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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

My Trust

My Trust

A picture memory brings to me
I look across the years and see
Myself beside my mother's knee.


I feel her gentle …

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

My Triumph

My Triumph

The autumn-time has come;
On woods that dream of bloom,
And over purpling vines,
The low sun fainter shines.

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

My Soul And I

My Soul And I

Stand still, my soul, in the silent dark
I would question thee,
Alone in the shadow drear and stark
With God and me!

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

My Playmate

My Playmate

The pines were dark on Ramoth hill,
Their song was soft and low;
The blossoms in the sweet May wind
Were falling like the sno…

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

My Dream

My Dream

In my dream, methought I trod,
Yesternight, a mountain road;
Narrow as Al Sirat's span,
High as eagle's flight, it ran.

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

Mulford

Mulford


Unnoted as the setting of a star
He passed; and sect and party scarcely knew
When from their midst a sage and seer withdrew

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

Moloch In State Street

Moloch In State Street

THE moon has set: while yet the dawn
Breaks cold and gray,
Between the midnight and the morn
Bear off your prey! <…

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

Mogg Megone - Part II.

Mogg Megone - Part II.

'Tis morning over Norridgewock, On
tree and wigwam, wave and rock.
Bathed in the autumnal sunshine, stirred
At int…

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

Memories

Memories


A beautiful and happy girl,
With step as light as summer air,
Eyes glad with smiles, and brow of pearl,
Shadowed by many…

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

Mithridates At Chios

Mithridates At Chios

KNOW'ST thou, O slave-cursed land!
How, when the Chian's cup of guilt
Was full to overflow, there came
God's justice…

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

Massachusetts To Virginia

Massachusetts To Virginia

The blast from Freedom's Northern hills, upon its Southern way,
Bears greeting to Virginia from Massachusetts Bay:
No w…

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

Marguerite

Marguerite


MASSACHUSETTS BAY, 1760.

THE robins sang in the orchard, the buds into
blossoms grew;
Little of human sorrow t…

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

Lines On The Portrait Of A Celebrated Publisher

Lines On The Portrait Of A Celebrated Publisher

A MOONY breadth of virgin face,
By thought unviolated;
A patient mouth, to take from scorn

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

Lydia H. Sigourney

Lydia H. Sigourney

She sang alone, ere womanhood had known
The gift of song which fills the air to-day
Tender and sweet, a music all her own

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

Lines on A Fly-Leaf

Lines on A Fly-Leaf

I need not ask thee, for my sake,
To read a book which well may make
Its way by native force of wit
Without my manual…

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

Lexington

Lexington


1775.

No Berserk thirst of blood had they,
No battle-joy was theirs, who set
Against the alien bayonet

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

Leggett’s Monument

Leggett’s Monument

Yes, pile the marble o'er him! It is well
That ye who mocked him in his long stern strife,
And planted in the pathway of his l…

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

Laying Up Treasure

Laying Up Treasure

From the Mahabharata.

Before the Ender comes, whose charioteer
Is swift or slow Disease, lay up each year
Thy …

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

King Volmer and Elsie

King Volmer and Elsie

After the Danish of Christian Winter

Where, over heathen doom-rings and gray stones of the Horg,
In its little Chri…

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

Kossuth

Kossuth


Type of two mighty continents!--combining
The strength of Europe with the warmth and glow
Of Asian song and prophecy,--the shinin…

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

Kenoza Lake

Kenoza Lake

As Adam did in Paradise,
To-day the primal right we claim
Fair mirror of the woods and skies,
We give to thee a name.

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

Kallundborg Church ( From The Tent on the Beach)

Kallundborg Church ( From The Tent on the Beach)

"Tie stille, barn min!
Imorgen kommer Fin,
Fa'er din,
Og gi'er dich Esbern Snares öine o…

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

John Underhill

John Underhill

A score of years had come and gone
Since the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth stone,
When Captain Underhill, bearing scars
From…

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

Italy

Italy


ACROSS the sea I heard the groans
Of nations in the intervals
Of wind and wave. Their blood and bones
Cried out in torture,…

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