John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes - Page 6

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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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• I dimly guess, from blessings known, of greater out of sight.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Blessing, Sight, Greater

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.319

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• God gives quietness at last.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Death, Giving, Lasts

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• The still, sad music of humanity.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Music, Nature, Humanity

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Generosity, Deeds, Taught

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.133

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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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• Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church with hypocritic face Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace; Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will What others talked of while their hands were still.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Christian, Character, Men

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.138

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• And light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom In sweet relief.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sweet, Grief, Light

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.268

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• Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry clamor. Now shape the sole! now deftly curl The glassy vamp around it, And bless the while the bright-eyed girl Whose gentle fingers bound it!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Girl, Rap, Fall

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Songs of Labor and Reform From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.32, tredition

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• What airs outblown from ferny dells And clover-bloom and sweet brier smells.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sweet, Air, Smell

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1861). “The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.270

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• Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Lying, Swans, Water Lily

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.306

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• Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Speak, Symbols

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.199

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• The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Fate, Hands, Giving

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.75

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• Simple duty hath no place for fear.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Simple, Duty

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.313

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• What does the good ship bear so well? The cocoa-nut with its stony shell, And the milky sap of its inner cell.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Cells, Nuts, Doe

  John Greenleaf WHITTIER (1860). “Home Ballads and Poems”, p.144

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