Whittier

Famous quotes containing the word whittier:

    “Yet, haply, in some lull of life,
    Some Truce of God which breaks its strife,
    The worldling’s eyes shall gather dew,
    Dreaming in throngful city ways
    Of winter joys his boyhood knew;
    And dear and early friends—the few”
    —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)

    “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)