I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

Postal Service with a 14¢ Great Americans series postage stamp issued in 1987. The Julia Ward Howe School of Excellence in Chicago's Austin community is named in her honor. She has been honored by the U.

Julia Ward Howe (May 27 1819 – October 17 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist social activist poet and the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".