My Summer With Dr. Singletary. A Fragment by John Greenleaf Whittier
Story type: LiteratureCHAPTER I. DR. SINGLETARY is dead!Well, what of it? All who live die sooner or later; and pray who was Dr. Singletary, that his case should claim pa …
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was 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. Whittier is remembered particularly for his anti-slavery writings as well as his book Snow-Bound.
The Little Iron Soldier by John Greenleaf Whittier
Story type: LiteratureWHAT AMINADAB IVISON DREAMED ABOUT.AMINADAB IVISON started up in his bed. The great clock at the head of the staircase, an old and respected heirloo …
Passaconaway by John Greenleaf Whittier
Story type: Literature[1833.]I know not, I ask not, what guilt’s in thy heart, But I feel that I love thee, whatever thou art. Moor.THE township of Haverhill, on the Merr …
The Opium Eater by John Greenleaf Whittier
Story type: Literature[1833.]Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving from its lowest depths of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me! Here was …
The Proselytes by John Greenleaf Whittier
Story type: Literature[1833]THE student sat at his books. All the day he had been poring over an old and time-worn volume; and the evening found him still absorbed in its …
David Matson by John Greenleaf Whittier
Story type: LiteraturePublished originally in Our Young Folks, 1865.WHO of my young friends have read the sorrowful story of “Enoch Arden,” so sweetly and simply told by …