Among the Hills (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
PRELUDEALONG the roadside, like the flowers of goldThat tawny Incas for their gardens wrought,Heavy with sunshine droops the golden-rod,And the ...
PRELUDEALONG the roadside, like the flowers of goldThat tawny Incas for their gardens wrought,Heavy with sunshine droops the golden-rod,And the ...
While thus a mind humane, and wise, he shows,All-eloquent of truth his language flows.Youth, tho' depress'd, thro' all his form ...
_On the Death of Master Frederic Thomson_.1810. --------In the first dawn of youth I much admireThe lively boy of ruddy countenance,Strong-built, ...
O Liberty! thou goddess, heavenly bright,profuse of bliss and pregnant with delight,Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign,And smiling Plenty leads ...
My sweet primrose with thy open face,And with fringe-like leaves, without a traceOf coarseness, either in flower or stem,Among all ...
"'There sinks the nebulous star we call the Sun,If that hypothesis of theirs be sound'Said Ida; 'let us down and ...
I.OF all the joys that brighten suffering earth, What joy is welcomed like a new-born child? What life so wretched, ...
'SQUIRE THOMAS; OR THE PRECIPITATE CHOICE.'Squire Thomas flatter'd long a wealthy Aunt,Who left him all that she could give or ...
September: 1643Sweet air and fresh; glades yet unsear'd by handOf Midas-finger'd Autumn, massy-green;Bird-haunted nooks between,Where feathery ferns, a fairy palmglove, ...
An After-Dinner SpeechI rise, gentlemen, it is the pleasant hour.Darkness falls. The night falls. ...
Fish "So . . ." they said, With their wine-glasses delicately poised, Mocking at the thing they cannot understand. "So ...
A quiet resolve a sense of some closure; but the pain still there our innocence gone Without cheering no joy ...
I have been thinking, praying too often these last two days the throw-away expletive His counsel, this officer of the ...
The crux of the story, of God, of his relationship with man The one word, Love, eternal, a watchword for ...
The fire already raging the land, scorched, charred. Dig out the hydrants, clear them, access send the crews, shovels at ...
We all are tempted in this life, a coarseness, a selfishness pervades the age the world says all is acceptable, ...
May it take no more suffering of a righteous man for us to see the error of the ways, the ...
An old man cocked his car upon a bridge; He and his friend, their faces to the South, Had trod ...
WHO includes diversity, and is Nature, Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the ...
'There sinks the nebulous star we call the Sun, If that hypothesis of theirs be sound' Said Ida; 'let us ...
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