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United States poet best known for his nostalgic poems about New England (1807-1892)

For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these, "It might have been!" John Greenleaf Whittier »
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these 'It might have been' John Greenleaf Whittier »
In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them. John Greenleaf Whittier »
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here. John Greenleaf Whittier »
Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been. John Greenleaf Whittier »
The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been. John Greenleaf Whittier »

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