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William Cullen Bryant

November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878


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Poem TitleFirst LinesPeriod# Lines# Reads
1: A Dream. I had a dream, a strange, wild dream, 52434
2: A Forest Hymn. The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned 119347
3: A Hymn Of The Sea. The sea is mighty, but a mightier sways 65422
4: A Meditation On Rhode-Island Coal. Decolor, obscuris, vilis, non ille repexam 6374
5: A Northern Legend. - From The German Of Uhland. (Translations.) There sits a lovely maiden, 24345
6: A Presentiment. Oh father, let us hence, for hark, 24340
7: A Scene On The Banks Of The Hudson. Cool shades and dews are round my way, 32365
8: A Song Of Pitcairn's Island. Come take our boy, and we will go 45467
9: A Summer Ramble. The quiet August noon has come, 60363
10: A Walk At Sunset. When insect wings are glistening in the beam 60364
11: A Winter Piece. The time has been that these wild solitudes, 124387
12: After A Tempest. The day had been a day of wind and storm; 54338
13: An Evening Revery. - From An Unfinished Poem. The summer day is closed, the sun is set: 67408
14: An Indian At The Burial-Place Of His Fathers. It is the spot I came to seek, 78348
15: An Indian Story. I know where the timid fawn abides 80325
16: Autumn Woods. Ere, in the northern gale, 48377
17: Blessed Are They That Mourn. Oh, deem not they are blest alone 24382
18: Catterskill Falls. Midst greens and shades the Catterskill leaps, 114330
19: Claudian. I sat beside the glowing grate, fresh heaped 90368
20: Earth's Children Cleave To Earth. Earth's children cleave to Earth, her frail 20344
21: Earth. A midnight black with clouds is in the sky; 101351
22: Fatima And Raduan. - From The Spanish. (Translations.) False diamond set in flint! the caverns of the mine 32311
23: From The Portuguese Of Semedo. - Sonnet. (Translations.) It is a fearful night; a feeble glare 14315
24: From The Spanish Of Pedro De Castro Y AÑaya. (Translations.) Stay, rivulet, nor haste to leave 20314
25: From The Spanish Of Villegas.(Translations.) Tis sweet, in the green Spring, 18315
26: Green River. When breezes are soft and skies are fair, 64347
27: Hymn Of The City. Not in the solitude 30318
28: Hymn Of The Waldenses. Hear, Father, hear thy faint afflicted flock 24407
29: Hymn To Death. Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart 168335
30: Hymn To The North Star. The sad and solemn night 42318
31: I Broke The Spell That Held Me Long. I broke the spell that held me long, 18358
32: I Cannot Forget With What Fervid Devotion. I cannot forget with what fervid devotion 28410
33: Innocent Child And Snow-White Flower. Innocent child and snow-white flower! 16323
34: Inscription For The Entrance To A Wood. Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs 42354
35: June. I gazed upon the glorious sky 54338
36: Life. Oh Life! I breathe thee in the breeze, 52340
37: Lines In Memory Of William Leggett. The earth may ring, from shore to shore, 16375
38: Lines On Revisiting The Country. I stand upon my native hills again, 36321
39: Love And Folly. - From La Fontaine. (Translations.) Love's worshippers alone can know 40323
40: Love In The Age Of Chivalry. - From Peyre Vidal, The Troubadour. (Translations.) The earth was sown with early flowers, 28321
41: March. The stormy March is come at last, 28314
42: Mary Magdalen. - From The Spanish Of Bartolome Leonardo De Argensola. (Translations.) Blessed, yet sinful one, and broken-hearted! 24323
43: Midsummer. - A Sonnet. A power is on the earth and in the air, 14370
44: Monument Mountain. Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild 137328
45: Mutation. - A Sonnet. They talk of short-lived pleasure, be it so, 14330
46: No Man Knoweth His Sepulchre. When he, who, from the scourge of wrong, 16346
47: Noon. - From An Unfinished Poem. Tis noon. At noon the Hebrew bowed the knee 59353
48: November. - A Sonnet. Yet one smile more, departing, distant sun! 14316
49: October. - A Sonnet. Ay, thou art welcome, heaven's delicious breath, 14344
50: Ode For An Agricultural Celebration. Far back in the ages, 24323
51: Oh Fairest Of The Rural Maids. Oh fairest of the rural maids! 20322
52: Rizpah. Hear what the desolate Rizpah said, 74318
53: Romero. When freedom, from the land of Spain, 53341
54: Seventy-Six. What heroes from the woodland sprung, 35307
55: Song Of Marion's Men. Our band is few, but true and tried, 60366
56: Song Of The Greek Amazon. I buckle to my slender side 32336
57: Song Of The Stars. When the radiant morn of creation broke, 46343
58: Song. Soon as the glazed and gleaming snow 16327
59: Song. Dost thou idly ask to hear 40314
60: Song. - From The Spanish Of Iglesias. (Translations.) Alexis calls me cruel; 20319
61: Sonnet To ----. Ay, thou art for the grave; thy glances shine 14323
62: Spring In Town. The country ever has a lagging Spring, 60354
63: Summer Wind. It is a sultry day; the sun has drunk 46321
64: Thanatopsis. To him who in the love of Nature holds 81355
65: The African Chief. Chained in the market-place he stood, 64342
66: The Ages. When to the common rest that crowns our days, 315336
67: The Alcayde Of Molina. - From The Spanish. (Translations.) To the town of Atienza, Molina's brave Alcayde, 34329
68: The Antiquity Of Freedom. Here are old trees, tall oaks and gnarled pines, 70485
69: The Arctic Lover. Gone is the long, long winter night; 42344
70: The Battle-Field. Once this soft turf, this rivulet's sands, 44341
71: The Burial-Place. - A Fragment. Erewhile, on England's pleasant shores, our sires 57311
72: The Child's Funeral. Fair is thy site, Sorrento, green thy shore, 48333
73: The Conjunction Of Jupiter And Venus. I would not always reason. The straight path 92318
74: The Count Of Greiers. - From The German Of Uhland. (Translations.) At morn the Count of Greiers before his castle stands; 40304
75: The Crowded Street. Let me move slowly through the street, 44398
76: The Damsel Of Peru. Where olive leaves were twinkling in every wind that blew, 42366
77: The Death Of Aliatar. - From The Spanish. (Translations.) Tis not with gilded sabres 72321
78: The Death Of Schiller. Tis said, when Schiller's death drew nigh, 24345
79: The Death Of The Flowers. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, 30337
80: The Disinterred Warrior. Gather him to his grave again, 40337
81: The Evening Wind. Spirit that breathest through my lattice, thou 40317
82: The Fountain. Fountain, that springest on this grassy slope, 137342
83: The Future Life. How shall I know thee in the sphere which keeps 36362
84: The Gladness Of Nature. Is this a time to be cloudy and sad, 20354
85: The Greek Boy. Gone are the glorious Greeks of old, 32320
86: The Greek Partisan. Our free flag is dancing 36332
87: The Green Mountain Boys. Here we halt our march, and pitch our tent 24313
88: The Hunter Of The Prairies. Ay, this is freedom! these pure skies 56327
89: The Hunter's Serenade. Thy bower is finished, fairest! 60322
90: The Hunter's Vision. Upon a rock that, high and sheer, 54324
91: The Hurricane. Lord of the winds! I feel thee nigh 50358
92: The Indian Girl's Lament. An Indian girl was sitting where 54326
93: The Journey Of Life. Beneath the waning moon I walk at night, 18355
94: The Knight's Epitaph. This is the church which Pisa, great and free, 54298
95: The Lapse Of Time. Lament who will, in fruitless tears, 52311
96: The Life Of The Blessed. - From The Spanish Of Luis Ponce De Leon. (Translations.) Region of life and light! 40310
97: The Living Lost. Matron! the children of whose love, 32375
98: The Love Of God. - From The ProvenÇal Of Bernari Rascas. (Translations.) All things that are on earth shall wholly pass away, 18321
99: The Maiden's Sorrow. Seven long years has the desert rain 28390
100: The Massacre At Scio. Weep not for Scio's children slain; 16336
101: The Murdered Traveller. When spring, to woods and wastes around, 36320
102: The New Moon. When, as the garish day is done, 36357
103: The Old Man's Counsel. Among our hills and valleys, I have known 89355
104: The Old Man's Funeral. I saw an aged man upon his bier 42321
105: The Painted Cup. The fresh savannas of the Sangamon 31335
106: The Past. Thou unrelenting Past! 56304
107: The Prairies. These are the gardens of the Desert, these 124329
108: The Return Of Youth. My friend, thou sorrowest for thy golden prime, 40351
109: The Rivulet. This little rill, that from the springs 90302
110: The Serenade. - From The Spanish. (Translations.) If slumber, sweet Lisena! 60305
111: The Siesta. - From The Spanish. (Translations.) Airs, that wander and murmur round, 20292
112: The Skies. Ay! gloriously thou standest there, 48333
113: The Strange Lady. The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by, 44301
114: The Stream Of Life. Oh silvery streamlet of the fields, 16353
115: The Twenty-Second Of December. Wild was the day; the wintry sea 16335
116: The Two Graves. Tis a bleak wild hill, but green and bright 74323
117: The Waning Moon. I've watched too late; the morn is near; 40357
118: The West Wind. Beneath the forest's skirts I rest, 28336
119: The White-Footed Deer. It was a hundred years ago, 72339
120: The Winds. Ye winds, ye unseen currents of the air, 64345
121: The Yellow Violet. When beechen buds begin to swell, 32316
122: To A Cloud. Beautiful cloud! with folds so soft and fair, 40304
123: To A Musquito. Fair insect! that, with threadlike legs spread out, 72317
124: To A Waterfowl. Whither, midst falling dew, 32336
125: To Cole, The Painter, Departing For Europe. - A Sonnet. Thine eyes shall see the light of distant skies: 14304
126: To The Apennines. Your peaks are beautiful, ye Apennines! 48322
127: To The Fringed Gentian. Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, 20279
128: To The River Arve. Not from the sands or cloven rocks, 32294
129: Upon The Mountain's Distant Head. Upon the mountain's distant head, 12283
130: Version Of A Fragment Of Simonides. (Translations.) The night winds howled, the billows dashed 24275
131: When The Firmament Quivers With Daylight'S Young Beam. When the firmament quivers with daylight's young beam, 20279
132: William Tell. - A Sonnet. Chains may subdue the feeble spirit, but thee, 14397




About:
William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.


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