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".
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}