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Witch and troll and second sight - John Greenleaf Whittier "Abram Morrison"

All his words have perished - John Greenleaf Whittier "Abram Morrison"

Foul of mouth and evil-eyed - John Greenleaf Whittier "Barclay of Ury"

Hard to learn forgiving - John Greenleaf Whittier "Barclay of Ury"

Clothe the waste with dreams of grain - John Greenleaf Whittier "Barclay of Ury"

Paint the golden morrow - John Greenleaf Whittier "Barclay of Ury"

The beaver cut his timber with patient teeth - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

With a pan of coals on either hand - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

Tales that haunt the Brocken and whisper down the Rhine - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

Down on the sharp-horned ledges - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

The painted woods are laughing at the faces sour and sad - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

One hand on the mason's trowel - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

The breath of vineyards, of apples and nuts and wine - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

And bring back the swarming bees - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

All the virtues of herbs and metals - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

From a fragment of mystic moonstone - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

And he counted the long years coming - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

And the peaches had stolen blushes - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

The gorgeous blossoms of the garden's tropic heart - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

Where the wizard's moonstone sank - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

Spread a scanty board too late - John Greenleaf Whittier "Greeting"

The riddles solved, the ills outgrown - John Greenleaf Whittier "Greeting"

The wine of consolation pressed from sorrows - John Greenleaf Whittier "A Legacy"

Grieve not with the moaning wind - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"

Old, harsh voices of debate - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"

The spirit's temper grows too soft - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"

Who braved the polar frost - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"

Pleasant songs in idle years - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"

If the eye must fail of light - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"

Down these slopes of sunset lead - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"

On woods that dream of bloom - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Triumph"

The aster-flower is failing - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Triumph"

The hazel's gold is paling - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Triumph"

My wish that failed of act - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Triumph"

Gifts well used and duty done - John Greenleaf Whittier "A Name"

Halting footsteps seek and find - John Greenleaf Whittier "A Name"

The poisem of heart and mind - John Greenleaf Whittier "A Name"

Must learn the taste of truth - John Greenleaf Whittier "A Name"

Pipes of the misty moorlands - John Greenleaf Whittier "The Pipes at Lucknow"

Voice of the glens and hills - John Greenleaf Whittier "The Pipes at Lucknow"

The droning of the torrents - John Greenleaf Whittier "The Pipes at Lucknow"

The treble of the rills - John Greenleaf Whittier "The Pipes at Lucknow"

Sharp and shrill as swords at strife - John Greenleaf Whittier "The Pipes at Lucknow"

Stinging all the air to life - John Greenleaf Whittier "The Pipes at Lucknow"

An April rain of smiles - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

Lay aside the toiling oar - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

Blow through the autumn morn - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

Shall wear their robes of praise - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

Melt down the amber sky - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

All the jarring notes of life - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

Slow rounding into calm - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

And all the windows of my heart - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

Saw the sombre crow flap by - John Greenleaf Whittier "Red Riding-Hood"

The hawk's grey fleck along the sky - John Greenleaf Whittier "Red Riding-Hood"

The crested blue-jay flitting swift - John Greenleaf Whittier "Red Riding-Hood"

Word and work irrevocably done - John Greenleaf Whittier "Response"

The finer grace of unfulfilled designs - John Greenleaf Whittier "Response"

A sadder light than waning moon - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Slow tracing down the thickening sky - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Mute and ominous prophecy - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Upon the scaffold's pole of birch - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

With lines of Nature's geometric signs - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

A universe of sky and snow - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Walled and overlaid with dazzling crystal - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Of rare Aladdin's wondrous cave - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Egypt's Amun roused from sleep - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Over woods of snow-hung oak - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Shrieking of the mindless wind - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Ghostly finger-tips of sleet - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Radiant with a mimic flame - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Transfigured in the silver flood - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Content to let the north-wind roar - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Nuts from brown October's wood - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

In the sun they cast no shade - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

With spoons of clam-shell - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

And idle lay the useless oars - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The gray wizard's conjuring-book - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Heard the hawks at twilight play - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The loon's weird laughter far away - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Climbed to shake the ripe nuts down - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The ducks' black squadron anchored lay - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

A school of porpoise flashed in view - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Read the clouds as prophecies - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The tales the sparrows told - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Strong only on his native ground - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

How the eagle's eggs he got - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

From ripening corn the pigeons flew - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The muskrat plied the mason's trade - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Homespun warp of circumstance - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

A golden woof-thread of circumstance - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Rest from all bitter thoughts - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The moonlit skater's keen delight - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Rought accompaniment of blind-man's-buff - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

'Twixt Yankee pedlers and old gods - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

And hostage from the future took - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

All chains from limb and spirit strike - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The honeyed music of her tongue - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

In thought and act, in soul and sense - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Has missed her pilgrim staff and gown - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Against the challenge of her knock - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Startling on her desert throne - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Hope each day renewed and fresh - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

What threads the fatal sisters spun - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Forged her cruel chain of moods - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Water of tears with oil of joy - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Perversities of flower and fruit - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The tangled skein of will and fate - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Between choice and Providence - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Divide the circle of events - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

In the summer-land of dreams - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The charm with Eden never lost - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

And melt not in an acid sect - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

In panoramic length unrolled - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The chill embargo of the snow - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The weird palimpsest old and vast - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The monographs of outlived years - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

With the white amaranths underneath - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The restless sands' incessant fall - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

And duty keeping pace with all - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Between its flood-torn shores - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"

The dull axe Time is wielding - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"

Scared the river eels and perches - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"

Every sober clam below her - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"

Shut his rusty valves the tighter - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"

The maples leaned to screen her - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"

Under sealed orders going - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"

Snag and fall and siren-haunted islet - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"

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