Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TWO POEMS TO HARRIET BEECHER STOWE: 1. AT THE SUMMIT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sister, we bid you welcome, - we who stand Last Line: What more can heaven bestow! Subject(s): Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) | ||||||||
SISTER, we bid you welcome, -- we who stand On the high table-land; We who have climbed life's slippery Alpine slope, And rest, still leaning on the staff of hope, Looking along the silent Mer de Glace, Leading our footsteps where the dark crevasse Yawns in the frozen sea we all must pass, -- Sister, we clasp your hand! Rest with us in the hour that Heaven has lent Before the swift descent. Look! the warm sunbeams kiss the glittering ice; See! next the snow-drift blooms the edelweiss; The mated eagles fan the frosty air; Life, beauty, love, around us everywhere, And, in their time, the darkening hours that bear Sweet memories, peace, content. Thrice welcome! shining names our missals show Amid their rubrics' glow, But search the blazoned record's starry line, What halo's radiance fills the page like thine? Thou who by some celestial clue couldst find The way to all the hearts of all mankind, On thee, already canonized, enshrined, What more can Heaven bestow! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HARRIET BEECHER STOWE'S WORKS: 'UNCLE TOM'S CABIN' by FRANK BARBOUR COFFIN LINES ADDRESSED TO MRS. H.B. STOWE ON HER VISIT TO GLASGOW, 1853 by JANET HAMILTON ELIZA HARRIS by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER TWO POEMS TO HARRIET BEECHER STOWE: 2. THE WORLD'S HOMAGE by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES THE BEECHER BEACHED by JOHN BANISTER TABB A GREETING; HARRIET BEECHER STOWE'S 70TH ANNIVERSARY by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER HARRIET BEECHER READ LORD BYRON by SAM CORNISH HARRIET BEECHER STOWE: SLAVERY AND THE DOMESTIC LIFE by SAM CORNISH CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA - EXPOSTULATION by JANET HAMILTON A BALLAD OF THE BOSTON TEA-PARTY [DECEMBER 16, 1773] by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES |
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