The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier ...

John Greenleaf Whittier

Ticknor and Fields, 1864

Indhold

• The Merrimack: 71
• Cassandra Southwick: 77
• Funeral Tree of the Sokokis: 86
• The Familists Hymn: 96
• The Exiles: 102
• The New Wife and the: 110
• Toussaint LOuverture: 117
• The Slave Ships: 124
• The Yankee Girl: 131
• Clerical Oppressors: 138
• Lines written on reading the Message of Governor: 144
• Lines written for the Meeting of the AntiSlavery: 151
• Lines written for the Anniversary of the First: 153
• New Hampshire: 164
• Massachusetts to Virginia: 170
• The Relic: 176
• Texas: 182
• The PineTree 188 1: 188
• Lines from a Letter to a young Clerical Friend: 194
• Pæan: 203
• The Curse of the CharterBreakers: 211
• The Crisis: 219
• The Knight of St John: 225
• Ezekiel: 232
• The Cities of the Plain: 238
• Hymns: 244
• The Frost Spirit: 251
• To a Friend on her Return from Europe: 262
• To the Reformers of England: 269
• The Prisoner for Debt: 275
• Randolph of Roanoke: 286
• To Ronge: 292
• A Dream of Summer: 298
• Leggetts Monument: 305
• Thy Will be done: 311
• To Englishmen: 319
• The Proclamation: 325
• Barbara Frietchie: 334
• Amy Wentworth: 345
• Naples 1860: 359
• The Waiting: 361
• Andrew Rykmans Prayer: 368
• The Cry of a Lost Soul: 374
• Hymn sung at Christmas by the Scholars of: 381

Populære passager

Side 325 - The laws of changeless justice bind Oppressor with oppressed; And close as sin and suffering joined We march to fate abreast.

Side 365 - If there be some weaker one, Give me strength to help him on ; If a blinder soul there be, Let me guide him nearer Thee. Make my mortal dreams come true With the work I fain would do ; Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant...

Side 149 - Gone, gone, — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone. From Virginia's hills and waters ; Woe is me, my stolen daughters ! Gone, gone, — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone.

Side 304 - And if, in our unworthiness, Thy sacrificial wine we press ; If from Thy ordeal's heated bars Our feet are seamed with crimson scars, Thy will be done! If, for the age to come, this hour Of trial hath vicarious power, And, blest by Thee, our present pain, Be Liberty's eternal gain, Thy will be done!

Side 121 - What, ho! our countrymen in chains! The whip on woman's shrinking flesh! Our soil yet reddening with the stains Caught from her scourging, warm and fresh! What! mothers from their children riven! What! God's own image bought and sold! Americans to market driven, And bartered as the brute for gold!

Side 256 - To weary hearts, to mourning homes, God's meekest Angel gently comes : No power has he to banish pain, Or give us back our lost again ; And yet in tenderest love, our dear And Heavenly Father sends him here.

Side 130 - What! preach and kidnap men? Give thanks, and rob thy own afflicted poor? Talk of thy glorious liberty, and then Bolt hard the captive's door? What! servants of thy own Merciful Son, who came to seek and save The homeless and the outcast, fettering down The tasked and plundered slave! Pilate and Herod, friends! Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine! Just God and holy! is that church, which lends Strength to the spoiler, thine?

Side 214 - Egypt's sands! This day we fashion Destiny, our web of Fate we spin ; This day for all hereafter choose we holiness or sin ; Even now from starry Gerizim, or Ebal's cloudy crown, We call the dews of blessing or the bolts of cursing down...

Side 253 - And that cloud itself, which now before thee Lies dark in view, Shall with beams of light from the inner glory Be stricken through. And like meadow mist through Autumn's dawn Uprolling thin, Its thickest folds when about thee drawn Let sun-light in. Then of what is to be, and of what is done Why queriest thou ? — The past and the time to be are one, And both are NOW ! TO A FRIEND, ON HER RETURN FROM EUROPE.

Bibliografiske oplysninger

• Titel: The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier ...; Bind 1 af The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, John Greenleaf Whittier
• Forfatter: John Greenleaf Whittier
• Udgiver: Ticknor and Fields, 1864
• Oprindeligt fra: Harvard University
• Digitaliseret: 13. feb 2008