The complete online text of Religious Poems, Part 2., from Poems of Nature, by John Greenleaf Whittier.

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was an American poet whose humanitarianism and great popular appeal established him as an important 19th-century figure. John Greenleaf Whittier was born on a farm near Haverhill, Mass., on Dec. 17, 1807, of poor Quake...

John Greenleaf Whittier's importance to America's cultural life, and the claim he makes on our remembrance, is at least twofold. In the first place his life was and remains a model of dedication to the twin principles of freedom and tolerance. In the lon...

Although John Greenleaf Whittier's reputation as a poet declined drastically in the twentieth century, his career is of continuing interest as an example of the writer functioning as a deeply committed reform activist. In the thirty-year struggle to abol...

The subject was roses the problem is memory "all that is musical in us is memory" memory is musical memory is musical in suggestion suggestion of a progression of a progression to a destination the destination of music is harmony everything joined to...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 John Donne Summary of Poems Part 2 Loves Deitie: The poet wishes he could speak with the ghost of some lover who died before the god of Love was born, so that he might confirm his belief that no man then...