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The poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

in four volumes

Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)

VOLUME I NARRATIVE AND LEGENDARY POEMS

VOLUME II POEMS OF NATURE, RELIGIOUS POEMS, ETC.

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

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

PERSONAL POEMS

A LAMENT.

TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES B. STORRS,

TO MY FRIEND ON THE DEATH OF HIS SISTER.

TO MY OLD SCHOOLMASTER.

TO GEORGE B. CHEEVER.

TO JAMES T. FIELDS.

THE MEMORY OF BURNS.

IN REMEMBRANCE OF JOSEPH STURGE.

BROWN OF OSSAWATOMIE.

NAPLES.

A MEMORIAL.

BRYANT ON HIS BIRTHDAY.

TO LYDIA MARIA CHILD,

WILLIAM FRANCIS BARTLETT.

THE POET AND THE CHILDREN.

A WELCOME TO LOWELL.

AN ARTIST OF THE BEAUTIFUL.

MULFORD.

TO A CAPE ANN SCHOONER.

SAMUEL J. TILDEN.

OCCASIONAL POEMS

THE TENT ON THE BEACH

AT SUNDOWN

APPENDIX

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HYMN OF THE CHILDREN.

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Sung at the anniversary of the Children's Mission, Boston, 1878.

Thine are all the gifts, O God!
Thine the broken bread;
Let the naked feet be shod,
And the starving fed.

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Let Thy children, by Thy grace,
Give as they abound,
Till the poor have breathing-space,
And the lost are found.

Wiser than the miser's hoards
Is the giver's choice;
Sweeter than the song of birds
Is the thankful voice.

Welcome smiles on faces sad
As the flowers of spring;
Let the tender hearts be glad
With the joy they bring.

Happier for their pity's sake
Make their sports and plays,
And from lips of childhood take
Thy perfected praise!