John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: December 17, 1807 - September 7, 1892
Birthday: December 17
Death: September 7
Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!
source: John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.288
topic: Stars, Play, Shining, Cypresses, Cypress Trees
