Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 / 2008-06-09 00:00:00

EBOOK, RELIGIOUS POEMS I. ***


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POEMS OF NATURE
POEMS SUBJECTIVE AND REMINISCENT
RELIGIOUS POEMS
BY
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

CONTENTS:
RELIGIOUS POEMS:
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM
THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN
THE CALL OF THE CHRISTIAN
THE CRUCIFIXION
PALESTINE
HYMNS FROM THE FRENCH OF LAMARTINE
I. ENCORE UN HYMNE
II. LE CRI DE L'AME
THE FAMILIST'S HYMN
EZEKIEL
WHAT THE VOICE SAID
THE ANGEL OF PATIENCE
THE WIFE OF MANOAH TO HER HUSBAND
MY SOUL AND I
WORSHIP
THE HOLY LAND
THE REWARD
THE WISH OF TO-DAY
ALL'S WELL
INVOCATION
QUESTIONS OF LIFE
FIRST-DAY THOUGHTS
TRUST
TRINITAS
THE SISTERS
"THE ROCK" IN EL GHOR
THE OVER-HEART
THE SHADOW AND THE LIGHT
THE CRY OF A LOST SOUL
ANDREW RYKMAN'S PRAYER


RELIGIOUS POEMS

THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM
Where Time the measure of his hours
By changeful bud and blossom keeps,
And, like a young bride crowned with flowers,
Fair Shiraz in her garden sleeps;
Where, to her poet's turban stone,
The Spring her gift of flowers imparts,
Less sweet than those his thoughts have sown
In the warm soil of Persian hearts:
There sat the stranger, where the shade
Of scattered date-trees thinly lay,
While in the hot clear heaven delayed
The long and still and weary day.
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