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 groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above…

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Anthem

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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…

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Autumn

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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.

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Blessedness

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Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.

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Attitude

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Oh, Constellations of the early night That sparkled brighter as the twilight died, And made the darkness glorious! I have seen Your…

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Behinds

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The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower.

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Flower

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The stormy March has come at last, With winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That…

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Blast

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Father, thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns, thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth,…

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Breeze

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A melancholy sound is in the air, A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind…

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Air

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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…

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Adore

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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…

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Earth

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There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes…

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April

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Maidens hearts are always soft:Would that men's were truer!

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Funny

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Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

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Eloquence

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Christ taught an astonishing thing about physical death: not merely that it is an experience robbed of its terror but that as…

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Astonishing

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Gently - so have good men taught - Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide Into the new; the eternal flow…

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Death

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Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?

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Air

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Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for…

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Action

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I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.

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Grieving

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Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

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Autumn

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To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.

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Communion

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The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold The pur0ple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough…

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Arrows

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[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a…

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Died

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Stand here by my side and turn, I pray, On the lake below thy gentle eyes; The clouds hang over it, heavy…

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Clouds

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On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh; The rocks moan wildly as it passes by; Hyssop and wormwood border all the…

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Borders

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