William Cullen Bryant Quotes
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So they, who climb to wealth, forget The friends in darker fortunes tried. I copied them--but I regret That I should ape the ways of pride.
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Showers and sunshine bring, Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth; To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, And one by one the singing-birds come back.
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I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.
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Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
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I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart. . . .
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All things that are on earth shall wholly pass away, Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye.
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Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.
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These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.
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Is not thy home among the flowers?
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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.
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Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate.
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The victory of endurance born.
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Flowers spring up unsown and die ungathered.