Whittier

Famous quotes containing the word whittier:

    “Of all that Orient lands can vaunt,
    Of marvels with our own competing,
    The strangest is the Haschish plant,
    And what will follow on its eating.”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    “Ah! that thou couldst know thy joy,
    Ere it passes, barefoot boy!”
    —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)