Poems of Nature, part 1, Frost Spirit etc

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Title: The Frost Spirit and Others from Poems of Nature,
Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II.,
The Works of Whittier
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
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POEMS OF NATURE
POEMS SUBJECTIVE AND REMINISCENT
RELIGIOUS POEMS
B Y
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
ENTIRE CONTENTS:
POEMS OF NATURE:
THE FROST SPIRIT
THE MERRIMAC
HAMPTON BEACH

A DREAM OF SUMMER
THE LAKESIDE
AUTUMN
THOUGHTS
ON RECEIVING AN EAGLE'S QUILL FROM
LAKE SUPERIOR
APRIL
PICTURES
SUMMER BY THE
LAKESIDE
THE FRUIT-GIFT
FLOWERS IN WINTER

THE MAYFLOWERS
THE LAST WALK IN AUTUMN
THE
FIRST FLOWERS
THE OLD BURYING-GROUND
THE
PALM-TREE
THE RIVER PATH
MOUNTAIN PICTURES
I. FRANCONIA FROM THE PEMIGEWASSET
II.
MONADNOCK FROM WACHUSET
THE VANISHERS
THE
PAGEANT
THE PRESSED GENTIAN
A MYSTERY
A SEA
DREAM
HAZEL BLOSSOMS
SUNSET ON THE
BEARCAMP
THE SEEKING OF THE WATERFALL
THE
TRAILING ARBUTUS
ST. MARTINS SUMMER
STORM ON
LAKE ASQUAM
A SUMMER PILGRIMAGE
SWEET FERN


THE WOOD GIANT
A DAY
POEMS SUBJECTIVE AND REMINISCENT:
MEMORIES
RAPHAEL
EGO
THE PUMPKIN

FORGIVENESS
TO MY SISTER
MY THANKS

REMEMBRANCE
MY NAMESAKE
A MEMORY
MY
DREAM
THE BAREFOOT BOY
MY PSALM
THE
WAITING
SNOW-BOUND
MY TRIUMPH
IN
SCHOOL-DAYS
MY BIRTHDAY
RED RIDING-HOOD

RESPONSE
AT EVENTIDE
VOYAGE OF THE JETTIE

MY TRUST
A NAME
GREETING
CONTENTS
AN
AUTOGRAPH
ABRAM MORRISON
A LEGACY
RELIGIOUS POEMS:
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM
THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN

THE CALL OF THE CHRISTIAN
THE CRUCIFIXION

PALESTINE
HYMNS FROM THE FRENCH OF LAMARTINE
I. ENCORE UN HYMNE
II. LE CRI DE L'AME
THE
FAMILIST'S HYMN
EZEKIEL
WHAT THE VOICE SAID

THE ANGEL OF PATIENCE
THE WIFE OF MANOAH TO
HER HUSBAND
MY SOUL AND I

WORSHIP
THE HOLY
LAND
THE REWARD
THE WISH OF TO-DAY
ALL'S
WELL
INVOCATION
QUESTIONS OF LIFE
FIRST-DAY
THOUGHTS
TRUST
TRINITAS
THE SISTERS
"THE
ROCK" IN EL GHOR
THE OVER-HEART
THE SHADOW
AND THE LIGHT
THE CRY OF A LOST SOUL
ANDREW
RYKMAN'S PRAYER
THE ANSWER
THE ETERNAL
GOODNESS
THE COMMON QUESTION
OUR MASTER

THE MEETING
THE CLEAR VISION
DIVINE
COMPASSION
THE PRAYER-SEEKER
THE BREWING OF
SOMA
A WOMAN
THE PRAYER OF AGASSIZ
IN QUEST


THE FRIEND'S BURIAL
A CHRISTMAS CARMEN

VESTA
CHILD-SONGS
THE HEALER
THE TWO
ANGELS
OVERRULED
HYMN OF THE DUNKERS

GIVING AND TAKING
THE VISION OF ECHARD

INSCRIPTIONS
ON A SUN-DIAL
ON A FOUNTAIN
THE
MINISTER'S DAUGHTER
BY THEIR WORKS
THE WORD

THE BOOK
REQUIREMENT
HELP
UTTERANCE

ORIENTAL MAXIMS
THE INWARD JUDGE
LAYING UP
TREASURE
CONDUCT
AN EASTER FLOWER GIFT
THE
MYSTIC'S CHRISTMAS
AT LAST
WHAT THE
TRAVELLER SAID AT SUNSET
THE "STORY OF IDA"

THE LIGHT THAT IS FELT
THE TWO LOVES

ADJUSTMENT
HYMNS OF THE BRAHMO SOMAJ

REVELATION
POEMS OF NATURE
THE FROST SPIRIT
He comes,--he comes,--the Frost Spirit comes
You may trace his footsteps now
On the naked woods and the blasted
fields and the
brown hill's withered brow.
He has smitten the leaves of the gray old
trees
where their pleasant green came forth,
And the winds, which follow
wherever he goes,
have shaken them down to earth.
He comes,--he comes,--the Frost Spirit comes!
from the frozen Labrador,
From the icy bridge of the Northern seas,
which

the white bear wanders o'er,
Where the fisherman's sail is stiff with
ice, and the
luckless forms below
In the sunless cold of the lingering night into
marble statues grow
He comes,--he comes,--the Frost Spirit comes
on the rushing Northern blast,
And the dark Norwegian pines have
bowed as his
fearful breath went past.
With an unscorched wing he has hurried on,
where the fires of Hecla glow
On the darkly beautiful sky above and
the ancient
ice below.
He comes,--he comes,--the Frost Spirit comes
and the quiet lake shall feel
The torpid touch of his glazing breath,
and ring to
the skater's heel;
And the streams which danced on the broken
rocks, or sang to the leaning grass,
Shall bow again to their winter
chain, and in
mournful silence pass.
He comes,--he comes,--the Frost Spirit comes!
Let us meet him as we may,
And turn with the light of the parlor-fire
his evil