Catterskill Falls (William Cullen Bryant Poems)
Midst greens and shades the Catterskill leaps,From cliffs where the wood-flower clings;All summer he moistens his verdant steepsWith the sweet ...
Midst greens and shades the Catterskill leaps,From cliffs where the wood-flower clings;All summer he moistens his verdant steepsWith the sweet ...
I sat beside the glowing grate, fresh heapedWith Newport coal, and as the flame grew bright--The many-coloured flame--and played and ...
When insect wings are glistening in the beamOf the low sun, and mountain-tops are bright,Oh, let me, by the crystal ...
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 ...
To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for ...
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and ...
Ay! gloriously thou standest there, Beautiful, boundless firmament! That swelling wide o'er earth and air, And round the horizon bent, ...
The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses--showers and ...
Ay, thou art welcome, heaven's delicious breath! When woods begin to wear the crimson leaf, And suns grow meek, and ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of ...
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