The Eagle, stooping from yon snow-blown peaks,
For the wild hunter and the Bison seeks,
In the changed world below; and finds alone
Their graven semblance in the eternal stone.

(C) John Greenleaf Whittier
04/02/2017


Best Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

• In School-days
• The Barefoot Boy
• The Corn Song
• My Namesake
• The Old Burying-ground
• Godspeed
• Astræa At The Capitol
• Telling The Bees
• The Witch Of Wenham
• The Last Walk In Autumn
• The Rock-tomb Of Bradore
• The Brewing Of Soma
• The Cross
• The Call Of The Christian
• To ------,
• Hymn Of The Dunkers
• Miriam
• Official Piety
• The Hive At Gettysburg
• Red Riding-hood
• The Prayer Of Agassiz