122 Quotes by William Cullen Bryant

The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

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

There is a power whose careTeaches thy way along that pathless coast, --

There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, --

Man hath no part in all this glorious work:The hand that built the firmament hath heavedAnd smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopesWith herbage. . . .

Man hath no part in all this glorious work: The hand that built the firmament hath heaved And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopes With herbage. . . .

Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away

So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers.

He who, from zone to zone,Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,In the long way that I must tread alone,Will lead my steps aright.