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 ...
Long since, a dream of heaven I had,And still the vision haunts me oft;I see the saints in white robes ...
One morning of the first sad Fall,Poor Adam and his brideSat in the shade of Eden's wall--But on the outer ...
Still sits the school-house by the road,A ragged beggar sleeping;Around it still the sumachs grow,And blackberry-vines are creeping.Within, the master's ...
The lowliest born of all the land,He wrung from Fate's reluctant handThe gifts which happier boyhood claims;And, tasting on a ...
Take our hands, James Russell Lowell,Our hearts are all thy own;To-day we bid thee welcomeNot for ourselves alone.In the long ...
THANK God for rest, where none molest,And none can make afraid;For Peace that sits as Plenty's guestBeneath the homestead shade!Bring ...
A track of moonlight on a quiet lake,Whose small waves on a silver-sanded shoreWhisper of peace, and with the low ...
God called the nearest angels who dwell with Him above: The tenderest one was Pity, the dearest one was Love. "Arise," He ...
Men said at vespers: "All is well!"In one wild night the city fell;Fell shrines of prayer and marts of gainBefore ...
LIFT again the stately emblem on the Bay State's rusted shield,Give to Northern winds the Pine-Tree on our banner's tattered ...
WITH A COPY OF "THE SUPERNATURALISM OF NEW ENGLAND."Dear Sister! while the wise and sageTurn coldly from my playful page,And ...
God's love and peace be with thee, whereSoe'er this soft autumnal airLifts the dark tresses of thy hair.Whether through city ...
CHAMPION of those who groan beneathOppression's iron hand:In view of penury, hate, and death,I see thee fearless stand.Still bearing up ...
A railway conductor who lost his life in an accident on a Connecticutrailway, May 9, 1873.CONDUCTOR BRADLEY, (always may his ...
In trance and dream of old, God's prophet sawThe casting down of thrones. Thou, watching loneThe hot Sardinian coast-line, hazy-hilled,Where, ...
MEN! if manhood still ye claim,If the Northern pulse can thrill,Roused by wrong or stung by shame,Freely, strongly still;Let the ...
LINES WRITTEN AFTER A SUMMER DAY'S EXCURSION.Fair Nature's priestesses! to whom,In hieroglyph of bud and bloom,Her mysteries are told;Who, wise ...
John Brown of Ossawatomie spake on his dying day:"I will not have to shrive my soul a priest in Slavery's ...
WHAT though around thee blazesNo fiery rallying sign?From all thy own high places,Give heaven the light of thine!What though unthrilled, ...
Oh, well may Essex sit forlornBeside her sea-blown shore;Her well beloved, her noblest born,Is hers in life no more!No lapse ...
His laurels fresh from song and lay,Romance, art, science, rich in all,And young of heart, how dare we sayWe keep ...
A PIOUS magistrate! sound his praise throughoutThe wondering churches. Who shall henceforth doubtThat the long-wished millennium draweth nigh?Sin in high ...
The river hemmed with leaning treesWound through its meadows green;A low, blue line of mountains showedThe open pines between.One sharp, ...
The subtle power in perfume foundNor priest nor sibyl vainly learned;On Grecian shrine or Aztec moundNo censer idly burned.That power ...
He has done the work of a true man,--Crown him, honor him, love him.Weep, over him, tears of woman,Stoop manliest ...
O THOU, whose presence went beforeOur fathers in their weary way,As with Thy chosen moved of yoreThe fire by night, ...
Between the gates of birth and deathAn old and saintly pilgrim passed,With look of one who witnessethThe long-sought goal at ...
ALL night above their rocky bedThey saw the stars march slow;The wild Sierra overhead,The desert's death below.The Indian from his ...
WHERE are we going? where are we going,Where are we going, Rubee?Lord of peoples, lord of lands,Look across these shining ...
LONGFELLOW.WITH a glory of winter sunshineOver his locks of gray,In the old historic mansionHe sat on his last birthday;With his ...
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