The Grave By The Lake (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Where the Great Lake's sunny smilesDimple round its hundred isles,And the mountain's granite ledgeCleaves the water like a wedge,Ringed about ...
Where the Great Lake's sunny smilesDimple round its hundred isles,And the mountain's granite ledgeCleaves the water like a wedge,Ringed about ...
Rolling through the gloomy gorges, comes the roaring southern blast,With a sound of torrents flying, like a routed army, past,And, ...
THE DIVINE VOICEGo seek thine earth-born sisters,--thus the VoiceThat all obey,--the sad and silent three;These only, while the hosts of ...
(Written in her fifteenth year.)Loud 'gainst the rocks the wild spray is dashing,Its snowy white foam o'er the waves rudely ...
THE tropic stars are looking downUpon the midnight deep;The wind blows fresh, as on our courseRight gallantly we sweep;For thee ...
WHERE the ironbarks are hanging leaves disconsolate and pale, Where the wild vines o'er the ranges their spilt cream of ...
Bright image of the early yearsWhen glowed my cheek as red as thou,And life's dark throng of cares and fearsWere ...
All through the night the wind lies still,Curbing the strength of an eager will;Morning finds it humming through the trees ...
ON CROSSING LAKE CHAMPLAIN IN THE STEAMBOAT PHONIX,(Written in her fourteenth year.)Islet 1 on the lake's calm bosom,In thy breast ...
THE BREWING OF BEER.Now we sing the wondrous legends,Songs of wedding-feasts and dances,Sing the melodies of wedlock,Sing the songs of ...
I Spring found us early that eventful year, Seeming to know in her clairvoyant way The bitterness ...
Wreathe in a garland the corn's golden ear! With it, the Cyane blue intertwineRapture must render each glance bright and ...
You sober-minded christians now draw near,Labour to learn these pious lessons here;For by the same you will be taught to ...
PROMETHEUS (alone) O holy Aether, and swift-winged Winds, And River-wells, and laughter innumerous ...
A gray-roof'd church on a hill, set in the sound of the waves, Hearing them all day long on ...
IBeholding youth and hope in mockery caughtFrom life; and mocking pulses that remainWhen the soul's death of bodily death is ...
"ROSES and butterflies snared on a fan, All that is left of a summer gone by; Of swift, bright ...
THOSE times are gone, that circle thinned away,And we who live, now scattered far and wide,Each in our separate centres ...
Sweet summer queen, with trailing robe of green, What spell has thou to bind the heart to thee? Thy throne ...
Wreathe in a garland the corn's golden ear! With it, the Cyane blue intertwine Rapture must render each glance ...
When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovely things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in ...
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