Best John Greenleaf Whittier Quotations
- With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb! Affliction
- A faint blush melting through the light of thy transparent cheek like a rose-leaf bathed in dew. Bathed
- Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace; East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease; Sing the song of great joy that… Angel
- The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. Brief
- God fills the gaps of human need, Each crisis brings its word and deed. Brings
- Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day… Across
- Green calm below, blue quietness above. Blue
- So let it be in God's own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause is ours In conflict… Cause
- And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain! Altars
- In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the… Blue
- Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in. Clearing
- Freedom's soil hath only place For a free and fearless race! Fearless
- What miracle of weird transforming Is this wild work of frost and light, This glimpse of glory infinite? Frost
- Beauty is its own excuse. Beauty
- Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the… Angel
- From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The… Child
- Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing, under the sky's gray arch. Smiling, I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing It is… Arch
- Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence… Clothe
- God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds. Bless
- The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home. Beauty
- Let the thick curtain fall;I better know than allHow little I have gained,How vast the unattained. Better
- 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… Act
- Others may sing the song. Others may right the wrong. Inspirational
- Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church… Blew
- And light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom In sweet relief. Bloom
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