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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 32 0 Browse Search
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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Personal Poems (search)
hou mayst live to bless the giver, Who, himself but frail and weak, Would at least the highest welfare Of another seek; And his gift, though poor and lowly It may seem to other eyes, Yet may prove an angel holy In a pilgrim's guise. 1840. Leggett's Monument. William Leggett, who died in 1839 at the age of thirty-seven, was the intrepid editor of the New York Evening Post and afterward of The Plain Dealer. His vigorous assault upon the system of slavery brought down upon him the enmitWilliam Leggett, who died in 1839 at the age of thirty-seven, was the intrepid editor of the New York Evening Post and afterward of The Plain Dealer. His vigorous assault upon the system of slavery brought down upon him the enmity of political defenders of the system. ‘Ye build the tombs of the prophets.’ —Holy Writ. 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 life The ploughshares of your hatred hot from hell, Who clamored down the bold reformer when He pleaded for his captive fellow-men, Who spurned him in the market-place, and sought Within thy walls, St. Tammany, to bind In party chains the free and honest thought, The angel utteran<
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Appendix (search)
he hostile beck Of coming foes in starry splendor sweeping,— Thy graphic tales of battle or of wreck, Or lone night-watch in middle ocean keeping, Have made thy ‘Leisure Hours’more prized by far Than those now spent in Party's wordy war. William Leggett, Esq., of the Post, a gentleman of good talents, favorably known as the editor of the Newl York Critic, etc. And last, not least, thou!— now nurtured in the land Where thy bold-hearted fathers long ago Rocked Freedorn's cradle, till its infar. The Relic. The World's Convention. 1840To——, with a copy of Woolman's Journal. 1841The Cypress Tree of Ceylon. St. John. The Exiles. Funeral Tree of the Sokokis. The Norsemen. Memories. The Merrimac. Lucy Hooper. To a Friend. Leggett's Monument. Democracy. 1842Follen. The Gallows. Raphael. 1843The Knight of St. John. Cassandra Southwick. The New Wife and the Old. Hampton Beach. Ego. To J. P. Chalkley Hall. Massachusetts to Virginia. The Christian Slave. Se
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Index of Titles (search)
Kinsman, IV. 196. Knight of St. John, The, i. 62. Kossuth, IV. 72. Lady Franklin, IV. 327. Lakeside, The, II. 18. Lament, A, IV. 9. Landmarks, The, IV. 210. Larcom, Lucy, To, IV. 408. Larcom, Lucy, Letter to, IV. 405. Last Eve of Summer, The, IV. 314. Last Walk in Autumn, The, II. 37. Laurels, The, IV. 180. Laus I)eo, III. 254. Lay of Old Time, A, IV. 158. Legacy, A, II. 186. Legend of St. Mark, The, i. 117. Legend of the Lake, A, IV. 402. Leggett's Monument, IV. 22. Letter from a Missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in Kansas, to a Distinguished Politician, III. 178. Letter, A, supposed to be written by the Chairman of the Central Clique, at Concord, N. H., III. 117. Letter to Lucy Larcom, IV. 405. Lexington, IV. 201. Library, The, IV. 203. Light that is felt, The, II. 337. Lines from a Letter to a Young Clerical Friend, III. 122. Lines on a Fly-Leaf, IV. 114. Lines on leaving Appledore, IV.
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Old portraits and modern Sketches (search)
nd so be the savor of life to both. William Leggett. O Freedom! thou art not, as poets d into conformity with its professions. William Leggett! Let our right hand forget its cunning, o called Milton friend are to England, should Leggett be to America. His character was formed on t out strongly in condemnation of the mob. William Leggett was not then an Abolitionist; he had knowter-General or silently acquiesced in it, William Leggett, who, in the absence of his colleague, warty allegiance. The impracticable honesty of Leggett, never bending from the erectness of truth fos of a conductor of the public press than William Leggett, and few have ever combined so many of thame. For when the death-frost came to lie On Leggett's warm and mighty heart, And quenched his bolthey kindled still. So lived and died William Leggett. What a rebuke of party perfidy, of poliautiful ideal a fact. Every American, says Leggett, who in any way countenances slavery is derel[6 more...]
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Index of titles of prose writings (search)
4. Garrison, William Lloyd, VII. 189. Great Ipswich Fright, The, VI. 380. Greenwell, Dora, VII. 284. Hamlet among the Graves, VII. 267. Haverford College, VII. 361. Heroine of Long Point, The, v. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, VI. 309. Hopkins, Samuel, VI. 130. Indian Civilization, VII. 232. Indian Question, The, VII. 238. International Arbitration, VII. 245. Italian Unity, VII. 229. Journal, John Woolman's, VII. 315. Justice and Expediency, VII. 9. Leggett, William, VI. 184. Lesson and our Duty, The, VII. 148. Lighting Up, The, v. 376. Little Iron Soldier, The, v. 251. Longfellow, VI. 311. Lord Ashley and the Thieves, VII. 221. Magicians and Witch Folk, v. 399. Margaret Smith's Journal, v. 9. Marvell, Andrew, VI. 87. Mirth and Medicine, VII. 374. My Summer with Dr. Singletary, v. 197. Nayler, James, VI. 69. O'Connell, Daniel, VI. 321. Old Newbury, VI. 312. Old Portraits and Modern Sketches, VI. 9. Old W