John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Thanksgiving, Food, Eye

  1844 'The Pumpkin,' stanza 3.

• Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest, When the gray-haired New Englander sees round his board The old broken links of affection restored, When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Girl, Mother, Eye

  1844 'The Pumpkin,' stanza 3.

• God's providence is not blind, but full of eyes.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Eye, Blind, Providence

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.351

• 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 violet looks.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Eye, Sunshine, Blue

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.14

• What, my soul, was thy errand here?
  Was it mirth or ease,
  Or heaping up dust from year to year?
  "Nay, none of these!"
  Speak, soul, aright in His holy sight,
  Whose eye looks still
  And steadily on thee through the night;
  "To do His will!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Eye, Night, Sight

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.93

• Truth is one;
  And, in all lands beneath the sun,
  Whoso hath eyes to see may see
  The tokens of its unity.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Truth, Eye, Land

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.342

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