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John Greenleaf Whittier
(1807 - 1892)

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I was born on the 17th of December, 1807, in the easterly part of Haverhill, Mass., in the house built by my first American ancestor, two hundred years ago. My father was a farmer, in moderate circumstances,—a man of good natural ability, and sound judgment. For a great many years he was one of the .. .. more >>

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1		A Word for the Hour
2		An Autograph
3		Barbara Frietchie
4		Barclay Of Ury
5		Burning Drift-Wood
6		By Their Works
7		Disarmament
8		Flowers in Winter
9		Forgiveness
10		From "Snow-Bound," 11:1-40, 116-154
11		Godspeed
12		Ichabod
13		Immortal love, forever full
14		In School-Days
15		Kallundborg Church ( From The Tent on the Beach)
16		Laus Deo
17		Massachusetts To Virginia
18		Maud Muller
19		My Triumph
20		Randolph Of Roanoke

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"How dwarfed against his manliness
She sees the poor pretension,
The wants, the aims, the follies, born
Of fashion and convention!"
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), U.S. poet. "Among the Hills."

"Give fools their gold, and knaves their power;
Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall;
Who sows a field, or trains a flower,
Or plants a tree, is more than all."
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), U.S. poet. A Song of Harvest.

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John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead
Information center for the 19th century Quaker poet, John Greenleaf Whittier.
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John Greenleaf Whittier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807–September 7, 1892) was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the ...
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John Greenleaf Whittier: Quaker Poems
A Quaker poet; with a selection of poems, and a biography.
http://www.kimopress.com/whittier.htm

John Greenleaf Whittier
From the Haverhill Public Library. Also a partial list of Whittier-related materials in this Massachusetts library's special collections.
http://www.haverhillpl.org/Departments/special/jgwhittier.html

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