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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!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Autumn, Corn, Golden

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

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• We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But dim or clear, we own in Him The life, the truth, the way.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Life, Jesus, Way

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “Our Master”

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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.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  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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• Thanks to Allah, who gives the palm!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Giving, Thanks, Palms

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.247

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• Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Corn, Months, September

  'Barbara Frietchie' l. 1

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• They who wander widest lift No more of beauties' jealous veils, Than they who from their doorways see The miracle of flowers and trees.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Nature, Flower, Jealous

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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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• 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.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Hands, Nuts, Woods

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

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• God gives quietness at last.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Death, Giving, Lasts

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

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sleep, School, Doctors

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

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• In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the violet looks.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Eye, Sunshine, Blue

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.14

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• Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Weed, Work, Sunshine

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.77

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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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• Freedom's soil hath only place For a free and fearless race!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Freedom, Race, Fearless

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.66

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• Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Stars, Play, Shining

  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.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Beauty, God, Color

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

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• What miracle of weird transforming Is this wild work of frost and light, This glimpse of glory infinite?

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Winter, Light, Miracle

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.370

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• The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Moon, Light, Rose

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.286

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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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• Sweeter than any sungMy songs that found no tongue;Nobler than any factMy wish that failed of act.Others shall sing the song,Others shall right the wrong,-Finish what I begin,And all I fail of win.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Song, Winning, Wish

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.352

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• And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Rain, Flower, Golden

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.260

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• Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all respects resembles her who first culled the flowers of Eden. To the infinite variety and picturesque inequality of nature we owe the great charm of her uncloying beauty.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Nature, Flower, Eden

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• And I will trust that He who heeds
  The life that hides in mead and wold,
  Who hangs you alder's crimson beads,
  And stains these mosses green and gold,
  Will still, as He hath done, incline
  His gracious care to me and mine.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Gold, Moss, Done

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1895). “The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier”

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• What, my soul, was thy errand here?
  Was it mirth or ease,
  Or heaping up dust from year to year?
  "Nay, none of these!"
  Speak, soul, aright in His holy sight,
  Whose eye looks still
  And steadily on thee through the night;
  "To do His will!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Eye, Night, Sight

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.93

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