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Excerpt from The Story of the Fountain The deer from his strong shoulders, fenn. Loud the black-eyed Indian maidens laugh, fredericks. Glistened in the frozen rains, fenn. All around was heard the crash of trees, F enn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-t...

Excerpt from Thanatopsis and Other Poems: And Other Poems Bryant began to make verses in his eighth year, one of his earliest efforts being a paraphrase of the first chapter of the Book of Job, and another, a poetical address before his school. In his thirteenth year he surprised his family and the public with a political satire of over five hundred lines, which was published at Boston under the title, The Embargo, or Sketches of the Times, a...

Excerpt from Forest Scenes The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead, They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an importa...

Excerpt from A Popular History of the United States, Vol. 4: From the First Discovery of the Western Hemisphere by the Northmen, to the End of the Civil War The present volume is the completion of the work which the late Mr. Bryant consented should have the sanction of his name. The first two volumes passed the ordeal Of his careful perusal in justice to those who began the reading of the work at the beginning of its publication, it is only p...

Excerpt from Hegel's Educational Ideas The concept at the heart of the science current at the present day is expressed in the word Evolution. SO far as it refers directly to the inorganic world, this con cept takes shape in the expressions Con servation of Energy and Correlation of Forces As applied to the organic king dom, the same concept assumes the aspect indicated by the phrase Natural Selec tion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books pu...

Excerpt from Thanatopsis, Sella, and Other PoemsTm edition of Bryant's poetical writings comprises all the verse that had been collected by the poet before his death, and all that has since been collected by his literary executor. It the only edition in one volume that does this, the most complete one-volume edition heretofore having been the one called the Household Edition. The present edition, to which the name of Roslyn has been given, con...

Excerpt from Selections From the American Poets This collection, although embracing specimens from the writings of a very great number of American poets, may not yet contain the names of all who deserve admission. Of some authors, however, the best things, in a literary point of view, are of a nature which did not fall within the plan of the compiler. Amatory poems and drinking songs, notwithstanding the skill or the spirit with which they mi...

Excerpt from Poems of the Home, and the HomelandObviously such a volume must not be too bulky, trespassing too heavily on the indulgence of patient readers, which means that a large number of poems must be excluded that might have claimed a place as worthily as others.Without any apology or excuse these Poems of the Home and Homeland are sent forth on an errand of love and adventure.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thou...

According to the author: "This is not exactly a book about history, or about teaching and learning methodologies, or educational theory and practice, or museum operations, or politics or revolution or the future. It's about all of these things, and more, because it's a book about people . . . It is supposedly about my experiences as a museum tour guide, but is really about what more than six decades of studying history with a purpose have taug...

Excerpt from Scribner's Popular History of the United States, From the Earliest Discoveries of the Western, Hemisphere by the Northmen to the Present Time, Vol. 2 If, as is quite possible, there has been some impatience on the part of subscribers to this work to see the second volume, we have not permitted the suspicion of its existence to hurry us in the least. The writing of history is one of the things that is not necessarily well done, be...

Excerpt from Life, Death and Immortality: With Kindred EssaysWhen it was suggested a number of years ago in one of the leading scientific assemblies of the world that the origin of life on the earth may have been due to the chance transmission through space of a pri mordial germ wrapped up in a meteorite, a discovery of real significance appeared to have been made. All the world was duly notified. And apparently all the world was expected to b...

Excerpt from Poems From the Works of William Cullen Bryant "Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruptions, fenced by etiquette, but the thought which they did not uncover to thei...

Excerpt from The Life and Works of William Cullen Bryant, Vol. 1 of 2 Some 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. Accom...

Excerpt from Poetical Works The ancestry of William Cullen Bryant might have been inferred from the character of his writings, which reflect whatever is best and noblest in the life and thought of New England. It was a tradition that the first Bryant of whom there is any account in the annals of the New World came over in the Mayflower, but the tradition is not authenticated. What is known of this gentleman, Mr. Stephen Bryant, is that he cam...

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...

The journalist and Romantic poet's accounts of travel. (P. 63: "Let me caution all emigrants to Illinois not to handle too familiarly the "wild parsnip, " as it is commonly called, an umbelliferous plant growing in the moist prairies of this region" Umbelliferous! While in the northern Mid-West, he makes extensive note of the Native Americans.

The journalist and Romantic poet's accounts of travel. (P. 63: "Let me caution all emigrants to Illinois not to handle too familiarly the "wild parsnip, " as it is commonly called, an umbelliferous plant growing in the moist prairies of this region " Umbelliferous! While in the northern Mid-West, he makes extensive note of the Native Americans

Excerpt from Unpublished Poems by Bryant and Thoreau: Musings by William Cullen Bryant and Godfrey of Boulogne by Henry D. Thoreau After Bryant had written The Journey of Life (and we know that this was in he perhaps laid aside the poem Musings, thinking that he had given the essence of it in his briefer lyric. We may be permitted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ww...

Excerpt from Letters of a Traveller Second Series The exhibition was visited by a crowd of people, and groups of smartly-dressed Parisian ladies were hovering about the ¿owers like butter¿ies. Among the roses exhibited were some fine new varieties, which it is the fashion Of the day to name after eminent military commanders. A large blush rose bears the name of Lord Raglan, and a larger, with ¿aming blood-red petals, the name of General J acq...

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