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John Greenleaf Whittier
(1807 - 1892 / Boston / United States)
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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!''
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), U.S. poet. "Among the Hills."
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''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.''
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), U.S. poet. A Song of Harvest.
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Through this broad street, restless ever,
Ebbs and flows a human tide,
Wave on wave a living river;
Wealth and fashion side by side;
Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same qu...
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), U.S. poet. At Washington, st. 2.
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She leaned far out on the window-sill,
And shook it forth with a royal will.
"Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,
But spare your country's flag," she said.
A shade ...
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), U.S. poet. Barbara Frietchie (l. 33-38). . .
Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1...
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''Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then,
Bowed with her fourscore years and ten;
Bravest of all in Frederick town,
She took up the flag the men hauled down;''
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), U.S. poet. Barbara Frietchie (l. 17-20). . .
Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1...
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''"Who touches a hair of yon gray head
Dies like a dog! March on!" he said''
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), U.S. poet. Barbara Frietchie (l. 41-42). . .
Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1...
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''Up from the meadows rich with corn,
Clear in the cool September morn,''
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), U.S. poet. Barbara Frietchie (l. 1-2). . .
Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (197...
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''Honor to her! and let a tear
Fall, for her sake, on Stonewall's bier.
Over Barbara Frietchie's grave,
Flag of Freedom and Union, wave!''
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), U.S. poet. Barbara Frietchie (l. 53-56). . .
Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1...
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All else is gone; from those great eyes
The soul has fled:
When faith is lost, when honor dies,
The man is dead!
Then, pay the reverence of old days
To his dead fame;
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), U.S. poet. Ichabod (l. 29-36). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford U...
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''So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn
Which once he wore!
The glory from his gray hairs gone
Forevermore!''
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), U.S. poet. Ichabod (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford Uni...
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