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William Cullen Bryant

I lived from 1794-1878. I was from the USA, and am in the Americas category.

I was influenced by poet Homer.

American poet and newspaper editor, born in Cummington, Massachusetts. The son of a learned and highly respected physician, Bryant was exposed to English poetry in his father's vast library. As a boy he became devoted to the New England countryside and was a keen observer of nature. In his early poems such as Thanatopsis, To a Waterfowl, Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood, and The Yellow Violet, all written before he was 21, he celebrated the majesty of nature in a style that was influenced by the English romantics but also reflected a personal simplicity and dignity.

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  • Thanatopsis
    To him who in the love of nature holds
    Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
    81 lines, 6 comments
  • To a Waterfowl
    Whither, midst falling dew,
    While glow the heavens with the last steps of day
    32 lines, 2 comments
  • A Forest Hymn
    The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned
    To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,
    118 lines
  • The Murdered Traveller
    When spring, to woods and wastes around,
    Brought bloom and joy again,
    36 lines, 2 comments
  • Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood
    Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs
    No school of long experience, that the world
    42 lines
  • The Gladness of Nature
    Is this a time to be cloudy and sad,
    When our mother Nature laughs around;
    20 lines, 2 comments
  • Hymn To Death
    Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart
    Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem
    168 lines, 1 comment
  • Consumption
    Ay, thou art for the grave; thy glances shine
    Too brightly to shine long; another Spring
    14 lines
  • Hymn of the City
    Not in the solitude
    Alone may man commune with heaven, or see
    31 lines
  • After a Tempest
    The day had been a day of wind and storm;--
    The wind was laid, the storm was overpast,--
    54 lines
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