This narrative poem records a chance meeting between a rustic beauty and the wealthy judge.
This narrative poem records a chance meeting between a rustic beauty and the wealthy judge. She laid aside her rake and gave him a drink from the spring. Each married someone of more suitable station in life but was tormented by regretful illusions. Containing the line, ‘For of all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: "it might have been,"' for 10 points, name this poem by the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier.
This narrative poem records a chance meeting between a rustic beauty and the wealthy judge.
Maud Muller