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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Quaker Of The Olden Time

The Quaker Of The Olden Time

THE Quaker of the olden time!
How calm and firm and true,
Unspotted by its wrong and crime,
He walked the da…

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Red River Voyageur

The Red River Voyageur

Out and in the river is winding
The links of its long, red chain,
Through belts of dusky pine-land
And gusty leagu…

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Pumpkin

The Pumpkin

Oh, greenly and fair in the lands of the sun,
The vines of the gourd and the rich melon run,
And the rock and the tree and the cottag…

286
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Proclamation

The Proclamation

SAINT PATRICK, slave to Milcho of the herds
Of Ballymena, wakened with these words:
'Arise, and flee
Out from the land o…

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Pressed Gentian

The Pressed Gentian

The time of gifts has come again,
And, on my northern window-pane,
Outlined against the day's brief light,
A Christma…

259
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Prisoners Of Naples

The Prisoners Of Naples

I HAVE been thinking of the victims bound
In Naples, dying for the lack of air
And sunshine, in their close, damp cells o…

326
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Poor Voter On Election Day

The Poor Voter On Election Day

THE proudest now is but my peer,
The highest not more high;
To-day, of all the weary year,
A king of men a…

213
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Prayer-Seeker

The Prayer-Seeker

Along the aisle where prayer was made,
A woman, all in black arrayed,
Close-veiled, between the kneeling host,
With gli…

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Pennsylvania Pilgrim

The Pennsylvania Pilgrim

Prelude

I sing the Pilgrim of a softer clime
And milder speech than those brave men's who brought
To the…

299
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Pipes At Lucknow

The Pipes At Lucknow

Pipes of the misty moorlands,
Voice of the glens and hills;
The droning of the torrents,
The treble of the rills!

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Peace Convention At Brussels

The Peace Convention At Brussels

STILL in thy streets, O Paris! doth the stain
Of blood defy the cleansing autumn rain;
Still breaks the smoke Me…

303
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Pastoral Letter

The Pastoral Letter

So, this is all, — the utmost reach
Of priestly power the mind to fetter!
When laymen think, when women preach,
A war…

334
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Panorama

The Panorama

' A! fredome is a nobill thing!
Fredome mayse man to haif liking.
Fredome all solace to man giffis;
He levys at ese that fre…

239
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Palatine

The Palatine

Leagues north, as fly the gull and auk,
Point Judith watches with eye of hawk;
Leagues south, thy beacon flames, Montauk!

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Over-Heart

The Over-Heart

Above, below, in sky and sod,
In leaf and spar, in star and man,
Well might the wise Athenian scan
The geometric signs of …

302
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Norsemen ( From Narrative and Legendary Poems )

The Norsemen ( From Narrative and Legendary Poems )

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GIFT from the cold and silent Past!
A relic to the present cast,
Left on th…

305
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Mystic’s Christmas

The Mystic’s Christmas

'All hail!' the bells of Christmas rang,
'All hail!' the monks at Christmas sang,
The merry monks who kept with cheer

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The New Wife and the Old

The New Wife and the Old

Dark the halls, and cold the feast,
Gone the bridemaids, gone the priest.
All is over, all is done,
Twain of yes…

225
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Minister’s Daughter

The Minister’s Daughter

In the minister's morning sermon
He had told of the primal fall,
And how thenceforth the wrath of God
Rested on e…

282
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Men Of Old

The Men Of Old

WELL speed thy mission, bold Iconoclast!
Yet all unworthy of its trust thou art,
If, with dry eye, and cold, unloving heart,

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Mantle Of St. John De Matha. A Legend Of

The Mantle Of St. John De Matha. A Legend Of

A STRONG and mighty Angel,
Calm, terrible, and bright,
The cross in blended red and blue
Upo…

284
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Meeting

The Meeting

The elder folks shook hands at last,
Down seat by seat the signal passed.
To simple ways like ours unused,
Half solemnized an…

327
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Lumbermen

The Lumbermen

WILDLY round our woodland quarters
Sad-voiced Autumn grieves;
Thickly down these swelling waters
Float his fallen leaves. <…

238
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Lost Occasion

The Lost Occasion

Some die too late and some too soon,
At early morning, heat of noon,
Or the chill evening twilight. Thou,
Whom the rich…

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