An American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States.. American poet
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The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been. Go to Quote / Comment
All else is gone; from those great eyes The soul has fled:... Go to Quote / Comment
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been!" Go to Quote / Comment
In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them. Go to Quote / Comment
Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been. Go to Quote / Comment