The Tent On The Beach And Other Poems

1867. A collection of verse from Whittier, American Quaker poet and reformer. He was a pioneer in regional literature as well as a crusader for many humanitarian causes and was a self-declared abolitionist. Contents: The Tent on the Beach; The Wreck of Rivermouth; The Grave by the Lake; The Brother of Mercy; The Changeling; The Maids of Attitash; Kallundborg Church; The Dead Ship of Harpswell; The Palatine; Abraham Davenport; National Lyrics: The Mantle of St. John De Matha; What the Birds Said; Laus Deo ; The Peace Autumn; To the Thirty-Ninth Congress; Occasional Poems: The Eternal Goodness; Our Master; The Vanishers; Revisited; The Common Question; Bryant on his Birthday; Hymn; and Thomas Starr King. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.