William C. Bryant
William C. Bryant
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 November 1794
CountryUnited States of America
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.
flower air rose
The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows...
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.
rain light ice
Come when the rains Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice, While the slant sun of February pours Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach! The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps And the broad arching portals of the grove Welcome thy entering.
flower air wind
When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs of June her multiple OF golden chalices to humming birds And silken-wing'd insects of the sky.
victory endurance born
The victory of endurance born.
running get-well errors
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
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.