From a fairer hand was never quaffed" after another character "filled for him her small tin cup" with spring water.
The speaker of one work by this author says, "we had read / Of rare Aladdin's wondrous cave, / And to our own his name we gave," and then "test[s] his lamp's supernatural powers" by "rous[ing] the prisoned brutes within" a barn. One of this author's character says "a sweeter draught / From a fairer hand was never quaffed" after another character "filled for him her small tin cup" with spring water. One of this author's works invites the reader to (*) "Sit with me by the homestead hearth / And stretch the hands of memory forth," and a work about a judge who later wishes to have married the title character says, "of all sad words of tongue or pen, / The saddest are these: "It might have been!" This author wrote of a family that gathers around a fire during a storm in a work subtitled "A Winter Idyl." For 10 points, name the poet who wrote "Maud Muller" and "Snow-Bound."
The speaker of one work by this author says, "we had read / Of rare Aladdin's wondrous cave, / And to our own his name we gave," and then "test[s] his lamp's supernatural powers" by "rous[ing] the prisoned brutes within" a barn.
John Greenleaf Whittier