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Excerpt from A Forest HymnAnd supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred in¿uences.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present ...

Excerpt from Three Great Poems: Thanatopsis, Flood of Years, Among the TreesAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare c...

Excerpt from HymnsShed on those Who, in Thy name, Teach the Way of Truth and Right, Shed that Love's undying ¿ame, Shed that Wisdom's guiding light.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original f...

Excerpt from The Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant, Vol. 2 of 2About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, a...

Excerpt from A Discourse on the Life, Character and Writings of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck: Delivered Before the New-York Historical Society, May 17th, 1870The life of him in honor of whose memory we are assembled, was prolonged to so late a period and to the last was so full of usefulness, that it almost seemed a permanent part of the organization and the active move ment of society here. His departure has left a sad vacuity in the framework ...

Excerpt from Poems From the Works of William Cullen BryantAll these methods combined may be made to give pleasure to the pupils' friends, and make it feasible to entertain them oftener than is now the cus tom, thus creating an interest in the school and a sympathy with the author whose works are the subjects of study. The foregoing is by no means a necessary order, and teachers will vary from it as their own appreciation of the intelligence of...

Excerpt from PoemsWe think on what they were, with many fears Lest goodness die with them, and leave the coming years.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfe...

Excerpt from Thirty PoemsThis third volume contains such of the author's poems as have been written since the year 1854. It includes those which, in 1863, were published under the title of Thirty Poems, along with some others composed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses s...

Excerpt from The Odyssey of Homer, Vol. 2 of 1: Translated Into English Blank VerseHE kind reception which my translation of the' Iliad has met with from my countrymen has encouraged rné to attempt a translation of the Odyssey in the same form of verse. I have found this a not unpleasing employment for a period of life which admonishes me that I cannot many times more appear before the public in this or any other' manner. The task of translati...

Excerpt from Prose Writings of William Cullen Bryant, Vol. 1: Essays, Tales, and OrationsAs this publication is intended to be mainly a memorial and record of the life of one of the earliest and most emi nent of our men of letters, the editor trusts that it will be found interesting not only by students but by the general public.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgo...

Excerpt from The Life and Works of William Cullen Bryant, Vol. 1 of 2Some time after the death of Mr. Bryant, in 1878, his younger daughter, Miss Julia S. Bryant, to whom his papers were left, sent me copies of such of them as she supposed might be useful in the preparation of a memoir of his life. These consisted of letters written by him or to him, mostly of a private or domestic nature, and of a few unpublished or uncollected poems. Accompa...

Excerpt from The Flood of YearsA Mighty Hand, from an exhaustless urn, Pours forth the never-ending Flood of YearsAmong the nations. How the rushing wavesBear all before them! On their foremost edge, And there alone, is Life, the Present thereTosses and foams and fills the air with roarOf mingled noises.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is ...

Excerpt from Orations and AddressesOf repetition and circumscribes his walk to a narrow circle. With Cole it was otherwise, his mode Of treating his subjects was not bounded by the narrow limits Of any system, the moral interest he gave them took no set form or predetermined pattern, its manifestations wore the diversity Of that creation from which they were drawn.Let me ask those who hear me to accompany me in a brief review Of his life and h...

Excerpt from Discourse on the Life and Genius of Cooper: Meeting in the City Hall, September 25, 1851, Historical Society, October 7, 1851, Meeting in Metropolitan Hall, February 24, 1852My Dear Sir - The death of Fenimore Cooper, though anticipated, is an event of deep and public concern, and calls for the highest expres sion of public sensibility. To me it comes with something of a shock for it seems but the other day that I saw him at our c...

Excerpt from Selections From the American PoetsA stipulated time has, however, prevented the com piler from making the necessary researches for the purpose, except in a few instances, and, even if the time had been sufficient, the size of the vol. Ume would not have permitted a much more va rions selection than has been made. If this vol. Ume should meet with a favourable reception from the public, another may be prepared from the ma terials y...

Excerpt from Letters of a Traveller, or Notes of Things Seen in Europe and AmericaPlace the custom of giving presents extends even to the courts of justice, the officers of which, from the highest to the lowest, are in the constant practice of receiving them. N 0 American can see how much jealousy and force on the one hand, and necessity and fear on the other, have to do with keeping up the existing governments of Europe, without thanking heav...

Excerpt from Letters of a TravellerIn the Clerk's O¿oo of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of N ow York.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whils...

Excerpt from Scribner's Popular History of the United States, Vol. 1: From the Earliest Discoveries of the Western Hemisphere by the Northmen to the Present TimeThe plan of the Popular History of the United States, now finally completed, was laid before Mr. William Cullen Bryant in and actual work was begun in the following year. It was Mr. Bryant's ambition and the purpose of the publishers to produce not only the best but the most comprehens...

Excerpt from PoemsWith ¿owers less fair than when her reign begun Does prodigal Autumn, to our age, deny The plenty that once swelled beneath his sober eye?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the or...

Excerpt from Poems, Vol. 2 of 2With trackless snows for ever white, Where all is still, and cold, and dead, Late shines the' day's departing light.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original fo...