An American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States.. American poet
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For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!' Go to Quote / Comment
All else is gone; from those great eyes The soul has fled:... Go to Quote / Comment
Yet here at least an earnest sense Of human right and weal is shown;... Go to Quote / Comment
Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew. Go to Quote / Comment
How dwarfed against his manliness she sees the poor pretension, the wants, the aims, the follies, born of fashion and convention! Go to Quote / Comment