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• Ichabod

  So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn
  Which once he wore!
  The glory from his gray hairs gone …

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Astraea

  “jove means to settle
  Astræa in her seat again,
  And let down from his golden chain …

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• The Barefoot Boy

  Blessings on thee, little man,
  Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan!
  With thy turned-up pantaloons, …

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Maud Muller

  Maud muller on a summer’s day
  Raked the meadow sweet with hay.
  Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth …

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• 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

• 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

• The Vanishers

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

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• 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

• From "Snow-Bound"

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

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• In School-Days

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

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• An Autograph

  I write my name as one,
  On sands by waves o’errun
  Or winter’s frosted pane, …

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• The Cardinal Bird

  A day and then a week passed by:
  The redbird hanging from the sill
  Sang not; and all were wondering why …

  William Davis Gallagher

• Autumn in the West

  the autumn time is with us. Its approach
  Was heralded, not many days ago,
  By hazy skies that veiled the brazen sun, …

  William Davis Gallagher

• The Sleeper

  At midnight, in the month of June,
  I stand beneath the mystic moon.
  An opiate vapor, dewy, dim, …

  Edgar Allan Poe

• The City in the Sea

  Lo! death has reared himself a throne
  In a strange city lying alone
  Far down within the dim West, …

  Edgar Allan Poe

• The Haunted Palace

  In the greenest of our valleys
  By good angels tenanted,
  Once a fair and stately palace— …

  Edgar Allan Poe

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