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Title: Anti-Slavery Poems I.
From Volume III., The Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and
Songs of Labor and Reform
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
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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
..........
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