William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.

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    When you can pipe that merry old strain,
    Robert of Lincoln, come back again.
    —William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)

    Oh mother of a mighty race,
    Yet lovely in thy youthful grace!
    The elder dames, thy haughty peers,
    Admire and hate thy blooming years.
    —William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)

    These are the Gardens of the Desert, these
    The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful,
    And fresh as the young earth, ere man had sinned—
    —William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)