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.

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    While glow the heavens with the last steps of day,
    Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue
    Thy solitary way!
    —William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)

    To him who, in the love of Nature, holds
    Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
    A various language: for his gayer hours
    William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)

    Oh mother of a mighty race,
    Yet lovely in thy youthful grace!
    The elder dames, thy haughty peers,
    Admire and hate thy blooming years.
    —William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)

    Man hath no part in all this glorious work:
    The hand that built the firmament hath heaved
    And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopes
    With herbage,
    —William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)