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The Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant

Roslyn Edition

Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878)

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THE YELLOW VIOLET.

INSCRIPTION FOR THE ENTRANCE TO A WOOD

TO A WATERFOWL.

A WINTER PIECE.

THE BURIAL-PLACE.

“BLESSED ARE THEY THAT MOURN.”

“NO MAN KNOWETH HIS SEPULCHRE.”

A WALK AT SUNSET.

THE MASSACRE AT SCIO.

THE INDIAN GIRL'S LAMENT.

ODE FOR AN AGRICULTURAL CELEBRATION.

THE OLD MAN'S FUNERAL.

AN INDIAN STORY.

AN INDIAN AT THE BURIAL-PLACE OF HIS FATHERS.

HYMN OF THE WALDENSES.

MONUMENT MOUNTAIN.

AFTER A TEMPEST.

SONG OF THE GREEK AMAZON.

THE MURDERED TRAVELLER.

HYMN TO THE NORTH STAR.

THE LAPSE OF TIME.

THE SONG OF THE STARS.

“OH FAIREST OF THE RURAL MAIDS.”

“I BROKE THE SPELL THAT HELD ME LONG.”

A SONG OF PITCAIRN'S ISLAND.

“I CANNOT FORGET WITH WHAT FERVID DEVOTION.”

LINES ON REVISITING THE COUNTRY.

THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS.

A MEDITATION ON RHODE ISLAND COAL.

THE DAMSEL OF PERU.

THE AFRICAN CHIEF.

SPRING IN TOWN.

THE GLADNESS OF NATURE.

THE DISINTERRED WARRIOR.

THE GREEK PARTISAN.

THE TWO GRAVES.

THE CONJUNCTION OF JUPITER AND VENUS.

A SUMMER RAMBLE.

A SCENE ON THE BANKS OF THE HUDSON.

THE HUNTER'S SERENADE.

“UPON THE MOUNTAIN'S DISTANT HEAD.”

THE EVENING WIND.

“WHEN THE FIRMAMENT QUIVERS WITH DAYLIGHT'S YOUNG BEAM.”

“INNOCENT CHILD AND SNOW-WHITE FLOWER.”

TO THE RIVER ARVE.

TO COLE, THE PAINTER, DEPARTING FOR EUROPE.

TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN.

THE TWENTY-SECOND OF DECEMBER.

HYMN OF THE CITY.

SONG OF MARION'S MEN.

THE ARCTIC LOVER.

THE JOURNEY OF LIFE.

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LOVE AND FOLLY.

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TO THE APENNINES.

THE KNIGHT'S EPITAPH.

THE HUNTER OF THE PRAIRIES.

THE LIVING LOST.

CATTERSKILL FALLS.

THE STRANGE LADY.

“EARTH'S CHILDREN CLEAVE TO EARTH.”

THE HUNTER'S VISION.

THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS.

A PRESENTIMENT.

THE CHILD'S FUNERAL.

THE BATTLE-FIELD.

THE FUTURE LIFE.

THE DEATH OF SCHILLER.

THE OLD MAN'S COUNSEL.

IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM LEGGETT.

AN EVENING REVERY.

THE PAINTED CUP.

THE ANTIQUITY OF FREEDOM.

THE MAIDEN'S SORROW.

THE RETURN OF YOUTH.

A HYMN OF THE SEA.

THE CROWDED STREET.

THE WHITE-FOOTED DEER.

THE WANING MOON.

THE STREAM OF LIFE.

THE UNKNOWN WAY.

“OH MOTHER OF A MIGHTY RACE.”

THE LAND OF DREAMS.

THE BURIAL OF LOVE.

“THE MAY SUN SHEDS AN AMBER LIGHT.”

THE VOICE OF AUTUMN.

THE CONQUEROR'S GRAVE.

THE PLANTING OF THE APPLE-TREE.

THE SNOW-SHOWER.

ROBERT OF LINCOLN.

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH OF MARCH.

AN INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY.

A SONG FOR NEW-YEAR'S EVE.

THE WIND AND STREAM.

THE NIGHT JOURNEY OF A RIVER.

THE LIFE THAT IS.

THE SONG OF THE SOWER.

THE NEW AND THE OLD.

THE CLOUD ON THE WAY.

THE RUINS OF ITALICA.

WAITING BY THE GATE.

OUR COUNTRY'S CALL.

THE CONSTELLATIONS.

THE THIRD OF NOVEMBER, 1861.

THE MOTHER'S HYMN.

THE FIFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEY.

THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF THE SNOW.

THE RETURN OF THE BIRDS.

‘HE HATH PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIS FEET.”

MY AUTUMN WALK.

THE DEATH OF LINCOLN.

THE DEATH OF SLAVERY.

“RECEIVE THY SIGHT.”

A BRIGHTER DAY.

AMONG THE TREES.

THE ORDER OF NATURE.

A LEGEND OF THE DELAWARES.

THE TWO TRAVELLERS.

CHRISTMAS IN 1875.

THE FLOOD OF YEARS.

OUR FELLOW-WORSHIPPERS.

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HYMNS WRITTEN AT VARIOUS TIMES.

“THE EARTH IS FULL OF THY RICHES.”

“HIS TENDER MERCIES ARE OVER ALL HIS WORKS.”

“A BROKEN AND A CONTRITE HEART, OH GOD, THOU WILT NOT DESPISE.”

“HOW AMIABLE ARE THY TABERNACLES!”

“THE LORD GIVETH WISDOM.”

“THY WORD IS TRUTH.”

“I WILL SEND THEM PROPHETS AND APOSTLES.”

“EXCEPT THE LORD BUILD THE HOUSE.”

“THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE.”

“OTHER SHEEP I HAVE, WHICH ARE NOT OF THIS FOLD.”

“THOU, GOD, SEEST ME.”

“HIS MOTHER KEPT ALL THESE SAYINGS IN HER HEART.”

“WHATSOEVER HE SAITH UNTO YOU, DO IT.”

“PROCLAIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT THE LAND.”

“THIS DO IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME.”

“THOU HAST PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIS FEET.”

THE FREEMAN'S HYMN.

THE DEATH OF CHANNING.

THE AGED PASTOR.

THE PASTOR'S RETURN.

THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.

THE CENTENNIAL HYMN.

THE CAPTIVE LOOSED.

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UNPUBLISHED OR UNCOLLECTED POEMS OF VARIOUS DATA.

THE SHARPENING OF THE SABRE.

I THINK OF THEE.

THE OLD-WORLD SPARROW.

THE SONG SPARROW.

THE BETTER AGE.

A TALE OF CLOUDLAND.

CASTLES IN THE AIR.

TO THE NIGHTINGALE.

A LEGEND OF ST. MARTIN.

THE WORDS OF THE KORAN.

THE POET'S FIRST SONG.

THE MYSTERY OF FLOWERS.

THE DEAD PATRIARCH.

THE BATTLE OF BENNINGTON.

IN MEMORY OF JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY.

THE TWENTY-SECOND OF FEBRUARY.

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“THY WORD IS TRUTH.”

Oh thou, whose Love can ne'er forget
Its offspring, Great Eternal Mind!
We thank thee that thy truth is yet
A sojourner among mankind;

A light before whose brightness fall
The feet arrayed to tread it down,
A voice whose strong and solemn call
The cry of nations cannot drown.

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Thy servants, at this sacred hour,
With humble prayer thy throne surround,
That here, in glory and in power,
That light may shine, that voice may sound;

Till Error's shades shall flee away,
And Faith, descending from above,
Amid the pure and perfect day,
Shall bring her fairer sister Love.