But peace, a lasting peace, throughout the world shall reign. Subject(s): Peace BEST OF EARTH SHALL STILL REMAIN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography BETWEEN THE GATES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the gates of birth and death Last Line: "are ministers of love." Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The BIBLE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion BIRCHWOOD MILL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A noteless stream, the birchbrook runs Last Line: On birchbrook's haunted mill! Subject(s): Mills And Millers BOLIVAR, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dirge is wailing from the gulf of storm-vexed mexico Last Line: The sole resource of late remorse is now his tomb to rear! Subject(s): Bolivar, Simon (1783-1830) BROTHERHOOD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O brother man! Fold to thy heart Last Line: And in its ashes plant the tree of peace Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion BROWN OF OSSAWATOMIE [DECEMBER 2, 1859], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John brown of ossawatomie spake on his dying day Last Line: To love! Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Capital Punishment; Freedom; Slavery; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Serfs BRYANT ON HIS BIRTHDAY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We praise not now the poet's art Last Line: Our country may be saved and freed! Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Poetry & Poets BURIAL OF BARBER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bear him, comrades, to his grave Last Line: Of the freedom of the west! Subject(s): Barber, Thomas; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Funerals; Kansas; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Burials; Serfs BURNING DRIFT-WOOD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before my drift-wood fire I sit Last Line: Its mirage-lifted isles of peace. Subject(s): Driftwood; Sea; Ocean BURNS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more these simple flowers belong Last Line: "but spare his ""highland mary!" Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Heather; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers BY THEIR WORKS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call him not heretic whose works attest Last Line: But who shall say which loved the master best? Subject(s): Worship CALEF IN BOSTON; 1692, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the solemn days of old Last Line: For the wrong he suffered here. Subject(s): Boston; Truth CASSANDRA SOUTHWICK; 1658, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the god of all sure mercies let my blessings rise today Last Line: And tamed the chaldean lions, is mighty still to save! Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Massachusetts; Religious Discrimination; Southwick, Cassandra (mythology); Quakers; Religious Conflict CENTENNIAL HYMN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our fathers' god! From out whose hand Last Line: Let the new cycle shame the old! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Patriotism; Peace; United States - Centennial Celebrations; Independence Day CHALKLEY HALL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How bland and sweet the greeting of this breeze Last Line: The holy hues of heaven! Subject(s): Chalkley, Thomas (1675-1741); Friends, Religious Society Of; Quakers CHANNING, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not vainly did old poets tell Last Line: The prophet never dies! Subject(s): Channing, William Henry (1810-1884) CHICAGO [OCTOBER 8-10, 1871], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men said at vespers: 'all is well!' Last Line: And love is still miraculous! Subject(s): Chicago Fire (1871) CHILD-SONGS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still linger in our noon of time Last Line: The childlike heart is all! Subject(s): Children; Religion; Childhood; Theology CLERICAL OPPRESSORS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just god! And these are they Last Line: As in their home above. Subject(s): Clergy; Slavery; Social Protest; United States - History; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Serfs COBBLER KEEZAR'S VISION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beaver cut his timber Last Line: And love goes sailing by. Subject(s): Flowers; Massachusetts CONDUCTOR BRADLEY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Conductor bradley, (always may his name Last Line: God give us grace to live as bradley died! Subject(s): Disasters; Railroad Wrecks; Train Wrecks DANIEL NEALL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of the slave, and yet the friend of all Last Line: And feel how true a man has walked with us on earth. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs DANIEL WHEELER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O dearly loved! Last Line: And glorious as lebanon! Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Missions & Missionaries; Wheeler, Daniel (d. 1840); Quakers DEDICATION TO IN WAR TIME, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography DEMOCRACY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bearer of freedom's holy light Last Line: The homage of his generous youth. Subject(s): Democracy; Freedom; Liberty DERNE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night on the city of the moor! Last Line: Of suffering for a fallen race! Subject(s): Eaton, William (1764-1811); Slavery; Serfs DISARMAMENT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Put up the sword!' the voice of christ once more Last Line: "and peace unweaponed conquers every wrong!" Subject(s): Courage; Disarmament; Peace; Valor; Bravery DIVINE COMPASSION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long since, a dream of heaven I had Last Line: A heart that still can feel, and eyes that still can weep. Subject(s): Compassion; Pity; Religion; Theology EGO; WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF A FRIEND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On page of thine I cannot trace Last Line: Their varied gifts, I offer mine. Subject(s): Friendship EIN FESTE BURG IST UNSER GOTT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We wait beneath the furnace blast Last Line: Endure and wait and labor! Subject(s): American Civil War; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); Slavery; U.s. - History; Serfs ELLIOTT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hands off! Thou tithe-fat plunderer! Play Last Line: A freehold in his grave! Subject(s): Corn Laws (great Britain); Elliott, Ebenezer (1781-1849) EPITAPH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bathsheba %to whom none ever said scat Subject(s): Animals; Cats EVA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dry the tears for holy eva Last Line: Wafting to the heavenly shore! EVENING IN BURMAH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A night of wonder! Piled afar Last Line: My solace and my hope, in death! EXPOSTULATION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our fellow-countrymen in chains! Last Line: Shall call an answer down from heaven! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Follen, Charles (1796-1840); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs EZEKIEL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They hear thee not, o god! Nor see Last Line: The witness of the truth in thee! Subject(s): Ezekiel FAITH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing before, nothing behind Last Line: Fall on the seeming void, and find %the rock beneath Subject(s): Religion FAREWELL OF A VIRGINIA SLAVE MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTERS SOLD INTO BONDAGE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone, gone - sold and gone Last Line: Woe is me, my stolen daughters! Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers; Slavery; Social Protest; Parting; Serfs FIRST-DAY THOUGHTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In calm and cool and silence, once again Last Line: Yet trusting not in mine, but in his strength alone! Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Worship; Quakers FITZ-GREENE HALLECK, AT THE UNVEILING OF HIS STATUE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among their graven shapes to whom Last Line: The lines of halleck's name. Subject(s): Halleck, Fitz-greene (1790-1867); New York City - 19th Century; Statues; Writing & Writers FLOWERS IN WINTER; PAINTED UPON A PORTE LIVRE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How strange to greet, this frosty morn Last Line: Her darlings of the wood. Subject(s): Flowers; Winter FOLLEN: ON READING HIS ESSAY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of my soul! As with moist eye Last Line: On him whose dearest name is love! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Follen, Charles (1796-1840); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs FOOLS, KNAVES - FLOWERS AND TREES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give fools their gold, and knaves their power Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening FOR AN AUTUMN FESTIVAL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The persian's flowery gifts, the shrine Last Line: The early and the latter rain! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The age is dull and mean. Men creep Last Line: The safe appeal of truth to time! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs FORGIVENESS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart was heavy, for its trust had been Last Line: Swept all my pride away, and trembling I forgave! Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency FREEDOM IN BRAZIL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With clearer light, cross of the south Last Line: Go out and leave thee free. Subject(s): Brazil; Freedom; Slavery; Brazilians; Liberty; Serfs FROM PERUGIA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tall, sallow guardsmen their horsetails have spread Last Line: For the sin unforgiven is freedom for man Subject(s): Freedom; Perugia, Italy; Pius Ix, Pope (1792-1878); Liberty FROM THE ETERNAL SHADOW, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography GARDEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O painter of the fruits and flowers Last Line: The beautiful is good. Variant Title(s): Hymn;laborers Together With God Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Religion; Theology GARIBALDI, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In trance and dream of old, god's prophet saw Last Line: By love, which is the law of liberty! Subject(s): Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882) GARRISON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm and peril overpast Last Line: A hand to set the captive free! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Antislavery Movement - United States GEORGE L. STEARNS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He has done the work of a true man Last Line: "good and faithful, enter in!" Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Stearns, George Luther (1809-1867); Anti-slavery; Serfs GIVING AND TAKING, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who gives and hides the giving hand Last Line: The wretch who answers good with ill. GODSPEED, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outbound, your bark awaits you. Were I one Last Line: The unreturning voyage, my friends to me. Subject(s): Sea Voyages GONE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another hand is beckoning us Last Line: The well-beloved of ours. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The GREETING, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I spread a scanty board too late Last Line: And life its promise shall fulfil. HAMPTON BEACH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight glitters keen and bright Last Line: Of this brief thoughtful hour of musing by the sea. Subject(s): Hampton, New Hampshire; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore HARVEST HYMN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the liberal year laughs out Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day HARVEST THANKSGIVING, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today, o god, amidst our flowers Subject(s): Religion HAVERHILL, 1640-1890, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O river winding down to the sea! Last Line: I pray, god bless the good old town! Subject(s): Haverhill, Massachusetts HAZEL BLOSSOMS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer warmth has left the sky Last Line: And makes the desert-land a well. Variant Title(s): Witch-hazel Subject(s): Hazel (shrub) HELP, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dream not, o soul, that easy is the task Last Line: To guilt the wrath of the eumenides. Subject(s): Religion; Theology HER LOVER DIED. AWAY FROM HER, FR. THE MINSTREL GIRL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography HOW MARY GREW, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With wisdom far beyond her years Last Line: Is just to grow -- as mary grew! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Women; Anti-slavery; Serfs HOW THE ROBIN CAME, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy young friends, sit by me Last Line: He who sings than he who slays. HOW THE WOMEN WENT FROM DOVER; 1662, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tossing spray of cocheco's fall Last Line: She smoothed the thorns with her bleeding feet. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Religious Freedom; Quakers HOWARD AT ATLANTA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right in the track where sherman Last Line: A joy and blessing! Subject(s): Atlanta, Georgia; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Howard, Oliver Otis (1830-1909); Antislavery Movement - United States HYMN .. CELEBRATION OF 3RD ANNIVERSARY BRITISH EMANCIPATION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O holy father! Just and true Last Line: Be praise and glory evermore. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States HYMN FOR THE CELEBRATION OF EMANCIPATION AT NEWBURYPORT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not unto us who did but seek Last Line: To whom be glory, first and last! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Newburyport, Massachusetts; Antislavery Movement - United States HYMN FOR THE HOUSE OF WORSHIP AT GEORGETOWN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou dwellest not, o lord of all! Last Line: And bless it for a mother's sake! Subject(s): Churches; Mothers; Cathedrals HYMN FOR THE OPENING OF PLYMOUTH CHURCH, ST. PAUL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things are thine: no gift have we Last Line: To lead us from ourselves to thee! Variant Title(s): Church Dedication Subject(s): Churches; St. Paul, Minnesota; Cathedrals HYMN FOR THE OPENING OF THOMAS STARR KING'S HOUSE OF WORSHIP, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst these glorious works of thine Last Line: The seamless robe that jesus wore. Subject(s): Churches; King, Thomas Starr (1824-1864); Cathedrals HYMN OF THE CHILDREN; SUNG ANNIVERSARY OF CHILDREN'S MISSION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thine are all the gifts, o god! Last Line: Thy perfected praise! Subject(s): Children; Childhood HYMN OF THE DUNKERS; KLOSTER KEDAR, EPHRATA, PENN. (1738), by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wake, sisters, wake! The day-star shines Last Line: Wake, sisters, wake! Arise and pray! Subject(s): Dunkers; Pennsylvania HYMN SUNG AT CHRISTMAS BY SCHOLARS OF ST. HELENA'S ISLAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, none in all the world before Last Line: That sets the island free! Subject(s): American Civil War; Christmas; Freedom; St. Helena's Island, South Carolina; U.s. - History; Nativity, The; Liberty HYMN WRITTEN FOR THE MEETING OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, whose presence went before Last Line: The glorious freedom of the just! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs HYMNS OF THE BRAHMO SOMAJ, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mercy, o eternal one! Last Line: In the shade of his holy palms! Subject(s): India I WAS A STRANGER AND YE TOOK ME IN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neath skies that winter never knew I'M SORRY THAT I SPELT THE WORD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography ICHABOD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So fallen! So lost! The light withdrawn / which one he wore! Last Line: And hide the shame! Subject(s): Slavery; Social Protest; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852); Serfs IN EARTHEN VESSELS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dear lord's best interpreters Last Line: The blessed master none can doubt, %revealed in holy lives Subject(s): Christianity; Religion IN MEMORY OF JAMES T. FIELDS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a guest who may not stay Last Line: Love is one with holiness! Subject(s): Fields, James T. (1817-1881) IN MEMORY OF JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, too, hast left us. While with heads bowed low Last Line: These words, -- he needs no more, -- here whittier lies. Subject(s): Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) IN PEACE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A track of moonlight on a quiet lake Last Line: With pencil dipped alone in colors of the heart. Subject(s): Contentment IN QUEST, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have I not voyaged, friend beloved, with thee Last Line: "all that I feel when I am nearest thee!" Subject(s): Religion; Theology IN REMEMBRANCE OF JOSEPH STURGE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the fair land o'er watched by ischia's mountains Last Line: Transfigured into love! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Sturge, Joseph (1793-1859); Anti-slavery; Serfs IN SCHOOL-DAYS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Still sits the school-house by the road Last Line: Like her, -- because they love him. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Schools; Childhood; Students IN THE EVIL DAYS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The evil days have come, the poor Last Line: This night of wrong! Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs IN THE OLD SOUTH CHURCH; 1677, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came and stood in the old south church Last Line: And plead for the rights of all! Subject(s): Boston INDIAN'S TALE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The war-god did not wake to strife INSCRIPTION ON A FOUNTAIN, FOR DOROTHEA L. DIX, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger and traveller Last Line: Drink, and in his peace go! Subject(s): Fountains; God INSCRIPTION ON A SUN-DIAL, FOR DR. HENRY I. BOWDITCH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With warning hand I mark time's rapid flight Last Line: There's light above me by the shade below. Subject(s): God; Sundials INSCRIPTION, FOR BAS-RELIEF BY PRESTON POWERS, DENVER PARK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eagle, stooping from yon snow-blown peaks Last Line: Their graven semblance in the eternal stone. Subject(s): Bison; Native Americans; Statues; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INVOCATION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through thy clear spaces, lord, of old Last Line: Its grateful offering, worthy thee. Subject(s): God ISABEL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not love thee, isabel, and yet thou art most fair! Last Line: Or lean upon a shadow as think of loving thee. ISABELLA OF AUSTRIA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midst the palace bowers of hungary, imperial presburg's pride Last Line: "mourn for the pride of austria! Mourn for the loved and young!" Subject(s): Austria; Isabella, Infanta Of Parma; Joseph Ii. Holy Roman Emperor (1741-90) ITALY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the sea I heard the groans Last Line: And sow its ghastly fields with flowers! Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Liberty; Italians JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Trees JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From purest wells of english undefiled Last Line: And mine of battle overthrew them all. Subject(s): Diplomacy And Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets JOHN CHARLES FREMONT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy error, fremont, simply was to act Last Line: But the full time to harden into things. Variant Title(s): To John C. Fremont Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Missouri; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great master of the poet's art! Last Line: Itself a canticle of love! Subject(s): Life; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892); Ocean JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, by JOHN CAMERON GRANT Poem Source First Line: Today the pines of ramoth wood Subject(s): Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) JOHN UNDERHILL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A score of years had come and gone Last Line: Counts with her worthies john underhill. Subject(s): Dover, New Hampshire; Hutchinson, Anne (1591-1643); Religious Discrimination; Underhill, John (1597-1672); Religious Conflict JOHN WOOLMAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only in the gathered silence Last Line: Standing in the sun. Subject(s): Woolman, John (1720-1772) JOSEPH STURGE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The very gentlest of all human natures Subject(s): Courage JUDITH AT THE TENT OF HOLOFERNES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night was down among the mountains Last Line: Wither at jehovah's frown! Subject(s): Judith (bible); Women In The Bible JUNE ON THE MERRIMAC, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O dwellers in the stately towns Last Line: Be glad for earthly joy! Subject(s): June; Merrimac (river) KATHLEEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O norah, lay your basket down Last Line: With her darling on his knee. Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs KENOZA LAKE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As adam did in paradise Last Line: Who walked on galilee! Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds KING SOLOMON AND THE ANTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out from jerusalem Last Line: "than flatteries of the great." Subject(s): Ants; Bible; Insects; Religion; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Bugs; Theology KINSMAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where ceaseless spring her garland twines Last Line: And god's dear love be over all! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The KOSSUTH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Type of two mighty continents! - combining Last Line: The old world's wrong has given the new world of the west! Subject(s): Kossuth, Louis (1802-1894) LAND OF THE FOREST AND THE ROCK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography LARS; A PASTORAL OF NORWAY: TO JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through many years my heart goes back Last Line: And take the grateful love, wherein I hide thy praise! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Life; Love; Past; Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) LAUS DEO!, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is done! / clang of bell and roar of gun Last Line: Who alone is lord and god! Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; God; Patriotism; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty LE MARAIS DU CYNGE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A blush as of roses Last Line: The march of the day. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Marais Du Cygne (river), Kansas; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs LEGGETT'S MONUMENT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, pile the marble o'er him! It is well Last Line: Of the brave heart beneath, but of the builders' shame! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Leggett, William (1801-1839); Monuments; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs LETTER FROM A MISSIONARY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last week - the lord be praised for all his mercies Last Line: Amen: so mote it be. So prays your friend. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Kansas; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs LETTER TO LUCY LARCOM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Believe me, lucy larcom, it gives me real sorow Last Line: We still may keep the good old plank, of simple faith in him! Subject(s): Larcom, Lucy (1824-1893) LEXINGTON; 1775, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No berserk thirst of blood had they Last Line: The lion of our motherland! Subject(s): American Revolution; Lexington, Battle Of (1775); Concord, Battle Of LINES FROM A LETTER TO A YOUNG CLERICAL FRIEND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A strength thy service cannot tire Last Line: Shall, childlike, claim the love of thee! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs LINES ON A FLYLEAF, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I need not ask thee, for my sake Last Line: And all earth's languages his own. Subject(s): Women LINES ON LEAVING APPLEDORE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the shadow of a cloud, the light Last Line: "more and more shining to the perfect day." LINES ON THE DEATH OF S. OLIVER TORREY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone before us, o our brother Last Line: And thy spirit ours! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Torrey, S. Oliver; Anti-slavery; Serfs LINES ON THE PORTRAIT OF A CELEBRATED PUBLISHER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A moony breadth of virgin face Last Line: Preserved in slavery's amber! Subject(s): Publishing; Slavery; Publishers; Serfs LINES WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I wish him? Strength and health Last Line: May even as his grandsire be! Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandsons; Granddaughters LITTLE PEOPLE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dreary place would this earth be Last Line: Were there no little people in it Subject(s): Life Change Events LUCY HOOPER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me, lucy, thou art dead Last Line: Seem sacred to thy memory. Subject(s): Death; Hooper, Lucy (1817-1841); Dead, The LYDIA H. SIGOURNEY; INSCRIPTION ON HER MEMORIAL TABLET, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sang alone, ere womanhood had known Last Line: May fitly linger where she knelt to pray. Subject(s): Sigourney, Lydia Howard (1791-1865) MABEL MARTIN; A HARVEST IDYL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I call the old time back: I bring my lay Last Line: "and the wind whispered, ""it is well!" Subject(s): Harvest MAKE MY MORTAL DREAMS COME TRUE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography MARGUERITE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The robins sang in the orchard, the buds into blossoms grew Last Line: Of the folded hands and the still face never the robins knew! MARY GARVIN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the heart of waumbek methna, from the lake that never fails Last Line: "thought the young men, ""'t is an angel in mary garvin's stead!" MASSACHUSETTS (2), by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And have they spurned thy word Last Line: Its lightest whisper shall be heard. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Massachusetts; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs MASSACHUSETTS TO VIRGINIA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blast from freedom's northern hill, upon its southern way Last Line: No fetters in the bay state, -- no slave upon our land! Subject(s): Massachusetts; Slavery; Virginia (state); Serfs MAUD MULLER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Maud muller on a summer's day / raked the meadow sweet with hay Last Line: Roll the stone from its grave away! Subject(s): Disappointment; Love - Loss Of; Social Classes; Caste MEMORIES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A beautiful and happy girl Last Line: Our early dreams not wholly vain! Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Memory METACOM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red as the banner which enshrouds Last Line: Told when the hunter-monarch fell! Subject(s): Philip, King (native American Chief); Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76) MILTON; INSCRIPTION ON WINDOW IN ST. MARGARET'S CHURCH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The new world honors him whose lofty plea Last Line: Their common freehold while both worlds endure. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) MINSTREL GIRL, SELS., by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography MIRIAM; TO FREDERICK A. P. BARNARD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The years are many since, in youth and hope Last Line: "and the all-father is our own!" Subject(s): Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter; Teaching & Teachers MITHRIDATES AT CHIOS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know'st thou, o slave-cursed land! Last Line: To break, not wield, the scourge wet with their blood and tears. Subject(s): Chios (island), Greece; Mithridates Vi Eupator (d. 63 B.c.); Slavery; Mithrodates The Great; Serfs MOGG MEGONE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who stands on that cliff, like a figure of stone Last Line: Ruth boniton is dead! Subject(s): Death; Missions & Missionaries; Native Americans - Wars; New England; Norridgewock, Maine; Penobscot Bay, Maine; Rale, Sebastien (1654-1724); Saco (river), New Hampshire And Maine; U.s. - Colonial Period; Waterfalls; Dead, The MOLOCH IN STATE STREET, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon has set: while yet the dawn Last Line: God of the free! Subject(s): Boston; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Pilgrim Fathers; Antislavery Movement - United States MOUNT AGIOCHOOK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gray searcher of the upper air Last Line: Dwell the strange gods of heathendom! Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion; White Mountains, New Hampshire MOUNTAIN PICTURES: 1. FRANCONIA FROM THE PEMIGEWASSET, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more, o mountains of the north, unveil Last Line: Blown crystal-clear by freedom's northern wind! Subject(s): Franconia (mountain), New Hampshire; Pemigewasset (river), New Hampshire MOUNTAIN PICTURES: 2. MONADNOCK FROM WACHUSETT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would I were a painter, for the sake Last Line: Swelling from angel lips and harps of seraphim. Variant Title(s): Wachusett Subject(s): Monadnock (mountain), New Hampshire; Wachusett (mountain), Massachusetts MRS. CHOATE'S HOUSE-WARMING, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of rights and of wrongs Last Line: Of brave independence! Subject(s): Household Employees; Parties; Servants; Domestics; Maids MULFORD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unnoted as the setting of a star Last Line: Leaving no purer, nobler soul behind. MY BIRTHDAY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the moonlight and the snow Last Line: As up the hills of morn! Subject(s): Birthdays MY DREAM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my dream, methought I trod Last Line: "fear not! He hath gone before!" Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares MY NAMESAKE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You scarcely need my tardy thanks Last Line: Of god, forever live! Subject(s): Names MY PLAYMATE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pines were dark on ramoth hill Last Line: Between myself and thee! MY PSALM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mourn no more my vanished years Last Line: I open to the day. MY SOUL AND I, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand still, my soul, in the silent dark Last Line: And both are now! Subject(s): Soul MY THANKS, ACCOMPANYING MANUSCRIPTS PRESENTED TO A FRIEND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis said that in the holy land Last Line: Life's fairer ones unfold. MY TRIUMPH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn-time has come Last Line: My freehold of thanksgiving. MY TRIUMPH, SELS., by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the thick curtain fall Subject(s): Courage MY TRUST, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A picture memory brings to me Last Line: And never cross is borne in vain. Subject(s): Mothers NAPLES; INSCRIBED TO ROBERT C. WATERSON, OF BOSTON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I give thee joy! - I know to thee Last Line: "writing the grave with flowers: ""arisen again!" Subject(s): Graves; Naples, Italy; Tombs; Tombstones NAUHAUGHT, THE DEACON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nauhaught, the indian deacon, who of old Last Line: "I saw the angel where they see a man." Subject(s): Cape Cod NEW CHALLENGE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion NEW ENGLAND WINTER, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To hell with john greenleaf whittier Last Line: Blinking out this frozen glass. At this NEW HAMPSHIRE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God bless new hampshire! From her granite peaks Last Line: What one brave state hath done, can ye not also do? Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; New Hampshire; Antislavery Movement - United States NOREMBEGA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winding way the serpent takes Last Line: Who hath the heavenly found. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Champlain, Samuel De (1567-1635); Penobscot (river), Maine NORUMBEGA HALL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not on penobscot's wooded bank the spires Last Line: And norumbega is a myth no more. Subject(s): Horsford, Eben Morton (1818-1893); Wellesley College O FRIENDS WHOSE HEARTS STILL KEEP THEIR PRIME, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Friendship O. W. HOLMES ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing a path which leads back never more Last Line: Life is not less, the heavens are only nigher! Subject(s): Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894) OCEAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unfathomed deep, unfetter'd waste Last Line: Its shade on hope's dim ray. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean OFFICIAL PIETY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pious magistrate! Last Line: Whining a prayer for help to hide the key! Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Law & Lawyers; Piety; Slavery; Serfs OH! SWEET FOND DREAM OF HUMAN LOVE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography ON A FLYLEAF OF LONGFELLOW'S POEMS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hushed now the sweet consoling tongue Last Line: Shall brighten in a holier beam. Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882) ON A PRAYER-BOOK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ary scheffer! When beneath thine eye Last Line: Making all burdens light, and breaking every chain. Subject(s): Blacks; Christianity; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry ON RECEIVING AN EAGLE'S QUILL FROM LAKE SUPERIOR, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day the darkness and the cold Last Line: Shall glitter on thy wings! Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Quills; Superior, Lake ON THE BIG HORN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The years are but half a score Last Line: Break forth into praise of god! Subject(s): Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Native Americans; Rain-in-the-face (indian Chief); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America ON THE HILLS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For weeks the clouds had raked the hills Last Line: Beyond the wall of mountains! Subject(s): Ossipee (lake), New Hampshire; White Mountains, New Hampshire ONE OF THE SIGNERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O storied vale of merrimac Last Line: These sculptured lips shall not be dumb! Subject(s): Bartlett, Josiah (1729-1795); Physicians; Statues; U.s. - Declaration Of Independence; Doctors ONWARD!, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not, if I could, repeat OUR AUTOCRAT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His laurels fresh from song and lay Last Line: And he himself is only ours! Subject(s): Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894) OUR COUNTRY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We give thy natal day to hope Last Line: And at thy need shall die for thee! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Independence Day OUR MASTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal love, forever full Last Line: And its obedience praise! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Theology OUR RIVER; FOR A SUMMER FESTIVAL AT 'THE LAURELS', by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more on yonder laurelled height Last Line: And make a joy of duty. Subject(s): Merrimac (river) OUR STATE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The south-land boasts its teeming cane Last Line: While near her church-spire stands the school. Variant Title(s): Massachusetts (1);dedication Of A School House Subject(s): Courage; Massachusetts; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery OVERRULED, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The threads our hands in blindness spin Last Line: God grant the varying notes may tend! PAEAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, joy and thanks forevermore! Last Line: The signal-call that freedom makes! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States PALESTINE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blest land of judaea! Thrice hallowed of song Last Line: On the heart's secret altar is burning the same! Subject(s): Palestine PARTING, SELS., by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me! Forgive me! PENNSYLVANIA HALL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not with the splendors of the days of old Last Line: Its consecration unto freedom's god! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Arson; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs PENTUCKET [AUGUST 29, 1708], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweetly on the wood-girt town Last Line: The victims of that sacrifice. Subject(s): French & Indian Wars; Haverhill, Massachusetts PICTURES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light, warmth, and sprouting greenness Last Line: Blow from the eternal hills! Make glad our earthly way! POET'S REWARD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks untraced to lips unknown PROEM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love the old melodious lays Last Line: As theirs, I lay, like them, my best gifts on thy shrine! QUESTIONS OF LIFE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bending staff I would not break Last Line: The eternal beauty new and old! Subject(s): Life; Religion; Theology R.S.S. AT DEER ISLAND ON THE MERRIMAC, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make, for he loved thee well, our merrimac Last Line: Of love's sweet solace cannot be bereft. Subject(s): Merrimac (river) RABBI ISHMAEL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rabbi ishmael, with the woe and sin Last Line: "the mercy of the all merciful is sure!" Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mother earth! Upon thy lap Last Line: Were now one hero living! Subject(s): Randolph, John (1773-1833); Slavery; Virginia (state); Serfs RANTOUL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day, along the electric wire Last Line: "by following where he led the way!" Subject(s): Abolitionists; Rantoul, Robert (1805-1852); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs RAPHAEL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall not soon forget that sight Last Line: Man's works shall follow him! Subject(s): Raphael (1483-1520); Religion; Theology RED RIDING-HOOD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the wide lawn the snow lay deep Last Line: The promise of red riding-hood! REFORMERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O pure reformers! Not in vain Subject(s): Religion REMEMBRANCE. WITH COPIES OF THE AUTHOR'S WRITINGS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of mine! Whose lot was cast Last Line: Kindly for the giver's sake. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving REQUIREMENT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We live by faith; but faith is not the slave Last Line: Firm-rooted in the faith that god is good. Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology REQUITAL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As islam's prophet, when his last day drew Last Line: Ere the night cometh, while it still is day. Subject(s): Islam RESPONSE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside that milestone where the level sun Last Line: The finer grace of unfulfilled designs. REVELATION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still, as of old, in beavor's vale Last Line: And hear the song of hope she sings. Subject(s): Fox, George (1624-1691); Friends, Religious Society Of; Quakers REVISITED, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roll of drums and the bugle's wailing Last Line: And full of sap are his healing trees! Variant Title(s): The Merrimac Revisited Subject(s): Merrimac (river) RIDDLE OF THE WORLD IS UNDERSTOOD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With a child's trust leans on a father's breast Subject(s): Religion RITNER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god for the token! One lip is still free Last Line: "our country and liberty! God for the right!" Subject(s): Abolitionists; Pennsylvania; Ritner, Joseph (1780-1869); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs SAINT GREGORY'S GUEST, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tale for roman guides to tell Last Line: And all good deeds are done to him. Subject(s): Gregory I. Saint (504-604) SAMUEL E. SEWALL (INSCRIPTION FOR A BUST), by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like that ancestral judge who bore his name Last Line: The unselfish worker in his work is his. Subject(s): Sewall, Samuel (1652-1730); Whitney, Anne (1821-1915) SAMUEL J. TILDEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more, o all-adjusting death! Last Line: With words that death denies? Subject(s): Tilden, Samuel J. (1814-1886) SCARCELY HOPE HATH SHAPED FOR ME, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography SEED-TIME AND HARVEST, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As o'er his furrowed fields which lie Last Line: Who wait in heaven their harvest-day! Subject(s): Harvest SELF-EASE IS PAIN; THY ONLY REST, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography SIMPLE FAITH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before me, even as behind SKIPPER IRESON'S RIDE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the rides since the birth of time Last Line: By the women of marblehead! Subject(s): Disasters; Duty; Ireson, Floyd; Marblehead, Massachusetts; Shipwrecks SNOWBOUND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The sun that brief december day / rose cheerless over hills of gray Last Line: The benediction of the air. Variant Title(s): New England In Winter;a Winter Idyl;snow-bound;snow-bound: A Winter Idyll Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Massachusetts; Memory; Religion; Snow; Winter; Relatives; Theology SOMETIMES COMES TO SOUL AND SENSE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion SONG OF SLAVES IN THE DESERT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are we going? Where are we going Last Line: Where are we going, rubee? Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs SONG OF THE FREE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pride of new england! Subject(s): Freedom SONG OF THE NEGRO BOATMAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, praise an' tanks! De lord he come SONG OF THE VERMONTERS, 1779, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho - all to the borders! Vermonters, come down Last Line: In the name of vermont we defy all the world! Subject(s): American Revolution; Vermont SONGS OF LABOR: DEDICATION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would the gift I offer here Last Line: In labor, as in prayer, fulfilling the same law. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers SPEAK WHILE THERE IS TIME, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, by our fathers' ashes! Where's the spirit ST. JOHN; 1647, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the winds give our banner! Last Line: Behind was st. John! Subject(s): Acadia; La Tour, Charles (1596-1666) ST. MARTIN'S SUMMER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though flowers have perished at the touch Last Line: Sweet summer of st. Martin! Subject(s): Indian Summer; Martin, Saint (316-397) STANZAS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bind up thy tresses, thou beautiful one Last Line: Gladness, and promise, and bliss to thee. STANZAS FOR THE TIMES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this the land our fathers loved Last Line: One voice shall thunder, we are free! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs STILL WHERESOEVER PITY SHARES, FR. SAINT GREGORY'S GUEST, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography STORM ON LAKE ASQUAM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud, like that the old-time hebrew saw Last Line: Spent broken clouds the rainbow's angel spanned. Subject(s): Asquam, Lake; Lakes; Storms; Pools; Ponds SUMMER BY THE LAKESIDE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White clouds, whose shadows haunt the deep Last Line: Be thou the mirror of god's love. Variant Title(s): Noon Subject(s): Winnipesaukee (lake), New Hampshire SUMNER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mother state! The winds of march Last Line: Shall longest pause at sumner's name! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Sumner, Charles (1811-1874); Anti-slavery; Serfs SUNSET ON THE BEARCAMP, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gold fringe on the purpling hem Last Line: And sunsets never cold! Subject(s): Bearcamp (river), New Hampshire; Rivers SWEET FERN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The subtle power in perfume found Last Line: Ablaze on lonely hills. Subject(s): Ferns; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances TAULER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tauler, the preacher, walked, one autumn day Last Line: "and what is dark below is light in heaven." Subject(s): Clergy; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops TELLING THE BEES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the place; right over the hill Last Line: "mistress mary is dead and gone!" Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Mourning; Beekeeping; Bugs; Bereavement TEXAS: VOICE OF NEW ENGLAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up the hillside, down the glen Last Line: "blessed of our fathers' god!" Subject(s): Slavery; Texas; Serfs THE ANGEL OF PATIENCE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To weary hearts, to mourning homes Last Line: "the dear lord ordereth all things well!" Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE ANGELS OF BUENA VISTA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speak and tell us, our ximena, looking northward far away Last Line: And still thy white-winged angels hover dimly in our air! Subject(s): Buena Vista, Battle Of (1847); Taylor, Zachary (1784-1850); United States - Mexican War (1846-1848) THE ANSWER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spare me, dread angel of reproof Last Line: "as thou forsakest him!" Subject(s): Faith; Loyalty; Belief; Creed THE BAREFOOT BOY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Blessings on thee, little man Last Line: Ere it passes, barefoot boy! Subject(s): Children; Memory; Youth; Childhood THE BARTHOLDI STATUE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The land, that, from the rule of kings Last Line: Who shields his license with thy name! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Freedom; Patriotism; Statue Of Liberty; Liberty THE BATTLE AUTUMN OF 1862, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flags of war like storm-birds fly Last Line: Ring peace and freedom in. Subject(s): American Civil War; Autumn; Seasons; United States - History; Fall THE BAY OF SEVEN ISLANDS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the green amesbury hill which bears the name Last Line: The ghost of the schooner breeze! Subject(s): Merrimac (river); Newbury, Massachusetts THE BIRTHDAY WREATH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blossom and greenness, making all Last Line: This isthmian wreath of pine and oak. Subject(s): Birthdays THE BOOK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gallery of sacred pictures manifold Last Line: The one ineffable face, love, wonder, and adore. Subject(s): Books; God; Reading THE BOOK OF BOOKS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We search the world for truth Last Line: Is in the book our mothers read. Variant Title(s): Knowledge;the Bible;the Book Our Mothers Read Subject(s): Bible; Knowledge; Mothers THE BRANDED HAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome home again, brave seaman! Last Line: In the van of freedom's onset, the coming of that hand? Subject(s): Freedom; Punishment; Sailing & Sailors; Slavery; Liberty; Serfs THE BREWING OF SOMA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fagots blazed, the caldron's smoke Last Line: O still, small voice of calm! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Religion; Theology THE BRIDAL OF PENNACOOK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had been wandering for many days Last Line: Mingled and murmured in that farewell song. Variant Title(s): The White Mountains Subject(s): Brides; Concord, New Hampshire; Native Americans; Rivers; White Mountains, New Hampshire; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE BROWN DWARF OF RUGEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pleasant isle of rugen looks the baltic water o'er Last Line: Count deitrich and his lovely bride dwelt long and happy there. THE CALL OF THE CHRISTIAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not always as the whirlwind's rush Last Line: Thy father's call of love! Subject(s): Christianity THE CAPTAIN'S WELL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From pain and peril, by land and main Last Line: "that god's best gift is the wayside well!" Subject(s): Deserts; Disasters; Food & Eating; Shipwrecks; Wells THE CHAPEL OF THE HERMITS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do believe, and yet, in grief Last Line: "are now and here and everywhere." Subject(s): Hermits THE CHRISTIAN SLAVE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A christian! Going, gone! Last Line: How long, o god, how long? Subject(s): Auctions; Christianity; Slavery; Serfs THE CHRISTIAN TOURISTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No aimless wanderers, by the fiend unrest Last Line: The righteousness of heaven! Subject(s): Europe; Tourists THE CHRISTMAS OF 1888, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low in the east, against a white, cold dawn Last Line: Peace, and good-will to men! Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Get ye up from the wrath of god's Last Line: And death brooded over the pride of the plain! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Religion; Theology THE CLEAR VISION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did but dream. I never knew Last Line: But let my last days be my best! THE COMMON QUESTION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind us at our evening meal Last Line: "repeat, ""thy will be done." Subject(s): Prayer THE CONQUEST OF FINLAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the frozen marshes Last Line: "is the brother of the finn!" Subject(s): Finland; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE COUNTESS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not, time and space so intervene Last Line: Are mingled in one sea! THE CRISIS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the stony mountains, o'er the desert's drouth and sand Last Line: And mountain unto mountain call, praise god, for we are free! Subject(s): Slavery; United States - Mexican War (1846-1848); Serfs THE CROSS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cross, if rightly borne, shall be Last Line: Shall rise with bloom and fruit at last. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Friends, Religious Society Of; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Quakers; Serfs THE CRUCIFIXION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunlight upon judaea's hills Last Line: Refuse its trembling gratitude? Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE CRY OF A LOST SOUL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that black forest, where, when day is done Last Line: "and change to praise the cry of a lost soul?" Subject(s): Birds; Brazil; Brazilians THE CURSE OF THE CHARTER-BREAKERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In westminster's royal halls Last Line: Rests the city of our god! Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain; Great Britain - History; Magna Carta; Westminster Abbey; Liberty; English History THE CYPRESS-TREE OF CEYLON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They sat in silent watchfulness Last Line: Our souls should keep with thee! Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Sri Lanka; Ceylon THE DEAD FEAST OF THE KOL-FOLK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have opened the door Last Line: Come home! Subject(s): Asia; Far East; East Asia; Orient THE DEITY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The prophet stood Last Line: The storm, the earthquake, or the mighty flame. THE DEMON OF THE STUDY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brownie sits in the scotchman's room Last Line: That reading demon, that fat old man! Subject(s): Books; Reading THE DISENTHRALLED, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had bowed down to drunkenness Last Line: Unto the godlike mind! Subject(s): Temperance; Prohibition THE DOLE OF JARL THORKELL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The land was pale with famine Last Line: The vala sang of him! THE DOUBLE-HEADED SNAKE OF NEWBURY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far away in the twilight time Last Line: "the amphisbaena is living still!" Subject(s): Animals; Newbury, Massachusetts; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE DREAM OF PIO NONO, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It chanced that while the pious troops of france Last Line: Said cardinal antonelli, with a smile. Subject(s): Antonelli, Giacomo. Cardinal (1806-1876); Catholics; Pius Ix, Pope (1792-1878); Roman Catholics; Catholicism THE DROVERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through heat and cold, and shower and sun Last Line: And rest alone in striving. Subject(s): Drovers THE DRUNKARD TO HIS BOTTLE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hoot! - daur ye shaw ye're face again Last Line: Ye've foun' your laddie! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics THE EARTHQUAKE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calmly the night came down Last Line: No trace was left, no vestige shown. Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes THE EMANCIPATION GROUP, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst thy sacred effigies Last Line: And righteousness than wrong. Subject(s): Boston; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Antislavery Movement - United States THE ETERNAL GOODNESS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O friends! With whom my feet have trod Last Line: My human heart on thee! Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE EVE OF THE ELECTION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From gold to gray Last Line: When god and man shall speak as one! Variant Title(s): Indian Summer Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage THE EXILE'S DEPARTURE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fond scenes, which delighted my youthful existence Last Line: Shall be the heart's prayer of the lonely exile! Subject(s): Exiles THE EXILES; 1660, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The good man sat beside his door Last Line: As now upon her shore! Subject(s): Nantucket, Massachusetts THE FAIR QUAKERESS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was a fair young girl, yet on her brow Last Line: Like waters from the desert-rock of old. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Girls; Quakers THE FAMILIST'S HYMN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father! To thy suffering poor Last Line: Heart to heart, shall worship thee! THE FEMALE MARTYR, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bring out your dead!' the midnight street Last Line: Shall live in heaven, of which it was a part. Subject(s): Nuns THE FIRST FLOWERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For ages, on our river borders Last Line: Were real, or the rhymer's dream! Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Spring; Trees THE FISHERMEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hurrah! The seaward breezes Last Line: The breath of heaven shall speed! Variant Title(s): Fisher Song;the Song Of The Fishermen Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE FOUNTAIN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Traveller! On thy journey toiling Last Line: Of the indian and his well. Subject(s): Fountains; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE FRATRICIDE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood on the brow of the well-known hill Last Line: They made the grave of the fratricide! Subject(s): Fratricide THE FREED ISLANDS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few brief years have passed away Last Line: "to new-world tyrants, old-world kings!" Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; West Indies; Antislavery Movement - United States; British Empire; England - Empire; Caribbean Islands THE FRIEND'S BURIAL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts are all in yonder town Last Line: Revealed in holy lives. Subject(s): Friendship; Funerals; Religion; Burials; Theology THE FROST SPIRIT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He comes, he comes, the frost spirit Last Line: Sounding wing goes by! Subject(s): Frost THE FRUIT-GIFT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, just as the tints of autumn'a sky Last Line: And show by one gleaned ear the mighty harvest lost. Subject(s): Fruit THE FUNERAL TREE OF THE SOKOKIS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around sebago's lonely lake Last Line: The indian's fitting monument! Subject(s): Funerals; Native Americans; Sebago (lake), Maine; Trees; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE GALLOWS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The suns of eighteen centuries have shone Last Line: Abhorred of earth and heaven, a pagan brotherhood! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Clergy; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE GARRISON OF CAPE ANN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the hills of home forth looking, far beneath the tent-like span Last Line: Night! Subject(s): Cape Ann, Massachusetts THE GIFT OF TRITEMIUS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tritemius of herbipolis, one day Last Line: Upon the altar candlesticks of gold! Subject(s): Gifts & Giving THE GOLDEN WEDDING OF LONGWOOD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With fifty years between you and your well-kept wedding vow Last Line: Our friends are now in either world, and love is sure of love. Subject(s): Anniversaries THE HASCHISH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all that orient lands can vaunt Last Line: Is powerless to our western cotton! Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Slavery; Serfs THE HEALER; TO A YOUNG PHYSICIAN WITH DORE'S PICTURE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So stood of old the holy christ Last Line: Shall walk the rounds with thee. Subject(s): Dore, Gustave (1832-1883); Healing; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Cures THE HENCHMAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lady walks her morning round Last Line: For any need of hers to die! Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE HERMIT OF THE THEBAID, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O strong, upwelling prayers of faith Last Line: And found a man! THE HERO, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh for a knight like bayard Last Line: "and sidneys still are here?" Subject(s): Howe, Samuel Gridley (1801-1876) THE HILL TOP, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The burly driver at my side Last Line: The whole round world beside! Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE HIVE AT GETTYSBURG, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old hebrew myth the lion's frame Last Line: The old-time athlete drew! Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of THE HOLY LAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have not felt, o'er seas of sand Last Line: And bowed his head to bless -- and died! Subject(s): Israel THE HOMECOMING OF THE BRIDE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sarah greenleaf, of eighteen years Last Line: On the barn floor pealed the smiting flail. Subject(s): Brides; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE HOMESTEAD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against the wooded hills it stands Last Line: And reign thereon as kings! Subject(s): Home THE HUMAN SACRAFICE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far from his close and noisome cell Last Line: God's angel cries, forbear! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE HUNTERS OF MEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have ye heard of our hunting, o'er mountain and glen Last Line: For pleasure or gain, to the hunting of men? Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs THE HUSKERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was late in mild october, and the long autumnal rain Last Line: Send up our thanks to god! Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers THE JUBILEE SINGERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Voice of a people suffering long Last Line: And slavery's every wrong undone! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cross the prairie as of old Last Line: The homestead of the free! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Homesteaders; Kansas; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs THE KHAN'S DEVIL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The khan came from bokhara town Last Line: "to save thee lies in tank and well!" Subject(s): Islam THE KING'S MISSIVE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the great hill sloping bare Last Line: Is gospel and law where the martyrs died. Subject(s): Boston; Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Endicott, John (1588-1655); Friends, Religious Society Of; Religious Discrimination; Shattuck, Samuel; Endecott, John (1588-1655); Quakers; Religious Conflict THE KNIGHT OF ST. JOHN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere down yon blue carpathian hills Last Line: The sun shall fall again. Subject(s): Crusades THE LAKESIDE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows round the inland sea Last Line: Behind thy smiling face! Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE LANDMARKS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the streets of marblehead Last Line: "what she was is boston still!" Subject(s): Boston; Landmarks THE LAST EVE OF SUMMER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer's last sun nigh unto setting shines Last Line: And the eternal years! Subject(s): Summer THE LAST WALK IN AUTUMN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the bare woods, whose outstretched hands Last Line: The hand he proffers all, and thank him for thy sake. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall THE LAURELS; AT THE TWENTIETH AND LAST ANNIVERSARY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From these wild rocks I look today THE LEGEND OF ST. MARK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is closing dark and cold Last Line: "lord, ope their eyes, that they may see!" Subject(s): Mark, Saint (c. 46 A.d.) THE LIBRARY; SUNG AT OPENING OF THE HAVERHILL LIBRARY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let there be light!' god spake of old Last Line: The lords of thought await our call! Subject(s): Haverhill, Massachusetts; Libraries & Librarians THE LIGHT THAT IS FELT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tender child of summers three Last Line: And let us feel the light of thee! Subject(s): God THE LOST OCCASION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some die too late and some too soon Last Line: Thy nobler self, thy life at best! Subject(s): Slavery; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852); Serfs THE LOST STATESMAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As they who, tossing midst the storm at night Last Line: Till bound, dumb millions there shall see them and rejoice. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Wright, Silas (1795-1847); Anti-slavery; Serfs THE LUMBERMEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wildly round our woodland quarters Last Line: Through the world our way! Subject(s): Courage; Lumber And Lumbering; Valor; Bravery THE MANTLE OF ST. JOHN DE MATHA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A strong and mighty angel Last Line: The good ship bravely in! Subject(s): Freedom; Jean De Matha, Saint (1160-1213); Liberty THE MAYFLOWERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sad mayflower! Watched by winter stars Last Line: Afresh the flowers of god! Subject(s): Arbutus; Plymouth, Massachusetts; Mayflowers THE MEETING, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The elder folks shook hands at last Last Line: "life of our life, he lives to-day." Subject(s): Worship THE MEMORY OF BURNS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweetly come the holy psalms Last Line: The holly and the pine! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets THE MEN OF OLD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well speed thy mission, bold iconoclast! Last Line: We need the souls of fire, the hearts of that old time! THE MERRIMAC, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stream of my fathers! Sweetly still Last Line: A phantom and a dream alone! Subject(s): Merrimac (river) THE MINISTER'S DAUGHTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the minister's morning sermon Last Line: Grew soft in his warmth and light. Subject(s): Clergy; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE MISSIONARY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, whose is this fair picture, which the light Last Line: Plucked from the record of a breaking heart. Subject(s): India; Missions & Missionaries THE MORAL WARFARE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When freedom, on her natal day Last Line: The light, and truth, and love of heaven. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty THE MYSTIC'S CHRISTMAS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All hail!' the bells of christmas rang Last Line: "feels in his heart the lord christ born!" Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The THE NEW EXODUS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By fire and cloud, across the desert sand Last Line: Runs now that path of god! Subject(s): Egypt; Slavery; Serfs THE NEW WIFE AND THE OLD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark the halls, and cold the feast Last Line: An unwitting triumph find. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE NEW YEAR; ADDRESSED TO PATRONS OF PENNSYLAVNIA FREEMAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wave is breaking on the shore Last Line: A new and happy year. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Holidays; New Year; Antislavery Movement - United States THE NORSEMEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gift from the cold and silent past! Last Line: Of an immortal origin! Subject(s): America - Exploration; Vikings THE OLD BURYING-GROUND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our vales are sweet with fern and rose Last Line: And over both is heaven. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Haverhill, Massachusetts; Graveyards THE OVER-HEART, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above, below, in sky and sod Last Line: And trust the unknown for the known. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE PAGEANT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sound as if from bells of silver Last Line: The living jewels of the spring! Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE PALM-TREE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it the palm, the cocoa-palm Last Line: "thanks to allah, who gives the palm!" Subject(s): Palm Trees THE PANORAMA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the long hall the shuttered windows shed Last Line: And shame his poor word with your nobler deed. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs THE PASS OF THE SIERRA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night above their rocky bed Last Line: And lead in freedom's van! Subject(s): Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Sierra Nevada Mountains; Slavery; Serfs THE PAST AND COMING YEAR, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wave of an awful torrent, thronging down Last Line: Its last and faintest echo. Fare thee well! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE PASTORAL LETTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, this is all, - the utmost reach Last Line: Shall deeper joy be felt in heaven! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States THE PEACE AUTUMN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god for rest, where none molest Last Line: The hearts of men as one! Subject(s): Peace THE PEACE CONVENTION AT BRUSSELS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still in thy streets, o paris! Doth the stain Last Line: And the tired world breathe free through a long sabbath day. Subject(s): Brussels; Peace; Revolutions THE PEACE OF EUROPE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great peace in europe! Order reigns' Last Line: Repent! God's kingdom draweth near! Subject(s): Europe; Peace THE PENNSYLVANIA PILGRIM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to posterity! Last Line: The world forgets, but the wise angels know. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Germantown, Pennsylvania; Pastorius, Francis Daniel (1651-1720); Pilgrim Fathers; Spener, Philipp Jacob (1635-1705); U.s. - Colonial Period; Quakers THE PINE TREE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lift again the stately emblem on the bay state's rusted shield Last Line: And to plant again the pine-tree in her banner's tattered field! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Massachusetts; Pine Trees; Trees; Antislavery Movement - United States THE PIPES AT LUCKNOW, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pipes of the misty moorlands Last Line: The pipes at lucknow played! Subject(s): Havelock, Sir Henry (1795-1857); India - Sepoy Rebellion (1857); Lucknow, India; Music & Musicians THE POET AND THE CHILDREN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a glory of winter sunshine Last Line: "of such is the kingdom of heaven!" Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882) THE POOR VOTER ON ELECTION DAY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The proudest now is but my peer Last Line: A man's a man to-day! Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage THE PRAYER OF AGASSIZ, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the isle of penikese Last Line: From the master's silent prayer. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873); Penikese Island, Massachusetts; Science; Scientists THE PRAYER-SEEKER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the aisle where prayer was made Last Line: Pray for us! Subject(s): Prayer THE PREACHER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its windows flashing to the sky Last Line: His memory hallows the ancient town! Subject(s): Newburyport, Massachusetts; Whitefield, George (1714-1770) THE PRESSED GENTIAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time of gifts has come again Last Line: The flower upon its inmost side! Subject(s): Flowers; Gentians; Fringed Gentians THE PRISONER FOR DEBT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look on him! Through his dungeon grate Last Line: The chastening of the almighty's hand. Subject(s): Debt; Prisons & Prisoners THE PRISONERS OF NAPLES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been thinking of the victims bound Last Line: In love which is of thee, and which indeed thou art! Subject(s): Freedom; Naples, Italy; Liberty THE PROBLEM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not without envy wealth at times must look Last Line: Save in the golden rule of christ alone. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE PROCLAMATION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint patrick, slave to milcho of the herds Last Line: And heal with freedom what your slavery cursed. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Presidents, United States; Antislavery Movement - United States THE PROPHECY OF SAMUEL SEWALL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up and down the village streets Last Line: The precious seed by the fathers sown! Subject(s): Newbury, Massachusetts; Puritans; Sewall, Samuel (1652-1730); Witchcraft & Witches THE PUMPKIN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Greenly and fair in the lands of the sun Last Line: Golden-tinted and fair as thy own pumpkin-pie! Subject(s): Holidays; Plants; Pumpkins; Thanksgiving Day; Planting; Planters THE QUAKER ALUMNI, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the well-springs of hudson, the sea-cliffs of maine Last Line: And winnow in mercy our good from the ill! Subject(s): Alumni; Friends, Religious Society Of; Newport, Rhode Island; Religious Freedom; Quakers THE QUAKER OF THE OLDEN TIME, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THE QUAKERS ARE OUT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not vainly we waited and counted the hours Last Line: For lincoln goes in, when the quakers are out! Subject(s): Elections; Friends, Religious Society Of; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Quakers THE RANGER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Robert rawlin! - frosts were falling Last Line: "for the trial and delay!" Subject(s): Forest Rangers THE RED RIVER VOYAGEUR, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out and in the river is winding Last Line: The chimes of eternal peace! Subject(s): Rivers THE REFORMER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All grim and soiled and brown with tan Last Line: With morning light! Subject(s): Freedom; Reform & Reformers; Liberty THE RELIC, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Token of friendship, true and tried Last Line: And turn the spoiler from his prey. Subject(s): Arson; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Antislavery Movement - United States THE RENDITION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the train's shrill whistle call Last Line: I stood upon her grave! Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE REUNION; READ TO SURVIVING STUDENTS IN 1827-1830, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gulf of seven and fifty years Last Line: Is herald also of the day! Subject(s): Alumni; Haverhill Academy, Massachusetts; Reunions THE REWARD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who, looking backward from his manhood's prime Last Line: Can henceforth part. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE RIVER PATH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No bird-song floated down the hill Last Line: "the dear ones whom we loved below!" Subject(s): Rivers THE ROBIN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My old welsh neighbor over the way Last Line: "who suffer like him in the good they do!" Subject(s): Birds; Robins THE ROCK' IN EL GHOR, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead petra in her hill-tomb sleeps THE ROCK-TOMB OF BRADORE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A drear and desolate shore! Last Line: "and bloom through polar snows!" THE SEEKING OF THE WATERFALL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They left their home of summer ease Last Line: "the old delight of seeking good!" Subject(s): Waterfalls THE SENTENCE OF JOHN L. BROWN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Thou who seekest late and long Last Line: The smile of god is victory. Subject(s): Justice; Love - Cultural Differences; Slavery; Southern States; Serfs; South (u.s.) THE SHADOW AND THE LIGHT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fourteen centuries fall away Last Line: With heaven's compassion make our longings poor! Subject(s): Evil; God THE SHIP-BUILDERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is ruddy in the east Last Line: Her white sails from the sea! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THE SHOEMAKERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Workers of the old time styled / the gentle craft of leather Last Line: Fling out his blazoned banner! Subject(s): Cobblers; Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers THE SICILIAN VESPERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silence, o'er sea and earth Last Line: Became the calm of heaven. THE SINGER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Years since (but names to me before) Last Line: With the old voice we loved so well! Subject(s): Cary, Alice (1820-1871) THE SISTERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Annie and rhoda, sisters twain Last Line: "thine the living, and mine the dead!" Subject(s): Sisters THE SISTERS; A PICTURE BY BARRY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shade for me, but over thee Last Line: Which folds us both unseen! Subject(s): Barry, James (1741-1806); Paintings And Painters; Sisters THE SLAVE-SHIPS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All ready?' cried the captain Last Line: Fell the blackness of his crime. Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs THE SLAVES OF MARTINIQUE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beams of noon, like burning lances, through the tree-tops flash and glisten Last Line: Hate of slavery, hope of freedom, love is mightier than all. Subject(s): Martinique, West Indies; Slavery; Serfs THE SPIRIT OF THE NORTH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of the frozen north Last Line: Servant of the living god. THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where time the measure of his hours Last Line: Still blooming in his hopeful heart! THE STORY OF IDA', by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weary of jangling noises never stilled THE SUMMONS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My ear is full of summer sounds Last Line: And has no answer but god-speed! Subject(s): Freedom; Summer; Liberty THE SWAN SONG OF PARSON AVERY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the reaper's task was ended, and the summer wearing late Last Line: When they see the white waves breaking on the rock of avery's fall! Subject(s): Marblehead, Massachusetts THE SYCAMORES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the outskirts of the village Last Line: Stand hugh tallant's sycamores. Subject(s): Haverhill, Massachusetts; Plane Trees; Sycamores THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 1, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not sin, in this half-playful strain Last Line: "we'll pitch this tent of ours in type another year." Subject(s): Fields, James T. (1817-1881); New Hampshire; Seashore; Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878); Beach; Coast; Shore THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 10. THE PALATINE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leagues north, as fly the gull and auk Last Line: Of the blazing wreck of the palatine! Subject(s): Block Island; Sea; Ocean THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 11. ABRAHAM DAVENPORT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old days (a custom laid aside / with breeches and cocked hats) Last Line: That simple duty hath no place for fear. Subject(s): Hartford, Connecticut; Law & Lawyers; Politics & Government; Attorneys THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 12. THE WORSHIP OF NATURE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The harp at nature's advent strung Last Line: The prayerless heart of man. Variant Title(s): Nature's Reverence Subject(s): Nature THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 2. THE WRECK OF RIVERMOUTH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rivermouth rocks are fair to see Last Line: Mingled in peace like the night and day! Subject(s): Disasters; Hampton, New Hampshire; Seashore; Shipwrecks; Witchcraft & Witches; Beach; Coast; Shore THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 3. THE GRAVE BY THE LAKE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the great lake's sunny smiles Last Line: Sweeps the circle of god's love. Subject(s): Melvin (river), New Hampshire THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 4. THE BROTHER OF MERCY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Piero luca, known of all the town Last Line: He saw the shining of an angel's face! Subject(s): Monks; Religion; Theology THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 5. THE CHANGELING, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the fairest maid in hampton Last Line: Came forth from ipswich jail. Subject(s): Hampton, New Hampshire THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 6. THE MAIDS OF ATTITASH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In sky and wave the white clouds swam Last Line: Her world is love and him! THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 7. KALLUNDBORG CHURCH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Build at kallundborg by the sea Last Line: Stood helva of nesvek and esbern snare! Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 8. THE CABLE HYMN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lonely bay of trinity Last Line: The christ is whispering, peace! Subject(s): Atlantic Cable; Field, Cyrus West (1819-1892) THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 9. THE DEAD SHIP OF HARPSWELL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What flecks the outer gray beyond Last Line: Who steers the ship of death! Subject(s): Harpswell, Maine; Ships & Shipping THE THREE BELLS [OF GLASGOW], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the low-hung night cloud Last Line: The lights of god draw nigh! Subject(s): Bells; Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean THE THREE SILENCES OF MOLINOS; TO JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three silences there are: the first of speech Last Line: And speakest only when thy soul is stirred! THE TRAILING ARBUTUS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered lonely where the pine-trees made Last Line: And make the sad earth happier for their bloom. Subject(s): Arbutus; Mayflowers THE TRUCE OF PISCATAQUA; 1675, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Raze these long blocks of brick and stone Last Line: Lo! The indian's name was given. Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars THE TWO ANGELS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God called the nearest angels who dwell with him above Last Line: "henceforth its sweetest song shall be the song of sin forgiven!" Subject(s): Angels; Service THE TWO ELIZABETHS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst thuringia's wooded hills she dwelt Last Line: Thuringia's saint and our elizabeth! Subject(s): Elizabeth, Elizabeth (1207-1231) THE TWO LOVES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smoothing soft the nestling head Last Line: "late or soon its own receives." Subject(s): God; Love THE TWO RABBIS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rabbi nathan two score years and ten Last Line: "save thou a soul, and it shall save thy own!" Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Religion; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism; Theology THE VALE OF THE MERRIMAC, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are streams which are famous in history's story Last Line: The home of my fathers, and merrimac's vale! Subject(s): Home; Merrimac (river) THE VANISHERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetest of all childlike dreams Last Line: Lost and found, in sunset land! Subject(s): Innocence THE VAUDOIS TEACHER [MISSIONARY], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lady fair, these silks of mine are beautiful and rare Last Line: Where the poor and needy of earth are rich in the perfect love of god! Subject(s): Missions & Missionaries; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE VISION OF ECHARD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The benedictine echard Last Line: "where all of him shall learn." Subject(s): Monks; Vision THE VOICES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why urge the long, unequal fight Last Line: "with the long sabbath of the light!" THE VOW OF WASHINGTON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The sword was sheathed: in april's sun Last Line: Repeat with us the pledge a century old! Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) THE WAITING, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wait and watch: before my eyes Last Line: And good but wished with god is done! Subject(s): Waiting THE WATCHERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside a stricken field I stood Last Line: "but all is possible with god!" Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History THE WELL OF LOCH MAREE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm on the breast of loch maree Last Line: On faith's white stones before it. Subject(s): Wells THE WIFE OF MANOAH TO HER HUSBAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against the sunset's glowing wall Last Line: "o god,"" I said, ""thy will be done!" Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE WIND OF MARCH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the sea the wild north wind is blowing Last Line: The healing of the spring. Subject(s): March (month); Wind THE WISH OF TODAY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask not now for gold to gild Last Line: Unto my prayer to-day! THE WISHING BRIDGE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the legends sung or said Last Line: "but in his own best way!" Subject(s): Bridges; Marblehead, Massachusetts THE WITCH OF WENHAM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along crane river's sunny slopes Last Line: Like souls escaped from hell. Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches THE WOOD GIANT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From alton bay to sandwich dome Last Line: The lesson of endurance. Subject(s): Trees THE WORD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Voice of the holy spirit, making known Last Line: Is to deny the word within! Subject(s): Worship THE WORLD'S CONVENTION OF FRIENDS OF EMANCIPATION IN LONDON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, let them gather! Summon forth Last Line: The fire shall fall from heaven! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States THE YANKEE GIRL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sings by her wheel at that low cottage-door Last Line: "in fetters with them, than in freedom with thee!" Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs THIERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fate summoned, in gray-bearded age, to act Last Line: As the dead cid at red toloso fought. Subject(s): Thiers, Louis Adolphe (1797-1877) THOMAS STARR KING, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great work laid upon his twoscore years Last Line: Your bridal service from his lips of gold? Subject(s): King, Thomas Starr (1824-1864) THY WILL BE DONE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We see not, know not; all our way Last Line: Thy will be done! Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History TO - . LINES WRITTEN AFTER A SUMMER DAY'S EXCURSION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair nature's priestesses! To whom Last Line: The hymns of gods to hear! Subject(s): Nature TO - . WITH A COPY OF WOOLMAN'S JOURNAL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maiden! With the fair brown tresses Last Line: In a pilgrim's guise. Subject(s): Woolman, John (1720-1772) TO A CAPE ANN SCHOONER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Luck to the craft that bears this name of mine Last Line: Break the long calms, and charm away the storms. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping TO A FRIEND, ON HER RETURN FROM EUROPE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How smiled the land of france Last Line: Gladness in heaven! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TO A POETICAL TRIO IN THE CITY OF GOTHAM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bards of the island city! - where of old Last Line: "ye shall be blessed with, and not ""damned to fame""!" Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Jackson, Andrew (1767-1845); Lawson, James (1799-1880); Leggett, William (1801-1839); New York City; Poetry & Poets; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TO A SOUTHERN STATESMAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this thy voice whose treble notes of fear Last Line: And heave the engineer of evil with his mine. Subject(s): Calhoun, John C. (1782-1850); Oregon; Slavery; Texas; Serfs TO ALICE AND PHOEBE CARY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who from the farm-field singing came Last Line: The trysting-place of liberty. Subject(s): Cary, Alice (1820-1871); Cary, Phoebe (1824-1871) TO AVIS KEENE, ON RECEIVING A BASKET OF SEA-MOSSES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks for thy gift Last Line: Making their lives a prayer! Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Moss TO CHARLES SUMNER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I have seemed more prompt to censure wrong Last Line: The tumult, hears the angels say, well done! Subject(s): Sumner, Charles (1811-1874) TO DELAWARE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice welcome to thy sisters of the east Last Line: Glory and praise to god! Another state is free! Subject(s): Delaware; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States TO E. C. S., by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poet and friend of poets, if thy glass Last Line: Where faith shall see and reverent trust shall know. Subject(s): Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833-1908) TO ENGLISHMEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You flung your taunt across the wave Last Line: The pirate's skull-bone blazon! Subject(s): American Civil War; England; Slavery; U.s. - History; English; Serfs TO FANEUIL HALL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men! If manhood still ye claim Last Line: Up, to faneuil hall! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Faneuil Hall, Boston; Antislavery Movement - United States TO FREDRIKA BREMER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seeress of the misty norland Last Line: O'er the threshold of the swede. Subject(s): Bremer, Fredrika (1801-1854) TO G. G.; AN AUTOGRAPH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Graceful in name and in thyself, our river Last Line: Unbroken still the ties of blood remain! Subject(s): Haverhill, England; Haverhill, Massachusetts TO GEORGE B. CHEEVER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So spake esaias: so, in words of flame Last Line: Than seckingen's mailed arm or hutton's sword! Subject(s): Cheever, George Barrell (1807-1890) TO J. P., by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not as a poor requital of the joy Last Line: Hath a rude martial tone, a blow in every thought! Subject(s): Pierpont, John (1785-1866) TO JAMES T. FIELDS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well thought! Who would not rather hear Last Line: Where sweet with flowers the fields extend. Subject(s): Fields, James T. (1817-1881) TO JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Unbidden to the feast where friends have brought Last Line: That bind the world in peace and brotherhood. Subject(s): Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) TO JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, by WILLIAM HAYES WARD Poem Text First Line: Dear singer of our fathers' day Last Line: Singers of song. Subject(s): Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) TO JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poet and friend, beloved of us so long Last Line: God bless and keep thee on thy natal day! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) TO JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER; ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, whom thy fourscore winters leave more dear Last Line: The unclouded dawn of life's immortal day! Subject(s): Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) TO LUCY LARCOM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pray give the 'atlantic' Last Line: I cannot yet see to. Subject(s): Larcom, Lucy (1824-1893) TO LYDIA MARIA CHILD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet spring day is glad with music Last Line: The harvest-gathering of the heart. Subject(s): Child, Lydia Maria (1802-1880); Love TO MASSACHUSETTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though around thee blazes Last Line: Was sleeping, but not dead! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Massachusetts; Antislavery Movement - United States TO MY FRIEND ON THE DEATH OF HIS SISTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thine is a grief, the depth of which another Last Line: Shall glean beside! Subject(s): Death; Sisters; Dead, The TO MY OLD SCHOOLMASTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old friend, kind friend! Lightly down Last Line: Thou hast known them all before! Subject(s): Coffin, Joshua; Teaching & Teachers TO MY SISTER, WITH A COPY OF SUPERNATURALISM OF NEW ENGLAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sister! While the wise and sage Last Line: For the sweet bells of morning! Subject(s): New England; Sisters; Supernatural TO OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (WHITTIER'S LAST POEM), by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the thousands who with hail and cheer Last Line: And live because he lives. Subject(s): Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894) TO PENNSYLVANIA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O state prayer-founded! Never hung Last Line: And thy triumphal song. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Pennsylvania; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs TO PIUS IX, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cannon's brazen lips are cold Last Line: The twin-born vampires down! Subject(s): Hate; Pius Ix, Pope (1792-1878) TO RONGE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strike home, strong-hearted man! Down to the root Last Line: His hands for whom thou claim'st the freedom of the mind! TO SAMUEL E. SEWALL AND HARRIET W. SEWALL OF MELROSE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Olor iscanus queries: 'why should we' Last Line: The eyes that smile no more, the unreturning feet! Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History TO THE DYING YEAR, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And thou, gray voyager to the breezeless sea TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES B. STORRS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast fallen in thine armor Last Line: And the anthem of the free. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Storrs, Charles B.; Anti-slavery; Serfs TO THE MEMORY OF J. G. C. BRAINARD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone to thee land of silence, - to the shadows of the dead Last Line: The everlasting joy of those whose trust is in the lord. Subject(s): Brainard, John Gardiner Calkins TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS SHIPLEY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone to thy heavenly father's rest! Last Line: The spirit to its worship going! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs TO THE REFORMERS OF ENGLAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God bless ye, brothers! In the fight Last Line: God's blessing on the right! Subject(s): England; Reform And Reformers; English TO THE THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O people-chosen! Are ye not Last Line: Stretch hands, and bid ye welcome home! Subject(s): Reconstruction (1865-1876); U.s. - Congress TO WILLIAM H. SEWARD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Statesman, I thank thee! And, if yet dissent Last Line: And the peacemaker be forever blest! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Seward, William Henry (1801-1872); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs TO WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Champion of those who groan beneath Last Line: And god alone be lord! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Antislavery Movement - United States TOUSAINT L'OUVERTURE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas night. The tranquil moonlight smile Last Line: Acceptable to god. Subject(s): Slavery; Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803); Serfs TRINITAS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At morn I prayed, 'I fain would see Last Line: "thy riddle hath been read to me!" Subject(s): God TRUST, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The same old baffling questions! O my friend Last Line: Who moves to his great end unthwarted by the ill. Subject(s): Mothers; Worship UTTERANCE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But what avail inadequate words to reach Last Line: Of goodness dropped in fallow-grounds of need. Subject(s): Religion; Truth; Theology VALUATION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old squire said, as he stood by his gate Last Line: "and the thing can be easily done!" Subject(s): Wealth; Riches; Fortunes VESTA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O christ of god! Whose life and death Last Line: To thee shall point the way! Subject(s): Grief; Jesus Christ; Sorrow; Sadness VOICE GROWS WITH THE GROWING YEARS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography VOICE OF THE READER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, sweet as the lapse of water at noon VOYAGE OF THE JETTIE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shallow stream, from fountains Last Line: May guide us one and all. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping WASHINGTON'S VOW, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How felt the land in every part Subject(s): Holidays; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) WE TAKE WITH SOLEMN THANKFULNESS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography WHAT LIFE MAY BE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It may not be our life to wield WHAT OF THE DAY?, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sound of tumult troubles all the air Last Line: Flailed by the thunder, heaped with chaffless grain! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States WHAT STATE STREET SAID TO SOUTH CAROLINA ..., by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Muttering 'fine upland staple,' 'prime sea island finer,' Last Line: "blind in that pestilent anakim, sumner!" Subject(s): Abolitionists; Boston; Slavery; South Carolina; Sumner, Charles (1811-1874); Anti-slavery; Serfs WHAT THE BIRDS SAID, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The birds against the april wind Last Line: And in the evening there was light. Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; United States - History WHAT THE TRAVELLER SAID AT SUNSET, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows grow and deepen round me Last Line: Made perfect in thy holy will! Subject(s): God WHAT THE VOICE SAID, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maddened by earth's wrong and evil Last Line: Temper all with love. Subject(s): Religion; Theology WHEREVER THROUGH THE AGES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion WILLIAM FORSTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The years are many since his hand Last Line: Who touched the prophet's grave! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Forster, William (d. 1854); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs WILLIAM FRANCIS BARTLETT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, well may essex sit forlorn Last Line: That fall for one like him! WILSON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lowliest born of all the land Last Line: A grateful nation, strong and free! Subject(s): Wilson, Henry (1812-1875) WINTER NIGHT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon above the eastern wood WINTER ROSES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My garden roses long ago Last Line: The heart of sharon's rose! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Winter WITCH'S DAUGHTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the pleasant harvest-time WITHIN OUR LIVES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unto the calmly gathered thought Subject(s): Religion WITHIN THE GATE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat together, last may-day, and talked Last Line: Thou hast not lived to die! Subject(s): Child, Lydia Maria (1802-1880) WOLVES OF THE BORDER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The foul human vultures Last Line: And the crown of his harvest %is life out of death Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Social Protest WORDSWORTH; WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF HIS MEMOIRS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friends, who read the world aright Last Line: With him surviveth all. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) WORLD WITHIN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As thou hast made thy world without WORSHIP, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pagan's myths through marble lips are spoken Last Line: And in its ashes plant the tree of peace! Subject(s): Christianity; Worship YET WITH HANDS BY EVIL STAINED, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography YORKTOWN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From yorktown's ruins, ranked and still Last Line: What of the new world fears the old? Subject(s): Slavery; Virginia (state); Yorktown Campaign (1781); Serfs |
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