Whittier

Famous quotes containing the word whittier:

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

    She leaned far out on the window-sill,
    And shook it forth with a royal will.

    “Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,
    But spare your country’s flag,” she said.

    A shade of sadness, a blush of shame,
    Over the face of the leader came;
    —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)