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Letter "W" » William Cullen Bryant Quotes
«The horrid tale of perjury and strife,Murder and spoil, which men call history.»
«The moon is at her full, and, riding high,Floods the calm fields with light.The airs that hover in the summer skyAre all asleep to-night.»
«Another hand thy sword shall wield,Another hand the standard wave,Till from the trumpet's mouth is pealedThe blast of triumph o'er thy grave.»
«Ah! never shall the land forgetHow gushed the life-blood of her brave --Gushed, warm with hope and courage yet,Upon the soil they fought to save.»
«The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.»
«The words of fire that from his penWere flung upon the fervid page,Still move, still shake the hearts of men,Amid a cold and coward age.»
«To me it seems that one of the most important requisites for a great poet is a luminous style. The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man.»
Author: William Cullen Bryant
(Writer)
| Keywords:
luminous, requisites, The Elements, vicissitude, vicissitudes
«There is a power whose careTeaches thy way along that pathless coast, --»
«Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again;Th' eternal years of God are hers;But Error, wounded, writhes in pain,And dies among his worshippers.»
Author: William Cullen Bryant
(Writer)
| Keywords:
crushed, Hers, worshipper, worshippers, writhe, writhed, writhes, writhing
«These struggling tides of life that seemIn wayward, aimless course to tend,Are eddies of the mighty streamThat rolls to its appointed end.»
Author: William Cullen Bryant
(Writer)
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