54 Famous Quotes by William Cullen Bryant
11/3/1794 - 6/12/1878
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William Bryant
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About William Cullen Bryant
William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.
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What plant we in this apple tree?
Sweets for a hundred flowery springs
To load the May-wind's restless wings,
When, from the orchard-row, he pours
Its fragrance through our open doors;
A world of blossoms for the bee,
Flowers for the sick girl's silent room,
For the glad infant sprigs of bloom,
We plant with the apple tree.
Apples
Quotes, by William Cullen Bryant , Source: The Planting of the Apple Tree
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Thine eyes are springs in whose serene
And silent waters heaven is seen.
Their lashes are the herbs that look
On their young figures in the brook.
Eyes
Quotes, by William Cullen Bryant , Source: Oh, Fairest of the Rural Maids
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Woo the fair one when around
Early birds are singing;
When o'er all the fragrant ground
Early herbs are springing:
When the brookside, bank, and grove
All with blossom laden,
Shine with beauty, breathe of love,
Woo the timid maiden.
Wooing
Quotes, by William Cullen Bryant , Source: Love's Lessons
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Alas! to seize the moment
When the heart inclines to heart,
And press a suit with passion,
Is not a woman's part.
If man come not to gather
The roses where they stand,
They fade among their foliage,
They cannot seek his hand.
Wooing
Quotes, by William Cullen Bryant , Source: Song, translated from the Spanish of Iglesias
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Loveliest of lovely things are they
On earth that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.
Roses
Quotes, by William Cullen Bryant , Source: A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson
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I gazed upon the glorious sky
And the green mountains round,
And thought that when I came to lie
At rest within the ground,
'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June
When brooks send up a cheerful tune,
And groves a joyous sound,
The sexton's hand, my grave to make,
The rich, green mountain-turf should break.
Grave
Quotes, by William Cullen Bryant , Source: June
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Where fall the tears of love the rose appears,
And where the ground is bright with friendship's tears,
Forget-me-not, and violets, heavenly blue,
Spring glittering with the cheerful drops like dew.
Flowers
Quotes, by William Cullen Bryant , Source: trans. of N. Muller's "Paradise of Tears"
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The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago,
And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;
But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,
And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood,
Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the
plague on men,
And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and
glen.
Flowers
Quotes, by William Cullen Bryant , Source: Death of the Flowers
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The sad and solemn night
Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;
The glorious host of light
Walk the dark hemisphere till she retires;
All through her silent watches, gliding slow,
Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go.
Stars
Quotes, by William Cullen Bryant , Source: Hymn to the North Star
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Here the free spirit of mankind, at length,
Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place
A limit to the giant's unchained strength,
Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?
Freedom
Quotes, by William Cullen Bryant , Source: The Ages (XXXIII)
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The fiercest agonies have shortest reign;
And after dreams of horror, comes again
The welcome morning with its rays of peace.
Peace
Quotes, by William Cullen Bryant , Source: Mutation (l. 4)
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Fair insect! that, with threadlike legs spread out,
And blood-extracting bill and filmy wing,
Dost murmur, as thou slowly sail'st about,
In pitiless ears full many a plaintive thing,
And tell how little our large veins would bleed,
Would we but yield them to thy bitter need.
Mosquitoes
Quotes, by William Cullen Bryant , Source: To a Mosquito
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The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear.
Autumn
Quotes, by William Cullen Bryant , Source: The Death of the Flowers (l. 221)
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Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson,
Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green.
Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing
With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen.
Autumn
Quotes, by William Cullen Bryant , Source: Third of November
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Ah, why
Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect
God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore
Only among the crowd and under roofs
That our frail hands have raised?
Worship
Quotes, by William Cullen Bryant , Source: A Forest Hymn (l. 16)
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When April winds
Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush
Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up,
Opened in airs of June her multiple
OF golden chalices to humming birds
And silken-wing'd insects of the sky.
April
Quotes, by William Cullen Bryant , Source: The Fountain
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That make the meadows green; and, poured round all,
Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,--
Are but the solemn decorations all
Of the great tomb of man.
Ocean
Quotes, by William Cullen Bryant , Source: Thanatopsis (l. 43)
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Modest and shy as a nun is she;
One weak chirp is her only note;
Braggarts and prince of braggarts is he,
Pouring boasts from his little throat.
Bobolinks
Quotes, by William Cullen Bryant , Source: Robert of Lincoln
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