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John Greenleaf Whittier Poems

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• "The Rock" In El Ghor
• A Christmas Carmen
• A Day
• A Dream Of Summer
• A Greeting
• A Lament
• A Lay Of Old Time
• A Legacy
• A Letter
• A Memorial
• A Memory
• A Mystery
• A Name
• A Sabbath Scene
• A Sea Dream
• A Song For The Time
• A Song Inscribed To The Fremont Clubs
• A Song Of Harvest
• A Spiritual Manifestation
• A Summer Pilgrimage
• A Summons
• A Welcome To Lowell
• A Woman
• A Word For The Hour
• Abolition Of Slavery In The District Of Columbia, 1862
• Abraham Davenport
• Abram Morrison
• Adjustment
• Aechdeacon Barbour
• After Election
• All's Well
• Among The Hills
• Amy Wentworth - To William Bradford
• An Artist Of The Beautiful
• An Autograph
• An Easter Flower Gift
• An Outdoor Reception
• Andrew Rykman's Prayer
• Anniversary Poem
• April
• Arisen At Last
• Astraea
• Astræa at the Capitol
• At Eventide
• At Last
• At Port Royal
• At School-Close
• At Washington
• Autumn Thoughts
• Banished From Massachusetts
• Barbara Frietchie
• Barclay Of Ury
• Bayard Taylor
• Benedicite
• Between The Gates
• Birchbrook Mill
• Brown Of Ossawatomie
• Bryant On His Birthday
• Burial Of Barber
• Burning Drift-Wood
• Burns
• By Their Works
• Calef In Boston, 1692
• Cassandra Southwick
• Centennial Hymn
• Chalkey Hall
• Channing
• Chicago
• Child-Songs
• Clerical Oppressors
• Cobbler Keezar's Vision
• Conduct
• Conductor Bradley
• Daniel Neall
• Daniel Wheeler
• Dedication - Songs Of Labor
• Democracy
• Derne
• Disarmament
• Divine Compassion
• Ego
• Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott - (Luther's Hymn)
• Elliott
• Eva
• Expostulation
• Extract From "A New England Legend"
• Ezekiel
• First-Day Thoughts
• Fitz-Greene Halleck
• Flowers In Winter
• For An Autumn festival
• For Righteousness' Sake
• Forgiveness
• Freedom In Brazil
• From Perugia
• Funeral Tree Of The Sokokis
• Garden
• Garibaldi
• Garrison
• George L. Stearns
• Giving And Taking
• Godspeed
• Gone
• Greeting
• Hampton Beach
• Haverhill
• Hazel Blossoms
• Help
• How Mary Grew
• How The Robin Came
• How The Women Went From Dover
• Howard At Atlanta
• Hymn
• Hymn For The Celebration Of Emancipation At Newburyport
• Hymn For The House Of Worship At Georgetown, Erected In Memory Of A Mother
• Hymn For The Opening Of Plymouth Church, St. Paul, Minnesota
• Hymn For The Opening Of Thomas Starr King's House Of Worship, 1864
• Hymn I
• Hymn II
• Hymn Of The Children
• Hymn Of The Dunkers
• Hymn, Sung At Christmas By The Scholars Of St. Helena's Island, S.C.
• Hymns From The French Of Lamartine
• Hymns Of The Brahmo Somaj
• I Was A Stranger, And Ye Took Me In
• Ichabod
• Immortal Love, Forever Full
• In Memory - James T. Fields
• In Peace
• In Quest
• In Remembrance Of Joseph Sturge
• In School-Days
• In The "Old South"
• In The Evil Days
• Incription To Milton
• Inscription On A Fountain
• Inscription-For The Relief By Preston Powers
• Inscriptions On A Sun-Dial
• Invocation
• Italy
• James Russell Lowell
• John Underhill
• June On The Merrimac
• Kallundborg Church ( From The Tent On The Beach)
• Kathleen
• Kenoza Lake
• King Solomon And The Ants
• King Volmer And Elsie
• Kinsman
• Kossuth
• Laus Deo
• Laying Up Treasure
• Le Marais Du Cygne
• Leggett's Monument
• Letter From A Missionary Of The Methodist Episcopal Church South, In Kansas, To A Distinguished Politician. Douglas Mission 1854.
• Lexington
• Lines From A Letter To A Young Clerical Friend
• Lines On A Fly-Leaf
• Lines On The Death Of S. Oliver Torrey
• Lines On The Portrait Of A Celebrated Publisher
• Lucy Hooper
• Lydia H. Sigourney
• Mabel Martin
• Marguerite
• Mary Garvin
• Massachusetts To Virginia
• Maud Muller
• Memories
• Miriam
• Mithridates At Chios
• Mogg Megone - Part I
• Mogg Megone - Part II
• Mogg Megone - Part III
• Moloch In State Street
• Mountain Pictures
• Mulford
• My Birthday
• My Dream
• My Namesake
• My Playmate
• My Psalm
• My Soul And I
• My Thanks
• My Triumph
• My Trust
• Naples - 1860
• Nauhaught, The Deacon
• New Hampshire
• Norembega
• Norumbega Hall
• O. W. Holmes On His Eightieth Birth-Day
• Official Piety
• On A Prayer-Book, With its Frontispiece, Ary Scheffer's "Christus Consolator," Americanized By The Omission of The Black Man
• On Receiving An Eagle's Quill From Lake Superior
• On The Big Horn
• One Of The Signers
• Our Autocrat
• Our Country
• Our Master
• Our River
• Our State
• Overruled
• Paean
• Palestine
• Pennsylvania Hall
• Pentucket
• Pictures
• Proem
• Questions Of Life
• R. S. S., At Deer Island On The Merrimac
• Rabbi Ismael
• Randolph Of Roanoke
• Rantoul
• Raphael
• Red Riding-Hood
• Remembrance
• Requirement
• Requital
• Response
• Revelation
• Revisited
• Ritner
• Samuel J. Tilden
• Seed-Time And Harvest
• Skipper Ireson's Ride
• Snow-Bound - A Winter Idyl
• Song Of Slaves In The Desert
• Song Of The Negro Boatman
• St. Gregory's Guest
• St. John. 1647
• St. Martin's Summer
• Stanzas For The Times
• Storm On Lake Asquam
• Summer By The Lakeside
• Sumner
• Sunset On The Bearcamp
• Sweet Fern
• Tauler
• Telling The Bees
• The "Story Of Ida"
• The Angel Of Patience
• The Angels Of Buena Vista
• The Answer
• The Barefoot Boy
• The Bartholdi Statue
• The Battle Autumn Of 1862
• The Bay Of Seven Islands
• The Birthday Wreath
• The Book
• The Branded Hand
• The Brewing Of Soma
• The Bridal Of Pennacook
• The Brother Of Mercy
• The Brown Dwarf Of Rugen
• The Cable Hymn
• The Call Of The Christian
• The Captain's Well
• The Changeling (From The Tent On The Beach)
• The Chapel Of The Hermits
• The Christian Slave
• The Christian Tourists
• The Christmas Of 1888
• The Cities Of The Plain
• The Clear Vision
• The Common Question
• The Conquest Of Finland
• The Corn-Song
• The Countess - To E. W.
• The Crisis
• The Cross
• The Crucifixion
• The Cry Of A Lost Soul
• The Curse Of The Charter-Breakers
• The Cypress-Tree Of Ceylon
• The Dead Feast Of The Kol-Folk
• The Dead Ship Of Harpswell
• The Demon Of The Study
• The Disenthralled
• The Dole Of Jarl Thorkell
• The Double-Headed Snake Of Newbury
• The Dream Of Pio Nono
• The Drovers
• The Emancipation Group
• The Eternal Goodness
• The Eve Of Election
• The Exiles. 1660
• The Familist's Hymn
• The Farewell Of A Virginia Slave Mother
• The Female Martyr
• The First Flowers
• The Fishermen
• The Fountain
• The Freed Islands
• The Friend's Burial
• The Frost Spirit
• The Fruit-Gift
• The Funeral Tree Of The Sokokis. 1756
• The Gallows
• The Garrison Of Cape Ann
• The Gift Of Tritemius
• The Golden Wedding Of Longwood
• The Grave By The Lake
• The Haschish
• The Healer
• The Henchman
• The Hermit Of Thebaid
• The Hero
• The Hill-Top
• The Hive At Gettysburg
• The Holy Land - From Lamartine
• The Homestead
• The Human Sacrifice
• The Hunters Of Men
• The Huskers
• The Inward Judge
• The Jubilee Singers
• The Kansas Emigrants
• The Khan's Devil
• The King's Missive
• The Knight Of St. John
• The Lakeside
• The Landmarks
• The Last Eve Of Summer
• The Last Walk In Autumn
• The Laurels
• The Legend Of St. Mark
• The Library
• The Light That Is Felt
• The Lost Occasion
• The Lost Statesman
• The Lumbermen
• The Maids Of Attitash
• The Mantle Of St. John De Matha. A Legend Of "The Red, White, And Blue," A. D. 1154-1864
• The Mayflowers
• The Meeting
• The Memory Of Burns
• The Men Of Old
• The Merrimac
• The Minister's Daughter
• The Moral Warfare
• The Mystic's Christmas
• The New Exodus
• The New Wife And The Old
• The New Year
• The Norsemen
• The Old Burying-Ground
• The Over-Heart
• The Pageant
• The Palatine
• The Palm-Tree
• The Panorama
• The Pass Of The Sierra
• The Pastoral Letter
• The Peace Autumn
• The Peace Convention At Brussels
• The Peace Of Europe
• The Pennsylvania Pilgrim
• The Pine Tree
• The Pipes At Lucknow
• The Poet And The Children
• The Poor Voter On Election Day
• The Prayer Of Agassiz
• The Prayer-Seeker
• The Preacher
• The Pressed Gentian
• The Prisoner For Debt
• The Prisoners Of Naples
• The Problem
• The Proclamation
• The Prophecy Of Samuel Sewall
• The Pumpkin
• The Quaker Alumni
• The Quaker Of The Olden Time
• The Ranger
• The Red River Voyageur
• The Reformer
• The Relic
• The Rendition
• The Reunion
• The Reward
• The River Path
• The Robin
• The Rock-Tomb Of Bradore
• The Seeking Of The Waterfall
• The Sentence Of John L. Brown
• The Shadow And The Light
• The Shipbuilders
• The Shoemakers
• The Singer
• The Sisters
• The Sisters - A Picture By Barry
• The Slave Ships
• The Slaves Of Martinique
• The Star Of Bethlehem
• The Summons
• The Swan Song Of Parson Avery
• The Sycamores
• The Tent On The Beach
• The Three Bells
• The Trailing Arbutus
• The Truce Of Piscataqua
• The Two Angels
• The Two Elizabeths
• The Two Loves
• The Two Rabbins
• The Vanishers
• The Vaudois Teacher
• The Vision Of Echard
• The Voices
• The Vow Of Washington
• The Waiting
• The Watchers
• The Well Of Loch Maree
• The Wife Of Manoah To Her Husband
• The Wind Of March
• The Wish Of To-Day
• The Wishing Bridge
• The Witch Of Wenham
• The Witch's Daughter
• The Wood Giant
• The Word
• The World's Convention Of The Friends Of Emancipation, Held In London In 1840
• The Worship Of Nature
• The Wreck Of Rivermouth
• The Yankee Girl
• Theirs
• Thomas Starr King
• Thy Will Be Done
• To ----
• To ------
• To A Cape Ann Schooner
• To A Friend
• To A Southern Statesman
• To Avis Keene
• To Charles Sumner
• To Delaware
• To E. C. S.
• To Englishmen
• To Faneuil Hall
• To Fredrika Bremer
• To G. G.
• To George B. Cheever
• To J. P.
• To James T. Fields
• To John C. Fremont
• To Lydia Maria Child
• To Massachusetts
• To My Friend OnThe Death Of His Sister
• To My Old Schoolmaster
• To My Sister,
• To Oliver Wendell Holmes
• To Pennsylvania
• To Pius IX
• To Ronge
• To Samuel E. Sewall And Harriet W. Sewall, Of Melrose
• To The Memory Of Charles B. Storrs
• To The Memory Of Thomas Shipley
• To The Reformers Of England
• To The Thirty-Ninth Congress
• To William H. Seward
• To William Lloyd Garrison
• Toussaint L'Ouverture
• Trinitas
• Trust
• Utterance
• Valuation
• Vesta
• Voice Of New England
• Voyage Of The Jettie
• We May Not Climb The Heavenly Steeps
• What Of The Day
• What The Birds Said
• What The Traveller Said At Sunset
• What The Voice Said
• William Forster
• William Francis Bartlett
• Wilson
• Winter Roses
• Within The Gate
• Wordsworth
• Worship
• Yorktown

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