Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant / Household Edition
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NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 1, 3, AND 5 BOND STREET. LONDON: 16 LITTLE BRITAIN. 1880.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by W. C. BRYANT, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
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The ancestry of William Cullen Bryant might have been inferred from the character of his writings, which reflect whatever is best and noblest in the life and thought of New England. It was a tradition that the first Bryant of whom there is any account in the annals of the New World came over in the Mayflower, but the tradition is not authenticated. What is known of this gentleman, Mr. Stephen Bryant, is that he came over from England, and that he was at Plymouth, Massachusetts, as early as 1632. He married Abigail Shaw, who had emigrated with her father, and who bore him several children between 1650 and 1665, it is to be presumed at Plymouth, of which town he was chosen constable in 1663. Stephen Bryant had a son named Ichabod, who was the father of Philip Bryant, who was born in 1732. Philip Bryant married Silence Howard, the daughter of Dr. Abiel Howard, of West Bridgewater, whose profession he adopted, being a practitioner in medicine in North Bridgewater. He was the father of nine children, one of whom, Peter Bryant, born in 1767, succeeded him in his profession. Young Dr. Bryant became enamored of Miss Sarah Snell, the daughter of Mr. Ebenezer Snell, of Bridgewater, who removed his family to Cummington, whither he was followed by his future son-in-law, who married the lady of his love in 1792. Two years later, on the 3d of November, there was born to him a man-child, who was to win, and to leave,
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POETICAL WORKS
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
TO THE READER.
CONTENTS.
POEMS.
THE AGES
THANATOPSIS.
THE YELLOW VIOLET.
INSCRIPTION FOR THE ENTRANCE TO A WOOD.
SONG.
TO A WATERFOWL.
GREEN RIVER.
A WINTER PIECE.
THE WEST WIND.
THE BURIAL-PLACE.
"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.
THE RIVULET.
MARCH.
CONSUMPTION.
AN INDIAN STORY.
SUMMER WIND.
AN INDIAN AT THE BURIAL-PLACE OF HIS FATHERS.
SONG.
HYMN OF THE WALDENSES.
MONUMENT MOUNTAIN.
AFTER A TEMPEST.
AUTUMN WOODS.
MUTATION.
NOVEMBER.
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 NEW MOON.
OCTOBER.
THE DAMSEL OF PERU.
THE AFRICAN CHIEF.
SPRING IN TOWN.
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 ARCTIC LOVER.
THE JOURNEY OF LIFE.
TRANSLATIONS.
VERSION OF A FRAGMENT OF SIMONIDES.
FROM THE SPANISH OF VILLEGAS.
MARY MAGDALEN.
THE LIFE OF THE BLESSED.
FATIMA AND RADUAN.
LOVE AND FOLLY.
THE SIESTA.
THE ALCAYDE OF MOLINA.
THE DEATH OF ALIATAR.
LOVE IN THE AGE OF CHIVALRY.
THE LOVE OF GOD.
FROM THE SPANISH OF PEDRO DE CASTRO Y AÑAYA.
SONNET.
SONG.
THE COUNT OF GREIERS.
THE SERENADE.
A NORTHERN LEGEND.
THE PARADISE OF TEARS.
THE LADY OF CASTLE WINDECK.
LATER POEMS.
TO THE APENNINES.
EARTH.
THE KNIGHT'S EPITAPH.
THE HUNTER OF THE PRAIRIES.
SEVENTY-SIX.
THE LIVING LOST.
CATTERSKILL FALLS.
THE STRANGE LADY.
LIFE.
"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 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 MAIDEN'S SORROW.
THE RETURN OF YOUTH.
A HYMN OF THE SEA.
NOON.
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.
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.
WAITING BY THE GATE.
NOT YET.
OUR COUNTRY'S CALL.
THE CONSTELLATIONS.
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.
"RECEIVE THY SIGHT."
A BRIGHTER DAY.
AMONG THE TREES.
MAY EVENING.
OCTOBER, 1866.
THE ORDER OF NATURE.
TREE-BURIAL.
A LEGEND OF THE DELAWARES.
A LIFETIME.
THE TWO TRAVELLERS.
CHRISTMAS IN 1875.
THE FLOOD OF YEARS.
OUR FELLOW-WORSHIPPERS.
NOTES.