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Poems by William Cullen Bryant

By William Cullen Bryant

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Cover: Kindred Spirits (1849), oil on canvas by Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1886)

William Cullen Bryant's poems on American woods, rivers and prairies, from Thanatopsis and To a Waterfowl to The Death of the Flowers, with his translations from the Spanish, German and Provençal. They helped found a native American poetry in the first half of the 19th century.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: Thanatopsis
  2. 2: The Yellow Violet
  3. 3: Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood
  4. 4: Song
  5. 5: To a Waterfowl
  6. 6: Green River
  7. 7: A Winter Piece
  8. 8: The West Wind
  9. 9: A Fragment
  10. 10: A Walk at Sunset
  11. 11: Hymn to Death
  12. 12: Ode for an Agricultural Celebration
  13. 13: Rizpah
  14. 14: The Old Man's Funeral
  15. 15: The Rivulet
  16. 16: March
  17. 17: Sonnet to ----
  18. 18: An Indian Story
  19. 19: Summer Wind
  20. 20: An Indian at the Burial-Place of His Fathers
  21. 21: Song
  22. 22: Hymn of the Waldenses
  23. 23: After a Tempest
  24. 24: Autumn Woods
  25. 25: A Sonnet
  26. 26: A Sonnet
  27. 27: Song of the Greek Amazon
  28. 28: To a Cloud
  29. 29: Hymn to the North Star
  30. 30: The Lapse of Time
  31. 31: Song of the Stars
  32. 32: A Forest Hymn
  33. 33: June
  34. 34: A Song of Pitcairn's Island
  35. 35: The Skies
  36. 36: To a Musquito
  37. 37: Lines on Revisiting the Country
  38. 38: The Death of the Flowers
  39. 39: Romero
  40. 40: A Meditation on Rhode-Island Coal
  41. 41: The New Moon
  42. 42: A Sonnet
  43. 43: The Damsel of Peru
  44. 44: Spring in Town
  45. 45: The Gladness of Nature
  46. 46: The Disinterred Warrior
  47. 47: A Sonnet
  48. 48: The Greek Partisan
  49. 49: The Two Graves
  50. 50: A Summer Ramble
  51. 51: A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson
  52. 52: A Sonnet
  53. 53: The Greek Boy
  54. 54: The Past
  55. 55: The Evening Wind
  56. 56: Supposed to Be Written at a Hamlet Near the Foot of Mont Blanc
  57. 57: A Sonnet
  58. 58: To the Fringed Gentian
  59. 59: The Twenty-Second of December
  60. 60: Hymn of the City
  61. 61: The Arctic Lover
  62. 62: The Journey of Life
  63. 63: Version of a Fragment of Simonides
  64. 64: From the Spanish of Villegas
  65. 65: From the Spanish of Bartolome Leonardo De Argensola
  66. 66: From the Spanish of Luis Ponce De Leon
  67. 67: From the Spanish
  68. 68: From La Fontaine
  69. 69: From the Spanish
  70. 70: From the Spanish
  71. 71: From the Spanish
  72. 72: From Peyre Vidal, the Troubadour
  73. 73: From the Provençal of Bernari Rascas
  74. 74: From the Portuguese of Semedo
  75. 75: From the Spanish of Iglesias
  76. 76: From the German of Uhland
  77. 77: From the Spanish
  78. 78: From the German of Uhland
  79. 79: To the Apennines
  80. 80: Earth
  81. 81: The Knight's Epitaph
  82. 82: The Hunter of the Prairies
  83. 83: Seventy-Six
  84. 84: The Living Lost
  85. 85: Catterskill Falls
  86. 86: The Strange Lady
  87. 87: The Hunter's Vision
  88. 88: A Presentiment
  89. 89: The Battle-Field
  90. 90: The Future Life
  91. 91: The Winds
  92. 92: Lines in Memory of William Leggett
  93. 93: From an Unfinished Poem
  94. 94: A Dream
  95. 95: The Antiquity of Freedom
  96. 96: The Maiden's Sorrow
  97. 97: The Return of Youth
  98. 98: A Hymn of the Sea
  99. 99: Noon
  100. 100: The Crowded Street
  101. 101: The Waning Moon
  102. 102: The Stream of Life