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The poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

in four volumes

Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)

1.

VOLUME I NARRATIVE AND LEGENDARY POEMS

2.

VOLUME II POEMS OF NATURE, RELIGIOUS POEMS, ETC.

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3.

VOLUME III ANTI-SLAVERY POEMS, SONGS OF LABOR AND REFORM

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ANTI-SLAVERY POEMS

TO WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.

TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE.

THE SLAVE-SHIPS.

THE YANKEE GIRL.

THE HUNTERS OF MEN.

STANZAS FOR THE TIMES.

CLERICAL OPPRESSORS.

TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS SHIPLEY.

THE MORAL WARFARE.

THE PASTORAL LETTER.

THE FAREWELL OF A VIRGINIA SLAVE MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTERS SOLD INTO SOUTHERN BONDAGE.

PENNSYLVANIA HALL.

THE WORLD'S CONVENTION OF THE FRIENDS OF EMANCIPATION, HELD IN LONDON IN 1840.

MASSACHUSETTS TO VIRGINIA.

THE CHRISTIAN SLAVE.

THE SENTENCE OF JOHN L. BROWN.

TO A SOUTHERN STATESMAN.

THE BRANDED HAND.

THE FREED ISLANDS.

SONG OF SLAVES IN THE DESERT.

RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE.

THE LOST STATESMAN.

THE SLAVES OF MARTINIQUE.

THE CURSE OF THE CHARTER-BREAKERS.

LINES ON THE PORTRAIT OF A CELEBRATED PUBLISHER.

A SABBATH SCENE.

IN THE EVIL DAYS.

MOLOCH IN STATE STREET.

OFFICIAL PIETY.

ARISEN AT LAST.

FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE.

THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS.

BURIAL OF BARBER.

TO PENNSYLVANIA.

LE MARAIS DU CYGNE.

THE PASS OF THE SIERRA.

A SONG FOR THE TIME.

WHAT OF THE DAY?

A SONG, INSCRIBED TO THE FRÉMONT CLUBS.

ON A PRAYER-BOOK,

TO WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

SONGS OF LABOR AND REFORM

VOLUME IV Personal Poems, The Tent on the Beach, etc.

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THE WORD.

Voice of the Holy Spirit, making known
Man to himself, a witness swift and sure,
Warning, approving, true and wise and pure,
Counsel and guidance that misleadeth none!
By thee the mystery of life is read;
The picture-writing of the world's gray seers,
The myths and parables of the primal years,

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Whose letter kills, by thee interpreted
Take healthful meanings fitted to our needs,
And in the soul's vernacular express
The common law of simple righteousness.
Hatred of cant and doubt of human creeds
May well be felt: the unpardonable sin
Is to deny the Word of God within!

1881.