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Title: Poems

Author: William Cullen Bryant

Release Date: July 21, 2005 [EBook #16341]

Language: English

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POEMS

BY

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

AUTHORIZED EDITION.

DESSAU:

KATZ BROTHERS.

1854.

TO THE READER.

I have been asked to consent that an edition of my poems should
be published at Dessau in Germany, solely for circulation on the
continent of Europe. To this request I have the more readily yielded,
inasmuch as the reputation enjoyed by the gentleman under whose
inspection the volume will pass through the press, assures me that the
edition will be faithfully and minutely accurate.

_New York_, November 2, 1853.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

CONTENTS.

POEMS

The Ages deg.
Thanatopsis
The Yellow Violet
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood
Song.--"Soon as the glazed and gleaming snow"
To a Waterfowl
Green River
A Winter Piece
The West Wind
The Burial-place. deg. A Fragment
Blessed are they that Mourn
No Man knoweth his Sepulchre
A Walk at Sunset
Hymn to Death
The Massacre at Scio deg.
The Indian Girl's Lament deg.
Ode for an Agricultural Celebration
Rizpah
The Old Man's Funeral
The Rivulet
March
Sonnet.--To--
An Indian Story
Summer Wind
An Indian at the Burial-place of his Fathers
Song--"Dost thou idly ask to hear"
Hymn of the Waldenses
Monument Mountain deg.
After a Tempest
Autumn Woods
Sonnet.--Mutation
Sonnet.--November
Song of the Greek Amazon
To a Cloud
The Murdered Traveller deg.
Hymn to the North Star
The Lapse of Time
Song of the Stars
A Forest Hymn
"Oh fairest of the rural maids"
"I broke the spell that held me long"
June
A Song of Pitcairn's Island
The Skies
"I cannot forget with what fervid devotion"
To a Musquito
Lines on Revisiting the Country
The Death of the Flowers
Romero