Best John Greenleaf Whittier Words
- Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry clamor. Now shape… Bless
- The low green tent Whose curtain never outward swings. Curtain
- What airs outblown from ferny dells And clover-bloom and sweet brier smells. Air
- Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying. Dying
- What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of… Admiration
- Press bravely onward! - not in vainYour generous trust in human kind;The good which bloodshed could not gainYour peaceful zeal shall find. Bloodshed
- Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart. Better
- Nature speaks in symbols and in signs. Inspirational
- The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown. Fate
- Simple duty hath no place for fear. Duty
- The garden rose may richly bloom In cultured soil and genial air, To cloud the light of Fashion's room Or droop in Beauty's midnight hair,… Air
- What does the good ship bear so well? The cocoa-nut with its stony shell, And the milky sap of its inner cell. Bear
- When earth as if on evil dreams Looks back upon her wars, And the white light of Christ outstreams From the red disc of Mars,… Back Upon
- For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. Addiction
- As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. Business
- All the windows of my heart I open to the day. All
- I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together. Ascend
- Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew. Anti War
- Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a… All
- Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young. Always Young
- No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear, But grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here. Behind
- Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty. Beauty
- So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In… All
- If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to… Bereft
- A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the… Best
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