Whittier

Famous quotes containing the word whittier:

    ““Here me, neighbors!” at last he cried,—
    “What to me is this noisy ride?”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    “Yet here at least an earnest sense
    Of human right and weal is shown;
    A hate of tyranny intense,
    And hearty in its vehemence,
    As if my brother’s pain and sorrow were my own.

    O Freedom! if to me belong
    Nor mighty Milton’s gift divine,
    Nor Marvell’s wit and graceful song.
    Still with a love as deep and strong
    As theirs, I lay, like them, my best gifts on thy shrine!”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    “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)