John Greenleaf Whittier

Another hymn, “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind,” with words by John Greenleaf Whittier, that is continually in my thinking and praying when I am under stress is:

What Works When Life Doesn’t Stuart Briscoe 2004

If, as John Greenleaf Whittier says, the saddest words are "it might have been," the next saddest have to be "I should have tried."

Dreams Have No Age Limit -- Go for It! Kristen Houghton 2010

If, as John Greenleaf Whittier says, the saddest words are "it might have been," the next saddest have to be "I should have tried."

Kristen Houghton: Dreams Have No Age Limit -- Go for It! 2010

It notes that Van Wyck Brooks 'New England: Indian Summer (1940) contains remarks made by the Mayor of Haverhill, Massachusetts at the funeral of John Greenleaf Whittier in which is the following: "Here may we be reminded that man is most honored, not by that which a city may do for him, but by that which he has done for the city."

Obama: I Should Have Credited Patrick 2009

I drove to the John Greenleaf Whittier house in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and joined the tour.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

I drove to the John Greenleaf Whittier house in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and joined the tour.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

She was the heroine of an 1849 book entitled, Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, by John Greenleaf Whittier.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

No history of the region fails to mention Goodwife Cole, but it was John Greenleaf Whittier who immortalized her in 1864 with his poems, The Changeling and Wreck of the Rivermouth.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

Yesterday morning the students descended on the historic Walnut Cemetery and remembered schoolboy emotions that ran through the heart of Haverhill's favorite son, John Greenleaf Whittier, when he was around their age.

Hey Lydia, Guess Who Likes You! 2008

But when the Civil War was over and America became increasingly industrial, many of its writers (Mark Twain in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer") and poets (John Greenleaf Whittier with "The Barefoot Boy") longed for what they saw as a simpler, less cosmopolitan and more moral antebellum life.

Homer's Where The Heart Is 2008