Religious Poems

One of the Fireside poets, John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 -1892) was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate for the abolition of slavery in the United States. After school Whitter worked as editor of the National Philanthropist, a Boston-based temperance weekly. In 1833 he published the pamphlet Justice and Expediency and dedicated the next 20 years to the slavery cause. Religious Poems, Part 2., from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems cont...