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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Personal Poems (search)
ear Of Peace and Truth, And the proud ruler and his Creole dame, Jewelled and gorgeous in her beauty came, And fair and bright-eyed youth. Oh, far away beneath New England's sky, Even when a boy, Following my plough by Merrimac's green shore, His simple record I have pondered o'er With deep and quiet joy. And hence this scene, ind Jove's own brow, With all the massive strength that fills Thy home-horizon's granite hills, With rarest gifts of heart and head From manliest stock inherited, New England's stateliest type of man, In port and speech Olympian; Whom no one met, at first, but took A second awed and wondering look (As turned, perchance, the eyes of nd Joshua Coffin, teacher, historian, and antiquarian. He was one of the twelve persons who with William Lloyd Garrison formed the first antislavery society in New England. old friend, kind friend! lightly down Drop time's snow-flakes on thy crown! Never be thy shadow less, Never fail thy cheerfulness; Care, that kills the cat,
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Occasional Poems (search)
e creed-bound Puritan, And taught the kinship of the love Of man below and God above; To her whose vigorous pencil-strokes Sketched into life her Oldtown Folks; Whose fireside stories, grave or gay, In quaint Sam Lawson's vagrant way, With old New England's flavor rife, Waifs from her rude idyllic life, Are racy as the legends old By Chaucer or Boccaccio told; To her who keeps, through change of place And time, her native strength and grace, Alike where warm Sorrento smiles, Or where, by birche wish should be Your favoring trade-wind and consenting sea. By sail or steed was never love outrun, And, here or there, love follows her in whom All graces and sweet charities unite, The old Greek beauty set in holier light; And her for whom New England's byways bloom, Who walks among us welcome as the Spring, Calling up blossoms where her light feet stray. God keep you both, make beautiful your way, Comfort, console, and bless; and safely bring, Ere yet I make upon a vaster sea The unreturni
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), The tent on the Beach (search)
re she died, unattended. When her death was discovered, she was hastily covered up in the earth near by, and a stake driven through her body, to exorcise the evil spirit. Rev. Stephen Bachiler or Batchelder was one of the ablest of the early New England preachers. His marriage late in life to a woman regarded by his church as disreputable induced him to return to England, where he enjoyed the esteem and favor of Oliver Cromwell during the Protectorate. Rivermouth Rocks are fair to see, By d sidelong moral squint Our friend objects to, which has grown, I fear, a habit of my own. Twas written when the Asian plague drew near, And the land held its breath and paled with sudden fear. “ Abraham Davenport. The famous Dark Day of New England, May 19, 1780, was a physical puzzle for many years to our ancestors, but its occurrence brought something more than philosophical speculation into the minds of those who passed through it. The incident of Colonel Abraham Davenport's sturdy pr
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), At sundown (search)
e up higher, Life is not less, the heavens are only nigher! James Russell Lowell. from purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's child, Who in the language of their farm-fields spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk, Shaming a monstrous wrong. The world-wide laugh Provoked thereby might well have shaken half The walls of Slavery down, ere yet the ball And mine of battle overthrew them all. Haverhill. 1640-1890. Read at the Celebration of th sea. Think of our thrushes, when the lark sings clear, Of our sweet Mayflowers when the daisies bloom; And bear to our and thy ancestral home The kindly greeting of its children here. Say that our love survives the severing strain; That the New England, with the Old, holds fast The proud, fond memories of a common past; Unbroken still the ties of blood remain! Inscription. For the bass-relief by Preston Powers, carved upon the huge boulder in Denver Park, Col., and representing the L
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Appendix (search)
r. It deals with the border strife of the early settlers of eastern New England and their savage neighbors; but its personages and incidentsilliams in his observations upon the language and customs of the New England tribes, ‘is the only paine which will force their stoute hearts s's Key to the Indian Language, ‘in that parte of America called New England.’ —London, 1643, p. 35.Mogg is wise,— For the water he drinks isnkee's name Is coupled with reproach or shame, Still true to his New England birth, Still faithful to his home and hearth, Even 'midst the scilliams in his observations upon the language and customs of the New England tribes, is the only paine which will force their stoute hearts tms's Key to the Indian Language, in that parte of America called New England. —London, 1643, p. 35. Note 18, page 365. Wuttamuttata,—a hou The Missionary. The Call of the Christian. Extract from A New England Legend. Toussaint L'Ouverture. 1834Mogg Megone. The Cr
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Index of first lines (search)
as been long, IV. 324. Here, while the loom of Winter weaves, II. 122. Her fingers shame the ivory keys, i. 250. Her window opens to the bay, IV. 249. He stood on the brow of the well-known hill, IV. 353. His laurels fresh from song and lay, IV. 142. Ho—all to the borders! Vermonters, come down, IV. 394. Hoot!—daur ye shaw ye're face again, IV. 348. Ho! thou who seekest late and long, III. 91. How bland and sweet the greeting of this breeze, IV. 35. How has New England's romance fled, i. 23. Ho! workers of the old time styled, III. 291. How smiled the land of France, IV. 23. How strange to greet, this frosty morn, II. 33. How sweetly come the holy psalms, IV. 100. How sweetly on the wood-girt town, i. 34. Hurrah! the seaward breezes, III. 294. Hushed now the sweet consoling tongue, IV. 409. I ask not now for gold to gild, II. 233. I call the old time back: I bring my lay, i. 196. I did but dream. I never knew, II. 286.
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Index of Titles (search)
Summer, A, II. 17. Drovers, The, III. 304. Drunkard to his Bottle, The, IV. 348. Earthquake, The, IV. 341. Easter Flower Gift, An, II. 331. Ego, II. 101. Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, III. 219. Elliott, IV. 59. Emancipation Group, The, III. 266. Eternal Goodness, The, II. 267. Eva, IV. 157. Evening in Burmah, IV. 389. Eve of Election, The, III. 353. Exile's Departure, The, IV. 333. Exiles, The, i. 53. Expostulation, III. 24. Extract from A New England Legend, i. 23. Ezekiel, II. 209. Fair Quakeress, The, IV. 349. Familist's Hymn, The, II. 205. Farewell, A, IV. 409. Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother, The, III. 56. Female Martyr, The, i. 19. First-Day Thoughts, II. 242. First Flowers, The, II. 46. Fishermen, The, III. 294. Flowers in Winter, II. 33. Follen: on Reading his Essay on The Future State, IV. 29. For an Autumn Festival, IV. 164. Forgiveness, II. 109. For Righteousness' Sake,