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From Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier
- Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess…
- So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
- And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's…
- The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.
- To be saved is only this-salvation from our own selfishness.
- Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest, When the gray-haired New Englander sees…
- The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine.
- Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams, And tremble in the April showers The tassels of the maple flowers.
- Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn!
- From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.
- The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.
- With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying…
- We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker…
- I dimly guess, from blessings known, of greater out of sight.
- They who wander widest lift No more of beauties' jealous veils, Than they who from their doorways see The miracle of flowers and trees.
- Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn
- In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the…
- From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The…
- Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing, under the sky's gray arch. Smiling, I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing It is…
- What airs outblown from ferny dells And clover-bloom and sweet brier smells.
- When earth as if on evil dreams Looks back upon her wars, And the white light of Christ outstreams From the red disc of Mars,…
- A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the…
- The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the…
- And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the…
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