Among the Hills (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
PRELUDEALONG the roadside, like the flowers of goldThat tawny Incas for their gardens wrought,Heavy with sunshine droops the golden-rod,And the ...
PRELUDEALONG the roadside, like the flowers of goldThat tawny Incas for their gardens wrought,Heavy with sunshine droops the golden-rod,And the ...
Some born of homely parents For ages settled down-The steady generations Of village, farm, and town:And some of dusky fathers Who wandered since ...
As shadows are to material forms, As mists to the copious shower As dead calms are to tornado storms That in tropical region ...
So! you preach me self-reliance, Emigration,— rights of man?So! you bid me breathe defiance As a freeborn Briton can?Break the fetter, burst ...
I.I stand in thought beside my father's grave:The grave of one who, in his old age, diedToo late perhaps, since ...
Let penny-a-liners columns pour Of turgid efflorescence, Describe in language that would floor Our Cayleys, Rouths, and Besants, ...
Spring is come, and shades departLighter beats each human heart;Ghost-like snow-is fleeting slow,And the green spring-grasses grow.Streams, that long have ...
In this world of illusion of lies of self-reliance of the shoulder to the wheel and lifting up our own ...
We must face the fact that we fail to be Christians believing that God only helps those who help themselves ...
Against the winds prevailing currents of the world fighting the tide of history the believes of the nation our people ...
Dirty water, throughout the world the poor, the least, drinking dirty water the wealthy, the run-off, waters of self-reliance None ...
Dear to my heart are the ancestral dwellings of America, Dearer than if they were haunted by ghosts of royal ...
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
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