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 ...
at the city of Washington, on looking at a Mummy, supposed to have belonged to a race extinctbefore the occupation ...
As one who lays aside a task, where one has ruled alone,I lay aside the crown of hell, and give ...
Out of the west a voice—a shudder of horror and pity; Quivers along the pulses of all the winds that blow;—Woe ...
COME, all you sailors of the southern waters, You apparitions of the Spanish main,Who dyed the jewelled depths blood-red with slaughters, You ...
THE roads of the Sea Are thronged with merchantmen;East and West, North and South They go and come again.All precious merchandise They bear ...
The enchanted island rose before me, drawnMore beautiful than words of mine may reach;It lay magnificent in a magic dawn,And ...
When Drake sailed out from Devon to break King Phillip's pride,He had great ships at his bidding and little ones ...
Did you see the poor old hooker, by the ocean wharf she lay?Her decks are foul with harbour grime, she ...
As I looked over the water — as I looked over the foam,I saw an old-time packet-ship come cheerily plunging ...
Oh, Grimsby is a pleasant town as any man may find,An' Grimsby wives are thrifty wives, an' Grimsby girls are ...
All honour be to merchantmen,And ships of all degree,In warlike dangers manifoldWho sail and keep the sea, —In peril of ...
"Let go aft" . . . and out she slides, Pitching when she meets the tides . . . She ...
But ere heaven's cressets burn along its plain,The Master comes. And as a man, all nightLull'd in a room full ...
King Solomon drew merchantmen, Because of his desire For peacocks, apes, and ivory, From Tarshish unto Tyre, With cedars out ...
This -- is the land -- the Sunset washes -- These -- are the Banks of the Yellow Sea -- ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
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