Whittiers Complete Poems, vol 4

Project Gutenberg EBook, Personal Poems, by Whittier, V4, Complete
Volume IV., The Works of Whittier: Personal Poems
#31 in our
series by John Greenleaf Whittier
Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the
copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing
this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook.
This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project
Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the
header without written permission.
Please read the "legal small print," and other information about the
eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is
important information about your specific rights and restrictions in how
the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make a
donation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved.
**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts**
**EBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since
1971**
*****These EBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers*****
Title: Personal Poems, Complete
Volume IV., The Works of Whittier: Personal Poems
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
Release Date: December 2005 [EBook #9586]
[Yes, we are more
than one year ahead of schedule]
[This file was first posted on
October 18, 2003]
Edition: 10
Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII
0. START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, PERSONAL
POEMS, COMPLETE ***
This eBook was produced by David Widger [[email protected]
]
PERSONAL POEMS
BY
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
CONTENTS
PERSONAL POEMS
A LAMENT
TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES B. STORRS

LINES ON THE DEATH OF S. OLIVER TORREY
TO ----,
WITH A COPY OF WOOLMAN'S JOURNAL
LEGGETT'S
MONUMENT
TO A FRIEND, ON HER RETURN FROM
EUROPE
LUCY HOOPER
FOLLEN
TO J. P.
CHALKLEY
HALL
GONE
TO RONGE
CHANNING
TO MY FRIEND
ON THE DEATH OF HIS SISTER
DANIEL WHEELER
TO
FREDRIKA BREMER
TO AVIS KEENE
THE HILL-TOP

ELLIOTT
ICHABOD
THE LOST OCCASION

WORDSWORTH
TO ---- LINES WRITTEN AFTER A
SUMMER DAY'S EXCURSION
IN PEACE
BENEDICITE

KOSSUTH
TO MY OLD SCHOOLMASTER
THE CROSS

THE HERO
RANTOUL
WILLIAM FORSTER
TO
CHARLES SUMNER
BURNS
TO GEORGE B. CHEEVER

TO JAMES T. FIELDS
THE MEMORY OF BURNS
IN
REMEMBRANCE OF JOSEPH STURGER
BROWN OF
OSSAWATOMIE
NAPLES
A MEMORIAL

BRYANT ON
HIS BIRTHDAY
THOMAS STARR KING
LINES ON A
FLY-LEAF
GEORGE L. STEARNS
GARIBALDI
TO

LYDIA MARIA CHILD
THE SINGER
HOW MARY GREW

SUMNER
THIERS
FITZ-GREENE HALLECK

WILLIAM FRANCIS BARTLETT
BAYARD TAYLOR
OUR
AUTOCRAT
WITHIN THE GATE
IN MEMORY: JAMES T.
FIELDS
WILSON
THE POET AND THE CHILDREN
A
WELCOME TO LOWELL
AN ARTIST OF THE BEAUTIFUL

MULFORD
TO A CAPE ANN SCHOONER
SAMUEL J.
TILDEN
OCCASIONAL POEMS.
EVA
A LAY OF OLD TIME
A SONG OF HARVEST

KENOZA LAKE
FOR AN AUTUMN FESTIVAL
THE
QUAKER ALUMNI
OUR RIVER
REVISITED
"THE
LAURELS"
JUNE ON THE MERRIMAC
HYMN FOR THE
OPENING OF THOMAS STARR KING'S HOUSE OF
WORSHIP HYMN FOR THE HOUSE OF WORSHIP AT
GEORGETOWN, ERECTED IN MEMORY
OF A MOTHER
A SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATION

CHICAGO
KINSMAN
THE GOLDEN WEDDING OF
LONGWOOD
HYMN FOR THE OPENING OF PLYMOUTH
CHURCH, ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA LEXINGTON
THE
LIBRARY
"I WAS A STRANGER, AND YE TOOK ME IN"

CENTENNIAL HYMN
AT SCHOOL-CLOSE
HYMN OF
THE CHILDREN
THE LANDMARKS

GARDEN
A
GREETING
GODSPEED
WINTER ROSES
THE REUNION

NORUMBEGA HALL
THE BARTHOLDI STATUE
ONE
OF THE SIGNERS
THE TENT ON THE BEACH.
PRELUDE
THE TENT ON THE BEACH
THE WRECK OF
RIVERMOUTH
THE GRAVE BY THE LAKE
THE
BROTHER OF MERCY
THE CHANGELING
THE MAIDS

OF ATTITASH
KALLUNDBORG CHURCH
THE CABLE
HYMN
THE DEAD SHIP OF HARPSWELL
THE PALATINE

ABRAHAM DAVENPORT
THE WORSHIP OF NATURE
AT SUNDOWN.
TO E. C. S.
THE CHRISTMAS OF 1888.
THE Vow OF
WASHINGTON
THE CAPTAIN'S WELL
AN OUTDOOR
RECEPTION
R. S. S., AT DEER ISLAND ON THE
MERRIMAC
BURNING DRIFT-WOOD.
O. W. HOLMES ON
HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

HAVERHILL. 1640-1890
To G. G.
PRESTON POWERS,
INSCRIPTION FOR BASS-RELIEF
LYDIA H. SIGOURNEY,
INSCRIPTION ON TABLET
MILTON, ON MEMORIAL
WINDOW
THE BIRTHDAY WREATH
THE WIND OF
MARCH
BETWEEN THE GATES
THE LAST EVE OF
SUMMER
TO OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, 8TH Mo. 29TH,
1892
NOTE. The portrait prefacing this volume is from an engraving on steel
by J. A. J. WILCOX in 1888, after a photograph taken by Miss ISA E.
GRAY in July, 1885.
PERSONAL POEMS
A LAMENT
"The parted spirit,
Knoweth it not our sorrow? Answereth not
Its
blessing to our tears?"
The circle is broken, one seat is forsaken,
One bud from the tree of
our friendship is shaken;
One heart from among us no longer shall
thrill
With joy in our gladness, or grief in our ill.
Weep! lonely and lowly are slumbering now
The light of her glances,
the pride of her brow;
Weep! sadly and long shall we listen in vain


To hear the soft tones of her welcome again.
Give our tears to the dead! For humanity's claim
From its silence and
darkness is ever the same;
The hope of that world whose existence is
bliss
May not stifle the tears of the mourners of this.
For, oh! if one glance the freed spirit can throw
On the scene of its
troubled probation below,
Than the pride of the marble, the pomp of
the dead,
To that glance will be dearer the tears which we shed.
Oh, who can forget the mild light of her smile,
Over lips moved with
music and feeling the while,
The eye's deep enchantment, dark,
dream-like, and clear,
In the glow of its gladness, the shade of its tear.
And the charm of her features, while over the whole
Played the hues
of the heart and the sunshine of soul;
And the tones of her voice, like