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Subject: BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN (1794-1878)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BRYANT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The harp has fallen from the master's
Last Line: How sweet must be the heavenly anthem now!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Poetry & Poets


BRYANT, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For him all nature had a voice
Last Line: Were companions all his life.
Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Nature; Poetry & Poets


BRYANT ON HIS BIRTHDAY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We praise not now the poet's art
Last Line: Our country may be saved and freed!
Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Poetry & Poets


BRYANT'S BIRTHPLACE, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid these haunts a poet's boyhood drew
Last Line: And finds his soul, despite the years, at home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme.
Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Cummington, Massachusetts; Poetry & Poets


BRYANT'S SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O even-handed nature! We confess
Last Line: And every white-throned star fixed in its lost abode!
Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Poetry & Poets


CHANT FOR THE BRYANT FESTIVAL, NOVEMBER 5, 1864, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One hour be silent, sounds of war!
Last Line: Fulfil her poet's prophecies!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Fame; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Truth; War; Reputation


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


IN MEMORIAM: BRYANT DEAD!, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo! There he lies, our patriarch poet,dead!
Last Line: Lifts to song's fadeless heaven his star-like fame!
Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Poetry & Poets


ON BOARD THE '76; WRITTEN FOR BRYANT'S SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our ship lay tumbling in an angry sea
Last Line: Himself our bravest crown.
Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Poetry & Poets; Sea; Ocean


TO A POETICAL TRIO IN THE CITY OF GOTHAM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bards of the island city! - where of old
Last Line: "ye shall be blessed with, and not ""damned to fame""!"
Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Jackson, Andrew (1767-1845); Lawson, James (1799-1880); Leggett, William (1801-1839); New York City; Poetry & Poets; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


VATES PATRIAE, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There came a woman in the night
Last Line: On his gray head to-night!
Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Honor; Poetry And Poets