CONTENTS
Reading edition
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER: A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE 1
SELECTED POEMS
THE BAREFOOT BOY (1855) 37
IN SCHOOL-DAYS (1870) 40
THE WHITTIER FAMILY. (FROM “SNOW-BOUND”) (1866) 42
MY PLAYMATE (1860) 54
TELLING THE BEES (1858) 57
BURNS: ON RECEIVING A SPRIG OF HEATHER IN BLOSSOM (1854) 60
THE SHIP-BUILDERS (1846) 65
SKIPPER IRESON’S RIDE (1857) 68
MAUD MULLER (1854) 72
RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE (1833?) 78
MASSACHUSETTS TO VIRGINIA (1843) 83
THE PINE-TREE (1846) 87
ICHABOD (1850) 89
THE LOST OCCASION (1880) 91
BARBARA FRIETCHIE (1863) 94
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LAUS DEO! (1865) 98
ON RECEIVING AN EAGLE’S QUILL FROM LAKE SUPERIOR (1849) 100
MY PSALM (1859) 104
THE ETERNAL GOODNESS (1865) 107
AT LAST (1882) 110
NOTE
The frontispiece portrait of Whittier is from a miniature by Porter, painted about 1838. The portrait which faces page 36 is from an ambrotype taken about 1857. Both the miniature and ambrotype are in the possession of Samuel T. Pickard, Amesbury, Mass.
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