William C. Bryant
William C. Bryant
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 November 1794
CountryUnited States of America
father hands rose
Father, thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns, thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose All these fair ranks of trees. They, in thy sun, Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy breeze, And shot towards heaven.
dream lying sleep
Christ taught an astonishing thing about physical death: not merely that it is an experience robbed of its terror but that as an experience it does not exist at all. To "sleep in Christ," like one that wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
sunshine bud february
The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.
sister flower light
Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?
spring flower dies
Flowers spring up unsown and die ungathered.
truth earth crushed
Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.
spring lying june
I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round, And thought that when I came to lie At rest within the ground, 'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June When brooks send up a cheerful tune, And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich, green mountain-turf should break.
autumn blue heaven
Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue....
memorial-day land forget
Ah! never shall the land forget.
roots fruit innocence
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.
memorial-day blood land
Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -
determination dirty hard-work
The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course the desire of the master that his slaves shall be laborious; on the other hand it is the determination of the slave to lead as easy a life as he can. The master has the power of punishment on his side; the slave, on his, has invincible inclination, and a thousand expedients learned by long practice... Good natured though imperfect and slovenly obedience on one side, is purchased by good treatment on the other.
spring eye water
Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.
grieving promise
I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.