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The Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant

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Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878)

INSCRIPTION FOR THE ENTRANCE TO A WOOD

“BLESSED ARE THEY THAT MOURN.”

“NO MAN KNOWETH HIS SEPULCHRE.”

A WALK AT SUNSET.

HYMN TO DEATH.

THE MASSACRE AT SCIO.

THE INDIAN GIRL'S LAMENT.

ODE FOR AN AGRICULTURAL CELEBRATION.

RIZPAH.

THE OLD MAN'S FUNERAL.

AN INDIAN AT THE BURIAL-PLACE OF HIS FATHERS.

SONG.

HYMN OF THE WALDENSES.

SONG OF THE GREEK AMAZON.

TO A CLOUD.

THE MURDERED TRAVELLER.

HYMN TO THE NORTH STAR.

THE LAPSE OF TIME.

THE SONG OF THE STARS.

A FOREST HYMN.

“OH FAIREST OF THE RURAL MAIDS.”

“I BROKE THE SPELL THAT HELD ME LONG.”

JUNE.

A SONG OF PITCAIRN'S ISLAND.

THE FIRMAMENT.

“I CANNOT FORGET WITH WHAT FERVID DEVOTION.”

TO A MOSQUITO.

LINES ON REVISITING THE COUNTRY.

THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS.

ROMERO.

A MEDITATION ON RHODE ISLAND COAL.

THE GLADNESS OF NATURE.

THE DISINTERRED WARRIOR.

MIDSUMMER.

THE GREEK PARTISAN.

THE TWO GRAVES.

THE CONJUNCTION OF JUPITER AND VENUS.

A SUMMER RAMBLE.

A SCENE ON THE BANKS OF THE HUDSON.

THE HURRICANE.

WILLIAM TELL.

THE HUNTER'S SERENADE.

THE GREEK BOY.

THE PAST.

“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.

THE PRAIRIES.

SONG OF MARION'S MEN.

THE KNIGHT'S EPITAPH.

THE HUNTER OF THE PRAIRIES.

“EARTH'S CHILDREN CLEAVE TO EARTH.”

THE HUNTER'S VISION.

THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS.

THE DEATH OF SCHILLER.

THE FOUNTAIN.

THE WINDS.

THE OLD MAN'S COUNSEL.

IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM LEGGETT.

AN EVENING REVERY.

THE PAINTED CUP.

A DREAM.

THE ANTIQUITY OF FREEDOM.

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.

A RAIN-DREAM.

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 LOST BIRD.

THE NIGHT JOURNEY OF A RIVER.

THE LIFE THAT IS.

SONG.

A SICK-BED.

THE SONG OF THE SOWER.

THE NEW AND THE OLD.

THE CLOUD ON THE WAY.

THE TIDES.

ITALY.

A DAY-DREAM.

THE RUINS OF ITALICA.

THE THIRD OF NOVEMBER, 1861.

THE MOTHER'S HYMN.

SELLA.

THE FIFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEY.

THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF THE SNOW.

THE POET.

THE PATH.

THE RETURN OF THE BIRDS.

‘HE HATH PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIS FEET.”

MY AUTUMN WALK.

DANTE.

THE DEATH OF LINCOLN.

THE DEATH OF SLAVERY.

A LEGEND OF THE DELAWARES.

OUR FELLOW-WORSHIPPERS.

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.

IN MEMORIAM.

THE PASTOR'S RETURN.

THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.

THE CENTENNIAL HYMN.

THE CAPTIVE LOOSED.

UNPUBLISHED OR UNCOLLECTED POEMS OF VARIOUS DATA.

LOVE'S POWER.

SPAIN.

THE SHARPENING OF THE SABRE.

I THINK OF THEE.

THE SAW-MILL.

THE SWALLOW.

THE OLD-WORLD SPARROW.

A LEGEND OF ST. MARTIN.

THE WORDS OF THE KORAN.

THE POET'S FIRST SONG.

THE ASCENSION.

THE MYSTERY OF FLOWERS.

THE DEAD PATRIARCH.

A SONNET.

THE BATTLE OF BENNINGTON.

IN MEMORY OF JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY.

THE TWENTY-SECOND OF FEBRUARY.

CERVANTES.

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THE DEATH OF CHANNING.

While yet the harvest-fields are white,
And few the toiling reapers stand,
Called from his task before the night,
We miss the mightiest of the band.

Oh, thou of strong and gentle mind,
Thy thrilling voice shall plead no more
For Truth, for Freedom, and Mankind—
The lesson of thy life is o'er.

But thou in brightness, far above
The fairest dream of human thought,
Before the seat of Power and Love,
Art with the Truth that thou hast sought.

New York, 1842.