However, he's best known for such poems as "The Barefoot Boy" and "Telling the Bees," many of which employed the rural dialect he popularized.  
He was one of the founders of the Liberty Party and wrote the abolitionist track "Justice and Expediency."  His first published book was Legends of New England and in his later life he turned to hymns writing nearly one hundred including "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind."  However, he's best known for such poems as "The Barefoot Boy" and "Telling the Bees," many of which employed the rural dialect he popularized.  FTP, identify this man known as "The Quaker Poet" who wrote "Snow Bound" and "Barbara Frietchie."
He was one of the founders of the Liberty Party and wrote the abolitionist track "Justice and Expediency."  
John Greenleaf Whittier