Quotes by William C. Bryant

William C. Bryant

[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on.

Lost

Poet

World

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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.

Division

Fields

Politician

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A melancholy sound is in the air, A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail Around my dwelling. ‘Tis the Wind of night.

Air

Distance

Night

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A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

Grows

Marble

Sculpture

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A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour, Reigns o’er the fields; the laborer sits within His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile, Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade. Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws, No more sits listening by his den, but steals Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field, And crops its juicy-blossoms.

Dog

Doors

Sleep

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A stable, changeless state, ’twere cause indeed to weep.

Causes

Stable

States

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Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.

Adversity

Greatness

Rocks

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Ah, never shall the land forget How gush’d the life-blood of the brave, Gush’d warm with hope and courage yet, Upon the soil they fought to save!

Blood

Courage

Land

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Ah, passing few are they who speak, Wild, stormy month! in praise of thee; Yet though thy winds are loud and bleak, Thou art a welcome month to me. For thou, to northern lands, again The glad and glorious sun dost bring, And thou hast joined the gentle train And wear’st the gentle name of Spring.

Art

Spring

Wind

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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?

Hands

World

Years

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