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
And the song she was singing ever since In my ear sounds on:—... Go to Quote / Comment
These Flemish pictures of old days; Sit with me by the homestead hearth,... Go to Quote / Comment
In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them. 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