“That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.” MenWasteOceanGreenRoundsMelancholyGraySolemnTombsMeadowsDecorationQuietnessPensive Author:William C. Bryant
“The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.” MenFirstsSoundSilenceDown AndLaysSpreadWoodsThanksTemplesRoofSolemnLoftyFramedAnthemGroveVaultsSupplication Author:William C. Bryant
“Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart, And press a suit with passion, Is not a woman's part. If man come not to gather The roses where they stand, They fade among their foliage, They cannot seek his hand.” IfsMenHeartMomentsHandsPassionPressesRoseSuitsFadesAlasInclineWooingFoliageSeize The Moment Author:William C. Bryant
“Maidens hearts are always soft: Would that men's were truer!” MenHeartMaidens Author:William C. Bryant
“The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood, Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen.” MenFirstsLongFallHeavenGoneClearColdSummerDiedRoseWoodsGoldenHillsAutumnYellowLong AgoVioletPlagueBrooksBrightnessSunflowerAsters Author:William C. Bryant
“All great poets have been men of great knowledge.” MenHas BeensPoetGreat PoetGreat Knowledge Author:William C. Bryant
“War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is only by dwelling on these, and keeping out of sight the sufferings and sorrows, and all the crimes and evils that follow in its train, that it has its glory in the eyes of men.” MenWarEyeSufferingEvilQualitySituationVirtueCrimeDangerSorrowIntellectualGlorySightTrainDwellingAdmirableExertion Author:William C. Bryant
“Gently - so have good men taught - Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide Into the new; the eternal flow of things, Like a bright river of the fields of heaven, Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.” MenDeathHeavenGriefJourneyFieldsTaughtEternalFlowRiversGood ManPerpetual Author:William C. Bryant
