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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.
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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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LAYING UP TREASURE.

From the Mahàbhárata.

Before the Ender comes, whose charioteer
Is swift or slow Disease, lay up each year
Thy harvests of well-doing, wealth that kings
Nor thieves can take away. When all the things
Thou callest thine, goods, pleasures, honors fall,
Thou in thy virtue shalt survive them all.
1881.
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