- 1William Cullen Bryant
- 2To the Reader
- 3Poems
- 4Thanatopsis
- 5The Yellow Violet
- 6Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood
- 7Song
- 8To a Waterfowl
- 9Green River
- 10A Winter Piece
- 11The West Wind
- 12The Burial-Place
- 13“Blessed Are They That Mourn”
- 14“No Man Knoweth His Sepulchre”
- 15A Walk at Sunset
- 16Hymn to Death
- 17The Massacre at Scio
- 18The Indian Girl’s Lament
- 19Ode for an Agricultural Celebration
- 20Rizpah
- 21The Old Man’s Funeral
- 22The Rivulet
- 23March
- 24Consumption
- 25An Indian Story
- 26Summer Wind
- 27An Indian at the Burial-Place of His Fathers
- 28Song
- 29Hymn of the Waldenses
- 30Monument Mountain
- 31After a Tempest
- 32Autumn Woods
- 33Mutation
- 34November
- 35Song of the Greek Amazon
- 36To a Cloud
- 37The Murdered Traveller
- 38Hymn to the North Star
- 39The Lapse of Time
- 40The Song of the Stars
- 41A Forest Hymn
- 42“Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids”
- 43“I Broke the Spell That Held Me Long”
- 44June
- 45A Song of Pitcairn’s Island
- 46The Firmament
- 47“I Cannot Forget With What Fervid Devotion”
- 48To a Mosquito
- 49Lines on Revisiting the Country
- 50The Death of the Flowers
- 51Romero
- 52A Meditation on Rhode Island Coal
- 53The New Moon
- 54October
- 55The Damsel of Peru
- 56The African Chief
- 57Spring in Town
- 58The Gladness of Nature
- 59The Disinterred Warrior
- 60Midsummer
- 61The Greek Partisan
- 62The Two Graves
- 63The Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus
- 64A Summer Ramble
- 65A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson
- 66The Hurricane
- 67William Tell
- 68The Hunter’s Serenade
- 69The Greek Boy
- 70The Past
- 71“Upon the Mountain’s Distant Head”
- 72The Evening Wind
- 73“When the Firmament Quivers With Daylight’s Young Beam”
- 74“Innocent Child and Snow-White Flower”
- 75To the River Arve
- 76To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe
- 77To the Fringed Gentian
- 78The Twenty-Second of December
- 79Hymn of the City
- 80The Prairies
- 81Song of Marion’s Men
- 82The Arctic Lover
- 83The Journey of Life
- 84Translations
- 85From the Spanish of Villegas
- 86Mary Magdalen
- 87The Life of the Blessed
- 88Fatima and Raduan
- 89Love and Folly
- 90The Siesta
- 91The Alcayde of Molina
- 92The Death of Aliatar
- 93Love in the Age of Chivalry
- 94The Love of God
- 95From the Spanish of Pedro de Castro Y Añaya
- 96Sonnet
- 97Song
- 98The Count of Greiers
- 99The Serenade
- 100A Northern Legend
- 101The Paradise of Tears
- 102The Lady of Castle Windeck
- 103Later Poems
- 104Earth
- 105The Knight’s Epitaph
- 106The Hunter of the Prairies
- 107Seventy-Six
- 108The Living Lost
- 109Catterskill Falls
- 110The Strange Lady
- 111Life
- 112“Earth’s Children Cleave to Earth”
- 113The Hunter’s Vision
- 114The Green Mountain Boys
- 115A Presentiment
- 116The Child’s Funeral
- 117The Battle-Field
- 118The Future Life
- 119The Death of Schiller
- 120The Fountain
- 121The Winds
- 122The Old Man’s Counsel
- 123In Memory of William Leggett
- 124An Evening Revery
- 125The Painted Cup
- 126A Dream
- 127The Antiquity of Freedom
- 128The Maiden’s Sorrow
- 129The Return of Youth
- 130A Hymn of the Sea
- 131Noon
- 132The Crowded Street
- 133The White-Footed Deer
- 134The Waning Moon
- 135The Stream of Life
- 136The Unknown Way
- 137“Oh Mother of a Mighty Race”
- 138The Land of Dreams
- 139The Burial of Love
- 140“The May Sun Sheds an Amber Light”
- 141The Voice of Autumn
- 142The Conqueror’s Grave
- 143The Planting of the Apple-Tree
- 144The Snow-Shower
- 145A Rain-Dream
- 146Robert of Lincoln
- 147The Twenty-Seventh of March
- 148An Invitation to the Country
- 149A Song for New-Year’s Eve
- 150The Wind and Stream
- 151The Lost Bird
- 152The Night Journey of a River
- 153The Life That Is
- 154Song
- 155A Sick-Bed
- 156The Song of the Sower
- 157The New and the Old
- 158The Cloud on the Way
- 159The Tides
- 160Italy
- 161A Day-Dream
- 162The Ruins of Italica
- 163Waiting by the Gate
- 164Not Yet
- 165Our Country’s Call
- 166The Constellations
- 167The Third of November, 1861
- 168The Mother’s Hymn
- 169Sella
- 170The Fifth Book of Homer’s Odyssey
- 171The Little People of the Snow
- 172The Poet
- 173The Path
- 174The Return of the Birds
- 175“He Hath Put All Things Under His Feet”
- 176My Autumn Walk
- 177Dante
- 178The Death of Lincoln
- 179The Death of Slavery
- 180“Receive Thy Sight”
- 181A Brighter Day
- 182Among the Trees
- 183May Evening
- 184October, 1866
- 185The Order of Nature
- 186Tree-Burial
- 187A Legend of the Delawares
- 188A Lifetime
- 189The Two Travellers
- 190Christmas in 1875
- 191The Flood of Years
- 192Our Fellow-Worshippers
Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant
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