Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 / 2008-11-30 00:00:00
EBOOK, SNOW BOUND AND OTHERS ***
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POEMS OF NATURE
POEMS SUBJECTIVE AND REMINISCENT
RELIGIOUS POEMS
BY
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
CONTENTS:
SNOW-BOUND
MY TRIUMPH
IN SCHOOL-DAYS
MY BIRTHDAY
RED RIDING-HOOD
RESPONSE
AT EVENTIDE
VOYAGE OF THE JETTIE
MY TRUST
A NAME
GREETING
CONTENTS
AN AUTOGRAPH
ABRAM MORRISON
A LEGACY
SNOW-BOUND.
A WINTER IDYL.
TO THE MEMORY
OF
THE HOUSEHOLD IT DESCRIBES,
THIS POEM IS DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR.
The inmates of the family at the Whittier homestead who are
referred to in the poem were my father, mother, my brother and two
sisters, and my uncle and aunt both unmarried. In addition, there
was the district school-master who boarded with us. The "not
unfeared, half-welcome guest" was Harriet Livermore, daughter of
Judge Livermore, of New Hampshire, a young woman of fine natural
ability, enthusiastic, eccentric, with slight control over her
violent temper, which sometimes made her religious profession
doubtful.
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