Andrew Rykman’s Prayer (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Andrew Rykman's dead and gone;You can see his leaning slateIn the graveyard, and thereonRead his name and date.Trust is truer ...
Andrew Rykman's dead and gone;You can see his leaning slateIn the graveyard, and thereonRead his name and date.Trust is truer ...
Our first, our last, by heavenly fates impelled;We again meet; warned by the Spirit progressive, learn,Not man's design, mere compromise ...
UPON a cloud among the stars we stood.The angel raised his hand and looked and said,"Which world, of all yon ...
BOOK IV.So did that youth choose Duty before Love:And so determination drove awayThe doubts that held him with ungainly checkWavering—for ...
I looked far in the future; down the dimEcholess avenue of silent years,And through the cold grey haze of Time ...
THEY drew him from the darkened room,Where, swooning in a peace profound,Beneath a heavy fragrance drownedHer grey form glimmered in ...
WHAT art thou, and what hidest thou, Thou veil of fair material sense, So thin, of baffling permanence? What art ...
WITHIN Fancy's halls I sit and quaff Rich draughts of the wine of Song, And I drink and drink ...
I WAS a painter; if I lov'd Her glorious face too much, It was that thought had carv'd its lines,-- ...
THE blackbird spheral music makes Like Chrysostom with golden mouth;Slowly the flowering cherry breaks ...
SWEET Poet, thou of whom these years that roll Must one day yet the burdened birthright learn, And by the ...
One said: Thy life is thine to make or mar, To flicker feebly, or to soar, a star; It lies ...
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