William Cullen Bryant Quotes
28 William Cullen Bryant quotes:
"The praise of those who sleep in earth, The pleasant memory of their worth, The hope to meet when life is past, Shall heal the tortured mind at last."
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"Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -- Gushed, warm with hope and courage yet, Upon the soil they fought to save."
Courage Quotes
Soil Quotes
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"And wrath has left its scar -- that fire of hellHas left its frightful scar upon my soul."
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"Deep in the brightness of the skiesThe thronging years in glory rise.And, as they fleet,Drop strength and riches at thy feet."
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"Is this a time to be cloudy and sad,When our mother Nature laughs around;When even the deep blue heavens look glad,And gladness breathes from the blossoming ground?"
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"All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom."
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"Yet will that beauteous image makeThe dreary sea less drearAnd thy remembered smile will wakeThe hope that tramples fear"
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"And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty died,The fair meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side. . . ."
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"The words of fire that from his penWere flung upon the fervid page,Still move, still shake the hearts of men,Amid a cold and coward age."
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"Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue. . . ."
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"Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile."
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"Tender pauses speakThe overflow of gladness,When words are all too weak."
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"Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully."
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"The groves were God's first temples."
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"Eloquence is the poetry of prose."
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"To him who in the love of Nature holdsCommunion with her visible forms, she speaksA various language."
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"There is a power whose careTeaches thy way along that pathless coast, --"
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"Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign"
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"How shall I know thee in the sphere which keepsThe disembodied spirits of the dead,When all of thee that time could wither sleepsAnd perishes among the dust we tread?"
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"Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep."
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