Massachusetts (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The blast from Freedom's Northern hills, upon its Southern way,Bears greeting to Virginia from Massachusetts Bay:No word of haughty challenging, ...
The blast from Freedom's Northern hills, upon its Southern way,Bears greeting to Virginia from Massachusetts Bay:No word of haughty challenging, ...
SCENE.-A tent in the Parliamentary camp. HAMPDEN lies wounded, and CROMWELL is bending over him. Hampden. Spare all who yield; alas, that ...
One day, along the electric wireHis manly word for Freedom sped;We came next morn: that tongue of fireSaid only, "He ...
'Twas said of Greece two thousand years ago,That every stone i' the land had got a name.Of New South Wales ...
After so many concurring petitionsFrom all ages and sexes, and all conditions,We come in the rear to present our folliesTo ...
A song of hate is a song of Hell; Some there be that sing it well. Let them sing it loud and ...
If, dearest Dismal, you for once can dineUpon a single dish, and tavern wine,Toland to you this invitation sends,To eat ...
Heard ye that thrilling word — Accent of dread —Fall, like a thunderbolt, Bowing each head?Over the battle dun,Over each booming gun ...
So now the Brands Seek other lands;Alack! long ere they reach 'em A fickle crowd Will cheer as loudFor godly Governor Beauchamp. 'Twill be ...
Kentish Sir Byng stood for his King,Bidding the crop-headed Parliament swing:And, pressing a troop unable to stoopAnd see the rogues ...
The twenty-fifth had come; Peru awoke;One cry for freedom from her green hills broke,From her wide plains and valleys; and ...
The clock struck twelve; o'er half the globeDarkness had spread her pitchy robe:Morpheus, his feet with velvet shod,Treading as if ...
1660At last the long darkness of anarchy lifts, and the dawn o'er the grayIn rosy pulsation floods; the tremulous amber ...
I SATE upon a lonely peak, A backwood river's course to view, ...
June 18: 1643 Flags crape-smother'd and arms reversed, With one sad volley lay him to rest: Lay him to rest ...
OH cruel England! standing coldly by, While groans of human creatures rend the sky. The mother's darling and the sister's ...
Courage, dear Moll, and drive away despair. Mopsa, who in her youth was scarce thought fair, In spite of age, ...
GO now, ingenious youth!--The trying hourIs come: The world demands that thou shouldst goTo active life: There titles, wealth, and ...
Kentish Sir Byng stood for his King, Bidding the crop-headed Parliament swing: And, pressing a troop unable to stoop And ...
The blast from Freedom's Northern hills, upon its Southern way, Bears greeting to Virginia from Massachusetts Bay: No word of ...
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
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