John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead

The John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead is the birthplace and home of American Quaker poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier. It currently serves as a museum.

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    Old men who never cheated, never doubted,
    Communicated monthly, sit and stare
    At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way
    Where a young man lands hatless from the air.
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    Blessings on thee, little man,
    Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan!
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    Then the wife of the skipper lost at sea
    Said, “God has touched him! why should we!”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    These Flemish pictures of old days;
    Sit with me by the homestead hearth,
    And stretch the hands of memory forth
    To warm them at the wood-fire’s blaze!
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)