WIST

For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: “It might have been!”

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) American poet and abolitionist
“Maud Muller” (1856)

Search thine own heart. What paineth thee
In others in thyself may be.

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) American poet and abolitionist
“The Chapel of Hermits,” l. 85 (1851)

Be thou, in rebuking evil,
Conscious of thine own.

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) American poet and abolitionist
“What the Voice Said” (1847)