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Title: Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant
Household Edition

Author: William Cullen Bryant

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POETICAL WORKS

OF

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

_HOUSEHOLD EDITION._

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NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
1, 3, AND 5 BOND STREET.
LONDON: 16 LITTLE BRITAIN.
1880.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by W. C.
BRYANT, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
for the Southern District of New York.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by W. C.
BRYANT, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by D. APPLETON
& CO., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

The ancestry of William Cullen Bryant might have been inferred from the
character of his writings, which reflect whatever is best and noblest in
the life and thought of New England. It was a tradition that the first
Bryant of whom there is any account in the annals of the New World came
over in the Mayflower, but the tradition is not authenticated. What is
known of this gentleman, Mr. Stephen Bryant, is that he came over from
England, and that he was at Plymouth, Massachusetts, as early as 1632.
He married Abigail Shaw, who had emigrated with her father, and who bore
him several children between 1650 and 1665, it is to be presumed at
Plymouth, of which town he was chosen constable in 1663. Stephen Bryant
had a son named Ichabod, who was the father of Philip Bryant, who was
born in 1732. Philip Bryant married Silence Howard, the daughter of Dr.
Abiel Howard, of West Bridgewater, whose profession he adopted, being a
practitioner in medicine in North Bridgewater. He was the father of nine
childr