01c. 1836 ADA melancholy sound is in the air, A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night.William Cullen Bryant / quote ↗
02c. 1836 ADBut Winter has yet brighter scenes—he boasts Splendors beyond what gorgeous Summer knows; Or Autumn with his many fruits, and woods All flushed with many hues.William Cullen Bryant / quote ↗
03c. 1836 ADI sigh not over vanished years, But watch the years that hasten by. Look, how they come,—a mingled crowd Of bright and dark, but rapid days.William Cullen Bryant / quote ↗
06c. 1836 ADThere's a dance of leaves in that aspen bower, There's a titter of winds in that beechen tree, There's a smile on the fruit, and a smile on the flower, And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea.William Cullen Bryant / quote ↗
07c. 1836 ADSo live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which movesTo that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustain'd and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams."ThanatopsisWilliam Cullen Bryant / quote ↗
08c. 1836 ADCan anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to fix, by assize, the wages of the poor? If this is not slavery, we have forgotten its definition. Strike the right of associating for the sale of labor from the privileges of a freeman, and you may as well bind him to a master, or ascribe him to the soil.William Cullen Bryant / quote ↗
09c. 1836 ADWeep not that the world changes- did it keep a stable changeless state it were a cause indeed to weep.William Cullen Bryant / quote ↗
