John Greenleaf Whittier - Soul Quotes

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From those great eyes The soul has fled:
When faith is lost, when honor dies,
The man is dead!

John Greenleaf Whittier
Life's sunniest hours are not without
The shadow of some lingering doubt —
Amid its brightest joys will steal
Spectres of evil yet to feel —
Its warmest love is blent with fears,
Its confidence a trembling one —
Its smile the harbinger of tears —
Its hope — the change of April's sun!
A weary lot — in mercy given,
To fit the chastened soul for heaven.

John Greenleaf Whittier
All which is real now remaineth,
And fadeth never:
The hand which upholds it now sustaineth
The soul forever.

John Greenleaf Whittier
With silence only as their benediction,
God's angels come
Where in the shadow of a great affliction,
The soul sits dumb!

John Greenleaf Whittier
What, my soul, was thy errand here?
Was it mirth or ease,
Or heaping up dust from year to year?
"Nay, none of these!"
Speak, soul, aright in His holy sight,
Whose eye looks still
And steadily on thee through the night;
"To do His will!"

John Greenleaf Whittier
The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.

John Greenleaf Whittier
A bending staff I would not break,
A feeble faith I would not shake,
Nor even rashly pluck away
The error which some truth may stay,
Whose loss might leave the soul without
A shield against the shafts of doubt.

John Greenleaf Whittier
We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker of the best, We come back laden from out quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.

John Greenleaf Whittier