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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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VOLUME IV Personal Poems, The Tent on the Beach, etc.
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PERSONAL POEMS
  
A LAMENT.
  
TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES B. STORRS,
  
LINES
  
TO ---,
  
LEGGETT'S MONUMENT.
  
TO A FRIEND,
  
LUCY HOOPER.
  
FOLLEN.
  
TO J. P.
  
CHALKLEY HALL.
  
GONE.
  
TO RONGE.
  
CHANNING.
  
TO MY FRIEND ON THE DEATH OF HIS SISTER.
  
DANIEL WHEELER.
  
TO FREDRIKA BREMER.
  
TO AVIS KEENE.
  
THE HILL-TOP.
  
ELLIOTT.
  
ICHABOD.
  
THE LOST OCCASION.
  
WORDSWORTH.
  
TO ---
  
IN PEACE.
  
BENEDICITE.
  
KOSSUTH.
  
TO MY OLD SCHOOLMASTER.
  
THE CROSS.
  
THE HERO.
  
RANTOUL.
  
WILLIAM FORSTER.
  
TO CHARLES SUMNER.
  
BURNS.
  
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.
  
THOMAS STARR KING.
  
LINES ON A FLY-LEAF.
  
GEORGE L. STEARNS.
  
GARIBALDI.
  
TO LYDIA MARIA CHILD,
  
THE SINGER.
  
HOW MARY GREW.
  
SUMNER.
  
THIERS.
  
FITZ-GREENE HALLECK.
  
WILLIAM FRANCIS BARTLETT.
  
BAYARD TAYLOR.
  
OUR AUTOCRAT.
  
WITHIN THE GATE.
  
IN MEMORY.
  
WILSON.
  
THE POET AND THE CHILDREN.
  
A WELCOME TO LOWELL.
  
AN ARTIST OF THE BEAUTIFUL.
  
MULFORD.
  
TO A CAPE ANN SCHOONER.
  
SAMUEL J. TILDEN.
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OCCASIONAL POEMS
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THE TENT ON THE BEACH
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AT SUNDOWN
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APPENDIX

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AN ARTIST OF THE BEAUTIFUL.

GEORGE FULLER.

Haunted of Beauty, like the marvellous youth
Who sang Saint Agnes' Eve! How passing fair
Her shapes took color in thy homestead air!
How on thy canvas even her dreams were truth!
Magician! who from commonest elements
Called up divine ideals, clothed upon
By mystic lights soft blending into one
Womanly grace and child-like innocence.
Teacher! thy lesson was not given in vain.
Beauty is goodness; ugliness is sin;
Art's place is sacred: nothing foul therein
May crawl or tread with bestial feet profane.
If rightly choosing is the painter's test,
Thy choice, O master, ever was the best.
1885.
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