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John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry, by title

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  • "I Was A Stranger, And Ye Took Me In"
    'Neath skies that winter never knew
    The air was full of light and balm,
    38 lines
  • "The Laurels"
    FROM these wild rocks I look to-day
    O'er leagues of dancing waves, and see
    33 lines
  • "The Rock" In El Ghor
    Dead Petra in her hill-tomb sleeps,
    Her stones of emptiness remain;
    63 lines
  • 'Ein' Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott' - Luther's Hymn
    We wait beneath the furnace-blast
    The pangs of transformation;
    88 lines
  • A Christmas Carmen
    I.
    Sound over all waters, reach out from all lands,
    30 lines
  • A Day
    Talk not of sad November, when a day
    Of warm, glad sunshine fills the sky of noon,
    28 lines
  • A Dream Of Summer
    Bland as the morning breath of June
    The southwest breezes play;
    34 lines
  • A Greeting
    Thrice welcome from the Land of Flowers
    And golden-fruited orange bowers
    56 lines
  • A Lament
    The circle is broken, one seat is forsaken,
    One bud from the tree of our friendship is shaken;
    53 lines
  • A Lay Of Old Time
    One morning of the first sad Fall,
    Poor Adam and his bride
    58 lines
  • A Legacy
    Friend of my many years!
    When the great silence falls, at last, on me,
    19 lines
  • A Letter
    'TIS over, Moses! All is lost!
    I hear the bells a-ringing;
    136 lines
  • A Memorial
    Oh, thicker, deeper, darker growing,
    The solemn vista to the tomb
    93 lines
  • A Memory
    Here, while the loom of Winter weaves
    The shroud of flowers and fountains,
    33 lines
  • A Mystery
    The river hemmed with leaning trees
    Wound through its meadows green;
    53 lines
  • A Name
    The name the Gallic exile bore,
    St. Malo! from thy ancient mart,
    58 lines
  • A Sabbath Scene
    SCARCE had the solemn Sabbath-bell
    Ceased quivering in the steeple,
    104 lines
  • A Sea Dream
    We saw the slow tides go and come,
    The curving surf-lines lightly drawn,
    138 lines
  • A Song For The Time
    UP, laggards of Freedom! — our free flag is cast
    To the blaze of the sun and the wings of the blast;
    32 lines
  • A Song Inscribed To The Fremont Clubs
    BENEATH thy skies, November!
    Thy skies of cloud and rain,
    30 lines
  • A Song Of Harvest
    This day, two hundred years ago,
    The wild grape by the river's side,
    38 lines
  • A Spiritual Manifestation
    To-day the plant by Williams set
    Its summer bloom discloses;
    188 lines
  • A Summer Pilgrimage
    To kneel before some saintly shrine,
    To breathe the health of airs divine,
    106 lines
  • A Summons
    MEN of the North-land! where's the manly spirit
    Of the true-hearted and the unshackled gone?
    68 lines
  • A Welcome To Lowell
    Take our hands, James Russell Lowell,
    Our hearts are all thy own;
    58 lines
  • A Woman
    Oh, dwarfed and wronged, and stained with ill,
    Behold! thou art a woman still!
    19 lines
  • A Word for the Hour
    The firmament breaks up. In black eclipse
    Light after light goes out. One evil star,
    28 lines
  • Abolition Of Slavery In The District Of Columbia, 1862
    When first I saw our banner wave
        Above the nation's council-hall,
    67 lines
  • Abraham Davenport
    In the old days (a custom laid aside
    With breeches and cocked hats) the people sent
    98 lines
  • Abram Morrison
    'Midst the men and things which will
    Haunt an old man's memory still,
    148 lines
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