An Indian Story (William Cullen Bryant Poems)
'I know where the timid fawn abidesIn the depths of the shaded dell,Where the leaves are broad and the thicket ...
'I know where the timid fawn abidesIn the depths of the shaded dell,Where the leaves are broad and the thicket ...
The sea is mighty, but a mightier swaysHis restless billows. Thou, whose hands have scoopedHis boundless gulfs and built his ...
It is the spot I came to seek,--My fathers' ancient burial-placeEre from these vales, ashamed and weak,Withdrew our wasted race.It ...
The quiet August noon has come,A slumberous silence fills the sky,The fields are still, the woods are dumb,In glassy sleep ...
OH mother of a mighty race,Yet lovely in thy youthful grace!The elder dames, thy haughty peers,Admire and hate thy blooming ...
Cool shades and dews are round my way,And silence of the early day;Mid the dark rocks that watch his bed,Glitters ...
Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds ...
Beneath the forest's skirts I rest, Whose branching pines rise dark and high, And hear the breezes of the West ...
When beechen buds begin to swell, And woods the blue-bird's warble know, The yellow violet's modest bell Peeps from last-year's ...
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and ...
Is this a time to be cloudy and sad, When our mother Nature laughs around; When even the deep blue ...
Yet one smile more, departing, distant sun! One mellow smile through the soft vapoury air, Ere, o'er the frozen earth, ...
The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses--showers and ...
It is a sultry day; the sun has drank The dew that lay upon the morning grass, There is no ...
I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round, And thought that when I came to lie At ...
Matron! the children of whose love, Each to his grave, in youth have passed, And now the mould is heaped ...
Come, take our boy, and we will go Before our cabin door; The winds shall bring us, as they blow, ...
The day had been a day of wind and storm;-- The wind was laid, the storm was overpast,-- And stooping ...
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