John Greenleaf Whittier: Quotes about love

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

John Greenleaf Whittier: 94 quotes2 likes

“All hearts confess the saints elect,
Who, twain in faith, in love agree,
And melt not in an acid sect
The Christian pearl of charity!”

John Greenleaf Whittier

Snow Bound, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“So, closing his heart, the Judge rode on,
And Maud was left in the field alone.
But the lawyers smiled that afternoon,
When he hummed in court an old love-tune.”

John Greenleaf Whittier Maud Muller

Maud Muller (1856)

“Life is ever lord of Death
And Love can never lose its own.”

John Greenleaf Whittier

Snow Bound, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“A manly form at her side she saw,
And joy was duty and love was law.
Then she took up her burden of life again,
Saying only, "It might have been."”

John Greenleaf Whittier Maud Muller

Maud Muller (1856)

“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

The eternal Goodness, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)