| 54 Famous Quotes by William Cullen Bryant
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“Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest,
Wearing a bright black wedding-coat;
White are his shoulders and white his crest.”
Bobolinks Quotes Source: Robert of Lincoln
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“Vainly the fowler's eye
Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong,
As, darkly painted on the crimson sky,
Thy figure floats along.”
Sea birds Quotes Source: To a Water Fowl
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“The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned
To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,
And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed
The lofty vault, to gather and roll back
The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood,
Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down
And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks
And supplication.”
Trees Quotes Source: A Forest Hymn
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“Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs
No school of long experience, that the world
Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen
Enough of all its sorrows, crimes and cares,
To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood
And view the haunts of Nature. The calm shade
Shall bring a kindred calm, and the sweet breeze
That makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm
To thy sick heart.”
Trees Quotes Source: Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood
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“The shad-bush, white with flowers,
Brightened the glens; the new leaved butternut
And quivering poplar to the roving breeze
Gave a balsamic fragrance.”
Trees Quotes Source: The Old Man's Counsel (l. 28)
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“And at my silent window-sill
The jessamine peeps in.”
Jasmines Quotes Source: The Hunter's Serenade
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“Look! the massy trunks
Are cased in the pure crystal; each light spray,
Nodding and tinkling in the breath of heaven,
Is studded with its trembling water-drops,
That glimmer with an amethystine light.”
Winter Quotes Source: A Winter Piece (l. 66)
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“The moon is at her full, and riding high,
Floods the calm fields with light.
The airs that hover in the summer sky
Are all asleep to-night.”
Moon Quotes Source: The Tides
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“Wild was the day; the wintry sea
Moaned sadly on New England's strand,
When first the thoughtful and the free,
Our fathers, trod the desert land.”
December Quotes Source: The Twenty-second of December
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“And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief,
And the year smiles as it draws near its death.”
October Quotes Source: October
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“Where hast thou wandered. gentle gale, to find
The perfumes thou dost bring?”
Wind Quotes Source: May Evening (st. 2)
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“Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay
In the gay woods and in the golden air,
Like to a good old age released from care,
Journeying, in long serenity, away.
In such a bright, late quiet, would that I
Might wear out life like thee, mid bowers and brooks,
And, dearer yet, the sunshine of kind looks,
And music of kind voices ever nigh;
And when my last sand twinkled in the glass,
Pass silently from men as thou dost pass.”
Wind Quotes Source: October (l. 5)
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“A breeze came wandering from the sky,
Light as the whispers of a dream;
He put the o'erhanging grasses by,
And softly stooped to kiss the stream,
The pretty stream, the flattered stream,
The shy, yet unreluctant stream.”
Wind Quotes Source: The Wind and Stream
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“No trumpet-blast profound
The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born;
No bloody streamlet stained
Earth's silver rivers on the sacred morn.”
Christmas Quotes Source: Christmas in 1875
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“The February sunshine steeps your boughs
And tints the buds and swells the leaves within.”
February Quotes Source: Among the Trees (l. 53)
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“Come when the rains
Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice,
While the slant sun of February pours
Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach!
The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps
And the broad arching portals of the grove
Welcome thy entering.”
February Quotes Source: A Winter Piece (l. 60)
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“The linden, in the fervors of July,
Hums with a louder concert. When the wind
Sweeps the broad forest in its summer prime,
As when some master-hand exulting sweeps
The keys of some great organ, ye give forth
The music of the woodland depths, a hymn
Of gladness and of thanks.”
July Quotes Source: Among the Trees (l. 62)
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“The linden, in the fervors of July,
Hums with a louder concert. When the wind
Sweeps the broad forest in its summer prime,
As when some master-hand exulting sweeps
The keys of some great organ, ye give forth
The music of the woodland depths, a hymn
Of gladness and of thanks.”
Linden Quotes Source: Among the Trees (l. 62)
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“Pleasantly, between the pelting showers, the sunshine gushes
down.”
Sun Quotes Source: The Cloud on the Way (l. 18)
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“A sculptor wields
The chisel, and the stricken marble grows
To beauty.”
Sculpture Quotes Source: The Flood of Years
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“The daffodil is our doorside queen;
She pushes upward the sword already,
To spot with sunshine the early green.”
Daffodils Quotes Source: An Invitation to the Country
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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.”
June Quotes Source: June
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“And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze,
Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.”
Gentians Quotes Source: November
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“Thou blossom! bright with autumn dew,
And colour's with the heaven's own blue,
That openest when the quiet light
Succeeds the keen and frosty night.”
Gentians Quotes Source: To the Fringed Gentian
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“The rugged trees are mingling
Their flowery sprays in love;
The ivy climbs the laurel
To clasp the boughs above.”
Ivy Quotes Source: The Serenade
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