Whittier

Famous quotes containing the word whittier:

    “Would she were mine, and I to-day,
    Like her, a harvester of hay;
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    Of all the rides since the birth of time,
    Told in story or sung in rhyme,—
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    Through this broad street, restless ever,
    Ebbs and flows a human tide,
    Wave on wave a living river;
    Wealth and fashion side by side;
    Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)