In Quest (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Have I not voyaged, friend beloved, with theeOn the great waters of the unsounded sea,Momently listening with suspended oarFor the ...
Have I not voyaged, friend beloved, with theeOn the great waters of the unsounded sea,Momently listening with suspended oarFor the ...
In the silence of my heart, I will spend an hour with thee, When my love shall rend apart All the veil of ...
I.FOUR hundred years ago a tangled wasteLay sleeping on the west Atlantic's side;Their devious ways the Old World's millions tracedContent, ...
A SENTIMENTThis "sentiment" was read on the same occasion as the "Family Record,"which immediately follows it. The latter poem is ...
Not always unimpeded can I pray,Nor, pitying saint, thine intercession claim;Too closely clings the burden of the day,And all the ...
I spread a scanty board too late;The old-time guests for whom I waitCome few and slow, methinks, to-day.Ah! who could ...
The wild geese, flying in the night, beholdOur sunken towns lie underneath a sea,Which buoys them on its billows. LibertyThey ...
The cypress swamp around me wraps its spell,With hushing sounds in moss-hung branches there,Like congregations rustling down to prayer,While Solitude, ...
TOUCH us gently, Time!Let us glide adown thy streamGently,-as we sometimes glideThrough a quiet dream.Humble voyagers are We,Husband, wife, and ...
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,That like a haze about your silence clings,Moulding your void until we seem to ...
I I stood once where these rows of deep piazzas Frown on the harbor from their columned pride, ...
Again thy winds are pealing in mine ear!Again thy waves are flashing in my sight!Thy memory-haunting tones again I hear,As, ...
TOUCH us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,-as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream. ...
HAIL! Childish slaves of social rules You had yourselves a hand in making! How I could shake your faith, ye ...
The earth again like a ship steams out of the dark sea over The edge of the blue, and the ...
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