Mary Dyer’s Hymn and Other Quaker Poems
Stanford J. Searl, Jr.
Introduction
Shelter Island Quaker Monument
Quaker Hymn
Openings
Grandfather Waterman Speaks
Memory
Roger Williams and His Keys to America
The Choke Weeds
The Soul
Mary Dyer’s Hymn
Richard Waterman’s Advice
William Robinson in the Boston Jail
Passageways
The Wolf Hunter
Isaac Penington’s Peace
William Leddra Speaks
Ezekiel’s Wheel
Martyr
William Leddra’s Ballad
O, Mary Dyer
Writing on the Martyr’s Body
At the Scaffold
Return
Mary Dyer and Colonel Shaw on Boston Common
Acknowledgments
Praise for Mary Dyer’s Hymn and Other Quaker Poems
About the Author
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