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  • Telling the Bees
    Here is the place; right over the hill
    Runs the path I 
    56 lines
  • Ichabod
    So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn
    Which once he wore!
    36 lines
  • What the Birds Said
    The birds against the April wind
    Flew northward, singing as they
    44 lines
  • Burning Drift-Wood
    Before my drift-wood fire I sit,
    And see, with every waif I
    88 lines
  • The Worship of Nature
    The harp at Nature's advent strung
    Has never ceased to play;&nbs
    40 lines
  • The Barefoot Boy
    Blessings on thee, little man,
    Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan! <
    102 lines, 1 comment
  • A Memory
    Here, while the loom of Winter weaves
    The shroud of flowers and fountains,
    33 lines
  • Maud Muller
    Maud Muller on a summer's day
    Raked the meadow sweet with hay.
    110 lines, 2 comments
  • The Eternal Goodness
    O Friends! with whom my feet have trod
    The quiet aisles of prayer,
    88 lines, 1 comment
  • Randolph Of Roanoke
    O Mother Earth! upon thy lap
    Thy weary ones receiving,
    120 lines
  • Massachusetts To Virginia
    The blast from Freedom's Northern hills, upon its Southern way,
    Bears greeting to Virginia from Massachusetts Bay:
    96 lines
  • Barclay Of Ury
    Up the streets of Aberdeen,
    By the kirk and college green,
    126 lines
  • The Frost Spirit
    He comes, - he comes, - the Frost Spirit comes!
    You may trace his footsteps now
    40 lines, 1 comment
  • Immortal love, forever full
    Immortal love, forever full,
    Forever flowing free,
    36 lines, 1 comment
  • Forgiveness
    My heart was heavy, for its trust had been
    Abused, its kindness answered with foul wrong;
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Godspeed
    Outbound, your bark awaits you. Were I one
    Whose prayer availeth much, my wish should be
    14 lines
  • Disarmament
    "Put up the sword!" The voice of Christ once more
    Speaks, in the pauses of the cannon's roar,
    32 lines
  • The Pumpkin
    Oh, greenly and fair in the lands of the sun,
    The vines of the gourd and the rich melon run,
    42 lines
  • Stanzas for the Times
    Is this the land our fathers loved,
    The freedom which they toiled to win?
    84 lines
  • The Sycamores
    In the outskirts of the village
    On the river's winding shores
    136 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
  • To William Lloyd Garrison
    CHAMPION of those who groan beneath
    Oppression's iron hand:
    48 lines
  • Toussaint L’Ouverture
    'T WAS night. The tranquil moonlight smile
    With which Heaven dreams of Earth, shed down
    247 lines
  • The Slave Ships
    "ALL ready?" cried the captain;
    "Ay, ay!" the seamen said;
    130 lines
  • Hymn I
    O THOU, whose presence went before
    Our fathers in their weary way,
    40 lines
  • The Hunters Of Men
    HAVE ye heard of our hunting, o'er mountain and glen,
    Through cane-brake and forest, — the hunting of men?
    50 lines
  • Clerical Oppressors
    JUST God! and these are they
    Who minister at thine altar, God of Right!
    48 lines
  • A Summons
    MEN of the North-land! where's the manly spirit
    Of the true-hearted and the unshackled gone?
    68 lines
  • To The Memory Of Thomas Shipley
    GONE to thy Heavenly Father's rest!
    The flowers of Eden round thee blowing,
    70 lines
  • The Moral Warfare
    WHEN Freedom, on her natal day,
    Within her war-rocked cradle lay,
    24 lines
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