John Greenleaf Whittier Poems on Soul (101 Poems)
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Hymns From The French Of Lamartine (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I. “Encore un hymne, O ma lyre Un hymn pour le Seigneur, Un hymne dans mon delire, Un hymne dans mon bonheur.” One hymn more, O my lyre! Praise to the God above, Of joy and life and love, Sweeping its strings of fire! Oh, who the … Continue reading
At Washington (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
WITH a cold and wintry noon-light.On its roofs and steeples shed,Shadows weaving with t e sunlightFrom the gray sky overhead,Broadly, vaguely, all around me, lies the half-built town outspread.Through this broad street, restless ever,Ebbs and flows a human tide,Wave on … Continue reading
To ——, (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
WITH A COPY OF WOOLMAN’S JOURNAL. Maiden! with the fair brown tressesShading o’er thy dreamy eye,Floating on thy thoughtful foreheadCloud wreaths of its sky. Youthful years and maiden beauty,Joy with them should still abide,–Instinct take the place of Duty,Love, not … Continue reading
Daniel Wheeler (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
O Dearly loved!And worthy of our love! No moreThy aged form shall rise beforeThe bushed and waiting worshiper,In meek obedience utterance givingTo words of truth, so fresh and living,That, even to the inward sense,They bore unquestioned evidenceOf an anointed Messenger!Or, … Continue reading
How The Women Went From Dover (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE tossing spray of Cocheco’s fallHardened to ice on its rocky wall,As through Dover town in the chill, gray dawn,Three women passed, at the cart-tail drawn! Bared to the waist, for the north wind’s gripAnd keener sting of the constable’s … Continue reading
The Brown Dwarf of Rugen (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The pleasant isle of Rugen looks the Baltic water o’er,To the silver-sanded beaches of the Pomeranian shore; And in the town of Rambin a little boy and maidPlucked the meadow-flowers together and in the sea-surf played. Alike were they in … Continue reading
Ezekiel (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
They hear Thee not, O God! nor see;Beneath Thy rod they mock at Thee;The princes of our ancient lineLie drunken with Assyrian wine;The priests around Thy altar speakThe false words which their hearers seek;And hymns which Chaldea’s wanton maidsHave sung … Continue reading
The Pastoral Letter (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
So, this is all, – the utmost reachOf priestly power the mind to fetter!When laymen think, when women preach,A war of words, a “Pastoral Letter!”Now, shame upon ye, parish Popes!Was it thus with those, your predecessors,Who sealed with racks, and … Continue reading
The Angels of Buena Vista (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Speak and tell us, our Ximena, looking northward far away,O’er the camp of the invaders, o’er the Mexican array,Who is losing? who is winning? are they far or come they near?Look abroad, and tell us, sister, whither rolls the storm … Continue reading
The Two Elizabeths (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Read at the unveiling of the bust of Elizabeth Fry at the Friends’School, Providence, R. I. A. D. 1209. AMIDST Thuringia’s wooded hills she dwelt,A high-born princess, servant of the poor,Sweetening with gracious words the food she dealtTo starving throngs … Continue reading
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