William Cullen Bryant Quotes
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A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour, Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile, Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade. Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws, No more sits listening by his den, but steals Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field, And crops its juicy-blossoms.
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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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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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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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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.
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I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.
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Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.
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Gently - so have good men taught - Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide Into the new; the eternal flow of things, Like a bright river of the fields of heaven, Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.
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I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart. . . .
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Is not thy home among the flowers?
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Flowers spring up unsown and die ungathered.
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The victory of endurance born.
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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.