Includes Index

Proem ; Narrative and legendary poems: Includes: The bridal of Pennacook -- The chapel of the hermits -- Maud Muller -- Skipper Ireson's ride -- Telling the bees -- Mabel Martin: a harvest idyl -- The preacher -- Among the hills -- Miriam -- The Pennsylvania pilgrim -- John Underhill ; Poems of nature: Includes: The last walk in Autumn ; Personal poems: Includes: Ichabod ; Occasional poems: Includes: The Quaker alumni ; The tent on the beach. Anti-slavery poems: Includes: The slave-ships -- The Yankee girl -- The hunters of men -- Massachusetts to Virginia -- The panorama -- In war time -- After the war -- Songs of labor and reform: Includes: Songs of labor ; Poems subjective and reminiscent: Includes: The barefoot boy -- My psalm -- Snow-bound ; Religious poems: Includes: The eternal goodness ; At sundown: Includes: The captain's well ; Poems by Elizabeth H. Whittier ; Appendix: Early and uncollected verses -- Poems printed in "The life of Whittier."

Collects all the verse of the Massachusetts-born poet whose humanitarianism and great popular appeal established him as an important 19th-century figure.