William Cullen Bryant Quotes

Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear. - William Cullen Bryant

Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood
In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood? - William Cullen Bryant

We plant, upon the sunny lea,
A shadow for the noontide hour,
A shelter from the summer shower,
When we plant the apple-tree. - William Cullen Bryant

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again;
Th' eternal years of God are hers;
But Error, wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies among his worshippers. - William Cullen Bryant

To me it seems that one of the most important requisites for a great poet is a luminous style. The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man. - William Cullen Bryant

Thy early smile has stayed my walk;
But midst the gorgeous blooms of May,
I passed thee on thy humble stalk. - William Cullen Bryant

Thus change the forms of being. Thus arise
Races of living things, glorious in strength,
And perish, as the quickening breath of God
Fills them, or is withdrawn. - William Cullen Bryant

Thou blossom bright with autumn dew,
And colored with the heaven's own blue. . . . - William Cullen Bryant

They waste us-ay-like April snow In the warm noon, we shrink away; And fast they follow, as we go Towards the setting day- Till they shall fill the land, and we Are driven into the Western sea. - William Cullen Bryant

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