Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH 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) | ||||||||
UNBIDDEN to the feast where friends have brought, To greet thy seventy years, their wreaths of rhyme, -- For that thy form erect such weight of time Should bear, was never present to my thought, -- Whittier, I bring my offering, though unsought. Thou, first of all our bards, hast rung the chime Of souls, whose zeal denounced a nation's crime. Thy fire, intense yet soft, from heaven was caught. Thou too the dear neglected chords hast wooed Of plain New England life, and earned a fame From whose wide light thy modest nature shrinks. Long shall the land revere and love thy name; Long find among thy songs the golden links That bind the world in peace and brotherhood. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AS THE GREEK'S SIGNAL FLAME by WALT WHITMAN WHITE MAGIC: AN ODE by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER by PHOEBE CARY WHITTIER by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE SNOW-MESSENGERS by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE TO THE POET WHITTIER, ON HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE TO WHITTIER by JOSEPHINE DEPHINE HENDERSON HEARD FOR WHITTIER'S SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES IN MEMORY OF JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES CORRESPONDENCES; HEXAMETERS AND PENTAMETERS by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH |
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