William Cullen Bryant
Poet and journalist, 1794-1878
Cited as Bryant. — 40 quotations
Betray
All the names in the country betray great antiquity.
Blast
The blast of triumph o'er thy grave.
Blench
Blench not at thy chosen lot.
Brink
The plashy brink of weedy lake.
Calm
Now all is calm, and fresh, and still.
Cerulean
Blue, blue, as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall.
Come
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year.
Couch
Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Crush
Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.
Destiny
No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
Disembodied
The disembodied spirits of the dead.
Drapery
Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Drop
When the sound of dropping nuts is heard.
Emanation
An emanation of the indwelling life.
Fly
The dark waves murmured as the ships flew on.
Footstep
How on the faltering footsteps of decay Youth presses.
Fringe
Precipices fringed with grass.
March
The stormy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and changing skies.
Sisterhood
The fair young flowers . . . a beauteous sisterhood.
Smile
The brightness of their [the flowers'] smile was gone.
Temple
The groves were God's first temples.
Trouble
She never took the trouble to close them.
Walk
Amid the sound of steps that beat The murmuring walks like rain.
Weedy
See from the weedy earth a rivulet break.
West
And fresh from the west is the free wind's breath.
Where
Lodged in sunny cleft, Where the gold breezes come not.
Whirlwind
The swift dark whirlwind that uproots the woods. And drowns the villages.
Wide
When the wide bloom, on earth that lies, Seems of a brighter world than ours.
Wilder
Again the wildered fancy dreams Of spouting fountains, frozen as they rose.
Wilding
The ground squirrel gayly chirps by his den, And the wilding bee hums merrily by.
Willing
[Fruit] shaken in August from the willing boughs.
Witchery
The dear, dear witchery of song.
Wither
The passions and the cares that wither life.
Woo
I woo the wind That still delays his coming.
Woodcraft
Men of the glade and forest! leave Your woodcraft for the field of fight.
Wrap
Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Wreak
But gather all thy powers, And wreak them on the verse that thou dost weave.
Wreath
Far back in the ages, The plow with wreaths was crowned.
Wrinkle
Then danced we on the wrinkled sand.
Wynd
The narrow wynds, or alleys, on each side of the street.