The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf WhittierJ. R. Osgood, 1878 - 505 pages |
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... dear lost mother ! sad and pale , Mournfully sinking day by day , And with a hold on life as frail As frosted leaves , that , thin and gray , Hang feebly on their parent spray , And tremble in the gale ; Yet watching o'er my ...
... dear lost mother ! sad and pale , Mournfully sinking day by day , And with a hold on life as frail As frosted leaves , that , thin and gray , Hang feebly on their parent spray , And tremble in the gale ; Yet watching o'er my ...
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... dear familiar face , He wept to find the vision flown , A phantom and a dream alone ! THE NORSEMEN.30 - GIFT from the cold and silent Past ! A relic to the present cast ; Left on the ever - changing strand Of shifting and unstable sand ...
... dear familiar face , He wept to find the vision flown , A phantom and a dream alone ! THE NORSEMEN.30 - GIFT from the cold and silent Past ! A relic to the present cast ; Left on the ever - changing strand Of shifting and unstable sand ...
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... dear ! " A weight seemed lifted from my heart , -a pitying friend was nigh , I felt it in his hard , rough hand , and saw it in his eye ; And when again the sheriff spoke , that voice , so kind to me , Growled back its stormy answer ...
... dear ! " A weight seemed lifted from my heart , -a pitying friend was nigh , I felt it in his hard , rough hand , and saw it in his eye ; And when again the sheriff spoke , that voice , so kind to me , Growled back its stormy answer ...
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... Dear the wrestling hours of prayer , When we gathered knee to knee , Blameless youth and hoary hair , Bowed , O God , alone to thee . 47 As thine early children , Lord , Shared their wealth and daily bread , Even so , with one accord ...
... Dear the wrestling hours of prayer , When we gathered knee to knee , Blameless youth and hoary hair , Bowed , O God , alone to thee . 47 As thine early children , Lord , Shared their wealth and daily bread , Even so , with one accord ...
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... dear , With their native loveliness Tamed and tortured into this ? Sadly , as the shades of even Gathered o'er the hill , While the western half of heaven Blushed with sunset still , From the fountain's mossy seat Turned the Indian's ...
... dear , With their native loveliness Tamed and tortured into this ? Sadly , as the shades of even Gathered o'er the hill , While the western half of heaven Blushed with sunset still , From the fountain's mossy seat Turned the Indian's ...
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Page 328 - She leaned far out on the window-sill And shook it forth with a royal will. "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,
Page 389 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Page 353 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play ! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own...
Page 351 - So all night long the storm roared on : The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow...
Page 328 - Over the mountains, winding down, Horse and foot into Frederick town. Forty flags with their silver stars, Forty flags with their crimson bars, Flapped in the morning wind ; the sun Of noon looked down, and saw not one.
Page 247 - He would dress me up in silks so fine, And praise and toast me at his wine. "My father should wear a broadcloth coat...
Page 329 - But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word: "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!
Page 184 - The riches of the Commonwealth Are free, strong minds, and hearts of health ; And more to her than gold or grain, The cunning hand and cultured brain.
Page 237 - For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and through the night, Whispering at the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall; Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel pond, Mine the walnut slopes beyond, Mine, on bending orchard trees, Apples of Hesperides!
Page 429 - Because," — the brown eyes lower fell, — "Because, you see, I love you!" Still memory to a gray-haired man That sweet child-face is showing. Dear girl! the grasses on her grave Have forty years been growing! He lives to learn, in life's hard school, How few who pass above him Lament their triumph and his loss, Like her, — because they love him.