Whittier

Famous quotes containing the word whittier:

    “God pity them both! and pity us all,
    Who vainly the dreams of youth recall.

    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)

    “The dreariest spot in all the land
    To Death they set apart;
    With scanty grace from Nature’s hand,
    And none from that of Art.”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)