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Born in December 17, 1807 / Died in September 7, 1892 / United States / English

Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier

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The Prayer Of Agassiz

... And the leaves by soft airs stirred, ...

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The Angels of Buena Vista

... But she heard the youth's low moaning, and his struggling breath of pain, ...

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The Pressed Gentian

... For there the flower, whose fringes through ...

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The Lost Statesman

... Till bound, dumb millions there shall see them and rejoice ...

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Abram Morrison

... Dear young friends, to sight and show, ...

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What The Traveller Said At Sunset

... What space shall awe, what brightness blind me ...

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The Hive At Gettysburg

... Bleeding and torn from Freedom's mountain bounds, ...

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To A Cape Ann Schooner

... Where icebergs threaten, and the sharp reefs are ...

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The Vaudois Teacher

... And my pearls are pure as thy own fair neck, with whose ...

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Official Piety

... Brothers, God's children, Christ's redeemed, — and then, ...

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The Crucifixion

... Most freshly from the green wood springs ...

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To Delaware

... Whose harvest mantles, fringed with prairie bloom, ...

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Mountain Pictures

... the gate Of the barn-yard creaked beneath the merry weight ...

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The Lumbermen

... Ships, whose traffic links these highlands, ...

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The Old Burying-Ground

... There, sheep that graze the neighboring plain ...