The Drovers (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THROUGH heat and cold, and shower and sun,Still onward cheerly driving!There's life alone in duty done,And rest alone in striving.But ...
THROUGH heat and cold, and shower and sun,Still onward cheerly driving!There's life alone in duty done,And rest alone in striving.But ...
ARE we daily drawing nearerThee, the Perfect, the Unseen?Grows the pathway ever clearer,Stretching sense and God between?Thine own messengers beside ...
ILEST it may more quarrels breed,I will never hear you read.IIBy disputing, I will never,To convince you once endeavour.IIIWhen a ...
WHILE he is mark'd by vision clearWho fathoms Nature's treasures,The man may follow, void of fear,Who her proportions measures.Though for ...
O lord Increate, who will serve Thee?Every votary offers his worship to the God of his own creation: each day ...
WHEN by the brook his strainCupid is fluting,And on the neighboring plainMayors disputing,There turns the ear ere long,Loving and tender,Yet ...
The Contemplation.ARGUMENT. Pango nec humanis Opus enarrabile Verbis, Quae meli?s possem Mira silendo loqui! Da, DEUS, Illa canam, quae Vox ...
1.LORD, I do choose the higher than my will.I would be handled by thy nursing armsAfter thy will, not my ...
There was a knight was drunk with wine,A riding along the way, sir;And there he met with a lady fine,Among ...
I.Who follows Jesus shall not walkIn darksome road with danger rife;But in his heart the Truth will talk,And on his ...
From Old France once sailed a vessel,Bearing hearts that came to nestleIn Acadia's breast and wrestle With its Winters cold.Priests ...
Oh, not for the great departed,Who formed our country's laws,And not for the bravest-heartedWho died in freedom's cause,And not for ...
Above the din of commerce, above the clamor and rattleOf labor disputing with riches, of Anarchists' threats and groans,Above the ...
A SMILE and a tear were disputing one day On their different merits and skill; It grieves me to state ...
There's no sense in going further -- it's the edge of cultivation," So they said, and I believed it -- ...
WHILE he is mark'd by vision clear Who fathoms Nature's treasures, The man may follow, void of fear, Who her ...
It snowed in spring on earth so dry and warm The flakes could find no landing place to form. Hordes ...
O SWARMING city, city full of dreams, Where in a full day the spectre walks and speaks; Mighty colossus, in ...
In elder days, in Saturn's prime, Ere baldness seized the head of Time, While truant Jove, in infant pride, Play'd ...
To Jena Woodhouse This way of minutes miserably mixed With their own blinks misunderstood By birds and trees, this eye-born ...
You, that decipher out the Fate Of humane Off-springs from the Skies, What mean these Infants which of late Spring ...
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