William C. Bryant Quotes - Page 2

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• To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.

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  Love, Language, Speak

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.

  William C. Bryant

  Music, Entertainment, Study

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• Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

  William C. Bryant

  Strength, Children, Adversity

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• Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild
  Mingled in harmony on Nature's face,
  Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot
  Fail not with weariness, for on their tops
  The beauty and the majesty of earth,
  Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget
  The steep and toilsome way.

  William C. Bryant

  Feet, Lovely, Mountain

  William Cullen Bryant, “Monument Mountain”

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• And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

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  Years, October, Sun

  William Cullen Bryant, “October”

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• Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

  William C. Bryant

  Eloquence, Prose

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• The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago,
  And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;
  But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,
  And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood,
  Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men,
  And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen.

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  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Death Of The Flowers”

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• The stormy March has come at last, With winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies.

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  Clouds, Wind, Sky

  William Cullen Bryant, “March”

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• A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.

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  Division, Fields, Politician

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• The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

  William C. Bryant

  Taste, Moral, Journalism

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• Follow thou thy choice.

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  Choices

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Alcayde Of Molina”

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• The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.

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  Dream, Peace, Morning

  William Cullen Bryant, “Mutation”

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• Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

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  Pain, Agony, Reign

  William Cullen Bryant, “Mutation”

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• All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

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  Men, Poet, Great Knowledge

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• Here the free spirit of mankind, at length,
  Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place
  A limit to the giant's unchained strength,
  Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?

  William C. Bryant

  Strength, Freedom, Race

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Ages”

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• Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart, And press a suit with passion, Is not a woman's part. If man come not to gather The roses where they stand, They fade among their foliage, They cannot seek his hand.

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  Passion, Heart, Men

  William Cullen Bryant, “Song From The Spanish Of Iglesias”

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• Loveliest of lovely things are they,
  On earth, that soonest pass away.
  The rose that lives its little hour
  Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

  William C. Bryant

  Love, Life, Flower

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Scene At The Banks Of The Hudson”

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• Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised?

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  Hands, Years, World

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Forest Hymn”

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• The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.

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  Fall, Sadness, Autumn

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Death Of The Flowers”

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• 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.

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  Flower, Air, Rose

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• But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

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  Flames, Tree, Listening

  William Cullen Bryant, “Autumn Woods”

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• Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue.

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  Autumn, Blue, Heaven

  William Cullen Bryant, “To The Fringed Gentian”

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• The little wind-flower, whose just opened eye
  Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.

  William C. Bryant

  Spring, Eye, Blue

  "A Winter Piece". Poem by William C. Bryant, 1821.

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• Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for the community. It is wise in declining new enterprises, for it has not the power nor the time to execute them; wise in shrinking from difficulty, for it has not the strength to overcome it; wise in avoiding danger, for it lacks the faculty of ready and swift action, by which dangers are parried and converted into advantages. But this is not wisdom for mankind at large, by whom new enterprises must be undertaken, dangers met, and difficulties surmounted.

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  Wise, Community, Age

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• And kind the voice and glad the eyes
  That welcome my return at night.

  William C. Bryant

  Eye, Night, Voice

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Hunter Of The Prairies”

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