Whittier

Famous quotes containing the word whittier:

    “For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
    The saddest are these: “It might have been!””
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    “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)

    “Small pity for him!—He sailed away
    From a leaking ship in Chaleur Bay,—”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)