Author:John Greenleaf Whittier

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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

See biography, media, quotes, indexes. An American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States.

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Contents: Top - A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

[edit] A

• Abraham Davenport
• Abram Morrison
• A Christmas Carmen
• Adjustment
• After Election
• After the War (Collection)
• A Letter
• All's Well
• Among the Hills (1869)
• Amy Wentworth
• An Autograph
• Andrew Rykman's Prayer
• An Easter Flower Gift
• Anniversary Poem
• April
• Arisen at Last
• A Sabbath Scene
• A Song for the Time
• A Song, Inscribed to the Fremont Clubs
• Astraea
• Astraea at the Capitol
• A Summons
• At Eventide
• At Last
• At Port Royal
• At Washington
• Autumn Thoughts
• The Angel of Patience
• The Angels of Buena Vista
• The Answer

[edit] B

• Banished from Massachusetts
• Barbara Frietchie
• Barclay of Ury
• Birchbrook Mill
• Bolivar
• Burial of Barber
• Burning Drift-Wood
• Burns
• By Their Works
• The Barefoot Boy
• The Battle Autumn of 1862
• The Bay of Seven Islands
• The Book
• The Branded Hand
• The Brewing of Soma
• The Bridal of Pennacook
• The Brown Dwarf of Rügen

[edit] C

• Calef in Boston
• Cassandra Southwick
• Centennial Hymn
• Child-Songs
• Clerical Oppressors
• Cobbler Keezar's Vision
• Conductor Bradley
• The Call of the Christian
• The Changeling
• The Chapel of the Hermits (1853)
• The Christian Slave
• The Christian Tourists
• The Cities of the Plain
• The Clear Vision
• The Common Question
• The Conquest of Finland
• The Countess
• The Crisis
• The Cross
• The Crucifixion
• The Cry of a Lost Soul
• The Curse of the Charter-Breakers
• The Cypress-Tree of Ceylon

[edit] D

• A Day
• A Dream of Summer
• Daniel Neall
• Dedication (1850)
• Democracy
• Derne
• Disarmament
• Divine Compassion
• The Dead Feast of the Kol-Folk
• The Demon of the Study
• The Disenthralled
• The Dole of Jarl Thorkell
• The Double-headed Snake of Newbury
• The Dream of Pio Nono
• The Drovers

[edit] E

• Ego
• Expostulation
• Ezekiel
• The Emancipation Group
• The Eternal Goodness
• The Eve of Election
• The Exiles

[edit] F

• First-Day Thoughts
• Flowers in Winter
• Forgiveness
• For Righteousness' Sake
• Freedom in Brazil
• From Perugia
• Funeral Tree of the Sokokis
• The Fair Quakeress
• The Familist's Hymn
• The Farewell
• The Female Martyr
• The First Flowers
• The Fisherman
• The Fountain
• The Freed Islands
• The Friend's Burial
• The Frost Spirit
• The Fruit-Gift

[edit] G

• Garrison
• Giving and Taking
• The Giver and the Taker
• Godspeed
• Greeting
• The Gallows
• The Garrison of Cape Ann
• The Gift of Tritemius

[edit] H

• Hampton Beach
• Hazel Blossoms
• Help
• Howard at Atlanta
• How the Robin Came
• How the Women Went from Dover
• Hymn for the Celebration of Emancipation at Newburyport
• Hymn of the Dunkers
• Hymn: "Oh, none in all the world before"
• Hymn: "O Holy Father! Just and True"
• Hymns from the French of Lamartine
• Hymns of the Brahmo Somaj
• Hymn: "Thou, Whose Presence Went Before"
• The Haschish
• The Healer
• The Henchman
• The Hermit of the Thebaid
• The Hero
• The Hive at Gettysburg
• The Holy Land
• The Homestead
• The Human Sacrifice
• The Hunters of Men
• The Huskers

[edit] I

• Ichabod
• Immortal love, forever full
• In Quest
• In School-Days
• Inscriptions
• In the Evil Days
• In the "Old South"
• Invocation
• In War Time (1864 collection)
• Italy

[edit] J

• John Underhill
• The Jubilee Singers

[edit] K

• Kallundborg Church
• Kathleen
• King Solomon and the Ants
• King Volmer and Elsie
• The Kansas Emigrants
• The Khan's Devil
• The King's Missive (1881)
• The Knight of St. John

[edit] L

• A Legacy
• Laus Deo!
• Le Marais Du Cygne
• Letter from a Missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church of South, in Kansas, to a Distinguished Politician
• Lines from a Letter
• Lines on the Portrait of a Celebrated Publisher
• The Lakeside
• The Last Walk in Autumn
• The Legend of St. Mark
• The Light That Is Felt
• The Lost Statesman
• The Lumbermen

[edit] M

• A Memory
• A Mystery
• Mable Martin: A Harvest Idyl
• Marguerite
• Mary Garvin
• Massachusetts to Virginia
• Maud Muller
• Memories
• Miriam
• Mithridates at Chios
• Moloch in State Street
• Mountain Pictures
• My Birthday
• My Dream
• "My Heart was Heavy"
• My Namesake
• My Playmate
• My Psalm
• My Soul and I
• My Thanks
• My Triumph
• My Trust
• The Mantle of St. John de Matra
• The Mayflowers
• The Meeting
• The Men of Old
• The Merrimac
• The Minister's Daughter
• The Moral Warfare
• The Mystic's Christmas

[edit] N

• A Name
• A New England Legend
• Nauhaught, the Deacon
• New Hampshire
• Norembega
• The New Exodus
• The New Wife and the Old
• The New Year
• The Norsemen

[edit] O

• Official Piety
• On a Prayer-Book
• On Receiving an Eagle's Quill from Lake Superior
• On the Big Horn
• Oriental Maxims
• Our Country
• Our Master
• Our State
• Overruled
• The Old Burying-Ground (1858)
• The Over-Heart

[edit] P

• Paean
• Palestine
• Pennsylvania Hall
• Pentucket
• Pictures
• Proem
• The Pageant
• The Palm-Tree
• The Panorama
• The Pass of the Sierra
• The Pastoral Letter
• The Peace Autumn
• The Peace Convention at Brussels
• The Peace of Europe
• The Pennsylvania Pilgrim (1872)
• The Pipes at Lucknow
• The Poor Voter on Election Day
• The Prayer of Agassiz
• The Prayer-Seeker
• The Preacher
• The Pressed Gentian
• The Prisoner for Debt
• The Prisoners of Naples
• The Problem
• The Proclamation
• The Prophecy of Samuel Sewall
• The Pumpkin

[edit] Q

• Question of Life
• The Quaker of the Olden Time
• The Quakers are Out

[edit] R

• "The Rock" in El Ghor
• Rabbi Ishmael
• Randolph of Roanoke
• Raphael
• Red Riding-Hood
• Remembrance
• Requirement
• Requital
• Response
• Revelation
• Ritner
• The Ranger
• The Red River Voyageur
• The Reformer
• The Relic
• The Rendition
• The Reward
• The River Path
• The Robin
• The Rock-Tomb of Bradore
• To Rönge

[edit] S

• A Sea Dream
• A Summer Pilgrimage
• Saint Gregory's Guest (1886)
• Seed-Time and Harvest
• Skipper Ireson's Ride
• Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl (1866)
• Song of Slaves in the Desert
• Song of the Negro Boatmen
• Songs of Labor (1850 collection)
• St. John
• St. Martin's Summer
• Stanzas for the Times
• Storm on Lake Asquam
• Summer by the Lakeside
• Sunset on the Bearcamp
• Sweet Fern
• The "Story of Ida"
• The Seeking of the Waterfall
• The Sentence of John L. Brown
• The Shadow and the Light
• The Ship-Builders
• The Shoemakers
• The Sisters
• The Slave-Ships
• The Slaves of Martinique
• The Star of Bethlehem
• "The Story of Karin"
• The Summons
• The Swan Song of Parson Avery
• The Sycamores

[edit] T

• Tauler
• Telling the Bees
• Texas
• The Three Bells
• The Trailing Arbutus
• The Truce of Piscataqua
• The Two Angels
• The Two Elizabeths
• The Two Loves
• The Two Rabbins
• Thy Will Be Done
• To ----. On Receiving His "Few Verses for a Few Friends" (Printed, Not Published)
• To a Souther Statesman
• To Delaware
• To Englishmen
• To My Sister
• To Pennsylvania
• To Pius IX
• To Samuel E. Sewall and Harriet W. Sewall, of Melrose
• To the Memory of Thomas Shipley
• To the Reformers of England
• To the Thirty-ninth Congress
• Toussaint L'Ouverture
• Trinitas
• Trust

[edit] U

• Utterance

[edit] V

• The Vanishers
• The Vaudois Teacher
• The Vision of Echard (1878)
• The Voices
• Valuation
• Vesta
• Voyage of the Jettie

[edit] W

• A Woman
• A Word for the Hour
• The Waiting
• The Watchers
• The Well of Loch Maree
• The Wife of Manoah to Her Husband
• The Wish of To-day
• The Wishing Bridge
• The Witch of Wenham
• The Wood Giant
• The Word
• The World's Convention
• The Worship of Nature
• To William H. Seward
• To William Lloyd Garrison
• What of the Day?
• What the Birds Said
• What the Traveller Said at Sunset
• What the Voice Said
• William Penn
• Worship

[edit] X

[edit] Y

• The Yankee Girl
• Yankee Girl
• Yorktown

[edit] Z

[edit] New poems

• Personal Poems (Collection)
  • 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 (Collection)
  • 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 (1867 collection)
  • 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 (1890 collection)
  • 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 Tabler
  • 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

[edit] Works about Whittier

• A Fable for Critics (1848) by James Russell Lowell
• "For Whittier's Seventieth Birthday" (1877) by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• "To Whittier on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday" (1882) by James Russell Lowell
• "Whittier" (1913), a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar
• John Greenleaf Whittier article in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.