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Title: Anti-Slavery, Labor and Reform, Complete
From Volume III., The Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
Release Date: December 2005 [EBook #9580]?[Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule]?[This file was first posted on October 15, 2003]
Edition: 10
Language: English
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ANTI-SLAVERY POEMS
SONGS OF LABOR AND REFORM
BY
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
CONTENTS:
ANTI-SLAVERY POEMS:
TO WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON?TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE?THE SLAVE-SHIPS?EXPOSTULATION?HYMN: "THOU, WHOSE PRESENCE WENT BEFORE"?THE YANKEE GIRL?THE HUNTERS OF MEN?STANZAS FOR THE TIMES?CLERICAL OPPRESSORS?A SUMMONS?TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS?THE MORAL WARFARE?RITNER?THE PASTORAL LETTER?HYMN: "O HOLY FATHER! JUST AND TRUE"?THE FAREWELL OF A VIRGINIA SLAVE MOTHER?PENNSYLVANIA HALL?THE NEW YEAR?THE RELIC?THE WORLD'S CONVENTION?MASSACHUSETTS TO VIRGINIA?THE CHRISTIAN SLAVE?THE SENTENCE OF JOHN L. BROWN?TEXAS
VOICE OF NEW ENGLAND?TO FANEUIL HALL?TO MASSACHUSETTS?NEW HAMPSHIRE?THE PINE-TREE?TO A SOUTHERN STATESMAN?AT WASHINGTON?THE BRANDED HAND?THE FREED ISLANDS?A LETTER?LINES FROM A LETTER TO A YOUNG CLERICAL FRIEND?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?PAEAN?THE CRISIS?LINES ON THE PORTRAIT OF A CELEBRATED PUBLISHER?DERNE?A SABBATH SCENE?IN THE EVIL DAY?MOLOCH IN STATE STREET?OFFICIAL PIETY?THE RENDITION?ARISEN AT LAST?THE HASCHISH?FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE?THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS?LETTER FROM A MISSIONARY OF THE METHODIST
EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH, IN KANSAS, TO A?DISTINGUISHED POLITICIAN?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 FREMONT CLUBS?THE PANORAMA?ON A PRAYER-BOOK?THE SUMMONS?TO WILLIAM H. SEWARD?IN WAR TIME.
TO SAMUEL E. SEWALL AND HARRIET W. SEWALL?THY WILL BE DONE?A WORD FOR THE HOUR?"EIN FESTE BURG IST UNSER GOTT"?TO JOHN C. FREMONT?THE WATCHERS?TO ENGLISHMEN?MITHRIDATES AT CHIOS?AT PORT ROYAL?ASTRAEA AT THE CAPITOL?THE BATTLE AUTUMN OF 1862?OF ST. HELENA'S ISLAND, S. C.?THE PROCLAMATION?ANNIVERSARY POEM?BARBARA FRIETCHIE?HAT THE BIRDS SAID?THE MANTLE OF ST. JOHN DE MATRA?LADS DEO!?HYMN FOR THE CELEBRATION OF EMANCIPATION
AT NEWBURYPORT
AFTER THE WAR.
THE PEACE AUTUMN?TO THE THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS?THE HIVE AT GETTYSBURG?HOWARD AT ATLANTA?THE EMANCIPATION GROUP?THE JUBILEE SINGERS?GARRISON
SONGS OF LABOR AND REFORM:
THE QUAKER OF THE OLDEN TIME?DEMOCRACY?THE GALLOWS?SEED-TIME AND HARVEST?TO THE REFORMERS OF ENGLAND?THE HUMAN SACRIFICE?SONGS OF LABOR
DEDICATION?THE SHOEMAKERS?THE FISHERMEN?THE LUMBERMEN?THE SHIP-BUILDERS?THE DROVERS?THE HUSKERS?THE REFORMER?THE PEACE CONVENTION AT BRUSSELS?THE PRISONER FOR DEBT?THE CHRISTIAN TOURISTS?THE MEN OF OLD?TO PIUS IX.?CALEF IN BOSTON?OUR STATE?THE PRISONERS OF NAPLES?THE PEACE OF EUROPE?ASTRAEA?THE DISENTHRALLED?THE POOR VOTER ON ELECTION DAY?THE DREAM OF PIO NONO?THE VOICES?THE NEW EXODUS?THE CONQUEST OF FINLAND?THE EVE OF ELECTION?FROM PERUGIA?ITALY?FREEDOM IN BRAZIL?AFTER ELECTION?DISARMAMENT?THE PROBLEM?OUR COUNTRY?ON THE BIG HORN
NOTES
ANTI-SLAVERY POEMS
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TO WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON
CHAMPION of those who groan beneath?Oppression's iron hand?In view of penury, hate, and death,?I see thee fearless stand.?Still bearing up thy lofty brow,?In the steadfast strength of truth,?In manhood sealing well the vow?And promise of thy youth.
Go on, for thou hast chosen well;?On in the strength of God!?Long as one human heart shall swell?Beneath the tyrant's rod.?Speak in a slumbering nation's ear,?As thou hast ever spoken,?Until the dead in sin shall hear,?The fetter's link be broken!
I love thee with a brother's love,?I feel my pulses thrill,?To mark thy spirit soar above?The cloud of human ill.?My heart hath leaped to answer thine,?And echo back thy words,?As leaps the warrior's at the shine?And flash of kindred swords!
They tell me thou art rash and vain,?A searcher after fame;?That thou art striving but to gain?A long-enduring name;?That thou hast nerved the Afric's hand?And steeled the Afric's heart,?To shake aloft his vengeful brand,?And rend his chain apart.
Have I not known thee well, and read?Thy mighty purpose long??And watched the trials which have made?Thy human spirit strong??And shall the slanderer's demon breath?Avail with one like me,?To dim the sunshine of my faith?And earnest trust in thee?
Go on, the dagger's point may glare?Amid thy pathway's gloom;?The fate which sternly threatens there?Is glorious martyrdom?Then onward with a martyr's zeal;?And wait thy sure reward?When man to man no more shall kneel,?And God alone be Lord!?1832.
TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE.
Toussaint L'Ouverture, the black chieftain of Hayti, was a slave on the plantation