Poems / William Cullen Bryant [electronic text]

CONTENTS.

• The Ages, 13
• To the Past, 28
• Thanatopsis, 31
• The Lapse of Time, 34
• To the Evening Wind, 37
• Forest Hymn, 39
• The Old Man's Funeral, 44
• The Rivulet, 46
• The Prairies, 50
• Earth, 55
• To the Apennines, 59
• The Knight's Epitaph, 61
• Seventy-Six, 63
• The Living Lost, 65
• The Strange Lady, 67
• The Hunter's Vision, 70
• Catterskill Falls, 73
• The Hunter of the Prairies, 78
• The Damsel of Peru, 81
• A Song of Pitcairn's Island, 83
• Rizpah, 85
• The Indian Girl's Lament, 89
• The Arctic Lover, 92
• The Massacre at Scio, 94
• Version of a Fragment of Simonides, 95
• The Greek Partisan, 97
• Romero, 99
• Monument Mountain, 102

• The Murdered Traveller, 107
• Song of The Greek Amazon, 109
• The African Chief, 111
• Song—"Same as the glazed and gleaming snow," 114
• An Indian Story, 115
• The Hunter's Serenade, 119
• Song of Marion's Men, 122
• Song—"Dost thou idly ask to hear," 125
• Love and Folly, 127
• Fatima and Raduan, 129
• The Death of Aliatar, 131
• The Alcayde of Molina, 134
• From the Spanish of Villegas, 136
• The Life of the Blessed, 137
• Mary Magdalen, 139
• The Siesta, 141
• From the Spanish of Pedro de Castro, &c, 143
• The Count of Greiers-From the German, 145
• Song—From the Spanish, 148
• Sonnet—From the Portugese of Semedo, 150
• Love in the Age of Chivalry, 151
• The Love of God, 153
• The Hurricane, 154
• March, 156
• Spring in Town, 158
• Summer Wind, 161
• Autumn Woods, 163
• A Winter Piece, 166
• "Oh fairest of the rural maids," 171
• The Disinterred Warrior, 172
• The Greek Boy, 174
• "Upon the mountain's distant head," 176
• Sonnet—William Tell, 177
• To the River Arve, 178
• Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood, 180
• "When the firmament quivers with a daylight's young beam," 182
• A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson, 183

• The West Wind, 185
• To a Musquito, 187
• "I broke the spell that held me long," 190
• The Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus, 191
• June, 195
• The Two Graves, 198
• The New Moon, 201
• The Gladness of Nature, 203
• To the Fringed Gentian, 204
• "Innocent Child and snow-white Flower," 205
• Sonnet—Midsummer, 206
• Sonnet—October, 207
• Sonnet—November, 208
• A Meditation on Rhode Island Coal, 209
• An Indian at the Burial-place of his Fathers, 213
• Sonnet—To Cole, the painter, departing for Europe, 217
• Green River, 218
• To a Cloud, 221
• After a Tempest, 223
• The Burial-Place—a Fragment, 226
• The Yellow Violet, 229
• "I cannot forget with what fervid devotion," 231
• Lines on revisiting the Country, 233
• Sonnet—Mutation, 235
• Hymn to the North Star, 236
• The Twenty-second of December, 238
• Ode for an Agricultural Celebration, 239
• A Walk at Sunset, 241
• Hymn of the Waldenses, 244
• Song of the Stars, 245
• Hymn of the City, 248
• "No Man knoweth his Sepulchre," 250
• "Blessed are they that mourn," 251
• The Skies, 253
• The Journey of Life, 255
• Sonnet—To —, 256
• Death of the Flowers, 257

• Hymn to Death, 260
• "Earth's Children cleave to Earth," 265
• To a Waterfowl, 266
• The Battle-field, 268
• Notes, 271