Talk:William Cullen Bryant

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 * A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.


 * A world of blossoms for the bee, Flowers for the sick girl's silent room, For the glad infant sprigs of bloom, We plant with the apple tree.
 * Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.


 * Eloquence is the poetry of prose.


 * Modest and shy as a nun is she; One weak chirp is her only note; Braggarts and prince of braggarts is he, Pouring boasts from his little throat.


 * No trumpet-blast profound the hour in which the Prince of Peace was born; No bloody streamlet stained Earth's silver rivers on the sacred morn.


 * Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.


 * Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.


 * The daffodil is our doorside queen; she pushes upward the sword already, To spot with sunshine the early green.


 * The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.


 * The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night.


 * There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.


 * Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.


 * Where fall the tears of love the rose appears, And where the ground is bright with friendship's tears, Forget-me-not, and violets, heavenly blue, Spring glittering with the cheerful drops like dew.


 * Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?


 * Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.