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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF (1807-1892) Matches Found: 22 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AS THE GREEK'S SIGNAL FLAME, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the greek's signal flame, by antique records told Last Line: Lift high a kindled brand for thee, old poet. Subject(s): Birthdays; Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) FOR WHITTIER'S SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I believe that the copies of verses I've spun Last Line: Till we've paid him in love half the balance we owe! Subject(s): Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) FRIEND'S GREETING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Snowbound for earth, but summer-souled for thee Last Line: And bless thee with their love Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) 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) 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) 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) NOTE, by MARY ABIGAIL DODGE Poem Source First Line: It may be that she wields a pen Last Line: In the golden glow of a poet's thought Subject(s): Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) THE MORNING STAR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long and weary are the nights,' he said Last Line: Companioned by the bright and morning star! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Stars; Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892); Dead, The THE SNOW-MESSENGERS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pine-trees lift their dark bewildered eyes Last Line: Your flakes to me seem fiushed with fairy fire! Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Snow; Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) 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 THE POET WHITTIER, ON HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From this far realm of pines I waft thee now Last Line: Shines the unsullied aureole of a child. Subject(s): Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) TO WHITTIER, by JOSEPHINE DEPHINE HENDERSON HEARD Poem Text First Line: In childhood's sunny day my heart was taught to love Last Line: With condescension write for me thy name. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) TO WHITTIER ON HIS SEVENTEETH BIRTHDAY, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ten gentle-hearted boys of seven Subject(s): Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) TO WHITTIER, ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New england's poet, rich in love as years Last Line: Far heard across the new world and the old. Subject(s): Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) WHITE MAGIC: AN ODE, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White magic of the silences of snow! Last Line: Up the steep road of life to heaven's gate. Subject(s): Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) WHITTIER, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not o'er thy dust let there be spent Last Line: Deep in the hearts and minds of men. Subject(s): Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) WHITTIER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His fourscore years and five Last Line: It was not time to go! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) WITHDRAWAL, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it thy step on the mountain-side? Last Line: With the glow of a deathless hope. Subject(s): Death; Moosilauke Mountain, New Hampshire; Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892); Dead, The |
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