One of this man's poems recounts the title figure's encounter with a judge who wants to marry her and contains the lines "for of all sad words of tongue or pen / the saddest of these: "It might have been!" Another of his poems describes a sun that "rose cheerless over hills of gray" but did not prevent some boys from making "a tunnel walled and ove
One of this man's poems recounts the title figure's encounter with a judge who wants to marry her and contains the lines "for of all sad words of tongue or pen / the saddest of these: "It might have been!" Another of his poems describes a sun that "rose cheerless over hills of gray" but did not prevent some boys from making "a tunnel walled and overlaid / with dazzling crystal". This author of "Maud Muller" also wrote of a woman who told Stonewall Jackson to "shoot if you must this old gray head / but spare your country's flag". For 10 points, name this author of "Snow-Bound" and "Barbara Freitchie", known as the "Quaker poet".
One of this man's poems recounts the title figure's encounter with a judge who wants to marry her and contains the lines "for of all sad words of tongue or pen / the saddest of these: "It might have been!"
John Greenleaf {Whittier}