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)

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

    Oh, for boyhood’s painless play,
    Sleep that wakes in laughing day,
    Health that mocks the doctor’s rules,
    Knowledge never learned of schools.
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)