John Greenleaf Whittier

17 December 1807 – 7 September 1892

An American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the Fireside Poets, he was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns (Wikipedia).

• Poems
• Selected poems
• Anti-slavery poems
• Child life
• Snow-bound
• The poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
• The stranger in Lowell
• The supernaturalism of New England
• "The prayer of Agassiz"
• A little bird's song on my birthday
• A New Year's address to the patrons of the Essex gazette, 1828
• A Sabbath scene