John Greenleaf Whittier Poet

JULE C-STEPHEN ANDERSON daa5s The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon WHITTIER'S BIRTHPLACE JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER POET BORN IN 1807 NEAR HAVERHILL, MASS HIS EDUCATION WAS MEAGER, ASIDE FROM HIS OWN READING HIS FIRST POEMS WERE PRINTED BY WILLIAM LLOYD GAR RISON THROUGH WHOM HE BECAME AN ARDENT ABOLITI- ONIST MANY OF HIS POEMS ATTACKED SLAVERY SONGS OF LABOR", "MAUD MULLER AND SNOWBOUND ARE AMONG HIS BEST KNOWN WORKS HE DIED W 1892 FEB 16 9-AM 1940 MASS -FIRST DAY OF ISSUE WHITTIER