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The poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

in four volumes
Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)

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VOLUME I NARRATIVE AND LEGENDARY POEMS
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VOLUME II POEMS OF NATURE, RELIGIOUS POEMS, ETC.
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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.
  
EXPOSTULATION.
  
HYMN.
  
THE YANKEE GIRL.
  
THE HUNTERS OF MEN.
  
STANZAS FOR THE TIMES.
  
CLERICAL OPPRESSORS.
  
A SUMMONS.
  
TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS SHIPLEY.
  
THE MORAL WARFARE.
  
RITNER.
  
THE PASTORAL LETTER.
  
HYMN.
  
THE FAREWELL OF A VIRGINIA SLAVE MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTERS SOLD INTO SOUTHERN BONDAGE.
  
PENNSYLVANIA HALL.
  
THE NEW YEAR.
  
THE RELIC.
  
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.
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TEXAS.
  
TO A SOUTHERN STATESMAN.
  
AT WASHINGTON.
  
THE BRANDED HAND.
  
THE FREED ISLANDS.
  
A LETTER.
  
LINES
  
DANIEL NEALL.
  
SONG OF SLAVES IN THE DESERT.
  
TO DELAWARE.
  
YORKTOWN.
  
RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE.
  
THE LOST STATESMAN.
  
THE SLAVES OF MARTINIQUE.
  
THE CURSE OF THE CHARTER-BREAKERS.
  
PÆAN.
  
THE CRISIS.
  
LINES ON THE PORTRAIT OF A CELEBRATED PUBLISHER.
  
DERNE.
  
A SABBATH SCENE.
  
IN THE EVIL DAYS.
  
MOLOCH IN STATE STREET.
  
OFFICIAL PIETY.
  
THE RENDITION.
  
ARISEN AT LAST.
  
THE HASCHISH.
  
FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE.
  
THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS.
  
LETTER
  
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.
  
THE PANORAMA.
  
ON A PRAYER-BOOK,
  
THE SUMMONS.
  
TO WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
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IN WAR TIME.
  
TO SAMUEL E. SEWALL AND HARRIET W. SEWALL, OF MELROSE.
  
THY WILL BE DONE.
  
A WORD FOR THE HOUR.
  
“EIN FESTE BURG IST UNSER GOTT.”
  
TO JOHN C. FRÉMONT.
  
THE WATCHERS.
  
TO ENGLISHMEN.
  
MITHRIDATES AT CHIOS.
  
AT PORT ROYAL.
  
ASTRÆA AT THE CAPITOL.
  
THE BATTLE AUTUMN OF 1862.
  
HYMN, SUNG AT CHRISTMAS BY THE SCHOLARS OF ST. HELENA'S ISLAND, S. C.
  
THE PROCLAMATION.
  
ANNIVERSARY POEM.
  
WHAT THE BIRDS SAID.
  
THE MANTLE OF ST. JOHN DE MATHA.
  
LAUS DEO!
  
HYMN
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AFTER THE WAR.
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SONGS OF LABOR AND REFORM
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VOLUME IV Personal Poems, The Tent on the Beach, etc.

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O. W. HOLMES ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY.

Climbing a path which leads back never more
We heard behind his footsteps and his cheer;
Now, face to face, we greet him standing here
Upon the lonely summit of Fourscore!
Welcome to us, o'er whom the lengthened day
Is closing and the shadows colder grow,
His genial presence, like an afterglow,
Following the one just vanishing away.
Long be it ere the table shall be set
For the last breakfast of the Autocrat,
And love repeat with smiles and tears thereat
His own sweet songs that time shall not forget.
Waiting with us the call to come up higher,
Life is not less, the heavens are only nigher!
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