William Cullen Bryant on Nature
1794–1878 United States
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To him who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language.
Thanatopsis (1817)
Pleasantly, between the pelting showers, the sunshine gushes down.
Go forth under the open sky, and list
To Nature's teachings.
Thanatopsis (1817)
Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find
The perfumes thou dost bring?
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.
The faint old man shall lean his silver head
To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep,
And dry the moistened curls that overspread
His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.