For An Autumn festival (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The Persian's flowery gifts, the shrineOf fruitful Ceres, charm no more;The woven wreaths of oak and pineAre dust along the ...
John Greenleaf Whittier Poems on Heaven (125 Poems)
Clerical Oppressors (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
JUST God! and these are theyWho minister at thine altar, God of Right!Men who their hands with prayer and blessing ...
The Crucifixion (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Sunlight upon Judha's hills!And on the waves of Galilee;On Jordan's stream, and on the rillsThat feed the dead and sleeping ...
Hymn For The Opening Of Thomas Starr King’s House Of Worship, 1864 (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Amidst these glorious works of Thine,The solemn minarets of the pine,And awful Shasta's icy shrine,--Where swell Thy hymns from wave ...
To My Friend OnThe Death Of His Sister (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Thine is a grief, the depth of which anotherMay never know;Yet, o'er the waters, O my stricken brother!To thee I ...
To Lydia Maria Child (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
ON READING HER POEM IN "THE STANDARD."The sweet spring day is glad with music,But through it sounds a sadder strain;The ...
Divine Compassion (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Long since, a dream of heaven I had,And still the vision haunts me oft;I see the saints in white robes ...
The Two Angels (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
God called the nearest angels who dwell with Him above: The tenderest one was Pity, the dearest one was Love. "Arise," He ...
The Pine Tree (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
LIFT again the stately emblem on the Bay State's rusted shield,Give to Northern winds the Pine-Tree on our banner's tattered ...
To Massachusetts (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
WHAT though around thee blazesNo fiery rallying sign?From all thy own high places,Give heaven the light of thine!What though unthrilled, ...
Official Piety (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
A PIOUS magistrate! sound his praise throughoutThe wondering churches. Who shall henceforth doubtThat the long-wished millennium draweth nigh?Sin in high ...
A Mystery (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The river hemmed with leaning treesWound through its meadows green;A low, blue line of mountains showedThe open pines between.One sharp, ...
Hymn I (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
O THOU, whose presence went beforeOur fathers in their weary way,As with Thy chosen moved of yoreThe fire by night, ...
The Poet And The Children (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
LONGFELLOW.WITH a glory of winter sunshineOver his locks of gray,In the old historic mansionHe sat on his last birthday;With his ...
Hymns Of The Brahmo Somaj (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I.The mercy, O Eternal One!By man unmeasured yet,In joy or grief, in shade or sun,I never will forget.I give the ...
The Memory Of Burns (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
How sweetly come the holy psalmsFrom saints and martyrs down,The waving of triumphal palmsAbove the thorny crownThe choral praise, the ...
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 Lost Statesman (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
AS they who, tossing midst the storm at night,While turning shoreward, where a beacon shone,Meet the walled blackness of the ...
A Song Of Harvest (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
This day, two hundred years ago,The wild grape by the river's side,And tasteless groundnut trailing low,The table of the woods ...
Hymn II (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
O HOLY FATHER! just and trueAre all Thy works and words and ways,And unto Thee alone are dueThanksgiving and eternal ...
Seed-Time And Harvest (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
As o'er his furrowed fields which lieBeneath a coldly dropping sky,Yet chill with winter's melted snow,The husbandman goes forth to ...
The Wish Of To-Day (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I ask not now for gold to gildWith mocking shine a weary frame;The yearning of the mind is stilled,I ask ...
Astraea (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
"Jove means to settleAstraea in her seat again, And let down his golden chainAn age of better metal." Ben Johnson 1615O POET ...
Hymn For The House Of Worship At Georgetown, Erected In Memory Of A Mother (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Thou dwellest not, O Lord of allIn temples which thy children raise;Our work to thine is mean and small,And brief ...
Giving And Taking (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Who gives and hides the giving hand,Nor counts on favor, fame, or praise,Shall find his smallest gift outweighsThe burden of ...
The Moral Warfare (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
WHEN Freedom, on her natal day,Within her war-rocked cradle lay,An iron race around her stood,Baptized her infant brow in blood;And, ...
We May Not Climb the Heavenly Steeps (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
We may not climb the heavenly steepsTo bring the Lord Christ down;In vain we search the lowest deepsFor Him who ...
The Sisters – A Picture By Barry (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The shade for me, but over theeThe lingering sunshine still;As, smiling, to the silent streamComes down the singing rill.So come ...
Valuation (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE old Squire said, as he stood by his gate,And his neighbor, the Deacon, went by,"In spite of my bank ...
Ichabod (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore! The glory from his gray hairs gone Forevermore! Revile ...