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 ...
The sea is mighty, but a mightier swaysHis restless billows. Thou, whose hands have scoopedHis boundless gulfs and built his ...
When insect wings are glistening in the beamOf the low sun, and mountain-tops are bright,Oh, let me, by the crystal ...
Ere, in the northern gale,The summer tresses of the trees are gone,The woods of Autumn, all around our vale,Have put ...
Cool shades and dews are round my way,And silence of the early day;Mid the dark rocks that watch his bed,Glitters ...
'Oh father, let us hence--for hark,A fearful murmur shakes the air.The clouds are coming swift and dark:--What horrid shapes they ...
Beneath the forest's skirts I rest, Whose branching pines rise dark and high, And hear the breezes of the West ...
The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by, As if they loved to breast the breeze ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
The day had been a day of wind and storm;-- The wind was laid, the storm was overpast,-- And stooping ...
Ay, thou art for the grave; thy glances shine Too brightly to shine long; another Spring Shall deck her for ...
The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the ...
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