John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes
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Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,But spare your country's flag,' she said.
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Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
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Again the shadow moveth o'erThe dial-plate of time.
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O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother;where pity dwells, the peace of God is there.
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When faith is lost, when honor diesThe man is dead!
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He wedded a wife of richest dower, Who lived for fashion, as he for power. Yet oft, in his marble hearth's bright glow, He watched a picture come and go: And sweet Maud Muller's hazel eyes Looked out in their innocent surprise.
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For they the mind of Christ discernWho lean, like John, upon His breast.
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God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late,They touch the shining hills of day;The evil cannot brook delay,The good can well afford to wait.
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So, closing his heart, the Judge rode on, And Maud was left in the field alone. But the lawyers smiled that afternoon, When he hummed in court an old love-tune.
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God is and all is well.
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God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds.
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The hope of all who suffer,The dread of all who wrong.
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Making their lives a prayer.
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Sweeter than any sungMy songs that found no tongue;Nobler than any factMy wish that failed of act.Others shall sing the song,Others shall right the wrong,-Finish what I begin,And all I fail of win.
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Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time,So 'Bonnie Doon' but tarry;Blot out the epic’s stately rhyme,But spare his 'Highland Mary!'
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Let the thick curtain fall;I better know than allHow little I have gained,How vast the unattained.
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Life is ever lord of DeathAnd Love can never lose its own.
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Falsehoods which we spurn to-dayWere the truths of long ago.
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Who never wins can rarely lose,Who never climbs as rarely falls.
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The windows of my soul I throwWide open to the sun.