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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

ANTI-SLAVERY POEMS

TO WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.

TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE.

STANZAS FOR THE TIMES.

CLERICAL OPPRESSORS.

A SUMMONS.

TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS SHIPLEY.

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.

TEXAS.

TO A SOUTHERN STATESMAN.

SONG OF SLAVES IN THE DESERT.

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.

FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE.

THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS.

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.

IN WAR TIME.

AFTER THE WAR.

SONGS OF LABOR AND REFORM

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

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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!