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• Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Weak, Resolution, Let Me

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.282

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• With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Angel, Silence, Dumb

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.138

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• This is truth the poet sings . . .

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Truth, Poet

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• He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And with the boldness that confuses fear Takes in the crowded sail, and lets his conscience steer.

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  Fear, Wind, Giving

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Grave By The Lake”

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• The hope of all earnest souls must be realized.

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  Hope, Soul, Earnest

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1854). “Literary recreations and miscellanies”, p.368

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• The sooner we recognize the fact that the mercy of the Almighty extends to every creature endowed with life, the better it will be for us as men and Christians.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Christian, Animal, Men

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• A true life is at once interpreter and proof of the gospel.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  True Life, Example, Life Is

  John Woolman, John Greenleaf Whittier (1871). “The Journal of John Woolman”, p.44, Boston : J.R. Osgood

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• With warning hand I mark Time's rapid flight,
  From Life's glad morning to its solemn night;
  Yet, through the dear Lord's love, I also show
  There's light above me by the shade I throw.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Morning, Night, Light

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• Green calm below, blue quietness above.

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  Blue, Sky, Green

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.365

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• The low green tent Whose curtain never outward swings.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Swings, Green, Tents

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.290

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• Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace; East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease; Sing the song of great joy that the angels began, Sing the glory to God and of good-will to man!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Christmas, Song, Angel

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.393

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• Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest, When the gray-haired New Englander sees round his board The old broken links of affection restored, When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Girl, Mother, Eye

  1844 'The Pumpkin,' stanza 3.

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• The garden rose may richly bloom In cultured soil and genial air, To cloud the light of Fashion's room Or droop in Beauty's midnight hair, In lonelier grace, to sun and dew The sweetbrier on the hillside shows Its single leaf and fainter hue, Untrained and wildly free, yet still a sister rose!

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  Fashion, Garden, Clouds

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.21

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• And peace unweaponed conquers every wrong!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Conquer

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.375

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• The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Beauty, Beautiful

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1854). “Poems”, p.323

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• Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Heart, Doctrine, Heresy

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.203

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• Beauty is its own excuse.

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  Beauty, Excuse

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.112

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• 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.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Angel, Blessing, Giving

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.94

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• Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Long Ago, Long, Today

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.144

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• Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Spring, Flower, Curves

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I., the Works of Whittier”, p.207, tredition

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• Press bravely onward! - not in vainYour generous trust in human kind;The good which bloodshed could not gainYour peaceful zeal shall find.

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  Peaceful, Kind, Bloodshed

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.98

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• Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the good hereafter.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Laughter, Angel, Hatred

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.122

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• Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Romance, Beard, Tradition

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Narrative and Legendary Poems: Barclay of Ury, and Others From Volume I., the Works of Whittier”, p.62, tredition

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• A grateful loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its Eden in the wilderness and solitary place, and sows with flowers the gray desolation of rock and mosses.

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  Gratitude, Flower, Grateful

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• Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing, under the sky's gray arch. Smiling, I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing It is the wind of March.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Wind, Sea, Sky

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.246, tredition

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