Snow-Bound: The Tent on the Beach, and Other Poems (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Snow-Bound: The Tent on the Beach, and Other Poems

Ohn greenleaf whittier, of Quaker birth in Puritan surroundings, was born at the homestead near Haverhill, Massachusetts, December 17, 1807. He has described his home and his boyish life in Snow Bound, and the house visited thus by the storm is still standing. It is open to visitors, and there may be seen the kitchen just as it was when the warm hearth seemed blazing free. At the secluded farm he lived, knowing the delights of the barefoot boy, and knowing also the bitter winds and frosty ground of a New Eng land winter. He worked upon the farm and went to the district school. His father had a few religious books, and above all the Bible, and the schoolmaster once read aloud some poems of Burns in the Whittier kitchen, and left the book in the hands of the listening boy.

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