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Quotes by William Cullen Bryant
“ These are the gardens of the Desert, these
The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful,
For which the speech of England has no name—
The Prairies. ”
“ The groves were God's first temples. ”
“ The little wind-flower, whose just opened eye
Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at. ”
“ These struggling tides of life that seem
In wayward, aimless course to tend,
Are eddies of the mighty stream
That rolls to its appointed end. ”
“ Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again;
The eternal years of God are hers;
But Error, wounded, writhes with pain,
And dies among his worshippers. ”
“ The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore,
And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more. ”
“ And the blue gentian flower, that, in the breeze,
Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last. ”
“ Thou unrelenting Past!
Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain,
And fetters, sure and fast,
Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. ”
“ 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. ”
“ They talk of short-lived pleasures—be it so—
pain dies as quickly: stern, hard-featured pain
Expires, and lets her weary prisoner go.
The fiercest agonies have shortest reign;
And after dreams of horror, comes again
The welcome morning with its rays of peace. ”
“ Weep not that the world changes—did it keep
A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep. ”
“ The rugged trees are mingling
Their flowery sprays in love;
The ivy climbs the laurel
To clasp the boughs above. ”
“ The victory of endurance born. ”
“ And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief,
And the year smiles as it draws near its death. ”
“ The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. ”
“ 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. ”
“ Oh, sun! that o'er the western mountains now
Goest down in glory! ever beautiful
And blessed is thy radiance, whether thou
Colourest the eastern heaven and night-mist cool,
Till the bright day-star vanish, or on high
Climbest and streamest thy white splendours from mid-sky. ”
“ 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? ”
“ Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase
Are fruits of innocence and blessedness. ”
“ Vainly the fowler's eye
Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong,
As, darkly painted on the crimson sky,
Thy figure floats along. ”
“ 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 multitude
Of golden chalices to humming-birds
And silken-wing'd insects of the sky. ”
“ Wild was the day; the wintry sea
Moaned sadly on New England's strand,
When first the thoughtful and the free,
Our fathers, trod the desert land. ”
“ Heed not the night; a summer lodge amid the wild is mine -
'Tis shadowed by the tulip-tree, 'tis mantled by the vine. ”
“ Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson,
Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green.
Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing
With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen. ”
“ Maidens hearts are always soft:
Would that men's were truer! ”
“ 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! ”
“ The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by,
As if they loved to breast the breeze that sweeps the cool clear sky. ”
“ He who, from zone to zone,
Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,
In the long way that I must tread alone,
Will lead my steps aright. ”
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