William C. Bryant

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William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New-York Evening Post. Born in Massachusetts, he started his career as a lawyer but showed an interest in poetry early in his life.

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The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

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Character

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Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.

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Decoration

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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…

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Approach

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The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses-showers and sunshine bring,…

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Air

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All things that are on earth shall wholly pass away, Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye.

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All things

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Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.

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Reign

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It is a sultry day; the sun has drunk The dew that lay upon the morning grass; There is no rustling in…

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Bees

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And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.

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Inspirational

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Difficulty is the nurse of greatness.

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Adversity

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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…

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Asters

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A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.

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Stable

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Tender pauses speak The overflow of gladness, When words are all too weak.

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Gladness

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Do not the bright June roses blow To meet thy kiss at morning hours?

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Blow

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Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -

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Blood

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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…

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Cheerful

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Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson.

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Autumn

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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.…

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Alas

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Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor…

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Aids

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The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is…

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Careless

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The breath of springtime at this twilight hour Comes through the gathering glooms, And bears the stolen sweets of many a flower…

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Bears

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The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by. As if they loved to breast the breeze that sweeps…

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Bird

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The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or…

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Bread

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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…

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Air

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And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

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Death

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Truth crushed to the earth will rise again!

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Crushed

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