The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4., Personal Poems, In Remembrance of <a target="_blank" onclick="openPopupWindow(this); return false" href="entityvote?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0001&auth=sturge,joseph&n=1&type=person">Joseph Sturge</a>., page 106

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To the memory of Charles B. Storrs ,

Leggett 's Monument.

Chalkley Hall .

To my friend on the death of his Sister .

Daniel Wheeler .

To Fredrika Bremer .

To Avis Keene .

The lost Occasion.

To my old Schoolmaster.

William Forster .

To Charles Sumner .

To Georce B. Cheever .

To James T. Fields .

The memory of Burns .

In Remembrance of Joseph Sturge .

Brown of Ossawatomie .

Bryant on his Birthday.

Thomas Starr King .

Lines on a Fly-leaf.

George L. Stearns .

To Lydia Maria child,

Fitz-Greene Halleck .

William Francis Bartlett .

Bayard Taylor .

Within the Gate .

The poet and the children.

A welcome to Lowell .

An Artist of the beautiful.

To a Cape Ann Schooner.

Samuel J. Tilden .

Occasional Poems

The tent on the Beach

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[106]
Hard by, the city of his love is swinging
Its clamorous iron flail.

But round his grave are quietude and beauty,
And the sweet heaven above,—
The fitting symbols of a life of duty
Transfigured into love!

1859.

Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1888-89.

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