An Outdoor Reception (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
On these green banks, where falls too soonThe shade of Autumn's afternoon,The south wind blowing soft and sweet,The water gliding ...
On these green banks, where falls too soonThe shade of Autumn's afternoon,The south wind blowing soft and sweet,The water gliding ...
Brave beauteous pair! if e'er indeedYour names were clothed in mortal weed;If ye are more than lovely gleams,Whose dwelling is ...
POLLIOMuses of Sicily, essay we nowA somewhat loftier task! Not all men loveCoppice or lowly tamarisk: sing we woods,Woods worthy ...
POLLIOMuses of Sicily, essay we nowA somewhat loftier task! Not all men loveCoppice or lowly tamarisk: sing we woods,Woods worthy ...
My neighbor's farm and mine lie side by side,And nothing should our mutual trust divide;But they who made th' original ...
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,--Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flowThrough public scorn,--mud from a ...
Awake! arise! the hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door!They are in haste and cannot wait, And once departed come ...
Subtly conscious, all awake,Let us clear our eyes, and breakThrough the cloudy chrysalis,See the wonder as it is.Down a narrow ...
Darkrose her shore in seas of amethyst By tropic breezes kissed,A summer land ...
The war god calls, whate'er befalls His orders must be filled, Though work may stop in mine ...
Take the boat to the bounds of the ocean, Away to the ends of the earth:We've a heritage no one ...
This love, that dares not warm before its flameOur yearning hands, or from its tempting treeYield fruit we may consume, ...
1903 (South African War ended, May, 1902) Here, where my fresh-turned furrows run, And the deep soil glistens red, I ...
I will let loose against you the fleet-footed vines-- I will call in the Jungle to stamp out your lines! ...
I Once, only once, I saw it clear, -- That Eden every human heart has dreamed A hundred times, but ...
I I heard the spring wind whisper Above the brushwood fire, "The world is made forever Of transport and desire. ...
New Castle, July 4, 1878 or a hundred years the pulse of time Has throbbed for Liberty; For a hundred ...
Colonies planted; or, Nations blessed and punished. A Psalm for New England. When God, provoked with daring crimes, Scourges the ...
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,-- Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who Through public scorn,--mud from ...
'Tis strange that in a land so strong So strong and bold in mighty youth, We have no poet's voice ...
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
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