This poem's fourth stanza contains a dubious attempt to rhyme "draught" with "quaffed," and in the foregoing stanzas, the title character dreams of her father wearing "a broadcloth coat," and her brother sailing "a painted boat."
This poem's fourth stanza contains a dubious attempt to rhyme "draught" with "quaffed," and in the foregoing stanzas, the title character dreams of her father wearing "a broadcloth coat," and her brother sailing "a painted boat." After thinking of his sisters, "proud and cold," another character in this poem later causes lawyers to smile by humming "an old love-tune." That character marries "a wife of richest dower/ Who lived for fashion as he for power," while this work's main character ends up married to "a man unlearned and poor/ And many children played round her door." This poem's last stanza exhorts God to pity the "rich repiner and household druge," and hopes that "in the hereafter," angels will "roll the stone" away from the grave of "some sweet hope," and that also stanza contains the famous couplet, "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been.'" For ten points, identify this poem in which the title woman meets a Judge while walking down the road, written by John Greenleaf Whittier.
This poem's fourth stanza contains a dubious attempt to rhyme "draught" with "quaffed," and in the foregoing stanzas, the title character dreams of her father wearing "a broadcloth coat," and her brother sailing "a painted boat."
{Maud Muller}