John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Men, Media, Age

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Library”

• 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

• Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Pain, Greek, Age

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.162, tredition

• The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame; Buy cheap, sell dear; eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want; Pay tithes for soul-insurance; keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sleep, Mean, Men

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.150, tredition

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin