Poems / by William Cullen Bryant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, author.

Contributor:

Dickinson, Samuel N. (Samuel Nelson), 1801-1848, printer.

Russell, Odiorne, and Metcalf, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--19th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Embossed cloth (Binding) -- 1834.

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1834.

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Poems -- 1834.

Presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

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Physical Description:

xi, 240 pages 20 cm

Distribution:

Boston : Samuel N. Dickinson, Printer,

Other Title:

Bryant's poems

Place of Publication:

Boston : Russell, Odiorne, and Metcalf, 1834.

Contents:

The Ages

To the Past

Thanatopsis

The Lapse of Time

To the Evening Wind

Forest Hymn

The Old Man's Funeral

The Rivulet

The Prairies

The Damsel of Peru

Song of Pitcairn's Island

Rizpah

The Indian Girl's Lament

The Arctic Lover to his Mistress

The Massacre at Scio

Version of a Fragment of Simonides

The Greek Partisan

Romero

Monument Mountain

The Murdered Traveller

Song of the Greek Amazon

The African Chief

Song

"Soon as the glazed and gleaming snow"

An Indian Story

The Hunter's Serenade

Song of Marion's Men

"Dost thou idly ask to hear"

Love and Folly (from La Fontaine)

Fatima and Raduan (from the Spanish)

The Death of Aliatar (from the Spanish)

The Alcayde of Molina (from the Spanish)

From the Spanish of Villegas

The Life of the Blessed (from the Spanish of Juan Ponce de Leon)

Mary Magdalen (from the Spanish of Bartolome Leonardo de Argensola)

The Siesta (from the Spanish)

From the Spanish of Pedro de Castro y Anaya

Sonnet from the Portuguese of Semedo

Love in the Age of Chivalry (from Peyre Vidal, the Troubadour)

The Love of God (from the Provensal of Bernard Rascas)

The Hurricane

March

Spring in Town

Summer Wind

Autumn Woods

A Winter Piece

"Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids"

The Disinterred Warrior

The Greek Boy

"Upon the Mountain's Distant Head"

Sonnet

William Tell

To the River Arve (supposed to be written at a hamlet near the foot of Mont Blanc)

Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood

"When the Firmament Quivers with Daylight's Young Beam"

A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson

The West Wind

To a Musquito

"I Broke the Spell that Held Me Long"

The Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus

June

The Two Graves

The New Moon

The Gladness of Nature

To the Fringed Gentian

"Innocent Child and Snow-White Flower"

Sonnet

Midsummer

October

November

A Meditation on Rhode Island Coal

An Indian at the Burial-Place of His Father

To an American Painter Departing for Europe

Green River

To a Cloud

After a Tempest

The Burial-Place

A Fragment

The Yellow Violet

"I Cannot Forget with What Fervid Devotion"

Lines on Re-Visiting the Country

Mutation

Hymn to the North-Star

The Twenty-Second of December

Ode for an Agricultural Celebration

A Walk at Sunset

Hymn of the Waldenses

Song of the Stars

Hymn of the City

"No Man Knoweth His Sepulchre"

"Blessed are They that Mourn"

The Skies

The Journey of Life

To

The Death of the Flowers

Hymn to Death

To a Waterfowl.

Notes:

"The present edition contains a few poems which were not in the first, and of which two or three have never before appeared in print. The author has also made a few corrections, some of which were suggested by the criticisms which have fallen in his way."--Advertisement.

Contains Preface to the First Edition dated 1832.

"Notes": pages 225-240.

Local Notes:

Libra Rare copy has "95/5" written on front free endpaper and in the margins. Copy has marginal marks.

Other Format:

Online version: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878. Poems.

OCLC:

2377019