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For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Love, Inspirational, Life

O Time and change! - with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of life and love, to still live on!

John Greenleaf Whittier
Love, Winter, Hair
John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.288

I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Love, Islands, Air
John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.319

God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall love endure.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Love, Faith, Light
John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.144

They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Love, Summer, Art
John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.131

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