Whittier

Famous quotes containing the word whittier:

    “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)

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

    “O Time and Change!—with hair as gray
    As was my sire’s that winter day,
    How strange it seems, with so much gone
    Of life and love, to still live on!”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)