This man described the sun cheerlessly rising on a brief December day only to give out at noon in a work subtitled a "A Winter Idyl."
In one poem, this man tells readers not to "revile" a figure "who might/have lighted up and led his age," but was "fiend-goaded, down the endless dark." That poem was written in reaction to Daniel Webster's support of the Fugitive Slave Act. Another work by this poet of (*) "Ichabod" tells of how "Lee marched over the mountain-wall" into Frederick but was defied by a 90-year-old woman, who kept the American flag flying. This man described the sun cheerlessly rising on a brief December day only to give out at noon in a work subtitled a "A Winter Idyl." For 10 points, name this American poet of "Barbara Frietchie" and "Snow-Bound."
In one poem, this man tells readers not to "revile" a figure "who might/have lighted up and led his age," but was "fiend-goaded, down the endless dark."
John Greenleaf {Whittier}