The Cypress-Tree Of Ceylon (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THEY sat in silent watchfulnessThe sacred cypress-tree about,And, from beneath old wrinkled brows,Their failing eyes looked out.Gray Age and Sickness ...
John Greenleaf Whittier Poems on Light (164 Poems)
William Forster (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The years are many since his handWas laid upon my head,Too weak and young to understandThe serious words he said.Yet ...
The Answer (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Spare me, dread angel of reproof,And let the sunshine weave to-dayIts gold-threads in the warp and woofOf life so poor ...
The Knight of St. John (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Ere down yon blue Carpathian hillsThe sun shall sink again,Farewell to life and all its ills,Farewell to cell and chain!These ...
The Christian Tourists (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
No aimless wanderers, by the fiend UnrestGoaded from shore to shore;No schoolmen, turning, in their classic quest,The leaves of empire ...
The Yankee Girl (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
She sings by her wheel at that low cottage door,Which the long evening shadow is stretching before;With a music as ...
My Psalm (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I mourn no more my vanished yearsBeneath a tender rain,An April rain of smiles and tears,My heart is young again.The ...
A Lament (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The circle is broken, one seat is forsaken,One bud from the tree of our friendship is shaken;One heart from among ...
My Birthday (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Beneath the moonlight and the snowLies dead my latest year;The winter winds are wailing lowIts dirges in my ear.I grieve ...
Moloch In State Street (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE moon has set: while yet the dawnBreaks cold and gray,Between the midnight and the mornBear off your prey!On, swift ...
Hymn of The Dunkers (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
KLOSTER KEDAR, EPHRATA, PENNSYLVANIA (1738)SISTER MARIA CHRISTINA singsWake, sisters, wake! the day-star shines;Above Ephrata's eastern pinesThe dawn is breaking, cool ...
To The Reformers Of England (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
GOD bless ye, brothers! in the fightYe 're waging now, ye cannot fail,For better is your sense of rightThan king-craft's ...
Paean (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
NOW, joy and thanks forevermore!The dreary night has wellnigh passed,The slumbers of the North are o'er,The Giant stands erect at ...
Revelation (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Still, as of old, in Beavor's Vale,O man of God! our hope and faithThe Elements and Stars assail,And the awed ...
Pictures (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I.Light, warmth, and sprouting greenness, and o'er allBlue, stainless, steel-bright ether, raining downTranquillity upon the deep-hushed town,The freshening meadows, and ...
Gone (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Another hand is beckoning us,Another call is given;And glows once more with Angel-stepsThe path which reaches Heaven.Our young and gentle ...
Kenoza Lake (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
As Adam did in Paradise,To-day the primal right we claimFair mirror of the woods and skies,We give to thee a ...
The Reunion (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The gulf of seven and fifty yearsWe stretch our welcoming hands across;The distance but a pebble's tossBetween us and our ...
The Mystic’s Christmas (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
"All hail!" the bells of Christmas rang,"All hail!" the monks at Christmas sang,The merry monks who kept with cheerThe gladdest ...
On The Big Horn (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE years are but half a score,And the war-whoop sounds no moreWith the blast of bugles, whereStraight into a slaughter ...
Freedom In Brazil (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
WITH clearer light, Cross of the South, shine forthIn blue Brazilian skies;And thou, O river, cleaving half the earthFrom sunset ...
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 Celebration Of Emancipation At Newburyport (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
NOT unto us who did but seekThe word that burned within to speak,Not unto us this day belongThe triumph and ...
Lines On The Death Of S. Oliver Torrey (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
SECRETARY OF THE BOSTON YOUNG MEN'S ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.Gone before us, O our brother,To the spirit-land!Vainly look we for anotherIn thy ...
April (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
'T is the noon of the spring-time, yet never a birdIn the wind-shaken elm or the maple is heard;For green ...
The River Path (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
No bird-song floated down the hill,The tangled bank below was still;No rustle from the birchen stem,No ripple from the water's ...
A Song For The Time (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
UP, laggards of Freedom! - our free flag is castTo the blaze of the sun and the wings of the ...
A Lay Of Old Time (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
One morning of the first sad Fall,Poor Adam and his brideSat in the shade of Eden's wall--But on the outer ...
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 ...