Love Poems – Page 2469

Skipper Ireson's Ride

Of all the rides since the birth of time,
Told in story or sung in rhyme,—
On Apuleius’s Golden Ass, …

John Greenleaf Whittier English
The Swan Song of Parson Avery

When the reaper’s task was ended, and the summer wearing late,
Parson Avery sailed from Newbury, with his wife and children eight,
Dropping down the river-harbor in the shallop “Watch and Wait.” …

John Greenleaf Whittier English
The Vanishers

Sweetest of all childlike dreams
In the simple Indian lore
Still to me the legend seems …

John Greenleaf Whittier English
The Eternal Goodness

O friends! with whom my feet have trod
The quiet aisles of prayer,
Glad witness to your zeal for God …

John Greenleaf Whittier English
From "Snow-Bound"

The world TRANSFORMED
UNWARMED by any sunset light
The gray day darkened into night, …

John Greenleaf Whittier English
In School-Days

Still sits the school-house by the road,
A ragged beggar sunning;
Around it still the sumachs grow, …

John Greenleaf Whittier English
The Two Angels

God called the nearest angels who dwell with Him above:
The tenderest one was Pity, the dearest one was Love.
“Arise,” He said, “my angels! a wail of woe and sin …

John Greenleaf Whittier English
Centennial Hymn

Our fathers’ God! from out whose hand
The centuries fall like grains of sand,
We meet to-day, united, free, …

John Greenleaf Whittier English
In the "Old South"

She came and stood in the Old South Church
A wonder and a sign,
With a look the old-time sibyls wore, …

John Greenleaf Whittier English
Mulford

Unnoted as the setting of a star
He passed; and sect and party scarcely knew
When from their midst a sage and seer withdrew …

John Greenleaf Whittier English