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John Greenleaf Whittier Poems

  • To ----
    Lines written after a summer day's excursion.


    Fair Nature's priestesses! to whom, ...
  • To ------
    With a copy of Woolman's journal.


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  • Toussaint L'ouverture
    'T was night. The tranquil moonlight smile
    With which Heaven dreams of Earth, shed down
    Its beauty on the Indian isle,
    On broad green field and white-walled town; ...
  • To James T. Fields
    On a blank leaf of "poems printed, not published.


    Well thought! who would not rather hear ...
  • The World's Convention Of The Friends Of Emancipation, Held In London In 1840
    Yes, let them gather! Summon forth
    The pledged philanthropy of Earth.
    From every land, whose hills have heard
    The bugle blast of Freedom waking; ...
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God 303 Love 264 I Love You 264 Life 260 Heart 247 Light 242 Long 225 Time 211 Good 200 Sweet 199


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Emmspirit: drop thy still dews of quietness... (john greenleaf whittier)
Abbycon20836546: verse from the poem maud muller by john greenleaf whittier. maud is a beautiful farm girl that meets the a judge from her small town. they both fancy each other; the judge imagines what life would be like as a farmer married to maud, while maud imagines her life as the wife of t
21st2011: verse from the poem maud muller by john greenleaf whittier. maud is a beautiful farm girl that meets the a judge from her small town. they both fancy each other; the judge imagines what life would be like as a farmer married to maud, while maud imagines her life as the wife of t
Dufferroy: “for of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "it might have been!" from maud muller by john greenleaf whittier
Heather73745510: verse from the poem maud muller by john greenleaf whittier. maud is a beautiful farm girl that meets the a judge from her small town. they both fancy each other; the judge imagines what life would be like as a farmer married to maud, while maud imagines her life as the wife of t
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The Killing Place
 by Edgar Albert Guest

We're hiking along at a two-forty pace
We 're making life seem like a man-killing race,
With our nerves all on edge and our jaws firmly set
We go rushing along; with our brows lined with sweat
And our cheeks pale and drawn every minute we dash,
And the goal that we 're after is merely more cash.

We 're out for the money, the greenbacks and gold,
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