Charles Goodrich Whiting

  • Heaven is open every day;
          In night also
    He that would wend his upward way
          May surely go.
    There is no wall to that demesne
    Where God resides; nor any screen
    To hide the glories of that scene,—
          If man will know.

    ...

  •   the eagle, did ye see him fall?—
        Aflight beyond mid-air
    Erewhile his mighty pinions bore him,
    His eyry left, the sun before him;
        And not a bird could dare
    To match with that tremendous motion,
    Through fire and flood, ’twixt sky and ocean...

  • Blue hills beneath the haze
    That broods o’er distant ways,
    Whether ye may not hold
    Secrets more dear than gold,—
    This is the ever new
    Puzzle within your blue.

    Is ’t not a softer sun
    Whose smiles yon hills have won?
    Is ’t not a...