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William Cullen Bryant Quotes (129 quotes)
 | “Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase Are fruits of innocence and blessedness.” ―William Cullen Bryant Source/Notes: Mutation. A Sonnet. |
| “Weep not that the world changes—did it keep A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.” ―William Cullen Bryant Source/Notes: Mutation. A Sonnet. |
| “And the blue gentian flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.” ―William Cullen Bryant Source/Notes: November. A Sonnet (1824). |
| “Thou unrelenting Past! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign.” ―William Cullen Bryant Source/Notes: The Past, st. 1 (1828). |
| “The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.” ―William Cullen Bryant Source/Notes: Death of the Flowers (1832), st. 1. |
| “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.” ―William Cullen Bryant Source/Notes: Death of the Flowers (1832), st. 4, lines 23-24. |
| Source/Notes: Song: Dost Thou Idly Ask To Hear, st. 1 (1832). |
| “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.” ―William Cullen Bryant Source/Notes: The Prairies, l. 1 (1833). |
| “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.” ―William Cullen Bryant Source/Notes: The Strange Lady, st. 6 (1835). |
| “Heed not the night; a summer lodge amid the wild is mine - 'Tis shadowed by the tulip-tree, 'tis mantled by the vine.” ―William Cullen Bryant Source/Notes: The Strange Lady, st. 6. |
| Source/Notes: The Battlefield (1839), st. 8. |
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William Cullen Bryant
Born: November 3, 1794
Died: 1878 (aged 83)
Nationality: American
Occupation: Poet, journalist
Bio: William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.
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