William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.

Read more about William Cullen Bryant:  Youth and Education, Poetry, Editorial Career, Later Years, Critical Response, Legacy, Further Reading

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    All that tread,
    The globe are but a handful to the tribes,
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    William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)

    Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again;
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    Of course you will pooh-pooh whatever’s fresh and new, and declare
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    In sorrow by thy bier we stand,
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    To him who, in the love of Nature, holds
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