John Greenleaf Whittier ; his life, genius, and writings . rchards; bees are hum- 124 JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. ming, birds singing, and here and therethrouofh the trees slender columns of bluewood-smoke float upward in airy evanes-cence. Mr. Whittiers residence is on FriendStreet, and not far beyond, on the samestreet, or rather in the delta formed by themeeting of two streets, stands the FriendsMeeting-House, where the poet has been anattendant nearly all his life: — For thee, the priestly rite and prayer,And holy day, and solemn psalm;For me, the silent reverence whereMy brethren gather, slo
John Greenleaf Whittier ; his life, genius, and writings . rchards; bees are hum- 124 JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. ming, birds singing, and here and therethrouofh the trees slender columns of bluewood-smoke float upward in airy evanes-cence. Mr. Whittiers residence is on FriendStreet, and not far beyond, on the samestreet, or rather in the delta formed by themeeting of two streets, stands the FriendsMeeting-House, where the poet has been anattendant nearly all his life: — For thee, the priestly rite and prayer,And holy day, and solemn psalm;For me, the silent reverence whereMy brethren gather, slow and calm. This old meeting-house is alluded to bythe poet in Abram Morrison, a fine humor-ous poem published in The Kings Mis-sive (1881). We there read how— On calm and fair First DaysRattled down our one-horse chaiseThrough the blossomed apple-boughsTo the old, brown meeting-house. Whittiers house is a plain, white-paintedstructure, standing at the corner of twostreets, and having in front of it numerousforest trees, chiefly maple. Since 1876 the. ?>--fc^^^.^*^- -^ ,./• -Av,, •?r:;->.\7 THE WHITTIER HOUSE, AMESBURY. MASS. AMESBURY. \2J poet has passed only a part of each year atAmesbury, his other home being Oak Knollin Danvers, where he resides with distantrelatives. The study at Amesbury of course pos-sesses great interest for us as the placewhere most of the poets finest lyrics havebeen written. It is a very cosey little study,and is entered by one door from within andanother from without. The upper half of theouter door is of glass. This door is at the endof the left-hand porch shown in the view onpage 125. The two windows in the studylook out upon a long strip of yard in therear of the house, — very pretty and quiet,and filled with pear-trees and other trees andvines. Upon one side of the room areshelves holding five or six hundred well-used volumes. Among them are to be no-ticed Charles Reades novels and the poemsof Robert Browning. A side-shelf is com
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