William Cullen Bryant - Bright Quotes

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The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by,
As if they loved to breast the breeze that sweeps the cool clear sky.

William Cullen Bryant

Oh, sun! that o'er the western mountains now
Goest down in glory! ever beautiful
And blessed is thy radiance, whether thou
Colourest the eastern heaven and night-mist cool,
Till the bright day-star vanish, or on high
Climbest and streamest thy white splendours from mid-sky.

William Cullen Bryant

Gently - so have good men taught -
Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide
Into the new; the eternal flow of things,
Like a bright river of the fields of heaven,
Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.

William Cullen Bryant

Do not the bright June roses blow
To meet thy kiss at morning hours?

William Cullen Bryant

The sweet calm sunshine of October, now
Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold
The pur0ple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough
drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.

William Cullen Bryant

I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.

William Cullen Bryant

Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue....

William Cullen Bryant