The Watchers (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
BESIDE a stricken field I stood;On the torn turf, on grass and wood,Hung heavily the dew of blood.Still in their ...
John Greenleaf Whittier Poems on Night (105 Poems)
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Prayer-Seeker (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Along the aisle where prayer was made,A woman, all in black arrayed,Close-veiled, between the kneeling host,With gliding motion of a ...
The Peace Of Europe (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
"GREAT peace in Europe! Order reignsFrom Tiber's hills to Danube's plains!"So say her kings and priests; so sayThe lying prophets ...
The Holy Land. From Lamartine (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I have not felt, o'er seas of sand,The rocking of the desert bark;Nor laved at Hebron's fount my hand,By Hebron's ...
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 ...
The Haschish (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Of all that Orient lands can vauntOf marvels with our own competing,The strangest is the Haschish plant,And what will follow ...
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 ...
To My Sister, (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
WITH A COPY OF "THE SUPERNATURALISM OF NEW ENGLAND."Dear Sister! while the wise and sageTurn coldly from my playful page,And ...
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 Pass Of The Sierra (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
ALL night above their rocky bedThey saw the stars march slow;The wild Sierra overhead,The desert's death below.The Indian from his ...
At Port Royal (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The tent-lights glimmer on the land, The ship-lights on the sea;The night-wind smooths with drifting sand Our track on lone Tybee.At last ...
A Christmas Carmen (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I.Sound over all waters, reach out from all lands,The chorus of voices, the clasping of hands;Sing hymns that were sung ...
To Ronge (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Strike home, strong-hearted man! Down to the rootOf old oppression sink the Saxon steel.Thy work is to hew down. In ...
The Lakeside (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The shadows round the inland seaAre deepening into night;Slow up the slopes of OssipeeThey chase the lessening light.Tired of the ...
The Fruit-Gift (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Last night, just as the tints of autumn's skyOf sunset faded from our hills and streams,I sat, vague listening, lapped ...
What Of The Day (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
A SOUND of tumult troubles all the air,Like the low thunders of a sultry skyFar-rolling ere the downright lightnings glare;The ...
After Election (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE day's sharp strife is ended now,Our work is done, God knoweth how!As on the thronged, unrestful townThe patience of ...
“I Was A Stranger, And Ye Took Me In” (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
'Neath skies that winter never knewThe air was full of light and balm,And warm and soft the Gulf wind blewThrough ...
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 ...
At Last (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
When on my day of life the night is falling,And, in the winds from unsunned spaces blown,I hear far voices ...
How Mary Grew (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
With wisdom far beyond her years,And graver than her wondering peers,So strong, so mild, combining stillThe tender heart and queenly ...