The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier: Complete in Two Volumes, Volume 2Ticknor and Fields, 1868 |
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... Angels of Buena Vista . 27 Forgiveness .. 81 Barclay of Ury . 81 What the Voice said . To Delaware .. Worship .... 85 88 89 The Demon of the Study . 41 The Pumpkin ...... . 44 Hampton Beach .. of New York .. Friend . The Reward ...
... Angels of Buena Vista . 27 Forgiveness .. 81 Barclay of Ury . 81 What the Voice said . To Delaware .. Worship .... 85 88 89 The Demon of the Study . 41 The Pumpkin ...... . 44 Hampton Beach .. of New York .. Friend . The Reward ...
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... Angels of our home ! Not for us the measured ringing From the village spire , Not for us the Sabbath singing Of the sweet - voiced choir : Ours the old , majestic temple , Where God's brightness shines Down the dome so grand and ample ...
... Angels of our home ! Not for us the measured ringing From the village spire , Not for us the Sabbath singing Of the sweet - voiced choir : Ours the old , majestic temple , Where God's brightness shines Down the dome so grand and ample ...
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... gardens Rise their blackened spires . Up , my comrades ! up and doing ! Manhood's rugged play Still renewing , bravely hewing Through the world our way ! MISCELLANEOUS . MISCELLANEOUS . THE ANGELS OF BUENA VISTA . 24 SONGS Of Labor .
... gardens Rise their blackened spires . Up , my comrades ! up and doing ! Manhood's rugged play Still renewing , bravely hewing Through the world our way ! MISCELLANEOUS . MISCELLANEOUS . THE ANGELS OF BUENA VISTA . 24 SONGS Of Labor .
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Complete in Two Volumes John Greenleaf Whittier. MISCELLANEOUS . MISCELLANEOUS . THE ANGELS OF BUENA VISTA . SPEAK and MISCELLANEOUS.
Complete in Two Volumes John Greenleaf Whittier. MISCELLANEOUS . MISCELLANEOUS . THE ANGELS OF BUENA VISTA . SPEAK and MISCELLANEOUS.
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... before , Bearing on , in strange confusion , friend and foe- man , foot and horse , Like some wild and troubled torrent sweeping down its mountain course . " Look forth once more , Ximena ! has rolled away The Angels of Buena Vista.
... before , Bearing on , in strange confusion , friend and foe- man , foot and horse , Like some wild and troubled torrent sweeping down its mountain course . " Look forth once more , Ximena ! has rolled away The Angels of Buena Vista.
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Page 232 - Live and laugh, as boyhood can! Though the flinty slopes be hard, Stubble-speared the new-mown sward, Every morn shall lead thee through Fresh baptisms of the dew ; Every evening from thy feet Shall the cool wind kiss the heat : All too soon these feet must hide In the prison cells of pride, Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be shod, Made to tread the mills of toil, Up and down in ceaseless moil...
Page 118 - That all of good the past hath had, Remains to make our own time glad ; Our common daily life divine, And every land a Palestine.
Page 261 - God pity them both ! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these :
Page 319 - Mother and sister, wife and maid, Looked from the rocks of Marblehead Over the moaning and rainy sea, — Looked for the coming that might not be!
Page 320 - Sweetly along the Salem road Bloom of orchard and lilac showed. Little the wicked skipper knew Of the fields so green and the sky so blue.
Page 261 - Dozing and grumbling o'er pipe and mug, A manly form at her side she saw, « And joy was duty and love was law. Then she took up her burden of life again, Saying only, "It might have been.
Page 368 - Enough that blessings undeserved have marked my erring track; that wheresoe'er my feet have swerved, his chastening turned me back; that more and more a Providence of love is understood, making the springs of time and sense sweet with eternal good; that death seems but a covered way which opens into light, wherein no blinded child can stray beyond the Father's sight...
Page 99 - O, dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might Have lighted up and led his age, Falls back in night.
Page 119 - Through the harsh noises of our day A low, sweet prelude finds its way ; Through clouds of doubt and creeds of fear, A light is breaking, calm and clear. That song of Love, now low and far, Ere long shall swell from star to star! That light, the breaking day, which tips The golden-spired Apocalypse...
Page 84 - I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea. The rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet and warm; The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into form!