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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: william cullen bryant Matches Found: 199 A DAY-DREAM, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A day-dream by the dark-blue deep Last Line: The waves run murmuring up the beach. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a dream - a strange, wild dream Last Line: "shall open in the morning beam." Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A FOREST HYMN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The groves were god's first temples. Ere man learned Last Line: Learn to conform the order of our lives. Variant Title(s): God's First Temples;the Groves Subject(s): Forests; Religion; Trees; Woods; Theology A HYMN OF THE SEA, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is mighty, but a mightier sways Last Line: The murmuring shores in a perpetual hymn. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A LEGEND OF THE DELAWARES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The air is dark with cloud on cloud Last Line: "should wield the weapons of the sky." Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A LIFETIME, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in the early twilight Last Line: The trees with a heavy sigh. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Time A MEDITATION ON RHODE ISLAND COAL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat beside the glowing grate, fresh heaped Last Line: And melt the icicles from off his chin. Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Rhode Island A RAIN-DREAM, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These strifes, these tumults of the noisy world Last Line: White clouds, the laggard remnants of the storm. Subject(s): Rain A SCENE ON THE BANKS OF THE HUDSON, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cool shades and dews are round my way Last Line: And I to seek the crowd of men. Subject(s): Hudson River A SICK-BED, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long hast thou watched my bed Last Line: When many years are past. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness A SONG FOR NEW YEAR'S EVE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stay yet, my friends, a moment stay Last Line: One parting strain, and then away. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A SONG OF PITCAIRN'S ISLAND, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, take our boy, and we will go Last Line: This sweet lone isle amid the sea. Subject(s): Pitcairn Islands A WALK AT SUNSET, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When insect wings are glistening in the beam Last Line: Darkened by boundless groves, and roamed by savage men. Subject(s): Nature; Evening; Transience; Sunset; Twilight; Impermanence A WINTER PIECE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time has been that these wild solitudes Last Line: Shall buffet the vexed forests in his rage. Subject(s): Winter AFTER A TEMPEST, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day had been a day of wind and storm Last Line: On all the peaceful world the smile of heaven shall lie. Subject(s): Storms AMERICA (1), by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mother of a mighty race Last Line: Upon their lips the taunt shall die. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Patriotism; United States; Independence Day; Liberty; America AMERICA (2), by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look now abroad - another race has filled Last Line: How happy, in thy lap, the sons of men shall dwell? Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America AMONG THE TREES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh ye who love to overhang the springs Last Line: Back to his covert, and forego his prey. Subject(s): Holidays; Trees AN EVENING REVERY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer day is closed - the sun is set Last Line: Shall journey onward in perpetual peace. Subject(s): Evening; Time; Sunset; Twilight AN INDIAN AT THE BURIAL PLACE OF HIS FATHERS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the spot I came to seek Last Line: May be a barren desert yet. Variant Title(s): An Indian At The Burying-place Of His Fathers Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AN INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already, close by our summer dwelling Last Line: Their dower of beauty from thy glad looks. Subject(s): April; Country Life; Holidays; Trees ANTIQUITY OF FREEDOM, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here are old trees, tall oaks and gnarled pines Last Line: Beheld thy glorious childhood, and rejoiced. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Trees; Independence Day; Liberty AUTUMN WOODS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere, in the northern gale Last Line: And waste its little hour. Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Seasons; Fall; Woods BATTLE OF BENNINGTON, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this fair valley's grassy breast Subject(s): U.s. - History BEYOND, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is there beyond? BLESSED ARE THEY THAT MOURN', by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, deem not they are blest alone BOBOLINK, SELS., by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Modest and shy as a nun is she BURIAL PLACE, SELS., by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Trees CATTERSKILL FALLS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midst greens and shades the catterskill leaps Last Line: Till the stagnant blood ran free and warm. Subject(s): Waterfalls CENTENNIAL HYMN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through calm and storm the years have led Last Line: The record of thy happier reign. Subject(s): United States - History CHRISTMAS IN 1875, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No trumpet-blast profaned Last Line: Well may the nations say that christ is born. Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The DANTE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who, mid the grasses of the field Last Line: Crowns the last century's closing year. Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Poetry & Poets DEDICATION, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, whose unmeasured temple stands Last Line: While round these hallowed walls the storm %of earth-born passion dies Subject(s): Prayer; Religion EARTH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A midnight black with clouds is in the sky Last Line: By which thou shalt be judged, are written down. Subject(s): Earth; World EARTH IS FULL OF THY RICHES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty! Hear thy children raise Subject(s): Birthdays EARTH'S CHILDREN CLEAVE TO EARTH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Nature; Earth; World EMBARGO, SELS., by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look where we will, and in whatever land EPICEDIUM: WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Say, who shall mourn him first Last Line: And his first word was noble as his last! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Italy; Kisses; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Italians FEW, FEW WERE THEY WHOSE SWORDS OF OLD, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography GREEN RIVER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When breezes are soft and skies are fair Last Line: That won my heart in my greener years. Subject(s): Country Life; Great Barrington, Massachusetts HE HATH PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIS FEET', by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O north, with all thy vales of green! Subject(s): Jesus Christ HOME MISSION PRAYER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look from thy sphere of endless day Subject(s): Prayer HYMN OF THE CITY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in the solitude / alone may man commune with heaven, or see Last Line: The vast and helpless city while it sleeps. Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century HYMN OF THE WALDENSES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear, father, hear thy faint afflicted flock Last Line: And thy delivered saints shall dwell in rest. Subject(s): Waldenses HYMN TO DEATH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Could I hope the wise and pure in heart Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HYMN TO DEATH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Could I hope the wise and pure in heart Last Line: The desultory numbers; let them stand, %the record of an idle revery Subject(s): Death HYMN TO THE NORTH STAR, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sad and solemn night Last Line: The voyager of time should shape his heedful way. Subject(s): Stars I BROKE THE SPELL THAT HELD ME LONG, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography I CANNOT FORGET WITH WHAT FERVID DEVOTION, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography IN MEMORY OF JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, motley, with the great of ancient days Last Line: Thy memory shall perish only then. Subject(s): Motley, John Lothrop (1814-1877) IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM LEGGETT, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth may ring, from shore to shore Last Line: Burn in the breasts he kindled still. Subject(s): Leggett, William (1801-1839); Poetry & Poets INNOCENT CHILD AND SNOW-WHITE FLOWER!, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Innocence; Children; Flowers; Childhood INSCRIPTION FOR THE ENTRANCE TO A WOOD, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs Last Line: Ungreeted, and shall give its light embrace. Subject(s): Forests; Holidays; Trees; Woods ITALY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Voices from the mountains speak Last Line: To the gulfs that steep her shore. Subject(s): Italy; Italians JUNE (1), by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gazed upon the glorious sky Last Line: To hear again his living voice. Subject(s): June; Nature JUNE (2), by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There, through the long, long summer hours Subject(s): June JUNE, SELS., by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And what if cheerful shouts, at noon LEGEND OF SAINT MARTIN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shrewd was the good saint martin; he was famed LIFE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh life, I breathe thee in the breeze Last Line: My love for thee, and thine for me? Subject(s): Conduct Of Life LINES ON REVISITING THE COUNTRY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand upon my native hills again Last Line: Health and refreshment on the world below. Subject(s): Cummington, Massachusetts MARCH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stormy march is come at last Last Line: Seems of a brighter world than ours. Subject(s): March (month) MAY EVENING, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The breath of spring-time at this twilight hour Last Line: For the return of day. Subject(s): Spring MIDSUMMER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A power is on the earth and in the air Last Line: Its deadly breath into the firmament. Subject(s): Summer MOCKING BIRD AND THE DONKEY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mock-bird in a village MONUMENT MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Last Line: Is call the mountain of the monument. Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Great Barrington, Massachusetts; Grief; Incest; Legends; Native Americans; Suicide; Sorrow; Sadness; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America MUTATION, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They talk of short-lived pleasure - be it so Last Line: A stable changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep. Subject(s): Change; Transience; Impermanence MY AUTUMN WALK, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On woodlands ruddy with autumn Last Line: Roslyn, october, 1'64. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History NO MAN KNOWETH HIS SEPULCHRE', by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he, who, from the scourge of wrong NOON; FROM AN UNFINISHED POEM, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis noon. At noon the hebrew bowed the knee Last Line: Whose borders we but hover for a space. Subject(s): Nature NOT YET, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O country, marvel of the earth! Last Line: Writes, in men's sight, the answer, no! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History NOVEMBER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet one smile more, departing, distant sun! Last Line: The piercing winter frost, and winds, and darkened air. Subject(s): November O, DEEM NOT THEY ARE BLEST ALONE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birthdays OCTOBER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, thou art welcome, heaven's delicious breath Last Line: Pass silently from men, as thou dost pass. Subject(s): October OCTOBER, 1866, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas when the earth in summer glory lay Last Line: From every treacherous path that ends in sin! ODE FOR AN AGRICULTURAL CELEBRATION, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far back in the ages Last Line: And feeds the expectant nations. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers ODE FOR THE BURIAL OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, slow to smite and swift to spare Last Line: Who perished in the cause of right. Variant Title(s): Abraham Lincoln;the Death Of Lincoln Subject(s): Funerals; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Burials ON JEFFERSON, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go wretch, resign thy presidential chair Subject(s): History OUR CHILDREN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing forth on life's rough way OUR COUNTRY'S CALL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay down the axe; fling by the spade Last Line: And glorious must their triumph be. Subject(s): American Civil War; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; United States - History OUR FELLOW-WORSHIPPERS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think not that thou and I Last Line: With harmonies too fine for mortal ear. Subject(s): Worship PRESENTIMENT, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh father, let us hence - for hark ...' RECEIVE THY SIGHT', by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the blind suppliant in the way RETRIBUTION, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know where the timid fawn abides' Last Line: "from maquon, the fond and the brave." Variant Title(s): An Indian Story Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America RIZPAH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear what the desolate rizpah said Last Line: The beasts of the desert, and fowls of air. Subject(s): Mothers; Rizpah (bible); Tragedy; Women In The Bible ROBERT OF LINCOLN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Merrily swinging on brier and weed Last Line: Chee, chee, chee. Variant Title(s): Bob-o'-lincoln Subject(s): Birds; Bobolinks ROMERO, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When freedom, from the land of spain Last Line: Shall rise, as from the beaten shore the thunders of the sea. Subject(s): Spain; Freedom; Liberty SELLA, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear now a legend of the days of old Last Line: The stone engraved with sella's honored name. Subject(s): Shoes; Mothers; Brides; Travel; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers; Journeys; Trips SLAVERY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slavery is a foul and monstrous idol Last Line: To be worshipped again %with human sacrifice Subject(s): Slavery; Social Protest SONG, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soon as the glazed and gleaming snow Last Line: He bounds away to hunt the deer. Subject(s): Hunting; Hunters SONG, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou idly ask to hear Last Line: Love's delightful story. Subject(s): Courtship SONG OF MARION'S MEN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our band is few, but true and tried Last Line: Forever from our shore. Subject(s): American Revolution; Marion, Francis (1737-1795); South Carolina; War SONG OF THE GREEK AMAZON, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I buckle to my slender side Last Line: As the fierce shout of victory. Subject(s): Amazons SONG OF THE STARS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the radiant morn of creation broke Last Line: "to the veil of whose brow your lamps are dim." Subject(s): Stars SONG. THESE PRAIRIES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These prairies glow with flowers Last Line: Will sorrow for my sake. Subject(s): Flowers SONNET TO - -., by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, thou art for the grave; thy glances shine Last Line: And we will trust in god to see thee yet again. Variant Title(s): Consumption Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SPRING, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this a time to be gloomy SPRING IN TOWN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The country ever has a lagging spring Last Line: And your loud wheels unheeded rattle by. Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century; Spring SUMMER RAMBLE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A quiet august noon has come Variant Title(s): The Noon Scen SUMMER WIND, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a sultry day; the sun has drunk Last Line: Into small waves and sparkle as he comes. Subject(s): Summer THANATOPSIS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To him who in the love of nature holds Last Line: About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Nature; Religion; Trees; Dead, The; Theology THE AFRICAN CHIEF, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chained in the market-place he stood Last Line: The foul hyena's prey. Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs THE AGES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When to the common rest that crowns our days Last Line: How happy, in thy lap, the sons of men shall dwell? Subject(s): Death; Past; Dead, The THE ARCTIC LOVER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone is the long, long winter night Last Line: Till that long midnight flies. Subject(s): Arctic; Love THE BATTLE-FIELD, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once this soft turf, this rivulet's sands Last Line: The blast of triumph o'er thy grave Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Social Protest; Theology THE BURIAL OF LOVE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two dark-eyed maids, at shut of day Last Line: Highest and nearest god's right hand. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE BURIAL-PLACE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Erewhile, on england's pleasant shores, our sires Last Line: Her ruddy, pouting fruit. -- -- -- -- -- - Subject(s): England; Graves; Pilgrim Fathers; English; Tombs; Tombstones THE CHILD'S FUNERAL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is thy sight, sorrento, green thy shore Last Line: From long deep slumbers at the morning light. Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals; Death - Babies; Burials THE CLOUD ON THE WAY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See, before us, in our journey, broods a mist upon the ground Last Line: Peace and light. Subject(s): Nature; Conduct Of Life THE CONJUNCTION OF JUPITER AND VENUS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not always reason. The straight path Last Line: For thee, a terrible deliverance. Variant Title(s): Those Glorious Stars Subject(s): Planets THE CONQUEROR'S GRAVE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within this lowly grave a conqueror lies Last Line: That ministered to thee, is open still. Subject(s): Consolation; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE CONSTELLATIONS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O constellations of the early night Last Line: Their rays might seem but dim, or reach me not. Subject(s): Stars THE CROWDED STREET, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me move slowly through the street Last Line: That rolls to its appointed end. Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Human Race THE DAMSEL OF PERU, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where olive leaves were twinkling in every wind that blew Last Line: "and I am come to dwell beside the olive-grove with thee." Subject(s): Peru THE DEATH OF SCHILLER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis said, when schiller's death drew nigh Last Line: Sprang to a fairer, ampler sphere. Subject(s): Immortality; Schiller, Johann Von (1759-1805); Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von THE DEATH OF SLAVERY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou great wrong, that, through the slow-paced years Last Line: Dwell thou, a warning to the coming times. Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Declaration Day THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year Last Line: So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Melancholy; Seasons; Fall; Dejection THE DISINTERRED WARRIOR, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gather him to his grave again Last Line: Ah, let us spare, at least, their graves! Subject(s): Graves; Soldiers; Tombs; Tombstones THE EVENING WIND, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit that breathest through my lattice, thou Last Line: He hears the rustling leaf and running stream. Variant Title(s): To The Evening Wind Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Wind; Sunset; Twilight THE FLOOD OF YEARS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mighty hand, from an exhaustless urn Last Line: With everlasting concord hand in hand. Subject(s): Time THE FOREST MAID, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fairest of the rural maids! Last Line: Of those calm solitudes, is there. Variant Title(s): Oh Fairest Of The Rural Maids! Subject(s): Admiration THE FOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fountain, that springest on this grassy slope Last Line: Gush midway from the bare and barren steep? Subject(s): Holidays; Trees THE FUTURE LIFE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I know thee in the sphere which keeps Last Line: Thy fit companion in that land of bliss? Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THE GLADNESS OF NATURE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this a time to be cloudy and sad Last Line: Ay, look, and he'll smile thy gloom away. Subject(s): Nature THE GREEK BOY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone are the glorious greeks of old Last Line: The nations silent in its shade. Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE GREEK PARTISAN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our free flag is dancing Last Line: Like autumn sheaves are lying. Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Liberty; Greeks THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS [MAY 9, 1775], by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here halt we our march, and pitch our tent Last Line: For the deeds of to-morrow night. Subject(s): Allen, Ethan (1738-1789); American Revolution; Soldiers; Ticonderoga, Battle Of (1775) THE HOLY STAR, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As shadows cast by cloud and sun Last Line: To fill the world with light. Variant Title(s): Christmas;the Star Of Bethlehem Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The THE HUNTER OF THE PRAIRIES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, this is freedom! - these pure skies Last Line: That welcome my return at night. Subject(s): Hunting; Hunters THE HUNTER'S SERENADE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy bower is finished, fairest! Last Line: All night, with none to hear. Subject(s): Hunting; Hunters THE HUNTER'S VISION, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a rock that, high and sheer Last Line: The dream and life at once were o'er. Subject(s): Hunting; Hunters THE HURRICANE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of the winds! I feel thee nigh Last Line: Alone with the terrible hurricane. Subject(s): Hurricanes; Nature THE INDIAN GIRL'S LAMENT, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An indian girl was sitting where Last Line: The rustling of my footsteps near. Subject(s): Native Americans - Women; Grief; Squaws; Sorrow; Sadness THE JOURNEY OF LIFE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the waning moon I walk at night Last Line: With warmth, and certainty, and boundless light. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE KNIGHT'S EPITAPH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the church which pisa, great and free Last Line: "and love, and music, his inglorious life." Subject(s): Epitaphs; Knights & Knighthood THE LAND OF DREAMS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mighty realm is the land of dreams Last Line: Shall lie on the path of thy daily life. THE LAPSE OF TIME, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lament who will, in fruitless tears Last Line: A lighter burden on the heart. Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence THE LIFE THAT IS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, who so long hast pressed the couch of pain Last Line: For his meek followers, shall assign thy place. Subject(s): Life THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF THE SNOW, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of your old-world stories, uncle john Last Line: As one would scatter flowers upon a bier. Subject(s): Children; Story-telling; Snow; Childhood THE LIVING LOST, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Matron! The children of whose love Last Line: A gloom from which ye turn your eyes. Subject(s): Despair THE MAIDEN'S SORROW, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven long years has the desert rain Last Line: I shall feel it no more again. Subject(s): Death - Fathers; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE MASACRE AT SCIO, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not for scio's children slain Last Line: Is shivered, to be worn no more. Subject(s): Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832); Chios (island), Greece; Massacres THE MAY-SUN SHEDS AN AMBER LIGHT, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THE MOTHER'S HYMN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, who ordainest for mankind Last Line: In ways of love and truth and right. Variant Title(s): The Mother's Charge Subject(s): Mothers THE MURDERED TRAVELLER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When spring, to woods and wastes around Last Line: Far down that narrow glen. Subject(s): Travel; Murder; Journeys; Trips THE NEW AND THE OLD, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New are the leaves on the oaken spray Last Line: "chilling the blood, and frosting the brow." Subject(s): Nature THE NEW MOON, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, as the garish day is gone Last Line: Like that new light in heaven. Subject(s): Moon THE NIGHT JOURNEY OF A RIVER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh river, gentle river! Gliding on Last Line: The crystal brightness of thy mountain-springs. Subject(s): Rivers THE OLD MAN'S COUNSEL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among our hills and valleys, I have known Last Line: Is at my side, his voice is in my ear. Subject(s): Holidays; Old Age; Trees THE OLD MAN'S FUNERAL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw an aged man with [or, upon] his bier Last Line: Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to die. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials THE PAINTED CUP, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fresh savannas of the sangamon Last Line: Of these bright beakers, drain the gathered dew. Subject(s): Flowers THE PAST, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou unrelenting past! Last Line: Fills the next grave -- the beautiful and young. Subject(s): Past THE PATH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The path we planned beneath october's sky Last Line: To bar the ways for mutual succor made! Subject(s): Hiking; Nature THE PLANTING OF THE APPLE TREE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us plant the appple tree Last Line: "on planting the apple-tree." Subject(s): Apple Trees THE POET, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, who wouldst wear the name / of poet mid thy breathren of mankind Last Line: "that sway from mood to mood the willing mind!" Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE PRAIRIES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the gardens of the desert, these Last Line: And I am in the wilderness alone. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains THE RETURN OF THE BIRDS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear, from many a little throat Last Line: "and freedom to the slave!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; Holidays; Trees; United States - History THE RETURN OF YOUTH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friend, thou sorrowest for thy golden prime Last Line: More musical in that celestial air? Subject(s): Youth THE RIVULET, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This little rill, that from the springs Last Line: Shalt mock the fading race of men. Subject(s): Cummington, Massachusetts THE SKIES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, gloriously thou standest there Last Line: For seats of innocence and rest. Variant Title(s): The Firmament Subject(s): Sky THE SNOW-SHOWER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand here by my side and turn, I pray Last Line: At rest in the dark and silent lake. Subject(s): Nature; Snow; Winter THE SONG OF THE SOWER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maples redden in the sun Last Line: The sails that bring thy glistening store. Subject(s): Maple Trees THE STORY OF SEVENTY-SIX, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What heroes from the woodland sprung Last Line: Profaned the soil no more. Variant Title(s): Seventy-six: American War Of Independence Subject(s): American Revolution; Patriotism THE STRANGE LADY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by Last Line: He went to dwell with her, the friends who mourned him never knew. Subject(s): Hunting; Women; Death; Hunters; Dead, The THE STREAM OF LIFE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh silvery streamlet of the fields Last Line: The dust alone remains. Subject(s): Life THE THIRD OF NOVEMBER, 1861, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Softly breathes the west-wind beside the ruddy forest Last Line: Leave the heart unfrozen, and spare the cheerful mind! Subject(s): Nature THE TIDES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is at her full, and, riding high Last Line: In a serener sphere. Subject(s): Tides THE TWENTY-SECOND OF DECEMBER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild was the day; the wintry sea Last Line: This hallowed day like us shall keep. Subject(s): Winter THE TWENTY-SECOND OF FEBRUARY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale is the february sky Last Line: Increase of honors to his name. Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) THE TWENTY-SEVENTH OF MARCH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, gentle one, thy birthday sun should rise Last Line: And living fountains of a brighter land. Subject(s): Birthdays THE TWO GRAVES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a bleak wild hill, but green and bright Last Line: Till the day when their bodies shall leave the ground. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE TWO TRAVELLERS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas evening, and before my eyes Last Line: Had passed, and he was lost to sight. Subject(s): Travel; Farewell; Journeys; Trips; Parting THE UNKNOWN WAY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A burning sky is o'er me Last Line: With a boundless sea before? THE VOICE OF AUTUMN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There comes, from yonder height Last Line: And must leave. Subject(s): Autumn; Fall THE WANING MOON, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've watched too late; the morn is near Last Line: On glistening dew and glimmering stream. Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence THE WEST WIND, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the forest's skirts I rest Last Line: Thou lov'st to sigh and murmur still. Subject(s): Wind THE WHITE-FOOTED DEER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a hundred years ago Last Line: And prowls the fox at night. Subject(s): Deer THE WIND AND STREAM, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A brook came stealing from the ground Last Line: The ever-murmuring, mourning stream. Subject(s): Nature THE WINDS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye winds, ye unseen currents of the air Last Line: Crowd back to narrow bounds the ancient night Subject(s): Wind THE YELLOW VIOLET, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When beechen buds begin to swell Last Line: That made the woods of april bright. Subject(s): Flowers; Spring; Violets THERE IS A POWER WHOSE CARE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THERE IS A SACRED DREAD OF DEATH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography TO A CLOUD, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful cloud! With folds so soft and fair Last Line: Miss thee, forever from the sky. Subject(s): Cloud TO A MOSQUITO, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair insect! That, with threadlike legs spread out Last Line: No angry hand shall rise to brush thy wings. Variant Title(s): The Mosquito Subject(s): Mosquitoes TO A WATERFOWL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither, midst falling dew Last Line: Will lead my steps aright. Variant Title(s): The Waterfowl Subject(s): Birds; Faith; God; Migration; Nature; Religion; Soldiers; Waterfowl; Belief; Creed; Theology TO COLE, THE PAINTER, DEPARTING FOR EUROPE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thine eyes shall see the light of distant skies Last Line: But keep that earlier, wilder image bright. Variant Title(s): Sonnet--to An American Painter Departing For Europe Subject(s): Americans In Europe; Cole, Thomas (1801-1848); Paintings & Painters TO THE APENNINES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your peaks are beautiful, ye apennines! Last Line: Pine silently for the redeeming hour. Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Italy; Mountains; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou blossom bright with autumn dew Last Line: May look to heaven as I depart. Subject(s): Flowers; Gentians; Plants; Fringed Gentians; Planting; Planters TO THE RIVER ARVE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not from the sands or cloven rocks Last Line: Among the blossoms at their feet. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TREE-BURIAL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near our southwestern border, when a child Last Line: "my home till I depart to be with thee." Subject(s): Holidays; Trees UPON THE MOUNTAIN'S DISTANT HEAD, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) WAITING BY THE GATE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside a massive gateway built up in years gone by Last Line: I stand and calmly wait till the hinges turn for me. Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence WASHINGTON, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great were the hearts and strong the minds WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet has no month a prouder day WESTERN WORLD, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late, from this western shore, that morning. WHAT CORDIAL WELCOMES GREET THE GUEST, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography WHEN THE FIRMAMENT QUIVERS WITH DAYLIGHT'S YOUNG BEAM, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHERE FALL THE TEARS OF LOVE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Trees WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, by ANN STRUTHERS Poem Source First Line: His wife frannie, tucked between the white sheets WILLIAM TELL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chains may subdue the feeble spirit, but thee Last Line: For the great work to set thy country free. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Tell, William; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss |
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