The Massachussetts Poets

By John Greenleaf Whittier and James Russell Lowell

In the small state of Massachusetts a remarkable assemblage of Poets have given this corner of America a distinctive and honoured place in poetical history. Poets of the calibre of Amy Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell and George Cabot Lodge are speckled amongst Winifred Virginia Jackson, Gamaliel Bradford, G.O. Warren, Hilda Conkling and many others to bring you a rich reward of poems.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 7, 2014
• ISBN: 9781783947546

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The Massachusetts Poets

In the small state of Massachusetts a remarkable assemblage of Poets have given this corner of America a distinctive and honoured place in poetical history.  Poets of the calibre of Amy Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell and George Cabot Lodge are speckled amongst Winifred Virginia Jackson, Gamaliel Bradford, G.O. Warren, Hilda Conkling and many others to bring you a rich reward of poems.

Index Of Poems

HOME BOUND - JOSEPH AUSLANDER

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL - KATHERINE LEE BATES

YELLOW CLOVER - KATHERINE LEE BATES

THE RETURNING - SYLVESTER BAXTER

TWO MOODS FROM THE HILL - ERNEST BENSHIMOL

A BANQUET - ERNEST BENSHIMOL

SONG - GEORGE CABOT LODGE

THE WORLDS - MARTHA GILBERT DICKINSON BIANCHI

THE RIOT - GAMALIEL BRADFORD

HUNGER - GAMALIEL BRADFORD

EXIT GOD - GAMALIEL BRADFORD

ROUSSEAU - GAMALIEL BRADFORD

JOHN MASEFIELD - AMY BRIDGMAN

1620-1920 - LE BARON RUSSEL BRIGGS

THE CROSS-CURRENT - ABBIE FARWELL BROWN

CANDLEMAS - ALICE BROWN

SUNRISE ON MANSFIELD MOUNTAIN - ALICE BROWN

BURNT ARE THE PETALS OF LIFE - ELSIE PUMPELLY CABOT

FOUR FOUNTAINS. AFTER RESPIGHI - JESSICA CARR

IN THE TROLLEY CAR - RUTH BALDWIN CHENERY

IN IRISH RAIN - MARTHA HASKELL CLARK

CRETONNE TROPICS - GRACE HAZARD CONKLING

TO HILDA OF HER ROSES - GRACE HAZARD CONKLING

DANDELION - HILDA CONKLING

RED ROOSTER - HILDA CONKLING

VELVETS - HILDA CONKLING

THE MOODS - FANNY STEARNS DAVIS

HILL-FANTASY - FANNY STEARNS DAVIS

THE MIRAGE - NATHAN HASKELL DOLE

THE ROAD BEYOND THE TOWN - MICHAEL EARLS, S.J.

THE LILAC - WALTER PRICHARD EATON

GOD, THROUGH HIS OFFSPRING NATURE, GAVE ME LOVE - CHARLES GIBSON

TO MUSIC - MAUDE GORDON-ROBY

THE VOICE IN THE SONG - MARY GERTRUDE HAMILTON

HYMNS AND ANTHEMS SUNG AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE - CAROLINE HAZARD

REUBEN ROY - HAROLD CRAWFORD STEARNS

COUNTRY ROAD - MARIE LOUISE HERSEY

WREATHS - CAROLYN HILLMAN

MEMPHIS - GORDON MALHERBE HILLMAN

SAINT COLUMBKILLE - E.J.V. HUIGINN

MISS DOANE - WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON

FALLEN FENCES - WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON

CROSS-CURRENTS - WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON

THE FAREWELL - WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON

SONG - OLIVER JENKINS

LOVE AUTUMNAL - OLIVER JENKINS

ECHOES - RUTH LAMBERT JONES

WAR PICTURES - RUTH LAMBERT JONES

AN OLD SONG - ARTHUR KETCHUM

ROADSIDE REST - ARTHUR KETCHUM

OLD LIZETTE ON SLEEP - AGNES LEE

MOTHERHOOD - AGNES LEE

ESSEX - GEORGE CABOT LODGE

THE SONG OF THE WAVE - GEORGE CABOT LODGE

FRIMAIRE - AMY LOWELL

PATTERNS - AMY LOWELL

A BATHER - AMY LOWELL

LEPRECHAUNS AND CLURICAUNS - DENNIS A. MCCARTHY

L'ENVOI - DOROTHEA LAWRENCE MANN

TO IMAGINATION - DOROTHEA LAWRENCE MANN

DRAGON - JEANETTE MARKS

GREEN GOLDEN DOOR - JEANETTE MARKS

SLEEPY HOLLOW, CONCORD - JOHN CLAIR MINOT

THE SWORD OF ARTHUR - JOHN CLAIR MINOT

THE DIVINE FOREST - CHARLES R. MURPHY

MAGIC - EDWARD J. O'BRIEN

MICHAEL PAT - EDWARD J. O'BRIAN

SONG - EDWARD J. O'BRIAN

IN MEMORIAM: FRANCIS LEDWIDGE - NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONNOR

EVENSONG - NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONNOR

THE PROPHET - JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY

HARVEST-MOON: 1914 - JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY

HORSEMAN SPRINGING FROM THE DARK: A DREAM - LILLA CABOT PERRY

THREE QUATRAINS - LILLA CABOT PERRY

A VALENTINE UNSENT - MARGARET PERRY

SHIPBUILDERS - ARTHUR STANWOOD PIER

UNFADING PICTURES - LOUELLA C. POOLE

WITH WAVES AND WINGS - CHARLOTTE PORTER

BLUEBERRIES - FRANK PRENTICE RAND

NOCTURNE - WILLIAM ROSCOIE THAYER

ENVOI - WILLIAM 'ROSCOE THAYER

THERE WHERE THE SEA - MARIE TUDOR

MARRIAGE - MARIE TUDOR

PITY - HAROLD VINAL

A ROSE TO THE LIVING - NIXON WATERMAN

THE STORM - G.O. WARREN

WHERE THEY SLEEP - G.O. WARREN

BEAUTY - G.O. WARREN

COMRADES - GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY

THE FLIGHT - GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY

A LEGACY – JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

THE HUNTERS OF MEN by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

A MYSTERY OF JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

A WELCOME TO LOWELL by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

MIDNIGHT by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

A REQUIEM by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

STANZAS ON FREEDOM by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

HOME-BOUND by JOSEPH AUSLANDE

The moon is a wavering rim where one fish slips,

The water makes a quietness of sound;

Night is an anchoring of many ships

Home-bound.

There are strange tunnelers in the dark, and whirs

Of wings that die, and hairy spiders spin

The silence into nets, and tenanters

Move softly in.

I step on shadows riding through the grass,

And feel the night lean cool against my face;

And challenged by the sentinel of space,

I pass.

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL by KATHERINE LEE BATES

O beautiful for spacious skies,

For amber waves of grain,

For purple mountain majesties

Above the fruited plain!

America!  America!

God shed His grace on thee

And crown thy good with brotherhood

From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet,

Those stern, impassioned stress

A thoroughfare for freedom beat

Across the wilderness!

America!  America!

God mend thine every flaw,

Confirm thy soul in self-control,

Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved

In liberating strife

Who more than self their country loved,

And mercy more than life!

America!  America!

May God thy gold refine,

Till all success be nobleness,

And every gain divine.

O beautiful for patriot dream

That sees beyond the years

Thine alabaster cities gleam

Undimmed by human tears!

America! America!

God shed His grace on thee

And crown thy good with brotherhood

From sea to shining sea!

YELLOW CLOVER by KATHERINE LEE BATES

Must I, who walk alone,

come on it still,

This Puck of plants

The wise would do away with,

The sunshine slants

To play with,

Our wee, gold-dusty flower, the yellow clover,

Which once in Parting for a time

That then seemed long,

Ere time for you was over,

We sealed our own?

Do you remember yet,

O Soul beyond the stars,

Beyond the uttermost dim bars

Of space,

Dear Soul, who found earth sweet,

Remember by love's grace,

In dreamy hushes of the heavenly song,

How suddenly we halted in our climb,

Lingering, reluctant, up that farthest hill,

Stooped for the blossoms closest to our feet,

And gave them as a token

Each to Each,

In lieu of speech,

In lieu of words too grievous to be spoken,

Those little, gypsy, wondering blossoms wet

With a strange dew of tears?

So it began,

This vagabond, unvalued yellow clover,

To be our tenderest language.