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  • Few have borne unconsciously the spell of loveliness.

  • Let the thick curtain fall;I better know than allHow little I have gained,How vast the unattained.

    Fall   Littles   Curtains  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.102, tredition
  • Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.

    Sleep   School   Doctors  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.196
  • As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

  • Man is more than constitutions.

  • In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the violet looks.

    Eye   Sunshine   Blue  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.14
  • The child must teach the man.

    Wisdom   Children   Men  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.391
  • Waking or sleeping, I see a wreck, And hear a cry from a reeling deck!

    Sleep   Wrecks   Waking  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.226
  • Freedom's soil hath only place For a free and fearless race!

    Freedom   Race   Fearless  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.66
  • Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

    God   Wells   Behinds  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.372
  • Somewhat of goodness, something true From sun and spirit shining through All faiths, all worlds, as through the dark Of ocean shines the lighthouse spark, Attests the presence everywhere Of love and providential care.

    Ocean   Dark   Shining  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.346
  • For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

  • The Present, the Present is all thou hast For thy sure possessing; Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast Till it gives its blessing.

    Angel   Blessing   Giving  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.94
  • Others may sing the song. Others may right the wrong.

    Song   May  
  • What, my soul, was thy errand here? Was it mirth or ease, Or heaping up dust from year to year? "Nay, none of these!" Speak, soul, aright in His holy sight, Whose eye looks still And steadily on thee through the night; "To do His will!

    Eye   Night   Sight  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.93
  • Time is hastening on, and we What our fathers are shall be,-- Shadow-shapes of memory! Joined to that vast multitude Where the great are but the good.

    Time   Memories   Father  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.174
  • Leaning on Him, make with reverent meekness His own thy will.

    John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.94
  • Around the mighty master came The marvels which his pencil wrought, Those miracles of power whose fame Is wide as human thought.

    Art   Miracle   Fame  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.131
  • The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been.

    Might   Saddest   Pens  
  • Beneath the winter's snow lie germs of summer flowers.

    Summer   Lying   Flower  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.109
  • Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all respects resembles her who first culled the flowers of Eden. To the infinite variety and picturesque inequality of nature we owe the great charm of her uncloying beauty.

    Nature   Flower   Eden  
  • Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!

    Dark   Night   Light  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.122
  • the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

    John Greenleaf Whittier, “Somehow not only for Christmas”
  • We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker of the best, We come back laden from out quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.

    John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.342
  • Despair is infidelity and death.

    John Greenleaf Whittier (1854). “Literary recreations and miscellanies”, p.19
  • Once more the liberal year laughs out O'er richer stores than gems or gold: Once more with harvest song and shout Is nature's boldest triumph told.

    Song   Fall   Autumn  
  • So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below,— A universe of sky and snow!

    Morning   Wall   Night  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.87, tredition
  • And light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom In sweet relief.

    Sweet   Grief   Light  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.268
  • And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain!

    Rain   Flower   Golden  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.260
  • A felon's cell-- The fittest earthly type of hell!

    Cells   Felons   Prison  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.100
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