In Memory: James T. Fields (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
As a guest who may not stayLong and sad farewells to sayGlides with smiling face away,Of the sweetness and the ...
As a guest who may not stayLong and sad farewells to sayGlides with smiling face away,Of the sweetness and the ...
A MOONY breadth of virgin face,By thought unviolated;A patient mouth, to take from scornThe hook with bank-notes baited!Its self-complacent sleekness ...
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 ...
I WOULD the gift I offer hereMight graces from thy favor take,And, seen through Friendship's atmosphere,On softened lines and coloring, ...
THE years are but half a score,And the war-whoop sounds no moreWith the blast of bugles, whereStraight into a slaughter ...
Sweetest of all childlike dreamsIn the simple Indian loreStill to me the legend seemsOf the shapes who flit before.Flitting, passing, ...
I did but dream. I never knewWhat charms our sternest season wore.Was never yet the sky so blue,Was never earth ...
O PEOPLE-CHOSEN! are ye notLikewise the chosen of the Lord,To do His will and speak His word?From the loud thunder-storm ...
WITH clearer light, Cross of the South, shine forthIn blue Brazilian skies;And thou, O river, cleaving half the earthFrom sunset ...
JUST God! and these are theyWho minister at thine altar, God of Right!Men who their hands with prayer and blessing ...
Sunlight upon Judha's hills!And on the waves of Galilee;On Jordan's stream, and on the rillsThat feed the dead and sleeping ...
AMONG the legends sung or saidAlong our rocky shore,The Wishing Bridge of MarbleheadMay well be sung once more.An hundred years ...
Amidst these glorious works of Thine,The solemn minarets of the pine,And awful Shasta's icy shrine,--Where swell Thy hymns from wave ...
NOT unto us who did but seekThe word that burned within to speak,Not unto us this day belongThe triumph and ...
Of all that Orient lands can vauntOf marvels with our own competing,The strangest is the Haschish plant,And what will follow ...
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 ...
1775.No Berserk thirst of blood had they,No battle-joy was theirs, who setAgainst the alien bayonetTheir homespun breasts in that old ...
The name the Gallic exile bore,St. Malo! from thy ancient mart,Became upon our Western shoreGreenleaf for Feuillevert.A name to hear ...
Out from JerusalemThe king rode with his greatWar chiefs and lords of state,And Sheba's queen with them;Comely, but black withal,To ...
The shadows grow and deepen round me,I feel the deffall in the air;The muezzin of the darkening thicket,I hear the ...
'T is the noon of the spring-time, yet never a birdIn the wind-shaken elm or the maple is heard;For green ...
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 ...
Hands off! thou tithe-fat plunderer! playNo trick of priestcraft here!Back, puny lordling! darest thou layA hand on Elliott's bier?Alive, your ...
Is it the palm, the cocoa-palm,On the Indian Sea, by the isles of balm?Or is it a ship in the ...
My lady walks her morning round,My lady's page her fleet greyhound,My lady's hair the fond winds stir,And all the birds ...
UP, laggards of Freedom! - our free flag is castTo the blaze of the sun and the wings of the ...
Thine is a grief, the depth of which anotherMay never know;Yet, o'er the waters, O my stricken brother!To thee I ...
THE evil days have come, the poorAre made a prey;Bar up the hospitable door,Put out the fire-lights, point no moreThe ...
ON READING HER POEM IN "THE STANDARD."The sweet spring day is glad with music,But through it sounds a sadder strain;The ...
RIGHT in the track where ShermanPloughed his red furrow,Out of the narrow cabin,Up from the cellar's burrow,Gathered the little black ...
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