Adjustment (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The tree of Faith its bare, dry boughs must shedThat nearer heaven the living ones may climb;The false must fail, ...
The tree of Faith its bare, dry boughs must shedThat nearer heaven the living ones may climb;The false must fail, ...
I.NOT without envy Wealth at times must lookOn their brown strength who wield the reaping-hook."And scythe, or at the forge-fire ...
Low in the east, against a white, cold dawn,The black-lined silhouette of the woods was drawn,And on a wintry wasteOf ...
The time of gifts has come again,And, on my northern window-pane,Outlined against the day's brief light,A Christmas token hangs in ...
TO A YOUNG PHYSICIAN, WITH DORE'S PICTURE OF CHRIST HEALING THE SICK.So stood of old the holy ChristAmidst the suffering throng;With ...
With wisdom far beyond her years,And graver than her wondering peers,So strong, so mild, combining stillThe tender heart and queenly ...
A STRENGTH Thy service cannot tire,A faith which doubt can never dim,A heart of love, a lip of fire,O Freedom's ...
So spake Esaias: so, in words of flame,Tekoa's prophet-herdsman smote with blameThe traffickers in men, and put to shame,All earth ...
O dearest bloom the seasons know,Flowers of the Resurrection blow,Our hope and faith restore;And through the bitterness of deathAnd loss ...
Call him not heretic whose works attest His faith in goodness by no creed confessed. Whatever in love's name is ...
"Put up the sword!" The voice of Christ once more Speaks, in the pauses of the cannon's roar, O'er fields ...
"Tie stille, barn min! Imorgen kommer Fin, Fa'er din, Og gi'er dich Esbern Snares öine og hjerte at lege med!" ...
To the Memory of the Household It Describes This Poem is Dedicated by the Author "As the Spirit of Darkness ...
FOR the fairest maid in Hampton They needed not to search, Who saw young Anna favor Come walking into church,-- ...
Up the streets of Aberdeen, By the kirk and college green, Rode the Laird of Ury; Close behind him, close ...
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