Whittier

Famous quotes containing the word whittier:

“They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead,
That all of thee we loved and cherished
Has with thy summer roses perished;
And left, as its young beauty fled,
An ashen memory in its stead.”
—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)

“Oh, for boyhood’s painless play,
Sleep that wakes in laughing day,
Health that mocks the doctor’s rules,
Knowledge never learned of schools.”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)