My Trust (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
A picture memory brings to meI look across the years and seeMyself beside my mother's knee.I feel her gentle hand ...
A picture memory brings to meI look across the years and seeMyself beside my mother's knee.I feel her gentle hand ...
This day, two hundred years ago,The wild grape by the river's side,And tasteless groundnut trailing low,The table of the woods ...
THRICE welcome to thy sisters of the East,To the strong tillers of a rugged home,With spray-wet locks to Northern winds ...
WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF HIS MEMOIRS.Dear friends, who read the world aright,And in its common forms discernA beauty ...
In calm and cool and silence, once againI find my old accustomed place amongMy brethren, where, perchance, no human tongueShall ...
Poor and inadequate the shadow-playOf gain and loss, of waking and of dream,Against life's solemn background needs must seemAt this ...
John Pierpont, the eloquent preacher and poet of Boston.Not as a poor requital of the joyWith which my childhood heard ...
Thine are all the gifts, O God!Thine the broken bread;Let the naked feet be shod,And the starving fed.Let Thy children, ...
It is done! Clang of bell and roar of gun Send the tidings up and down. How the belfries rock ...
The blast from Freedom's Northern hills, upon its Southern way, Bears greeting to Virginia from Massachusetts Bay: No word of ...
Maud Muller on a summer's day Raked the meadow sweet with hay. Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth Of ...
The autumn-time has come; On woods that dream of bloom, And over purpling vines, The low sun fainter shines. The ...
To the Memory of the Household It Describes This Poem is Dedicated by the Author "As the Spirit of Darkness ...
Blessings on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan! With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled tunes; ...
GIFT from the cold and silent Past! A relic to the present cast, Left on the ever-changing strand Of shifting ...
Before my drift-wood fire I sit, And see, with every waif I burn, Old dreams and fancies coloring it, And ...
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