William Cullen Bryant: A Biographical Sketch : with Selections from His Poems and Other WritingsHarper & Brothers, 1880 - 253 pages |
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... called Peter , born in the year 1767 , studied his father's profession , and succeeded to his practice . At that time there lived in the same town a revolutionary veteran , ' stern and severe , ' named Ebenezer Snell , of whom a small ...
... called Peter , born in the year 1767 , studied his father's profession , and succeeded to his practice . At that time there lived in the same town a revolutionary veteran , ' stern and severe , ' named Ebenezer Snell , of whom a small ...
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... called hymns . He seems to have first filled his mind with the imagery of the ancient bard , and , catching inspiration from him , flung his thought upon the page , in a form suited to the more mild and perfect dispensation of ...
... called hymns . He seems to have first filled his mind with the imagery of the ancient bard , and , catching inspiration from him , flung his thought upon the page , in a form suited to the more mild and perfect dispensation of ...
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... called " The Boys of my Boyhood , " which was written for the St. Nicholas magazine , and published in December , 1876 , Bryant has happily told us the story of his boyish days , better than any one else could possibly have done . Of ...
... called " The Boys of my Boyhood , " which was written for the St. Nicholas magazine , and published in December , 1876 , Bryant has happily told us the story of his boyish days , better than any one else could possibly have done . Of ...
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... called " raisings , " on the erection of the timber frames of houses or barns ; the making of " maple sugar ; " the social meetings called " huskings , " when the neighbours met to strip the ears of maize.from their husk ; the cheerful ...
... called " raisings , " on the erection of the timber frames of houses or barns ; the making of " maple sugar ; " the social meetings called " huskings , " when the neighbours met to strip the ears of maize.from their husk ; the cheerful ...
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... called for , which was published in Boston and con- tained some additional juvenile poems , such as " The Reward of Literary Merit , " " Drought , " and several poetical " Enigmas , " written in 1807 ; " The Spanish Revolution , " " The ...
... called for , which was published in Boston and con- tained some additional juvenile poems , such as " The Reward of Literary Merit , " " Drought , " and several poetical " Enigmas , " written in 1807 ; " The Spanish Revolution , " " The ...
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Page 52 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 54 - So live, that, when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 62 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? 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.
Page 54 - So shalt thou rest, and what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no friend Take note of thy departure? All that breathe Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Page 53 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Page 53 - Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again; And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad and pierce thy mould.
Page 142 - 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. 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. But round the parent stem the...
Page 150 - SPIRIT that breathest through my lattice, thou That cool'st the twilight of the sultry day! Gratefully flows thy freshness round my brow ; Thou hast been out upon the deep at play, Riding all day the wild blue waves till now, Roughening their crests, and scattering high their spray, And swelling the white sail. I welcome thee To the scorched land, thou wanderer of the sea...
Page 84 - Whose birth was in their tops, grew old and died Among their branches, till, at last, they stood, As now they stand, massy, and tall, and dark, Fit shrine for humble worshipper to hold Communion with his Maker.
Page 151 - And they who stand about the sick man's bed, Shall joy to listen to thy distant sweep, And softly part his curtains to allow Thy visit, grateful to his burning brow. Go — but the circle of eternal change, Which is the life of nature, shall restore, With sounds and scents from all thy mighty range Thee to thy birthplace of the deep once more ; Sweet odours in the sea-air, sweet and strange, Shall tell the home-sick mariner of the shore ; And, listening to thy murmur, he shall deem He hears the rustling...