Author:John Greenleaf Whittier
←Author Index: Wh | John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States |
WorksEdit
- The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier
- V. 1. Narrative and legendary poems (transcription project)
- V. 2. Poems of nature; Poems subjective and reminiscent; Religious poems (external scan)
- V. 3. Anti-slavery poems; Songs of labor and reform (external scan)
- V. 4. Personal poems; Occasinal poems; The tent on the beach
- V. 5. Margaret Smith's journal; Tales and sketches(external scan)
- V. 6. Old portraits and modern sketches; Personal sketches and tributes; Historical papers (external scan)
- V. 7. The conflict with slavery: Politics and reform; The inner life; Criticism (external scan)
Contents: Top · A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
AlphabeticalEdit
AEdit
- Abraham Davenport
- Abram Morrison
- Adjustment
- After Election
- After the War (Collection)
- All's Well
- Among the Hills (1869)
- Amy Wentworth
- Andrew Rykman's Prayer
- The Angel of Patience
- The Angels of Buena Vista
- Anniversary Poem
- The Answer
- April
- Arisen at Last
- Astraea
- Astraea at the Capitol
- At Eventide
- At Last
- At Port Royal
- At Washington
- An Autograph
- Autumn Thoughts
BEdit
- Banished from Massachusetts
- Barbara Frietchie
- Barclay of Ury
- The Barefoot Boy
- The Battle Autumn of 1862
- The Bay of Seven Islands
- Birchbrook Mill
- Bolivar (1830)
- The Book
- The Branded Hand
- The Brewing of Soma
- The Bridal of Pennacook
- The Brown Dwarf of Rügen
- Burial of Barber
- Burning Drift-Wood
- Burns
- By Their Works
CEdit
- Calef in Boston
- The Call of the Christian (1833)
- Cassandra Southwick
- Centennial Hymn
- The Changeling
- The Chapel of the Hermits (1853)
- Child-Songs
- The Christian Slave
- The Christian Tourists
- A Christmas Carmen
- The Cities of the Plain (1831)
- The Clear Vision
- Clerical Oppressors (1836)
- Cobbler Keezar's Vision
- The Common Question
- Conductor Bradley
- The Conquest of Finland
- The Countess
- The Crisis
- The Cross
- The Crucifixion (1834)
- The Cry of a Lost Soul
- The Curse of the Charter-Breakers
- The Cypress-Tree of Ceylon
DEdit
- Daniel Neall
- A Day (1836)
- The Dead Feast of the Kol-Folk
- Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
- Dedication (1850)
- Democracy
- The Demon of the Study (1835)
- Derne
- Disarmament
- The Disenthralled
- Divine Compassion
- The Dole of Jarl Thorkell
- The Double-headed Snake of Newbury
- The Dream of Pio Nono
- A Dream of Summer
- The Drovers
EEdit
- An Easter Flower Gift
- Ego
- The Emancipation Group
- The Eternal Goodness
- The Eve of Election
- The Exiles
- Expostulation
- Ezekiel
FEdit
- The Fair Quakeress (1830)
- The Familist's Hymn (1838)
- The Farewell
- The Female Martyr (1833)
- The First Flowers
- First-Day Thoughts
- The Fisherman
- Flowers in Winter
- For Righteousness' Sake
- Forgiveness
- The Fountain (1837)
- The Freed Islands
- Freedom in Brazil
- The Friend's Burial
- From Perugia
- The Frost Spirit (1830)
- The Fruit-Gift
- Funeral Tree of the Sokokis
GEdit
- The Gallows
- Garrison
- The Garrison of Cape Ann
- The Gift of Tritemius
- "The Giver and the Taker" in Littell's Living Age, 150 (1942)
- Giving and Taking
- Godspeed
- Greeting
HEdit
- Hampton Beach
- Harvest Hymn
- The Haschish
- Hazel Blossoms
- The Healer
- Help
- The Henchman
- The Hermit of the Thebaid
- The Hero
- The Hive at Gettysburg
- The Holy Land
- The Homestead
- Howard at Atlanta
- How the Robin Came
- How the Women Went from Dover
- The Human Sacrifice
- The Hunters of Men (1835)
- The Huskers
- Hymn for the Celebration of Emancipation at Newburyport
- "Hymn" in Littell's Living Age, 129 (1671)
- Hymn of the Dunkers
- Hymn: "Oh, none in all the world before"
- Hymn: "O Holy Father! Just and True" (1837)
- Hymns from the French of Lamartine (1837)
- Hymns of the Brahmo Somaj
- Hymn: "Thou, Whose Presence Went Before"
IEdit
- Ichabod
- Immortal love, forever full
- In Quest
- In School-Days
- Inscriptions
- In the Evil Days
- In the "Old South"
- Invocation
- In War Time (1864 collection)
- Italy
JEdit
KEdit
- Kallundborg Church
- The Kansas Emigrants
- Kathleen
- The Khan's Devil
- King Solomon and the Ants
- King Volmer and Elsie
- The King's Missive (1881)
- The Knight of St. John
LEdit
- The Lakeside
- The Last Walk in Autumn
- Laus Deo!
- A Legacy
- The Legend of St. Mark
- Le Marais Du Cygne
- A Letter
- Letter from a Missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church of South, in Kansas, to a Distinguished Politician
- "Lexington, 1775" in Littell's Living Age, 125 (1613)
- The Light That Is Felt
- Lines from a Letter
- Lines on the Portrait of a Celebrated Publisher
- The Lost Statesman
- The Lumbermen
MEdit
- Mable Martin: A Harvest Idyl
- The Mantle of St. John de Matra
- Marguerite
- Mary Garvin
- Massachusetts to Virginia
- Maud Muller
- The Mayflowers
- The Meeting
- Memories
- A Memory
- The Men of Old
- The Merrimac
- The Minister's Daughter
- Miriam
- Mithridates at Chios
- Moloch in State Street
- The Moral Warfare (1836)
- Mountain Pictures
- My Birthday
- My Dream
- ""My Heart was Heavy"" in Littell's Living Age, 129 (1662)
- My Namesake
- My Playmate
- My Psalm
- My Soul and I
- My Thanks
- My Triumph
- My Trust
- A Mystery
- The Mystic's Christmas
NEdit
- A Name
- Nauhaught, the Deacon
- A New England Legend
- The New Exodus
- New Hampshire
- The New Wife and the Old
- The New Year (1839)
- Norembega
- The Norsemen
OEdit
- Official Piety
- The Old Burying-Ground (1858)
- On a Prayer-Book
- On Receiving an Eagle's Quill from Lake Superior
- On the Big Horn
- Oriental Maxims
- Our Country
- Our Master
- Our State
- The Over-Heart
- Overruled
PEdit
- Paean
- The Pageant
- Palestine
- The Palm-Tree
- The Panorama
- The Pass of the Sierra
- The Pastoral Letter (1837)
- The Peace Autumn
- The Peace Convention at Brussels
- The Peace of Europe
- Pennsylvania Hall (1838)
- The Pennsylvania Pilgrim (1872)
- Pentucket (1838)
- Pictures
- The Pipes at Lucknow
- The Poor Voter on Election Day
- The Prayer of Agassiz
- The Prayer-Seeker
- The Preacher
- The Pressed Gentian
- The Prisoner for Debt (1835)
- The Prisoners of Naples
- The Problem
- The Proclamation
- Proem
- The Prophecy of Samuel Sewall
- The Pumpkin
QEdit
REdit
- "The Rock" in El Ghor
- Rabbi Ishmael
- Randolph of Roanoke
- The Ranger
- Raphael
- Red Riding-hood
- The Red River Voyageur
- The Reformer
- The Relic (1839)
- "A Remarkable Man" in Littell's Living Age, 115 (1489)
- Remembrance
- The Rendition
- The Reward
- Requirement
- Requital
- Response
- Revelation
- Ritner (1837)
- The River Path
- The Robin
- The Rock-Tomb of Bradore
- To Ronge
SEdit
- A Sabbath Scene
- Saint Gregory's Guest (1886)
- St. John
- St. Martin's Summer
- A Sea Dream
- Seed-Time and Harvest
- The Seeking of the Waterfall
- The Sentence of John L. Brown
- The Shadow and the Light
- The Ship-Builders
- The Shoemakers
- The Sisters
- "Skipper Ireson's Ride" in The Atlantic Monthly, 1 (2) (December, 1857)
- The Slave-Ships (1834)
- The Slaves of Martinique
- Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl (1866)
- A Song for the Time
- A Song, Inscribed to the Fremont Clubs
- Song of Slaves in the Desert
- Song of the Negro Boatmen
- Songs of Labor (1850 collection)
- Stanzas for the Times (1835)
- The Star of Bethlehem (1830)
- Storm on Lake Asquam
- "The Story of Karin"
- The "Story of Ida"
- Summer by the Lakeside
- A Summer Pilgrimage
- A Summons (1836)
- The Summons
- Sunset on the Bearcamp
- The Swan Song of Parson Avery
- Sweet Fern
- The Sycamores
TEdit
- Tauler
- "The Telegraph" in The Atlantic Monthly, 2 (5) (October, 1858)
- Telling the Bees
- Texas
- The Three Bells
- Thy Will Be Done
- To ----. On Receiving His "Few Verses for a Few Friends" (Printed, Not Published) (1840)
- To a Souther Statesman
- To Delaware
- To Englishmen
- To My Sister
- To Pennsylvania
- To Pius IX
- To Samuel E. Sewall and Harriet W. Sewall, of Melrose
- To the Memory of Thomas Shipley (1836)
- To the Reformers of England
- To the Thirty-ninth Congress
- To William H. Seward
- To William Lloyd Garrison (1832)
- Toussaint L'Ouverture (1833)
- The Trailing Arbutus
- Trinitas
- The Truce of Piscataqua
- Trust
- The Two Angels
- The Two Elizabeths
- The Two Loves
- The Two Rabbins
UEdit
VEdit
- Valuation
- "The Vanishers" in The Atlantic Monthly, 14 (86) (December, 1864)
- The Vaudois Teacher (1830)
- Vesta
- The Vision of Echard (1878)
- The Voices
- Voyage of the Jettie
WEdit
- The Waiting
- The Watchers
- A Welcome to Lowell
- The Well of Loch Maree
- What of the Day?
- What the Birds Said
- What the Traveller Said at Sunset
- What the Voice Said
- "The Wife" in The Atlantic Monthly, 21 (123) (January, 1868)
- The Wife of Manoah to Her Husband
- William Penn
- The Wish of To-day
- The Wishing Bridge
- The Witch of Wenham
- A Woman
- The Wood Giant
- A Word for the Hour
- The Word
- The World's Convention (1839)
- Worship
- The Worship of Nature
XEdit
YEdit
- The Yankee Girl (1835)
- Yorktown
ZEdit
Works by dateEdit
1825
1827
1828
1829
- The Spirit of the North
- Judith at the Tent of Holofernes
- Metacom
- The Drunkard to his Bottle
- The Past and Coming Year
1830
1831
1832
- Isabel
- Stanzas: "Bind up thy tresses"
- To William Lloyd Garrison
- To a Poetical Trio in the City of Gotham
1833
- The Female Martyr
- The Missionary
- The Call of the Christian
- Extract from "A New England Legend"
- Toussaint L'Ouverture
1834
- Mogg Megone
- The Crucifixion
- Hymn: "O Thou whose presence went before"
- The Slave-Ships
- To the Memory of Charles B. Storrs
- Expostulation
- A Lament
1835
- The Demon of the Study
- The Yankee Girl
- The Hunters of Men
- Stanzas for the Times
- The Prisoner for Debt
1836
1837
- Massachusetts
- The Fountain
- Palestine
- Hymns from the French of Lamartine
- Hymn: "O Holy Father! Just and True"
- Ritner
- The Pastoral Letter
- Lines on the Death of S. Oliver Torrey
1838
- Pentucket
- The Familist's Hymn
- Pennsylvania Hall
- Album Verses
- The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother
- The Quaker of the Olden Time
1839
1840
New poemsEdit
- Personal Poems (Collection)
- A Lament (1834)
- To the Memory of Charles B. Storrs
- Lines on the Death of S. Oliver Torrey (1837)
- To ----, with a Copy of Woolman's Journal
- Leggett's Monument
- To a Friend, on Her Return from Europe
- Lucy Hooper
- Follen
- To J. P.
- Chalkley Hall
- Gone
- To Ronge
- Channing
- To My Friend on the Death of His Sister
- Daniel Wheeler
- To Fredrika Bremer
- To Avis Keene
- The Hill-Top
- Elliott
- Ichabod
- The Lost Occasion
- Wordsworth
- To ---- Lines Written After a Summer Day's Excursion
- In Peace
- Benedicite
- Kossuth
- To My Old Schoolmaster
- The Cross
- The Hero
- Rantoul
- William Forster
- To Charles Sumner
- Burns
- To George B. Cheever
- To James T. Fields
- The Memory of Burns
- In Remembrance of Joseph Sturger
- Brown of Ossawatomie
- Naples
- A Memorial
- Bryant on His Birthday
- Thomas Starr King
- Lines on a Fly-Leaf
- George L. Stearns
- Garibaldi
- To Lydia Maria Child
- The Singer
- How Mary Grew
- Sumner
- Thiers
- Fitz-Greene Halleck
- William Francis Bartlett
- Bayard Taylor
- Our Autocrat
- Within the Gate
- In Memory: James T. Fields
- Wilson
- The Poet and the Children
- A Welcome to Lowell
- An Artist of the Beautiful
- Mulford
- To a Cape Ann Schooner
- Samuel J. Tilden
- Occasional Poems (Collection)
- Eva
- A Lay of Old Time
- A Song of Harvest
- Kenoza Lake
- For an Autumn Festival
- The Quaker Alumni
- Our River
- Revisited
- "The Laurels"
- June on the Merrimac
- Hymn for the Opening of Thomas Starr King's House of Worship
- Hymn for the House of Worship at Georgetown, Erected in Memory of a Mother
- A Spiritual Manifestation
- Chicago
- Kinsman
- The Golden Wedding of Longwood
- Hymn for the Opening of Plymouth Church, St. Paul, Minnesota
- Lexington
- The Library
- "I Was a Stranger, and Ye Took Me in"
- Centennial Hymn
- At School-Close
- Hymn of the Children
- The Landmarks
- Garden
- A Greeting
- Godspeed
- Winter Roses
- The Reunion
- Norumbega Hall
- The Bartholdi Statue
- One of the Signers
- The Tent on the Beach (1867 collection)
- At Sundown (1890 collection)
- To E. C. S.
- The Christmas of 1888
- The Vow of Washington
- The Captain's Well
- An Outdoor Reception
- R. S. S., at Deer Island on the Merrimac
- Burning Drift-Wood
- O. W. Holmes on his Eightieth Birthday
- James Russell Lowell
- Haverhill. 1640-1890
- To G. G.
- Preston Powers, Inscription for Bass-Relief
- Lydia H. Sigourney, Inscription on Tablet
- Milton, on Memorial Window
- The Birthday Wreath
- The Wind of March
- Between the Gates
- The Last Eve of Summer
- To Oliver Wendell Holmes, 8th Mo. 29th, 1892
Works about WhittierEdit
- A Fable for Critics (1848) by James Russell Lowell
- "For Whittier's Seventieth Birthday" (1877) by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "To Whittier on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday" (1882) by James Russell Lowell
- "Ad Vigilem" (1887) by Edmund Clarence Stedman
- "Whittier" (1913), a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- "Whittier, John Greenleaf," by Edmund Clarence Stedman in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Whittier", by Edmund Clarence Stedman from Genius, and other essays (1911; piece excerpted from Encyclopædia Britannica: Tenth and "Whittier, John Greenleaf," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911))
- "Whittier, John Greenleaf," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
Works by this author published before January 1, 1926 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.