The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf WhittierJ. R. Osgood, 1878 - 505 pages |
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... hand upraised , with quick - drawn breath , She meets that ghastly sign of death . In one long , glassy , spectral stare The enlarging eye is fastened there , As if that mesh of pale brown hair Had power to change at sight alone , Even ...
... hand upraised , with quick - drawn breath , She meets that ghastly sign of death . In one long , glassy , spectral stare The enlarging eye is fastened there , As if that mesh of pale brown hair Had power to change at sight alone , Even ...
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... hand , repressed ! And how , upon that nameless woe , Quick as the pulse can come and go , While shakes the unsteadfast knee , and yet The bosom heaves , -the eye is wet , - Has thy dark spirit power to stay The heart's wild current on ...
... hand , repressed ! And how , upon that nameless woe , Quick as the pulse can come and go , While shakes the unsteadfast knee , and yet The bosom heaves , -the eye is wet , - Has thy dark spirit power to stay The heart's wild current on ...
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... hand upon The rattling stock of his loaded gun , - " Should send thee with him to do thy weeping ! " " Father ! " - the eye of Bonython Sinks at that low , sepulchral tone , Hollow and deep , as it were spoken By the unmoving tongue of ...
... hand upon The rattling stock of his loaded gun , - " Should send thee with him to do thy weeping ! " " Father ! " - the eye of Bonython Sinks at that low , sepulchral tone , Hollow and deep , as it were spoken By the unmoving tongue of ...
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... hand , his eyes , With the other he makes the holy sign . " I smote him as I would a worm ; - With heart as steeled ... hands 15 Three backward steps the Jesuit takes , His long , thin frame as ague shakes ; And loathing hate is in his ...
... hand , his eyes , With the other he makes the holy sign . " I smote him as I would a worm ; - With heart as steeled ... hands 15 Three backward steps the Jesuit takes , His long , thin frame as ague shakes ; And loathing hate is in his ...
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... hand of strife , How like a fiend may man be made , Plying the foul and monstrous trade Whose harvest - field is human life , Whose sickle is the reeking sword ! Quenching , with reckless hand in blood , Sparks kindled by the breath of ...
... hand of strife , How like a fiend may man be made , Plying the foul and monstrous trade Whose harvest - field is human life , Whose sickle is the reeking sword ! Quenching , with reckless hand in blood , Sparks kindled by the breath of ...
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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.