“I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart. . . .”
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Famous William C. Bryant Quotes
“Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.”
“The groves were God's first temples.”
Source: The Letters of William Cullen Bryant: 1865-1871
“A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.”
“The little wind-flower, whose just opened eye Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.”
“I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.”
“It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.”
“Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.”
“Tender pauses speak The overflow of gladness, When words are all too weak.”
“And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.”