Whittiers Complete Poems, vol 2

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Title: Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent
and Religious Poems, Complete?Volume II., The Works of Whittier
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
Release Date: Dec, 2005 [EBook #9574]?[Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule]?[This file was first posted on October 2, 2003]
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POEMS OF NATURE
POEMS SUBJECTIVE AND REMINISCENT
RELIGIOUS POEMS
BY
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
CONTENTS
POEMS OF NATURE:
THE FROST SPIRIT?THE MERRIMAC?HAMPTON BEACH?A DREAM OF SUMMER?THE LAKESIDE?AUTUMN THOUGHTS?ON RECEIVING AN EAGLE'S QUILL FROM LAKE SUPERIOR?APRIL?PICTURES?SUMMER BY THE LAKESIDE?THE FRUIT-GIFT?FLOWERS IN WINTER?THE MAYFLOWERS?THE LAST WALK IN AUTUMN?THE FIRST FLOWERS?THE OLD BURYING-GROUND?THE PALM-TREE?THE RIVER PATH?MOUNTAIN PICTURES
I. FRANCONIA FROM THE PEMIGEWASSET?II. MONADNOCK FROM WACHUSET?THE VANISHERS?THE PAGEANT?THE PRESSED GENTIAN?A MYSTERY?A SEA DREAM?HAZEL BLOSSOMS?SUNSET ON THE BEARCAMP?THE SEEKING OF THE WATERFALL?THE TRAILING ARBUTUS?ST. MARTINS SUMMER?STORM ON LAKE ASQUAM?A SUMMER PILGRIMAGE?SWEET FERN?THE WOOD GIANT?A DAY
POEMS SUBJECTIVE AND REMINISCENT:
MEMORIES?RAPHAEL?EGO?THE PUMPKIN?FORGIVENESS?TO MY SISTER?MY THANKS?REMEMBRANCE?MY NAMESAKE?A MEMORY?MY DREAM?THE BAREFOOT BOY?MY PSALM?THE WAITING?SNOW-BOUND?MY TRIUMPH?IN SCHOOL-DAYS?MY BIRTHDAY?RED RIDING-HOOD?RESPONSE?AT EVENTIDE?VOYAGE OF THE JETTIE?MY TRUST?A NAME?GREETING?CONTENTS?AN AUTOGRAPH?ABRAM MORRISON?A LEGACY
RELIGIOUS POEMS:
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM?THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN?THE CALL OF THE CHRISTIAN?THE CRUCIFIXION?PALESTINE?HYMNS FROM THE FRENCH OF LAMARTINE
I. ENCORE UN HYMNE?II. LE CRI DE L'AME?THE FAMILIST'S HYMN?EZEKIEL?WHAT THE VOICE SAID?THE ANGEL OF PATIENCE?THE WIFE OF MANOAH TO HER HUSBAND?MY SOUL AND I?WORSHIP?THE HOLY LAND?THE REWARD?THE WISH OF TO-DAY?ALL'S WELL?INVOCATION?QUESTIONS OF LIFE?FIRST-DAY THOUGHTS?TRUST?TRINITAS?THE SISTERS?"THE ROCK" IN EL GHOR?THE OVER-HEART?THE SHADOW AND THE LIGHT?THE CRY OF A LOST SOUL?ANDREW RYKMAN'S PRAYER?THE ANSWER?THE ETERNAL GOODNESS?THE COMMON QUESTION?OUR MASTER?THE MEETING?THE CLEAR VISION?DIVINE COMPASSION?THE PRAYER-SEEKER?THE BREWING OF SOMA?A WOMAN?THE PRAYER OF AGASSIZ?IN QUEST?THE FRIEND'S BURIAL?A CHRISTMAS CARMEN?VESTA?CHILD-SONGS?THE HEALER?THE TWO ANGELS?OVERRULED?HYMN OF THE DUNKERS?GIVING AND TAKING?THE VISION OF ECHARD?INSCRIPTIONS?ON A SUN-DIAL?ON A FOUNTAIN?THE MINISTER'S DAUGHTER?BY THEIR WORKS?THE WORD?THE BOOK?REQUIREMENT?HELP?UTTERANCE?ORIENTAL MAXIMS?THE INWARD JUDGE?LAYING UP TREASURE?CONDUCT?AN EASTER FLOWER GIFT?THE MYSTIC'S CHRISTMAS?AT LAST?WHAT THE TRAVELLER SAID AT SUNSET?THE "STORY OF IDA"?THE LIGHT THAT IS FELT?THE TWO LOVES?ADJUSTMENT?HYMNS OF THE BRAHMO SOMAJ?REVELATION
POEMS OF NATURE
THE FROST SPIRIT
He comes,--he comes,--the Frost Spirit comes
You may trace his footsteps now?On the naked woods and the blasted fields and the
brown hill's withered brow.?He has smitten the leaves of the gray old trees
where their pleasant green came forth,?And the winds, which follow wherever he goes,
have shaken them down to earth.
He comes,--he comes,--the Frost Spirit comes!
from the frozen Labrador,?From the icy bridge of the Northern seas, which
the white bear wanders o'er,?Where the fisherman's sail is stiff with ice, and the
luckless forms below?In the sunless cold of the lingering night into
marble statues grow
He comes,--he comes,--the Frost Spirit comes
on the rushing Northern blast,?And the dark Norwegian pines have bowed as his
fearful breath went past.?With an unscorched wing he has hurried on,
where the fires of Hecla glow?On the darkly beautiful sky above and the ancient
ice below.
He comes,--he comes,--the Frost Spirit comes
and the quiet lake shall feel?The torpid touch of his glazing breath, and ring to
the skater's heel;?And the streams which danced on the broken
rocks, or sang to the leaning grass,?Shall bow again to their winter chain, and in
mournful silence pass.?He comes,--he comes,--the Frost Spirit comes!
Let us meet him as we may,?And turn with the light of the parlor-fire his evil
power away;?And gather closer the circle round, when that
fire-light dances high,?And laugh at the shriek of the baffled Fiend as
his sounding wing goes by!?1830.
THE MERRIMAC.
"The Indians speak of a beautiful river, far to the south, which they call Merrimac."--SIEUR. DE MONTS, 1604.
Stream of my fathers! sweetly still?The sunset rays thy valley fill;?Poured slantwise down the long defile,?Wave, wood, and spire beneath them smile.?I see the winding Powow fold?The green hill