Tuesday, April 6, 2010

A Greeting Comments

Rating: 2.8

Thrice welcome from the Land of Flowers
And golden-fruited orange bowers
To this sweet, green-turfed June of ours!
To her who, in our evil time,
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John Greenleaf Whittier
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Ratnakar Mandlik 22 November 2016

The loves of earth hopes of heaven Wonderful write. Thanks for sharing it here.

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Amar Agarwala 22 November 2016

It took me a while to understand the poem... for it needed to be read again and again. And with every read became clearer its depth fused with a sense of lament and tribute.

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Amber Storer 22 November 2016

i took like a sec to understand but geuss what its real truth its very nice

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Seamus O Brian 22 November 2016

Took a second reading to understand that this piece commemorates Harriet Beecher Stowe. I am dense perhaps. But a beautiful tribute. I would also recommend his work 'How the Women Went from Dover' which commemorates the persecution of 3 Quaker women and those who stood up for them.

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Bernard F. Asuncion 22 November 2016

The waves that wash our gray coast lines, The winds that rock the Southern pines, Nice poem.... Thanks for sharing...

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Edward Kofi Louis 22 November 2016

Change of place. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier

Haverhill, Massachusetts
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