John Greenleaf Whittier: Day

John Greenleaf Whittier was American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery. Explore interesting quotes on day.

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“Falsehoods which we spurn to-day
Were the truths of long ago.”

John Greenleaf Whittier

Calef in Boston, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The Night is Mother of the Day,
The Winter of the Spring,
And ever upon old Decay
The greenest mosses cling.”

John Greenleaf Whittier A Dream of Summer

A Dream of Summer, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Maud Muller, on a summer's day,
Raked the meadows sweet with hay.
Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth
Of simple beauty and rustic health.”

John Greenleaf Whittier Maud Muller

Maud Muller (1856)

“God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late,
They touch the shining hills of day;
The evil cannot brook delay,
The good can well afford to wait.”

John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 282

“As yonder tower outstretches to the earth
The dark triangle of its shade alone
When the clear day is shining on its top;
So, darkness in the pathway of man's life
Is but the shadow of God's providence,
By the great Sun of wisdom cast thereon;
And what is dark below is light in heaven.”

John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 282