William McKendree Carleton was an American poet from Michigan. Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life. Wikipedia
“To appreciate heaven well
'T is good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell.”
Gone with a handsomer Man, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.”
Over the Hill to the Poor-house (1872).
Out of the old House, Nancy, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Carleton (1885) City Ballads, p. 143. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.
Out of the old House, Nancy, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
