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 ...
THROUGH the long hall the shuttered windows shedA dubious light on every upturned head;On locks like those of Absalom the ...
A HARVEST IDYL.PROEM.I CALL the old time back: I bring my layin tender memory of the summer dayWhen, where our ...
I had rather write one word upon the rockOf ages than ten thousand in the sand.The rock of ages! lo ...
I, walking the familiar street, While a crammed horse-car jingled through it,Was lifted from my prosy feet And in Arcadia ere I ...
Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide.The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel,formerly used to ...
From "A Sicilian Idyl"Weave the dance. and raise again the sacred chorus;Wreathe the garlands of the spring about the hair;Now ...
"So was their sanctuary violated,So their fair college turned to hospital;At first with all confusion: by and bySweet order lived ...
DRAMATIS PERSONAEPoet. Philosopher. Jones of Mariposa.POETHalt! Here we are. Now wheel your mare a trifle Just where you stand; then ...
(AN IDYL OF THE BALUSTERS)BOBBY, aetat. 3 1/2. JOHNNY, aetat. 4 1/2.BOBBYDo you know why they've put us in that ...
(From the French of Charles Baudelaire)Remember now, my Love, what piteous thingWe saw on a summer's gracious day:By the roadside ...
Thou dost not know it! but to hearOne word of praise from thee,There is no pain I would not bear,No ...
Our blood is swayed by sunken moonsAnd lulled by midnights long foredone;We waken to a foundered sunIn Atlantean afternoons:Our blood ...
(Being the second idyl to an idle idol.)Lady in the blue kimono, May we write of you again?Do not hand ...
Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide. The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel, formerly ...
So was their sanctuary violated, So their fair college turned to hospital; At first with all confusion: by and by ...
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