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Title: Personal Poems I
Part 1, From Volume IV., The Works of Whittier: Personal Poems
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
Release Date: December 2005 [EBook #9581]?[Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule]?[This file was first posted on October 18, 2003]
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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 the music which seems?Murmured low in our ears by the Angel of dreams!
But holier and dearer our memories hold?Those treasures of feeling, more precious than gold,?The love and the