
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
Writer, poet, journalist, lawyer · United States · Haverhill – Hampton Falls
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American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery (1807-1892)
Stories
- Hymn — In War Time, and Other Poems
- Italy — In War Time, and Other Poems
- The Eve of Election
- The Gift of Tritemius — The Atlantic Monthly — Volume 1 — Number 1
- The Three Bells of Glasgow — Poems That Every Child Should Know
- To William Lloyd Garrison — Poems Written During the Progress of the Abolition Question In the United States
Poems
- "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott"
- "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" — In War Time, and Other Poems
- "The Laurels"
- "The Rock" in El Ghor
- A Christmas Carmen
- A Dream of Summer
- A Dream of Summer — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- A Greeting
- A Memory — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- A Mystery
- A Name
- A Pretty Thought
- A Remarkable Man
- A Sea Dream
- A Song for the Time
- A Song for the Time — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- A Song inscribed to the Frémont Clubs
- A Song inscribed to the Frémont Clubs — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- A Summer Pilgrimage
- A Welcome to Lowell
- A Woman
- A Word for the Hour
- A Word for the Hour — In War Time, and Other Poems
- Adjustment
- All's Well
- An Autograph
- An Easter Flower Gift
- An Easter Flower Gift — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Anniversary Poem
- Anniversary Poem — In War Time, and Other Poems
- Apology
- Arisen at Last
- Astraea at the Capitol
- Astraea at the Capitol — In War Time, and Other Poems
- At Eventide
- At Last — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- At Washington
- Banished from Massachusetts
- Barclay of Ury
- Barclay of Ury — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Biographical Sketch
- Birchbrook Mill
- Brown of Ossawatomie
- Burial of Barber
- Burning Drift-Wood
- By their Works
- Calef in Boston
- Centennial Hymn — Suggestive programs for special day exercises — Our Nations Birthday
- Child-Songs
- Child-Songs — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Conductor Bradley
- Daniel Neall
- Disarmament (Whittier)
- Divine Compassion
- Ego
- Extract from A New England Legend
- Ezekiel
- Ezekiel — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- First-Day Thoughts
- Fitz-Greene Halleck
- Flowers in Winter
- For Righteousness' Sake
- Forgiveness — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Franconia from the Pemigewasset
- Fredrika Bremerille Translation
- Freedom in Brazil
- Funeral Tree of the Sokokis
- Garden
- Giving and Taking
- Giving and Taking — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Greeting
- Hampton Beach
- Hazel Blossoms
- Help
- Help — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- How the Robin Came
- How the Robin Came — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- How the Women went from Dover
- Hymn — Littell's Living Age — Volume 129 — Issue 1671
- Hymn ("O Holy Father! just and true")
- Hymn ("O Holy Father! just and true") — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Hymn ("O Thou, whose presence went before")
- Hymn for the Celebration of Emancipation at Newburyport
- Hymn of the Dunkers
- Hymn sung at Christmas by the Scholars of St. Helena's Island, S. C.
- Hymns from the French of Lamartine
- Hymns of the Brahmo Somaj
- Ichabod
- In Memory: James T. Fields
- In Quest — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- In School-Days
- In the Evil Days
- In the Old South
- In the Old South — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Inscriptions
- Inscriptions — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- John Underhill
- June on the Merrimac
- King Solomon and the Ants
- King Solomon and the Ants — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- King Volmer and Elsie
- Laus Deo!
- Laus Deo! — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Le Marais du Cygne
- Letter from a Missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in Kansas, to a Distinguished Politician
- Lines from a Letter to a Young Clerical Friend
- Lines on the Portrait of a Celebrated Publisher
- Lines on the Portrait of a Celebrated Publisher — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Lydia H. Sigourney, Inscription on Tablet
- Marguerite
- Mary Garvin
- Mary Garvin — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Massachusetts to Virginia
- Maud Muller
- Maud Muller — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Miriam
- Mithridates at Chios
- Mithridates at Chios — In War Time, and Other Poems
- Moloch in State Street
- Monadnock from Wachuset
- My Dream — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- My Namesake
- My Namesake — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- My Playmate
- My Playmate — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- My Psalm
- My Soul and I
- My Soul and I — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- My Thanks
- My Thanks — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- My Triumph
- My Triumph — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- My Trust
- My Trust — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Nauhaught, the Deacon
- Nauhaught, the Deacon — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- New Hampshire — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Norembega
- Norembega — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- O. W. Holmes on his Eightieth Birthday
- Official Piety
- Official Piety — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- On a Prayer-Book
- On a Prayer-Book — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- On Receiving an Eagle's Quill from Lake Superior
- Oriental Maxims
- Oriental Maxims — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Our Country (unsourced)
- Our Countrymen
- Our Countrymen in Chains (1837)
- Our Master
- Our State
- Overruled
- Palestine
- Palestine — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Pennsylvania Hall
- Pennsylvania Hall — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Pentucket
- Pentucket — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Questions of Life
- R. S. S., at Deer Island on the Merrimac
- Rabbi Ishmael
- Randolph of Roanoke
- Raphael
- Red Riding-Hood
- Remembrance — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Requirement
- Requital
- Response — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Revelation — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Ritner
- Ritner — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Saint Gregory's Guest — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Seed-Time and Harvest
- Skipper Ireson's Ride
- Song of Slaves in the Desert
- St. John
- St. Martin's Summer
- Storm on Lake Asquam
- Summer by the Lakeside
- Sunset on the Bearcamp
- Sweet Fern
- Tauler
- Texas
- The Angel of Patience
- The Angels of Buena Vista
- The Barefoot Boy
- The Battle Autumn of 1862
- The Battle Autumn of 1862 — In War Time, and Other Poems
- The Bay of Seven Islands
- The Branded Hand
- The Brewing of Soma
- The Brown Dwarf of Rügen
- The Call of the Christian
- The Changeling — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Chapel of the Hermits
- The Christian Slave
- The Cities of the Plain
- The Clear Vision
- The Common Question
- The Common Question — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Crisis
- The Crisis — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Crucifixion — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Curse of the Charter-Breakers
- The Curse of the Charter-Breakers — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Cypress-Tree of Ceylon
- The Dead Feast of the Kol-Folk
- The Demon of the Study
- The Demon of the Study — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Dole of Jarl Thorkell
- The Dole of Jarl Thorkell — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Double-Headed Snake of Newbury
- The Double-Headed Snake of Newbury — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Drovers
- The Eternal Goodness
- The Exiles
- The Exiles — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Fair Quakeress
- The Familist's Hymn
- The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother
- The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Female Martyr
- The Female Martyr — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The First Flowers
- The Fishermen
- The Fishermen — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Fountain — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Freed Islands
- The Friend's Burial
- The Frost Spirit
- The Fruit-Gift
- The Garrison of Cape Ann
- The Gift of Tritemius
- The Haschish
- The Healer
- The Henchman
- The Hermit of the Thebaid
- The Holy Land
- The Holy Land — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Homestead
- The Hunters of Men
- The Jubilee Singers
- The Kansas Emigrants
- The Khan's Devil
- The King's Missive
- The Knight of St. John
- The Knight of St. John — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Lakeside
- The Last Walk in Autumn
- The Legend of St. Mark
- The Library (Whittier)
- The Light that is felt
- The Light that is felt — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Lost Occasion
- The Lost Statesman
- The Mantle of St. John de Matha
- The Mayflowers
- The Men of Old
- The Merrimac
- The Minister's Daughter
- The Moral Warfare
- The Moral Warfare — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Morning Dream
- The Mystic's Christmas
- The Mystic's Christmas — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The New Wife and the Old
- The New Wife and the Old — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The New Year
- The New Year — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Norsemen
- The Norsemen — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Old Burying-Ground
- The Old Burying-Ground — Poems of Nature
- The Over-Heart
- The Over-Heart — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Pageant
- The Pageant — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Palatine
- The Palm-Tree
- The Palm-Tree — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Panorama — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Pass of the Sierra
- The Pass of the Sierra — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Pastoral Letter
- The Pastoral Letter — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Peace of Europe
- The Pennsylvania Pilgrim — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Pine-Tree
- The Pipes at Lucknow
- The Prayer of Agassiz
- The Prayer-Seeker
- The Pressed Gentian
- The Pressed Gentian — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Prisoner for Debt
- The Prisoners of Naples
- The Problem (Whittier)
- The Proclamation
- The Proclamation — In War Time, and Other Poems
- The Prophecy of Samuel Sewall
- The Pumpkin
- The Quaker of the Olden Time
- The Quakers are out
- The Ranger
- The Red River Voyageur
- The Reformer (Whittier)
- The Relic
- The Rendition
- The Rendition — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Rock-Tomb of Bradore
- The Seeking of the Waterfall
- The Sentence of John L. Brown
- The Shadow and the Light
- The Shadow and the Light — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Sisters
- The Sisters — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Sisters: a Picture by Barry
- The Slave Ships
- The Slaves of Martinique
- The Slaves of Martinique — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Star of Bethlehem
- The Story of Ida
- The Story of Karin
- The Summons — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Sycamores
- The Three Bells
- The Three Bells — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Trailing Arbutus
- The Trailing Arbutus — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Two Angels
- The Two Angels — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Two Elizabeths
- The Two Loves
- The Two Loves — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Two Rabbins
- The Two Rabbins — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Vaudois Teacher
- The Vision of Echard
- The Waiting
- The Watchers
- The Watchers — In War Time, and Other Poems
- The Well of Loch Maree
- The Well of Loch Maree — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Wife of Manoah to her Husband
- The Wife of Manoah to her Husband — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Wish of To-Day
- The Wishing Bridge
- The Witch of Wenham
- The Wood Giant
- The World's Convention
- The Worship of Nature
- The Yankee Girl
- Thy Will Be Done — In War Time, and Other Poems
- To a Southern Statesman
- To Delaware
- To Englishmen
- To Englishmen — In War Time, and Other Poems
- To Faneuil Hall
- To John C. Fremont
- To John C. Fremont — In War Time, and Other Poems
- To Massachusetts
- To Pennsylvania
- To Pius IX
- To Samuel E. Sewall and Harriet W. Sewall, of Melrose
- To Samuel E. Sewall and Harriet W. Sewall, of Melrose — In War Time, and Other Poems
- To William H. Seward
- To William H. Seward — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- To William Lloyd Garrison
- Toussaint L'Ouverture
- Trinitas
- Trust
- Utterance
- Utterance — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Valuation
- Vesta
- Voyage of the Jettie
- What of the Day?
- What of the Day? — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- What the Birds said
- What the Birds said — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- What the Traveller said at Sunset
- What the Voice said
- Worship
- Worship — The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Yorktown