John Greenleaf Whittier: Selected Poems

edited by brenda wineapple

Introduction

• Toussaint l'Ouverture
• The Demon of the Study
• The Hunters of Men
• The Farewell
• Massachusetts to Virginia
• Song of Slaves in the Desert
• The Huskers
• Proem
• Lines on the Portrait of a Celebrated Publisher
• Ichabod!
• A Sabbath Scene
• The Haschish
• Moloch in State Street
• First-Day Thoughts
• The Kansas Emigrants
• Maud Muller
• The Fruit-Gift
• The Barefoot Boy
• Letter
• Skipper Ireson's Ride
• The Last Walk in Autumn
• The Garrison of Cape Ann
• Telling the Bees
• My Playmate
• The River Path
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott"
• The Waiting
• Barbara Frietchie
• The Vanishers
• What the Birds Said
• Laus Deo
• The Eternal Goodness
• Snow-Bound
• from The Tent on the Beach
• from Among the Hills: Prelude
• The Hive at Gettysburg
• In School-Days
• The Brewing of Soma
• The Pressed Gentian
• The Witch of Wenham
• The Henchman
• At Last
• Sweet Fern
• Burning Drift-Wood
• To Oliver Wendell Holmes

Biographical Note
Note on the Texts
Notes
Index of Titles and First Lines