The Pennsylvania (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
PreludeI sing the Pilgrim of a softer climeAnd milder speech than those brave men's who broughtTo the ice and iron ...
PreludeI sing the Pilgrim of a softer climeAnd milder speech than those brave men's who broughtTo the ice and iron ...
O Welcome simply soothing treasure!In midst o' pain my lanely pleasure!Tutor'd by thee, and whispering leisure, I quit the thrang,And, wrapt ...
NO more let Europe's offspring boastSuperior sense and worth;Or fancy virtue is attach'dTo any spot of earth;Nor e'er suppose that ...
Not vainly did old poets tell,Nor vainly did old genius paintGod's great and crowning miracle,The hero and the saint!For even ...
How bland and sweet the greeting of this breezeTo him who fliesFrom crowded street and red wall's weary gleam,Till far ...
A FEW brief years have passed awaySince Britain drove her million slavesBeneath the tropic's fiery ray:God willed their freedom; and ...
The tarantula rattling at the lily's footAcross the feet of the dead, laid in white sandNear the coral beach-nor zigzag ...
I have a dead friend who latelyHas begun to visit me:My friend sits down and sings to me,Sings to me ...
Not always unimpeded can I pray,Nor, pitying saint, thine intercession claim;Too closely clings the burden of the day,And all the ...
TO--- So when, mere child, I crossed the Atlantic tide, Ah! ne'er to see our Carib isle again- There, as it chanced, the ...
Listen to the Poet's story Of an ancient bell,Freighted with its wreaths of glory, With its fate as well:On Alhambra's ...
Homage Kenneth Koch If I were doing my Laundry I'd wash my dirty Iran I'd throw in my United States, ...
--And yet this great wink of eternity, Of rimless floods, unfettered leewardings, Samite sheeted and processioned where Her undinal vast ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
1 Adios, Carenage In idle August, while the sea soft, and leaves of brown islands stick to the rim of ...
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