To me it seems that one of the most important requisites for a great poet is a luminous style. The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man.
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They talk of short-lived pleasures be it so pain dies as quickly, and lets her weary the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.William Cullen Bryant
Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
William Cullen Bryant
Pure was thy life its bloody closeHath placed thee with the sons of light,Among the noble host of thoseWho perished in the cause of Right.
William Cullen Bryant
The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown And sear.
William Cullen Bryant
Childhood, with all its mirth,Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground,And last, Man's Life on earth,Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound.
William Cullen Bryant
So they, who climb to wealth, forgetThe friends in darker fortunes tried.I copied them -- but I regretThat I should ape the ways of pride.
William Cullen Bryant
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