Author:John Greenleaf Whittier

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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

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John Greenleaf Whittier

Works

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

A

• Abraham Davenport
• Abram Morrison
• Adjustment
• After Election
• After the War (Collection)
• All's Well
• Among the Hills (1869)
• Amy Wentworth
• Andrew Rykman's Prayer
• The Angel of Patience
• The Angels of Buena Vista
• Anniversary Poem
• The Answer
• April
• Arisen at Last
• Astraea
• Astraea at the Capitol
• At Eventide
• At Last
• At Port Royal
• At Washington
• An Autograph
• Autumn Thoughts

B

• Banished from Massachusetts
• Barbara Frietchie
• Barclay of Ury
• The Barefoot Boy
• The Battle Autumn of 1862
• The Bay of Seven Islands
• Birchbrook Mill
• Bolivar (1830)
• The Book
• The Branded Hand
• The Brewing of Soma
• The Bridal of Pennacook
• The Brown Dwarf of Rügen
• Burial of Barber
• Burning Drift-Wood
• Burns
• By Their Works

C

• Calef in Boston
• The Call of the Christian (1833)
• Cassandra Southwick
• Centennial Hymn
• The Changeling
• The Chapel of the Hermits (1853)
• Child-Songs
• The Christian Slave
• The Christian Tourists
• A Christmas Carmen
• The Cities of the Plain (1831)
• The Clear Vision
• Clerical Oppressors (1836)
• Cobbler Keezar's Vision
• The Common Question
• Conductor Bradley
• The Conquest of Finland
• The Countess
• The Crisis
• The Cross
• The Crucifixion (1834)
• The Cry of a Lost Soul
• The Curse of the Charter-Breakers
• The Cypress-Tree of Ceylon

D

• Daniel Neall
• A Day (1836)
• The Dead Feast of the Kol-Folk
• Dedication (1850)
• Democracy
• The Demon of the Study (1835)
• Derne
• Disarmament
• The Disenthralled
• Divine Compassion
• The Dole of Jarl Thorkell
• The Double-headed Snake of Newbury
• The Dream of Pio Nono
• A Dream of Summer
• The Drovers

E

• An Easter Flower Gift
• Ego
• The Emancipation Group
• The Eternal Goodness
• The Eve of Election
• The Exiles
• Expostulation
• Ezekiel

F

• The Fair Quakeress (1830)
• The Familist's Hymn (1838)
• The Farewell
• The Female Martyr (1833)
• The First Flowers
• First-Day Thoughts
• The Fisherman
• Flowers in Winter
• For Righteousness' Sake
• Forgiveness
• The Fountain (1837)
• The Freed Islands
• Freedom in Brazil
• The Friend's Burial
• From Perugia
• The Frost Spirit (1830)
• The Fruit-Gift
• Funeral Tree of the Sokokis

G

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

H

• Hampton Beach
• The Haschish
• Hazel Blossoms
• The Healer
• Help
• The Henchman
• The Hermit of the Thebaid
• The Hero
• The Hive at Gettysburg
• The Holy Land
• The Homestead
• Howard at Atlanta
• How the Robin Came
• How the Women Went from Dover
• The Human Sacrifice
• The Hunters of Men (1835)
• The Huskers
• 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" (1837)
• Hymns from the French of Lamartine (1837)
• Hymns of the Brahmo Somaj
• Hymn: "Thou, Whose Presence Went Before"

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

J

• John Underhill
• The Jubilee Singers

K

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

L

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

M

• Mable Martin: A Harvest Idyl
• The Mantle of St. John de Matra
• Marguerite
• Mary Garvin
• Massachusetts to Virginia
• Maud Muller
• The Mayflowers
• The Meeting
• Memories
• A Memory
• The Men of Old
• The Merrimac
• The Minister's Daughter
• Miriam
• Mithridates at Chios
• Moloch in State Street
• The Moral Warfare (1836)
• 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
• A Mystery
• The Mystic's Christmas

N

• A Name
• Nauhaught, the Deacon
• A New England Legend
• The New Exodus
• New Hampshire
• The New Wife and the Old
• The New Year (1839)
• Norembega
• The Norsemen

O

• Official Piety
• The Old Burying-Ground (1858)
• 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
• The Over-Heart
• Overruled

P

• Paean
• The Pageant
• Palestine
• The Palm-Tree
• The Panorama
• The Pass of the Sierra
• The Pastoral Letter (1837)
• The Peace Autumn
• The Peace Convention at Brussels
• The Peace of Europe
• Pennsylvania Hall (1838)
• The Pennsylvania Pilgrim (1872)
• Pentucket (1838)
• Pictures
• 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 (1835)
• The Prisoners of Naples
• The Problem
• The Proclamation
• Proem
• The Prophecy of Samuel Sewall
• The Pumpkin

Q

• The Quaker of the Olden Time (1838)
• The Quakers are Out
• Question of Life

R

• "The Rock" in El Ghor
• Rabbi Ishmael
• Randolph of Roanoke
• The Ranger
• Raphael
• Red Riding-hood
• The Red River Voyageur
• The Reformer
• The Relic (1839)
• Remembrance
• The Rendition
• The Reward
• Requirement
• Requital
• Response
• Revelation
• Ritner (1837)
• The River Path
• The Robin
• The Rock-Tomb of Bradore
• To Ronge

S

• A Sabbath Scene
• Saint Gregory's Guest (1886)
• St. John
• St. Martin's Summer
• A Sea Dream
• Seed-Time and Harvest
• The Seeking of the Waterfall
• The Sentence of John L. Brown
• The Shadow and the Light
• The Ship-Builders
• The Shoemakers
• The Sisters
• Skipper Ireson's Ride
• The Slave-Ships (1834)
• The Slaves of Martinique
• Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl (1866)
• A Song for the Time
• A Song, Inscribed to the Fremont Clubs
• Song of Slaves in the Desert
• Song of the Negro Boatmen
• Songs of Labor (1850 collection)
• Stanzas for the Times (1835)
• The Star of Bethlehem (1830)
• Storm on Lake Asquam
• "The Story of Karin"
• The "Story of Ida"
• Summer by the Lakeside
• A Summer Pilgrimage
• A Summons (1836)
• The Summons
• Sunset on the Bearcamp
• The Swan Song of Parson Avery
• Sweet Fern
• The Sycamores

T

• Tauler
• Telling the Bees
• Texas
• The Three Bells
• Thy Will Be Done
• To ----. On Receiving His "Few Verses for a Few Friends" (Printed, Not Published) (1840)
• 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 (1836)
• To the Reformers of England
• To the Thirty-ninth Congress
• To William H. Seward
• To William Lloyd Garrison (1832)
• Toussaint L'Ouverture (1833)
• The Trailing Arbutus
• Trinitas
• The Truce of Piscataqua
• Trust
• The Two Angels
• The Two Elizabeths
• The Two Loves
• The Two Rabbins

U

• Utterance

V

• Valuation
• The Vanishers
• The Vaudois Teacher (1830)
• Vesta
• The Vision of Echard (1878)
• The Voices
• Voyage of the Jettie

W

• The Waiting
• The Watchers
• A Welcome to Lowell
• The Well of Loch Maree
• What of the Day?
• What the Birds Said
• What the Traveller Said at Sunset
• What the Voice Said
• The Wife of Manoah to Her Husband
• William Penn
• The Wish of To-day
• The Wishing Bridge
• The Witch of Wenham
• A Woman
• The Wood Giant
• A Word for the Hour
• The Word
• The World's Convention (1839)
• Worship
• The Worship of Nature

Y

• The Yankee Girl (1835)
• Yorktown

Works by date

1825
The Exile's Departure
The Deity
The Vale of the Merrimac
Benevolence

1827
Ocean

1828
The Sicilian Vespers
The Earthquake
The Song of the Vermonters

1829
The Spirit of the North
Judith at the Tent of Holofernes
Metacom
The Drunkard to his Bottle
The Past and Coming Year

1830
The Fair Quakeress
Bolivar
The Vaudois Teacher
The Star of Bethlehem
The Frost Spirit

1831
Isabella of Austria
The Fratricide
The Cities of the Plain

1832
Isabel
Stanzas: "Bind up thy tresses"
To William Lloyd Garrison
To a Poetical Trio in the City of Gotham

1833
The Female Martyr
The Missionary
The Call of the Christian
Extract from "A New England Legend"
Toussaint L'Ouverture

1834
Mogg Megone
The Crucifixion
Hymn: "O Thou whose presence went before"
The Slave-Ships
To the Memory of Charles B. Storrs
Expostulation
A Lament

1835
The Demon of the Study
The Yankee Girl
The Hunters of Men
Stanzas for the Times
The Prisoner for Debt

1836
A Day
Clerical Oppressors
A Summons
To the Memory of Thomas Shipley
The Moral Warfare

1837
Massachusetts
The Fountain
Palestine
Hymns from the French of Lamartine
Hymn: "O Holy Father! Just and True"
Ritner
The Pastoral Letter
Lines on the Death of S. Oliver Torrey

1838
Pentucket
The Familist's Hymn
Pennsylvania Hall
Album Verses
The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother
The Quaker of the Olden Time

1839
The New Year
The Relic
The World's Convention

1840
To ----, with a Copy of Woolman's Journal

New poems

• Personal Poems (Collection)
  • A Lament (1834)
  • To the Memory of Charles B. Storrs
  • Lines on the Death of S. Oliver Torrey (1837)
  • 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 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

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
• "Ad Vigilem" (1887) by Edmund Clarence Stedman
• "Whittier" (1913), a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar
• “Whittier, John Greenleaf” by Edmund Clarence Stedman in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• "Whittier", by Edmund Clarence Stedman from Genius, and other essays (1911; piece excerpted from Encyclopædia Britannica: Tenth and Eleventh editions).
• “Whittier, John Greenleaf” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.

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.