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• God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed To clothe the nakedness of need,- Where farmer folk in silence meet,- I turn my bell-unsummoned feet; I lay the critic's glass aside, I tread upon my lettered pride, And, lowest-seated, testify To the oneness of humanity; Confess the universal want, And share whatever Heaven may grant. He findeth not who seeks his own, The soul is lost that's saved alone.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Pride, Men, Oneness

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1869). “Among the Hills, and Other Poems”, p.73

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• So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below,— A universe of sky and snow!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Morning, Wall, Night

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.87, tredition

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• Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and silent chorus leads To the pervading symphony of Peace.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sweet, Peace, Flower

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• God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good can well afford to wait, Give ermined knaves their hour of crime; Yet have the future grand and great, The safe appeal of Truth to Time!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Truth, Dark, Evil

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.201

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• God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall love endure.

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  Love, Faith, Light

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.144

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• Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!"

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Time, Epic, Giving

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.187

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• The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame; Buy cheap, sell dear; eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want; Pay tithes for soul-insurance; keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant

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  Sleep, Mean, Men

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.150, tredition

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• So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!

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  Light, Hair, Gone

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.146

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• Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.

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  Dip, Quiet, Wave

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.292

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• Once more the liberal year laughs out O'er richer stores than gems or gold: Once more with harvest song and shout Is nature's boldest triumph told.

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  Song, Fall, Autumn

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• We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  New Year, Holiday, Today

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• They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.

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  Love, Summer, Art

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.131

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• Beneath the winter's snow lie germs of summer flowers.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Summer, Lying, Flower

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.109

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• Small leisure have the poor for grief.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Grief, Leisure, Poverty

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1875). “Mabel Martin: A Harvest Idyl”, p.44

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• And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood.

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  Hands, Nuts, Woods

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.288

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• Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.

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  Beauty, God, Color

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.404

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• Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.

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  Sleep, School, Doctors

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.196

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• Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.

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  Pain, Greek, Age

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.162, tredition

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• To be saved is only this-salvation from our own selfishness.

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  Selfishness, Salvation, Saved

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Meeting”

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• Love hath never known a law beyond its own sweet will.

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  Sweet, Law, Known

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• And the more you spend in blessing
  The poor and lonely and sad,
  The more of your heart's possessing
  Returns to you glad.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Christmas, Lonely, Heart

  Attributed to John Greenleaf Whittier in The Educational Monthly of Canada, Volume 24‎, p. 29, 1901.

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• Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn!

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  Autumn, Corn, Golden

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.117

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• Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Fashion, Ebb And Flow, Cities

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.95, tredition

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• No cloud above, no earth below, A universe of sky and snow.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Stars, Clouds, Air

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.287

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• On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Men, Media, Age

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Library”

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