John Greenleaf Whittier

Immortal love, forever full,
Forever flowing free,
Forever shared, forever whole,
A never ebbing sea

"Tie stille, barn min
Imorgen kommer Fin,
Fa'er din,
Og gi'er dich Esbern Snares öine og hjerte at lege med

My heart was heavy, for its trust had been Abused, its kindness answered with foul wrong;
So, turning gloomily from my fellow-men,
One summer Sabbath day I strolled among The green mounds of the village burial-place;
Where, ponderin...

So fallen
so lost
the light withdrawn     Which once he wore
The glory from his gray hairs gone     Forevermore

It is done
Clang of bell and roar of
Send the tidings up and down
How the belfries rock and reel

"Put up the sword
" The voice of Christ once
Speaks, in the pauses of the cannon's roar,
O'er fields of corn by fiery sickles

Still sits the school-house by the road,
A ragged beggar sleeping;
Around it still the sumachs grow,
And blackberry-vines are creeping

Before my drift-wood fire I sit, And see, with every waif I burn,
Old dreams and fancies coloring it, And folly's unlaid ghosts return
O ships of mine, whose swift keels cleft The enchanted sea on which they sailed,
Are these poor f...

Outbound, your bark awaits you
Were I one Whose prayer availeth much, my wish should be Your favoring trad-wind and consenting sea
By sail or steed was never love outrun,
And, here or there, love follows her in whom All graces and s...

I
Sound over all waters, reach out from all lands,
The chorus of voices, the clasping of hands;
Sing hymns that were sung by the stars of the morn,

To the God of all sure mercies let my blessing rise today,
From the scoffer and the cruel He hath plucked the spoil away;
Yes, he who cooled the furnace around the faithful three,
And tamed the Chaldean lions, hath set His handmaid ...

HE
HT glitters keen and bright,            Where, miles away,    Lies stretching to my dazzled sight    A luminous belt, a misty light,
Beyond the dark pine bluffs and wastes of sandy gray
The tremulous shadow of the Sea