Whittier

Famous quotes containing the word whittier:

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

“Ah! that thou couldst know thy joy,
Ere it passes, barefoot boy!”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)