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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 10: the religious side (search)
ng out of our people. Mrs. Fields's Whittier, p. 52. Yet the manner in which historic extremes have so often met was never more strangely exhibited than in a fact in early Quaker tradition revealed by Whittier to Mrs. Fields. In speaking of Rossetti and his extraordinary medieval ballad of Sister Helen, Whittier confessed himself strongly attracted to it, because he could remember seeing his mother, who was as good a woman as ever breathed, with his aunt, performing the strange act on which destroy the soul of the passing invalid, and it seems almost incredible that any sight or memory of human suffering should have called forth such a spirit of revenge in those seemingly gentle women. No one who has ever read the tragic close of Rossetti's song can ever forget it. ‘See, see, the wax has dropped from its place, Sister Helen, And the waves are winning up apace!’ ‘Yet here they burn but for a space, Little brother!’ （O Mother, Mary, Mother, Here for a space, between Hell and Hea
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)
10; his description of Whittier's funeral, 185. Republican party, 68. Reynolds, Mrs., 105. Richardson, Samuel, 165. Richter, Jean Paul, 21. Robinson, Gov. G. D., 110. Rogers, Nathaniel P., 58. Rolfe, Henry, 5. Rosa, Salvator, 14. Rossetti, Dante G., 145; Whittier's fondness for the ballad of Sister Helen, 117, 118. Russ, Cornelia, 137, 138. S. St. Margaret's Church, London, 181. St. Pierre, eruption at, 142. Salem, Mass., 10, 28, 58, 85, 109. Salisbury, Lord, 113. Salearly poems, 103; compared with Whitman, 106; pleasure in tending fire, 109; R. S. Rantoul's delineation of, 110; acquaintance with fellow-authors, 110-112; his heroes, 112, 113; Hayne's poem on, 113, 114; a liberal Quaker, 115-117; fondness for Rossetti's ballad of Sister Helen, 117-118; his relation to Society of Friends, 118-124; his interpretation of The Inward Light, 124-126; his interest in spiritualism, 126, 127; his thoughts on spiritual subjects, 127, 130; describes himself in My namesa