"What miracle of weird transforming Is this wild……" — John Greenleaf Whittier
"What miracle of weird transforming Is this wild work of frost and light, This glimpse of glory infinite?"
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139 Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier has 139 quotes on this site.
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Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly…
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The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate…
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He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise,…
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We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and…
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Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And…
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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,…
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I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His…
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God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over…
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And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.
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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…
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The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt…
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So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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More Frost Quotes
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I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World Robert Lee Frost (Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont) Our Darling Eva We…
— Eva Gabor
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A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to…
— Susan Faludi
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Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And…
— Adelaide Crapsey
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I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart…
— Edwin Way Teale
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October, here's to you. Here's to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the…
— Ken Weber
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I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most…
— Jean Webster
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Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has…
— Emily Dickinson
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Love can never grow old. Looks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind…
— Robert Greene
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Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him…
— Samuel Johnson
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The hearts that love will know never winter's frost and chill. Summer's warmth is in them still.
— Unknown Author
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