John Greenleaf Whittier
Born in December 17, 1807 / Died in September 7, 1892 / United States / English
Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier
Snowbound, a Winter Idyl
... ire: and as the Celestial Fire drives away dark spirits, so also this our fire of Wood doth the same ...
Stanzas for the Times
... By all the memories of our dead! By their enlarging souls, which burst ...
Telling the Bees
... Gone on the journey we all must go! Then I said to myself, "My Mary weeps ...
The Barefoot Boy
... Blessings on thee, barefoot boy!Oh for boyhood's painless play, ...
The Changeling ( From The Tent on the Beach )
... Be the death of Goody Cole!"His horse he saddled and bridled, ...
The Eternal Goodness
... I know that God is good!Not mine to look where cherubim ...
The Farewell
... Of A Virginia Slave Mother To Her Daughters Sold Into Southern BondageGone, gone, -- sold and gone ...
The Frost Spirit
... Into marble statues grow! He comes, - he comes, - the Frost Spirit comes! ...
The Norsemen ( From Narrative and Legendary Poems )
... His altar's foot in trembling prayer! 'T is past, -- the 'wildering vision dies ...
The Pipes At Lucknow
... The grandest o' them all!'Oh, they listened, dumb and breathless, ...
The Pumpkin
... pumpkin-shell coach, with two rats for her team!Then thanks for thy present! none sweeter or better ...
The Sycamores
... And shot off his old king's-arm,--- Slowly passed that august Presence ...
The Worship of Nature
... The priesthood of the sea! They pour their glittering treasures forth, ...
Vesta
... Take home thy star-named child! Thy grace is in her patient eyes, ...
What the Birds Said
... The sickened camp, the blazing town! "Beneath the bivouac's starry lamps, ...
