The Quaker Alumni (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
From the well-springs of Hudson, the sea-cliffs of Maine,Grave men, sober matrons, you gather again;And, with hearts warmer grown as ...
From the well-springs of Hudson, the sea-cliffs of Maine,Grave men, sober matrons, you gather again;And, with hearts warmer grown as ...
Dark the halls, and cold the feast,Gone the bridemaids, gone the priest.All is over, all is done,Twain of yesterday are ...
TO have written then, when you writ, seem'd to meWorst of spiritual vices, simony ;And not to have written then ...
Not on a prayerless bed, not on a prayerless bed Compose thy weary limbs to rest; For they alone are blessed With balmy ...
A man of low degree was sore oppressed, Fate held him under iron-handed sway, And ever, those who saw him thus distressed Would ...
Leave him here in the freshgreening grasses and treesAnd the symbols of love, and the solace of these-The saintly white ...
Across the bridge, where in the morning blowThe wrinkled tide turns homeward, and is fainHomeward to drag the balck sea-goer's ...
Alone with Thee, who canst not be alone,At midnight, in Thine everlasting day;Lo, less than naught, of nothingness undone,I, prayerless, ...
I.The times are changed, and gone the dayWhen the high heavenly land,Though unbeheld, quite near them lay,And men could understand.The ...
1348-9 Blue and ever more blue The sky of that summer's spring: No cloud ...
God is the God of the living, not of the dead. ...
"PRAY for the dead-who bids thee not? Do all our human loves grow pale, Or are the old needs all ...
Beside the dead man two veil'd women sit;All the night long over the catafalqueTwelve tapers burn; from many a precious ...
The harp at Nature's advent strung Has never ceased to play; The song the stars of morning sung Has never ...
This English Thames is holier far than Rome, Those harebells like a sudden flush of sea Breaking across the woodland, ...
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