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Subject: WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF (1807-1892)
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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