John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. He is usually listed as one of the Fireside Poets. Whittier was strongly influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Highly regarded in his lifetime and for a period thereafter, he is now remembered for his poem Snow-Bound, and the words of the hymn Dear Lord and Father of Mankind, from his poem "The Brewing of Soma", sung to music by Hubert Parry.
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“Then she took up her burden of life again
Saying only, “It might have been.””
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
“So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn
Which once he wore!
The glory from his gray hairs gone
Forevermore!”
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Sleep that wakes in laughing day,
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“Maud Muller on a summer’s day
Raked the meadow sweet with hay.”
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Ere it passes, barefoot boy!”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)