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 This LARGE-PAPER EDITION is limited to 
 One Hundred and Ten numbered copies, 
 of which only one hundred will be sold.
 
 .graved by S.HoUyer. vhittenbur^.N. J. 

 
 CHRONOLOGIES OF THE LIFE 
 AND WRITINGS OF 
 
 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT 
 
 WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS WORKS 
 IN PROSE AND VERSE 
 
 COMPILED BY 
 
 HENRY C. STURGES 
 
 TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A MEMOIR OF THE POET BY 
 
 RICHARD HENRY STODDARD 
 
 NEW YORK 
 
 D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 
 1903
 
 COPTBIOHT, 1903, 
 
 BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. 
 
 Published September, 190S.
 
 1 
 
 S 93 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 A MEMOIK OF BRYANT vii 
 
 A CHRONOLOGY OP BRYANT'S LIFE xxxi 
 
 A CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S POEMS Ixvi 
 
 A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF BRYANT'S WRITINGS . . Ixxvii 
 
 A LIST OF SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS BY BRYANT .... xciii 
 
 A LIST OF ORATIONS AND ADDRESSES BY BRYANT .... xcviii 
 
 A LIST OF ESSAYS AND REVIEWS BY BRYANT cvii 
 
 A LIST OF WORKS EDITED BY BRYANT OR CONTAINING INTRODUCTIONS 
 
 AND ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS cix 
 
 A LIST OF BIOGRAPHIES OF BRYANT cxxiv 
 
 A LIST OF MEMORIAL ADDRESSES ON BRYANT, ETC cxxvi 
 
 4S0573
 
 MEMOIE. 
 BY RICHARD HENRY STODDARD.
 
 MEMOIK. 
 
 THE ancestry of "William Cullen Bryant might have been 
 inferred from the character of his writings, which reflect what- 
 ever is best and noblest in the life and thought of New Eng- 
 land. It was a tradition that the first Bryant of whom there 
 is any account in the annals of the New World came over in 
 the Mayflower, but the tradition is not authenticated. What is 
 known of this gentleman, Mr. Stephen Bryant, is that he came 
 over from England, and that he was at Plymouth, Massachu- 
 setts, as early as 1632. He married Abigail Shaw, who had 
 emigrated with her father, and who bore him several children 
 between 1650 and 1665, it is to be presumed at Plymouth, of 
 which town he was chosen constable in 1663. Stephen Bryant 
 had a son named Ichabod, who was the father of Philip Bry; 
 ant, who was born in 1732. Philip Bryant married Silence 
 Howard, the daughter of Dr. Abiel Howard, of West Bridge- 
 water, whose profession he adopted, being a practitioner in 
 medicine in North Bridgewater. He was the father of nine 
 
 children, one of whom, Peter Bryant, born in 1767, succeeded 
 
 ix
 
 X MEMOIR. 
 
 him in his profession. Young Dr. Bryant became enamored 
 of Miss Sarah Snell, the daughter of Mr. Ebenezer Snell, of 
 Bridgewater, who removed his family to Cummington, whither 
 he was followed by his future son-in-law, who married the lady 
 of his love in 1792. Two years later, on the 3d of November, 
 there was born to him a man-child, who was to win, and to 
 
 " One of the few immortal names 
 That were not born to die." 
 
 Dr. Bryant was proud of his profession ; and in the hope, 
 no doubt, that his son would become a shining light therein, he 
 perpetuated at his christening the name of a great medical au- 
 thority, who had departed this life four years before William 
 Cullen. Dr. Bryant was the last of his family to practise the 
 healing art ; for Nature, wiser than he, early determined the 
 future course of Master "William Cullen Bryant. He was not 
 to be a doctor, but a poet. A poet, that is, if he lived to be 
 anything ; for the chances were against his living at all. The 
 lad was exceedingly frail, and had a head the immensity of 
 which troubled his anxious father. How to reduce it to the 
 normal size was a puzzle which Dr. Bryant solved in a spring 
 of clear, cold water, which burst out of the ground on or near 
 his homestead, and into which the child was immersed every 
 morning, head and all, by two of Dr. Bryant's students kick- 
 ing lustily, we may be sure, at this matutinal dose of hydro- 
 pathy. 
 
 "William Cullen Bryant came of Mayflower stock, his moth- 
 er being a descendant of John Alden ; and the characteristics
 
 MEMOIR. XI 
 
 of his family included some of the sterner qualities of the 
 Puritans. Grandfather Snell was a magistrate, and, without 
 doubt, a severe one, for the period was not one which favored 
 leniency to criminals. The whipping-post was still extant in 
 Massachusetts, and the poet remembered that it stood about a 
 mile from his early home at Cummington, and that he once 
 saw a young fellow of eighteen who had received forty lashes 
 as a punishment for a theft he had committed. It was, he 
 thought, the last example of corporal punishment inflicted by 
 law in that neighborhood, though the whipping-post remained 
 in its place for several years, a possible terror to future evil- 
 doers. " Spare the rod, spoil the child," was the Draconian 
 code then ; and the rod, in the shape of a little bundle of 
 birchen twigs, bound together with a small cord, was generally 
 suspended on a nail against the wall in the kitchen, and was as 
 much a part of the necessary furniture as the crane that hung 
 in the fireplace or the shovel and tongs. 
 
 Magistrate Snell was a disciplinarian of the stricter sort ; 
 and as he and his wife resided with Dr. Bryant and his family, 
 the latter stood in awe of him, so much so that young William 
 Cullen was prevented from feeling anything like affection for 
 him. It was an age of repression, not to say oppression, for 
 children, who had few rights that their elders were bound to 
 respect. To the terrors of the secular arm were added the 
 deeper terrors of the spiritual law, for the people of that primi- 
 tive period were nothing if not religious. The minister was 
 the great man, and his bodily presence was a restraint upon the 
 unruly, and the ruly too, for that matter. The lines of our an-
 
 lii MEMOIR. 
 
 cestors did not fall in pleasant places as far as recreations were 
 concerned ; for they were few and far between, consisting, for 
 the most part, of militia musters, "raisings," corn-huskings, 
 and singing-schools, diversified with the making of maple sugar 
 and cider. Education was confined to the three R's, though 
 the children of wealthy parents were sent to colleges as they 
 now are. It was not a genial social condition, it must be con- 
 fessed, to which William Cullen Bryant was born, though it 
 might have been worse but for his good father, who was in 
 many respects superior to his rustic neighbors. A broad-shoul- 
 dered, muscular gentleman, proud of his strength, his manners 
 were gentle and reserved, his disposition was serene, and he 
 was fond of society. He was not without political distinction, 
 for he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representa- 
 tives for several terms, and afterward to the State Senate, and 
 he associated with the cultivated circles of Boston both as a 
 legislator and a physician. 
 
 William Cullen Bryant was fortunate in his father, who, if 
 he was disappointed when he found that his son was born to 
 be a follower of Apollo and not of ^Esculapius, kept his dis- 
 appointment to himself, and encouraged the lad in his poetical 
 attempts. We have the authority of the poet himself that his 
 father taught his youth the art of verse, and that he offered 
 him to the Muses in the bud of life. His first efforts were 
 several clever " Enigmas," in imitation of the Latin writers, 
 a translation from Horace, and a copy of verses which were 
 written in his twelfth year, to be recited at the close of the 
 winter school, " in the presence of the Master, the Minister of
 
 MEMOIR. xiii 
 
 the parish, and a number of private gentlemen." They were 
 printed on the 18th of March, 1807, in the Hampshire Gazette, 
 from which these particulars are derived, and which was fa- 
 vored with other contributions from the pen of " C. B." 
 
 The juvenile poems of William Cullen Bryant are as clever 
 as those of Chatterton, Pope, and Cowley ; but they are in no 
 sense original, and it would have been strange if they had 
 been. There was no original writing in America at the time 
 they were written ; and if there had been, it would hardly 
 have commended itself to the old-fashioned taste of Dr. Bry- 
 ant, to whom Pope was still a power in poetry, as Addison, no 
 doubt, was in prose. It was natural, therefore, that he should 
 offer his boy to the strait-laced Muses of Queen Anne's time ; 
 that the precocious boy should lisp in heroic couplets, and that 
 he should endeavor to be satirical. Politics were running high 
 in the first decade of the present century, and the favorite bug- 
 bear in ISTew England was President Jefferson, who in 1807 had 
 laid an embargo on American shipping, in consequence of the de- 
 crees of Napoleon, and the British orders in council in relation 
 thereto. This act was denounced, and by no one more warmly 
 than by Master Bryant, who made it the subject of a satire, 
 which was published in Boston in 1808. It was entitled " The 
 Embargo ; or, Sketches of the Times," and was printed for 
 the purchasers, who were found in sufficient numbers to ex- 
 haust the first edition. It is said to have been well received, 
 but doubts were expressed as to whether the author was really 
 a youth of thirteen. His friends came to his rescue in an 
 " Advertisement," which was prefixed to a second edition of
 
 XIV MEMOIR. 
 
 his little 'brochure, published in the following year, and certi- 
 fied to his age from their personal knowledge of himself and 
 his family. They also certified to his extraordinary talents, 
 though they should prefer to have him judged by his works, 
 without favor or affection. They concluded by stating that 
 the printer was authorized to disclose their names and places 
 of residence. 
 
 The early poetical exercises of William Cullen Bryant, like 
 those of all young poets, were colored by the books which he 
 read. Among these were the works of Pope, as I have al- 
 ready intimated, and, no doubt, the works of Cowper and 
 Thomson. The latter, if they were in the library of Dr. Bry* 
 ant, do not appear to have impressed his son at this time ; nor, 
 indeed, does any English poet except Pope, so far as we can 
 judge from his contributions to the Hampshire Gazette, which 
 were continued from time to time. They were bookish and 
 patriotic ; one, which was written at Cummington on the 8th 
 of January, 1810, being "The Genius of Columbia;" and 
 another, " An Ode for the Fourth of July, 1812," to the tune 
 of " Ye Gentlemen of England." These productions are un- 
 deniably clever, but they are not characteristic of their writer, 
 nor of the nature which surrounded his birthplace, with which 
 he was familiar, and of which he was a close observer, as his 
 poetry was soon to disclose. 
 
 He entered "Williams College, in "Williamstown, Mass., in his 
 sixteenth year, and remained there until 1812, distinguishing 
 himself for aptness and industry in classical learning and polite 
 literature. At the end of two years he withdrew, and com-
 
 MEMOIR. XV 
 
 menced the study of law, first with Judge Howe, of Worth- 
 ington, and afterward with Mr. William Baylies, of Bridge- 
 water. So far he had written nothing but clever amateur 
 verse ; but now, in his eighteenth year, he wrote an imperish- 
 able poem. The circumstances under which it was composed 
 have been variously stated, but they agree in the main particu- 
 lars, and are thus given in " The Bryant Homestead Book " 
 (1870), apparently on authentic information : " It was here at 
 Cummington, while wandering in the primeval forests, over 
 the floor of which were scattered the gigantic trunks of fallen 
 trees, mouldering for long years, and suggesting an indefinitely 
 remote antiquity, and where silent rivulets crept along through 
 the carpet of dead leaves, the spoil of thousands of summers, 
 that the poem entitled ' Thanatopsis ' was composed. The 
 young poet had read the poems of Kirke White, which, edited 
 by Southey, were published about that time, and a small vol- 
 ume of Southey's miscellaneous poems ; and some lines of 
 those authors had kindled his imagination, which, going forth 
 over the face of the inhabitants of the globe, sought to bring 
 under one broad and comprehensive view the destinies of the 
 human race in the present life, and the perpetual rising and 
 passing away of generation after generation who are nourished 
 by the fruits of its soil, and find a resting-place in its bosom." 
 We should like to know what lines in Southey and Kirke 
 White suggested " Thanatopsis," that they might be printed in 
 letters of gold hereafter. 
 
 When the young poet quitted Cummington to begin his 
 law studies, he left the manuscript of this incomparable poem
 
 ivi MEMOIR. 
 
 among his papers in the house of his father, who found it 
 after his departure. " Here are some lines that our William 
 has been writing," he said to a lady to whom he showed them. 
 She read them, and, raising her eyes to the face of Dr. Bryant, 
 burst into tears a tribute to the genius of his son in which he 
 was not ashamed to join. Blackstone bade his Muse a long 
 adieu before he turned to wrangling courts and stubborn law ; 
 and our young lawyer intended to do the same (for poetry was 
 starvation in America seventy years ago), but habit and nature 
 were too strong for him. There is no difficulty in tracing the 
 succession of his poems, and in a few instances the places 
 where they were written, or with which they concerned them- 
 selves. " Thanatopsis," for example, was followed by " The 
 Yellow Violet," which was followed by the " Inscription for 
 the Entrance to a "Wood," and the song beginning " Soon as 
 the glazed and gleaming snow." The exquisite lines " To a 
 Waterfowl" were written at Bridgewater, in his twentieth 
 year, where he was still pursuing the study of law, which ap- 
 pears to have been distasteful to him. The concluding stanza 
 sank deeply into a heart that needed its pious lesson : 
 
 " 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." 
 
 The lawyer-poet had a long way before him, but he did 
 not tread it alone ; for, after being admitted to the bar in Ply- 
 mouth, and practising for a time in Plainfield, near Gumming-
 
 MEMOIR. xvi 
 
 ton, he removed to Great Barrington, in Berkshire, where he 
 saw the dwelling of the Genevieve of his chilly little " Song," 
 his Genevieve being Miss Frances Fairchild of that beautiful 
 town, whom he married in his twenty-seventh year, and who 
 was the light of his household for nearly half a century. It 
 was to her, the reader may like to know, that he addressed the 
 ideal poem beginning " O fairest of the rural maids " (circa 
 1825), "The Future Life" (1837), and "The Life that Is" 
 (1858) ; and her memory and her loss are tenderly embalmed in 
 one of the most touching of his later poems, " October, 1866." 
 " Thanatopsis " was sent to the North American fieview 
 (whether by its author or his father we are not told), and with 
 such a modest, not to say enigmatical, note of introduction, 
 that its authorship was left in doubt. The fieview was man- 
 aged by a club of young literary gentlemen, who styled them- 
 selves " The North American Club," two of whose members, 
 Mr. Kichard Henry Dana and Mr. Edward Tyrrel Charming, 
 were considered its editors. Mr. Dana read the poem care- 
 fully, and was so surprised at its excellence that he doubted 
 whether it was the production of an American, an opinion in 
 which his associates are understood to have concurred. While 
 they were hesitating about its acceptance, he was told that the 
 writer was a member of the Massachusetts Senate ; and, the 
 Senate being then in session, he started immediately from 
 Cambridge for Boston. He reached the State House, and in- 
 quired for Senator Bryant. A tall, middle-aged man, with a 
 business-like look, was pointed out to him. He was satisfied 
 that he could not be the poet he sought, so he posted back to
 
 XVU1 MEMOIR. 
 
 Cambridge without an introduction. The story ends here, and 
 rather tamely; for the original narrator forgot, or perhaps 
 never knew, that Dr. Bryant was a member of the Senate, and 
 that it was among the possibilities that he was the Senator with 
 a similar name. American poetry may be said to have com- 
 menced in 1817 with the September number of the Nwth 
 American fleview, which contained " Thanatopsis " and the 
 "Inscription for the Entrance of a Wood," the last being 
 printed as a " Fragment." Six months later, in March, 1818, 
 the impression which " Thanatopsis " created was strengthened 
 by the appearance of the lines " To a Waterfowl," and the 
 " Version of a Fragment of Simonides." 
 
 Mr. Bryant's literary life may now be said to have begun, 
 though he depended upon the practice of his profession for 
 his daily bread. He continued his contributions to the North 
 American fieview in the shape of prose papers on literary 
 topics, and maintained the most friendly relations with its con- 
 ductors ; notably so with Mr. Dana, who was seven years his 
 elder, and who possessed, like himself, the accomplishment of 
 verse. At the suggestion of this poetical and critical brother, 
 he was invited to deliver a poem before the Phi Beta Kappa 
 Society at Harvard College an honor which is offered only 
 to those who have already made a reputation, and are likely to 
 reflect credit on the Society as well as on themselves. He ac- 
 cepted, and in 1821 wrote his first poem of any length, " The 
 Ages," which still remains the best poem of the kind that was 
 ever recited before a college society either in this country or in 
 England; grave, stately, thoughtful, presenting in animated,
 
 MEMOIR. XIX 
 
 picturesque stanzas a compact summary of the history of man- 
 kind. A young Englishman of twenty-one Thomas Babing- 
 ton Macaulay delivered in the same year a poem on " Even- 
 ing," before the students of Trinity College, Cambridge ; and 
 it is instructive to compare his conventional heroics with the 
 spirited Spenserian stanzas of William Cullen Bryant. 
 
 The lines " To a Waterfowl," which were written at Bridge- 
 water in 1815, were followed by " Green Eiver," " A Winter 
 Piece," " The West Wind," The Burial-Place," " Blessed are 
 they that mourn," "No man knoweth his Sepulchre," "A 
 Walk at Sunset," and " The Hymn to Death." 
 
 These poems, which cover a period of six busy years, are 
 interesting to the poetic student as examples of the different 
 styles of their writer, and of the changing elements of his 
 thoughts and feelings. " Green River," for example, is a mo- 
 mentary revealment of his shy temperament and his daily 
 pursuits. Its glimpses of nature are charming, and his wish 
 to be beside its waters is the most natural one in the world. 
 The young lawyer is not complimentary to his clients, whom 
 he styles " the dregs of men," while his pen, which does its 
 best to serve them, becomes "a barbarous pen." He is de- 
 jected, but a visit to the river will restore his spirits ; for, as 
 he gazes upon its lonely and lovely stream, 
 
 " An image of that calm life appears 
 That won my heart in my greener years." 
 
 " A Winter Piece " is a gallery of woodland pictures which 
 surpasses anything of the kind in the language. " A Walk at
 
 XX MEMOIR. 
 
 Sunset " is notable in that it is the first poem in which we see 
 (faintly, it must be confessed) the aboriginal element, which 
 was soon to become a prominent one in Mr. Bryant's poetry. 
 It was inseparable from the primeval forests of the New 
 World, but he was the first to perceive its poetic value. The 
 " Hymn to Death " stately, majestic, consolatory concludes 
 with a touching tribute to the worth of his good father, who 
 died while he was writing it, at the age of fifty-four. The 
 year 1821 was an important one to Mr. Bryant, for it witnessed 
 the publication of his first collection of verse, his marriage, 
 and the death of his father. 
 
 The next four years of Mr. Bryant's lif e were more produc- 
 tive than any that had preceded them, for he wrote upward of 
 thirty poems during that time. The aboriginal element was 
 creative in " The Indian Girl's Lament," " An Indian Story," 
 " An Indian at the Burial-Place of his Fathers," and, noblest 
 of all, " Monument Mountain ; " the Hellenic element pre- 
 dominated in " The Massacre at Scio " and The Song of the 
 Greek Amazon ; " the Hebraic element touched him lightly 
 in " Kizpah " and the " Song of the Stars ; " and the pure 
 poetic element was manifest in "March," "The Kivulet" 
 (which, by the way, ran through the grounds of the old home- 
 stead at Cummington), "After a Tempest," "The Murdered 
 Traveler," "Hymn to the North Star," "A Forest Hymn," 
 " O fairest of the rural maids," and the exquisite and now 
 most pathetic poem, "June." These poems and others not 
 specified here, if read continuously and in the order in which 
 they were composed, show a wide range of sympathies, a per-
 
 MEMOIR. ixi 
 
 feet acquaintance with many measures, and a clear, capacious, 
 ever-growing intellect. They are all distinctive of the genius 
 of their author, but neither exhibits the full measure of his 
 powers. We can say of none of them, " The man who wrote 
 this will never write any better." 
 
 The publication of Mr. Bryant's little volume of verse was 
 indirectly the cause of his adopting literature as a profession. 
 It was warmly commended, and by no one more so than by Mr. 
 Gulian C. Verplanck, in the columns of the New York Ameri- 
 can. He was something of a literary authority at the time, a 
 man of fortune and college-bred, known in a mild way as the 
 author of an anniversary discourse delivered before the New 
 York Historical Society in 1818, of a political satire entitled 
 " The Bucktail Bards," and later of an " Essay on the Doc- 
 trine of Contracts." Among his friends was Mr. Henry D. 
 Sedgwick, a summer neighbor, so to speak, of Mr. Bryant's, 
 having a country-house at Stockbridge, a few miles from Great 
 Barrington, and a house in town, which was frequented by the 
 literati of the day, such as Verplanck, Halleck, Percival, Coo- 
 per, and others of less note. An admirer of Mr. Bryant, Mr. 
 Sedgwick set to work, with the assistance of Mr. Yerplanck, 
 to procure him literary employment in New York, in order to 
 enable him to escape his hated bondage to the law ; and he 
 was appointed assistant editor of a projected periodical called 
 the New York Review and Athenwwm Magazine. The at last 
 enfranchised lawyer dropped his barbarous pen, closed his 
 law-books, and in the winter or spring of 1825 removed with 
 his household to New York. The projected periodical was
 
 XX11 MEMOIR. 
 
 started, as these sanguine ventures always are, with fair hopes 
 of success. It was well edited, and its contributors were men 
 of acknowledged ability. The June number contained two 
 poems which ought to have made a great hit. One was " A 
 Song of Pitcairn's Island ; " the other was "Marco Bozzaris." 
 There was no flourish of trumpets over them, as there would 
 be now ; the writers merely prefixed their initials, " B." and 
 " H." The reading public of New York were not ready for 
 the fieview, which had been projected for their mental enlight- 
 enment ; so, after about a year's struggle, it was merged in the 
 New York Literary Gazette, which began its mission about 
 four years before. This magazine shared the fate of its com- 
 panion in a few months, when it was consolidated with the 
 United States Literary Gazette, which in two months was 
 swallowed up in the United States Review. The honor of 
 publishing and finishing the last was shared by Boston and 
 New York. Profit in these publications there was none, 
 though Bryant, Halleck, Willis, Dana, Bancroft, and Longfel- 
 low wrote for them. Too good, or not good enough, they 
 lived and died prematurely. Mr. Bryant's success as a metro- 
 politan man of letters was not brilliant so far ; but there were 
 other walks than those of pure literature open to him, as to 
 others, and into one of the most bustling of these he entered 
 in his thirty-second year. In other words, he became one of 
 the editors of the Evening Post. Henceforth he was to live 
 by journalism. 
 
 Journalism, though an exacting pursuit, leaves its skillful 
 followers a little leisure in which to cultivate literature. It
 
 MEMOIR. xxiii 
 
 was the heyday of those ephemeral trifles, Annuals, and Mr. 
 Bryant found time to edit one, with the assistance of his friend 
 Mr. Verplanck, and his acquaintance Mr. Kobert C. Sands 
 (who, by the way, was one of the editors of the Commercial 
 Advertiser), and a very creditable work it was. His contribu- 
 tions to "The Talisman" included some of his best poems. 
 Poetry was the natural expression of his genius a fact which 
 he could never understand, for it always seemed to him that 
 prose was the natural expression of all mankind. Hi a prose 
 was, and always continued to be, masterly. Its earliest exam- 
 ples, outside of his critical papers in the North American 
 Review and other periodicals (and outside of the Evening Post, 
 of course), are two stories entitled "Medfield" and "The 
 Skeleton's Cave," contributed by him to " Tales of the Glauber 
 Spa " (1832) a collection of original stories by Mr. James K. 
 Paulding, Mr. Yerplanck, Mr. Sands, Mr. "William Leggett, 
 and Miss Catharine Sedgwick. Three years before (1828) he 
 had become the chief editor of the Evening Post. Associated 
 with him was Mr. Leggett, who had shown some talent as a 
 writer of sketches and stories, and who had failed, like himself, 
 in conducting a critical publication, for which his countrymen 
 were not ready. He made a second collection of his poems at 
 this time (1832), a copy of which was sent by Mr. Yerplanck 
 to Mr. "Washington Irving, who was then, what he had been 
 for years, the idol of English readers, and not without weight 
 with the Trade. Would he see if some English house would 
 not reprint it ? No leading publisher nibbled at it, not even 
 Murray, who was Mr. Irving's publisher ; but an obscure book-
 
 XXIV MEMOIR. 
 
 seller named Andrews finally agreed to undertake it, if Mr. 
 Irving would put his valuable name on the title-page as the 
 editor. He was not acquainted with Mr. Bryant, but he was a 
 kind-hearted, large-souled gentleman, who knew good poetry 
 when he saw it, and he consented to " edit " the book. He 
 was not a success in the estimation of Andrews, who came to 
 him one day, by no means a merry Andrew, and declared that 
 the book would ruin him unless one or more changes were 
 made in the text. What was amiss in it ? He turned to the 
 "Song of Marion's Men," and stumbled over an obnoxious 
 couplet in the first stanza : 
 
 " The British soldier trembles 
 When Marion's name is told." 
 
 "That won't do at all, you know." The absurdity of the 
 objection must have struck the humorist comically ; but as he 
 wanted the volume republished, he good-naturedly saved the 
 proverbial valor of the British soldier by changing the first 
 
 line to 
 
 " The foeman trembles in his camp," 
 
 and the tempest in a teapot was over, as far as England was 
 concerned. Not as far as the United States was concerned, 
 however; for when the circumstance became known to Mr. 
 Leggett, he excoriated Mr. Irving for his subserviency to a 
 bloated aristocracy, and so forth. Mr. John "Wilson reviewed 
 the book in BlackwoocFs Magazvne in a half-hearted way, 
 patronizing the writer with his praise. 
 
 The poems that Mr. Bryant wrote during the first seven
 
 MEMOIR. XXV 
 
 years of his residence in New York (some forty in number, not 
 including translations) exhibited the qualities which distin- 
 guished his genius from the beginning, and were marked by 
 characteristics which were rather acquired than inherited. In 
 other words, they were somewhat different from those which 
 were written at Great Barrington. The Hellenic element was 
 still visible in " The Greek Partisan" and The Greek Boy," 
 and the aboriginal element in "The Disinterred Warrior." 
 The large imagination of " The Hymn to the North Star " was 
 radiant in "The Firmament," and in "The Past." Ardent 
 love of nature found expressive utterance in " Lines on Revis- 
 iting the Country," "The Gladness of Nature," "A Summer 
 Ramble," " A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson," and " The 
 Evening Wind." The little book of immortal dirges had a 
 fresh leaf added to it in " The Death of the Flowers," which 
 was at once a pastoral of autumn and a monody over a beloved 
 sister. A new element appeared in "The Summer Wind," 
 and was always present afterward in Mr. Bryant's meditative 
 poetry the association of humanity with nature a calm but 
 sympathetic recognition of the ways of man and his presence 
 on the earth. The power of suggestion and of rapid general- 
 ization, which was the key-note of " The Ages," lived anew in 
 every line of " The Prairies," in which a series of poems pre- 
 sent themselves to the imagination as a series of pictures in a 
 gallery pictures in which breadth and vigor of treatment and 
 exquisite delicacy of detail are everywhere harmoniously blend- 
 ed, and the unity of pure Art is attained. It was worth going 
 to the ends of the world to be able to write " The Prairies."
 
 MEMOIR. 
 
 Confiding in the discretion of his associate Mr. Leggett, 
 and anxious to escape from his daily editorial labors, Mr. Bry- 
 ant sailed for Europe with his family in the summer of 1834. 
 It was his intention to perfect his literary studies while abroad, 
 and to devote himself to the education of his children ; but his 
 intention was frustrated, after a short course of travel in France, 
 Germany, and Italy, by the illness of Mr. Leggett, whose mis- 
 taken zeal in the advocacy of unpopular measures had seriously 
 injured the Evening Post. He returned in haste early in 
 1836, and devoted his time and energies to restoring the pros- 
 perity of his paper. Nine years passed before he ventured to 
 return to Europe, though he managed to visit certain portions 
 of his own country. His readers tracked his journeys through 
 the letters which he wrote to the Evening Post, and which 
 were noticeable for justness of observation and clearness of 
 expression. A selection from Mr. Bryant's foreign and home 
 letters was published in 1852, under the title of " Letters of a 
 Traveler." 
 
 The life of a man of letters is seldom eventful. There 
 are, of course, exceptions to the rule ; for literature, like other 
 polite professions, is never without its disorderly followers. It 
 is instructive to trace their careers, "which are usually short 
 ones ; but the contemplation of the calm, well-regulated, self- 
 respecting lives of the elder and wiser masters is much more 
 satisfactory. We pity the Maginns, and Mangans, and Poes, 
 whom we have always with us ; but we admire and reverence 
 such writers as Wordsworth, and Thackeray, and Bryant, who 
 dignify their high calling. The last thirty years of the life of
 
 MEMOIR. XXVll 
 
 Mr. Bryant were devoid of incidents, though one of them 
 (1866) was not without the supreme sorrow death. He de- 
 voted himself to journalism as conscientiously as if he still had 
 his spurs to win, discussing all public questions with indepen- 
 dence and fearlessness ; and from time to time, as the spirit 
 moved him, he added to our treasures of song, contributing to 
 the popular magazines of the period, and occasionally issuing 
 these contributions in separate volumes. He published " The 
 Fountain and Other Poems" in 1842; "The White-Footed 
 Deer and Other Poems " in 1844 ; a collected edition of his 
 poems, with illustrations by Leutze, in 1846 ; an edition in two 
 volumes in 1855 ; " Thirty Poems " in 1866 ; and in 1876 
 a complete illustrated edition of his poetical writings. To 
 the honors which these volumes brought him he added fresh 
 laurels in 1870 and 1871 by the publication of his translation 
 of the " Iliad " and the " Odyssey " a translation which was 
 highly praised both at home and abroad, and which, if not 
 the best that the English language is capable of, is, in many 
 respects, the best which any English-writing poet has yet 
 produced. 
 
 There comes a day in the intellectual lives of most poets 
 when their powers cease to be progressive and productive, or 
 are productive only in the forms to which they have accus- 
 tomed themselves, and which have become mannerisms. It 
 was not so with Mr. Bryant. He enjoyed the dangerous dis- 
 tinction of proving himself a great poet at an early age ; he 
 preserved this distinction to the last, for the sixty-four years 
 which elapsed between the writing of " Thanatopsis " and the
 
 XXVlll MEMOIR. 
 
 writing of " The Flood of Years " witnessed no decay of his 
 poetic capacities, but rather the growth and development of 
 trains of thought and forms of verse of which there was no 
 evidence in his early writings. His sympathies were enlarged 
 as the years went on, and the crystal clearness of his mind was 
 colored with human emotions. 
 
 To Bryant, beyond all other modern poets, the earth was a 
 theatre upon which the great drama of life was everlastingly 
 played. The remembrance of this fact is his inspiration in 
 " The Fountain," " An Evening Kevery," " The Antiquity of 
 Freedom," "The Crowded Street," "The Planting of the 
 Apple-Tree," " The Night Journey of a Kiver," " The Sower," 
 and " The Flood of Years." The most poetical of Mr. Bry- 
 ant's poems are, perhaps, "The Land of Dreams," "The 
 Burial of Love," " The May Sun sheds an Amber Light," and 
 " The Voice of Autumn ; " and they were written in a succes- 
 sion of happy hours, and in the order named. Next to these 
 pieces, as examples of pure poetry, should be placed " Sella " 
 and " The Little People of the Snow," which are exquisite 
 fairy fantasies. The qualities by which Mr. Bryant's poetry 
 are chiefly distinguished are serenity and gravity of thought ; 
 an intense though repressed recognition of the mortality of 
 mankind ; an ardent love for human freedom ; and unrivaled 
 skill in painting the scenery of his native land. He had no 
 superior in this walk of poetic art it might almost be said no 
 equal, for his descriptions of nature are never inaccurate or 
 redundant. " The Excursion " is a tiresome poem, which con- 
 tains several exquisite episodes. Mr. Bryant knew how to
 
 MEMOIR. XXIX 
 
 write exquisite episodes, and to omit the platitudes through 
 which we reach them in other poets. 
 
 It is not given to many poets to possess as many residences 
 as Mr. Bryant, for he had three a town-house in New York, 
 a country-house, called " Cedarmere," at Eoslyn, Long Island, 
 and the old homestead of the Bryant family at Cummington. 
 He passed the winter months in New York, and the grimmer 
 and early autumn months at his country-houses. No distin- 
 guished man in America was better known by sight than he. 
 
 " O good gray head that all men knew " 
 
 rose unbidden to one's lips as he passed his fellow-pedestrians 
 in the streets of the great city, active, alert, with a springing 
 step and a buoyant gait. He was seen in all weathers, walking 
 down to his office in the morning, and back to his house in 
 the afternoon an observant antiquity, with a majestic white 
 beard, a pair of sharp eyes, and a face which, noticed closely, 
 recalled the line of the poet : 
 
 " A million wrinkles carved his skin." 
 
 Mr. Bryant had a peculiar talent, in which the French 
 excel the talent of delivering discourses upon the lives and 
 writings of eminent men ; and he was always in request after 
 the death of his contemporaries. 
 
 Beginning with a eulogy on his friend Cole, the painter, 
 who died in 1848, he paid his well-considered tributes to the 
 memory of Cooper and Irving, and assisted at the dedication 
 in the Central Park of the Morse, Shakespeare, Scott, and Hal-
 
 XXX MEMOIR. 
 
 leek monuments. His addresses on those occasions, and others 
 that might be named, were models of justice of appreciation 
 and felicity of expression. His last public appearance was at 
 the Central Park, on the afternoon of May 29, 1878, at the 
 unveiling of a statue to Mazzini. It was an unusually hot 
 day, and after delivering his address, which was remarkable 
 for its eloquence, he accompanied General James Grant "Wil- 
 son, an acquaintance of some years' standing, to his residence 
 in East Seventy-fourth street. General Wilson reached his 
 door with Mr. Bryant leaning on his arm ; he took a step in 
 advance to open the inner door, and while his back was turned 
 the poet fell, striking his head on the stone platform of the 
 front steps. It was his death-blow ; for, though he recovered 
 his consciousness sufficiently to converse a little, and was able 
 to ride to his own house with General Wilson, his fate was 
 sealed. He lingered until the morning of the 12th of June, 
 when his capacious spirit passed out into the Unknown. Two 
 days later all that was mortal of him was buried beside the 
 grave of his wife at Roslyn. 
 
 Such was the life and such the life-work of William Cullen 
 Bryant. 
 
 R. H. STODDARD.
 
 CHRONOLOGIES OF BRYANT'S LIFE AND POEMS, 
 
 A BIBLIOGEAPHY OF HIS POETICAL AND 
 
 PROSE WRITINGS, ETC. 
 
 COMPILED BY HENRY C. STURGES.
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. 
 
 FOUNDED ON PARKE GODWIN'S BIOGRAPHY OF BRYANT. 
 
 So live, that when thy summons comes to join 
 The innumerable caravan, that moves 
 To that mysterious realm, where each shall take 
 His chamber in the silent halls of death, 
 Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, 
 Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed 
 By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, 
 Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch 
 About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. 
 
 1794. 
 
 WILLIAM CULLEK BEY ANT was born at Cummington, Mas- 
 sachusetts, November 3d of this year. In regard to the exact 
 site of the house in which he was born, Mr. Bryant says, in a 
 statement printed in Parke Godwin's biography of him : " My 
 father and mother then lived in a house, which stands no 
 longer, near the center of the township, amid fields which have 
 a steep slope to the north fork of the Westfield River, a shallow 
 stream brawling over a bed of loose stones in a very narrow 
 valley. A few old apple-trees mark the spot where the house 
 stood, and opposite, on the other side of the way, is a grave- 
 yard in which sleep some of those who came to Cummington 
 while it was yet a forest. It was a small house constructed 
 of square logs, afterward removed and placed near that occu- 
 pied by Daniel Dawes. On my first birthday there is a record 
 that I could already go alone, and on the 28th of March, 1796, 
 when but a few days more than sixteen months old, there is 
 another record that I knew all the letters of the alphabet." 
 
 1797. 
 
 In September of this year the family moved to Plainfield. 
 " The poet was puny and very delicate in body, and of a pain- 
 
 3 xxxiii
 
 XXXIV CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. 
 
 fully nervous temperament," said Senator Dawes in his Cen- 
 tennial Address, at Cummington, in June, 1879. " In a few- 
 years, when he had become famous, those who had been medi- 
 cal students with his father when he was struggling for exist- 
 ence with the odds very much against him, delighted to tell of 
 the cold baths they were ordered to give the infant poet in a 
 spring near the house each early morning of the summer 
 months, continuing the treatment in spite of the outcries and 
 protestations of their patient, so late into the autumn as some- 
 times to break the ice which skimmed the surface." 
 
 Long years afterward Mr. Bryant wrote : " I have lately 
 been to look at the site of that house. Nothing is left of it 
 but the cellar and some portion of the chimney among a thick 
 growth of brambles." 
 
 1798. 
 
 "In May," says Mr. Bryant, writing of this year, "our 
 family moved again to the distance of about two miles, and 
 occupied a house in Cummington. Not a trace of it now 
 remains. The plow has passed over its site and leveled the 
 earth where it stood, but immediately opposite are yet seen the 
 hollow of an old cellar and the foundation stones of a house 
 where there lived a neighbor. From my new abode, before I 
 had completed my fourth year, I was sent to the district 
 school." 
 
 1799. 
 
 " In April," continues the poet, " when I was in my fifth 
 year, our family went to live at the homestead of my grand- 
 father on the mother's side, Ebenezer Snell, which I now pos- 
 sess, and which became my father's home for the rest of his 
 lifetime. While living at the homestead I went with my 
 elder brother, Austin, to a district school kept in a little 
 house which then stood near by on the bank of a rivulet that 
 flows by the dwelling. The education which we received here 
 was of the humblest elementary kind, stopping at grammar, 
 unless we include theology, as learned from the Westminster 
 Catechism, which was our Saturday exercise. I was an excel- 
 lent, almost infallible speller, and ready in geography, but in
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. XXXV 
 
 the catechism, not understanding the abstract terms, I made 
 but little progress." 
 
 1803. 
 
 " In my ninth year," writes Mr. Bryant, " I began to make 
 verses, some of which were utter nonsense. A year or two 
 later my grandfather gave me as an exercise the first chapter 
 of the Book of Job to turn into verse. I put the whole narra- 
 tion into heroic couplets, one of which I remember as the first 
 
 draft : 
 
 His name was Job, evil he did eschew. 
 
 To him were born seven sons ; three daughters too ! 
 
 I paraphrased afterward the Hundred and Fourth Psalm." 
 
 1804-1806. 
 
 " In the Spring of 1804," Mr. Bryant says further, in a pas- 
 sage given by Mr. Godwin, " when I was ten years old I com- 
 posed a little poem, the subject of which was The Description 
 of the School, and which I declaimed on the schoolroom floor. 
 It was afterward printed in the Hampshire Gazette, the 
 county newspaper published at Northampton. Meantime I 
 wrote various lampoons on my schoolfellows and others, and 
 when the great eclipse of the sun took place in June, 1806, 1 
 celebrated the event in verse. So my time passed in study, 
 diversified with labor and recreation. In the long winter eve- 
 nings, in the stormy winter days, I read with my elder brother 
 books from my father's library not a large one, but well 
 chosen. I remember well the delight with which we welcomed 
 the translation of the Iliad by Pope, when it was brought 
 into the house. My brother and myself, in emulation of the 
 ancient heroes, made for ourselves wooden shields, swords and 
 spears, and fashioned old hats in the shape of helmets with 
 plumes of tow, and in the barn, when nobody observed us, we 
 fought the battles of the Greeks and Trojans over again. I 
 was always, from my earliest years, a delighted observer of 
 external nature ; the splendors of a winter daybreak over the 
 wide wastes of snow seen from our windows, the glories of the 
 autumnal woods, the gloomy approaches of the thunder-storm
 
 XXXVI CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. 
 
 and its departure amid sunshine and rainbows, the return of 
 spring with its flowers, and the first snowfall of winter." 
 
 1808. 
 
 Mr. Bryant further states : " In February, 1808, General Wood- 
 bridge, of Worthington, a place about four miles distant from 
 our dwelling, died. He was a promising and popular lawyer, 
 held in high esteem by the Federal party to which he belonged, 
 and was much lamented. My father suggested this event as a 
 subject for a monody. I composed one beginning with these 
 
 lines : 
 
 The word is given the cruel arrow flies 
 With death foreboding aim, and Woodbridge dies ! 
 Lo ! Hampshire's genius bending o'er his bier 
 In silent sorrow heaves the sigh sincere ! 
 
 " About this time the animosity with which the two polit- 
 ical parties Federalists and Eepublicans as they called them- 
 selves regarded each other was at its height. My father was 
 a Federalist, and his skill in his profession gave him great 
 influence in Cummington and the neighboring county. I read 
 the newspapers of the Federal party, and took a strong interest 
 in political questions. Under Mr. Jefferson's administration, 
 in consequence of our disputes with Great Britain, an embargo 
 was laid in 1807 upon all the ports of our republic, which, by 
 putting a stop to all foreign commerce, had a disastrous effect 
 on many private interests, and embittered the hatred with 
 which the Federalists regarded their political adversaries, and 
 particularly Mr. Jefferson. I had written some satirical lines 
 apostrophizing the President, which my father saw, and think- 
 ing well of them, encouraged me to write others in the same 
 vein. This I did willingly, until the additions grew into a 
 poem of several pages. This poem was published in Boston, 
 1808, in a little pamphlet entitled The Embargo, or Sketches 
 of the Times A Satire. By a Youth of Thirteen. I had the 
 honor of being kindly noticed in the Monthly Anthology, a lit- 
 erary periodical published in Boston, which quoted from it the 
 paragraph that had attracted my father's attention. It was 
 decided that I should receive a college education, and I was
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. xxxvii 
 
 accordingly taken by my father to the house of my mother's 
 brother, the Eev. Dr. Thomas Snell, in North Brookfield, to 
 begin the study of Latin. I began with the Latin gram- 
 mar, went through the Colloquies of Corderius, in which 
 the words, for the' ease of the learner, were arranged ac- 
 cording to the English order, and then entered upon the 
 New Testament in Latin. Next the ^Eneid of Virgil. While 
 I was occupied with the ^Eneid my father wrote to me ad- 
 vising me to translate some portion of it into English verse. 
 Accordingly I made a rhymed translation of the narrative 
 of A Tempest in the first book. Somebody showed me a 
 piece of paper with the title The Endless Knot, the repre- 
 sentation of an intricate knot in parallel lines, between which 
 were written some homely verses. I thought I could write 
 better ones, and my head being full of the ancient mythology, 
 I composed this." (Life, p. 29.) 
 
 1809. 
 
 "While I was at my uncle's," the poet continues, "another 
 edition of my poem, The Embargo, was published in Boston. 
 It had been revised and somewhat enlarged, and a few shorter 
 poems were added. I went through the ^neid in my Latin 
 studies, and then mastered the Eclogues and the Georgics, 
 after which my uncle put into my hands a volume of the select 
 Orations of Cicero. In the beginning of July, having read 
 through the volume of Cicero's Orations, I left the excellent 
 family of my uncle, where I had been surrounded by the most 
 wholesome influences and examples, and returned to Cumming- 
 ton, after an absence of just eight calendar months. I took 
 my place with the haymakers on the farm, and did, I believe, 
 my part until the 28th of August, when I went to begin my 
 studies in Greek with the Eev. Moses Hallock, in the neighbor- 
 ing township of Plainfield, where he was the minister. I com- 
 mitted to memory the declensions and conjugations of the 
 Greek tongue with the rules of syntax, and then began reading 
 the New Testament in Greek, taking first the Gospel of St. 
 John. At the end of two calendar months I knew the Greek 
 New Testament from end to end, almost as if it had been Eng- 
 
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 XXXV111 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. 
 
 lish, and I returned to my home in Cummington, where a few 
 days afterward I completed my fifteenth year. 
 
 1810. 
 
 " The next winter I was occupied with studies preparatory 
 to entering college, which, for reasons of economy, it was 
 decided that I should do a year in advance ; that is to say, as a 
 member of the sophomore class. At this time I had no help 
 from a tutor, but in the spring I went again for two months to 
 Plainfield and received from Mr. Hallock instructions in mathe- 
 matics. In the beginning of September, when the annual com- 
 mencement of Williams College was at that time held, I went 
 with my father to Williamstown, passed an easy examination, 
 and was admitted a member of the sophomore class. After the 
 usual vacation I went again to Williamstown and began my 
 college life. I mastered the daily lessons given out to my class 
 and found much time for miscellaneous reading, for dispu- 
 tations and for literary composition in prose and verse. No 
 attention was then paid to prosody, but I made an attempt to 
 acquaint myself with the prosody of the Latin language and 
 tried some experiments in Latin verse, which were clumsy and 
 uncouth enough. Among my verses was a paraphrastic trans- 
 lation of Anacreon's Ode on Spring : 
 
 So fragrant Spring returns again 
 With all the graces in her train ! 
 
 a version of David's lament over Saul and Jonathan, II Sam- 
 uel i, 19 (Godwin's Life of Bryant, p. 76) ; the version of A 
 Fragment of Simonides, a poem recited before my class ; also 
 an Indian war-song : 
 
 Ghosts of my wounded brethren, rest ; 
 Shades of the warrior dead ! 
 
 (See Godwin's Life of Bryant, p. 90.) Also note by Mr. 
 Arthur Bryant, " I still retain in memory fragments and entire 
 poems written about this period, many of which were never 
 printed." Such as the (Edipus Tyrannus, Elegy on the Death 
 of the Gerrymander, etc. (Godwin's Life of Bryant, p. 94.)
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. XXXIX 
 
 The Gerrymander was a figure representing a monster 
 which the Federal newspapers constructed from outlines made 
 on a map of Massachusetts by a peculiar arrangement of the 
 electoral votes, which Elbridge Gerry was said to have so dis- 
 tributed as to secure a Legislature which would elect him to 
 the United States Senate. To this period in Bryant's life belong 
 the translations of Lucian's Dialogues of the Dead; also sev- 
 eral Odes of Anacreon ; the lines of Mimnermus of Colophon 
 on The Beauty and Joy of Youth; An Idyl by Bion and 
 choruses from Sophocles. During a school vacation in January, 
 1810, he wrote a patriotic song called The Genius of Colum- 
 bia. (For full text of this poem, see Godwin's Life of Bryant, 
 pp. 80-81.) An attempt to declaim before his class a passage 
 from Knickerbocker's History of New York ended in his being 
 compelled to resume his seat under the frowns of the tutor, 
 the humor of it so convulsed him with laughter. 
 
 1811. 
 
 Under date of May 8th of this year Bryant writes : " Before 
 the third term of my sophomore year was ended, I asked and 
 obtained an honorable dismission from Williams College, and 
 going back to Cummington began to prepare myself for entering 
 the junior class at Yale. I pursued my studies with some dili- 
 gence and without any guides save my books ; but when the 
 time drew near that I should apply for admission at Yale my 
 father told me that his means did not allow him to maintain 
 me at New Haven, and that I must give up the idea of a full 
 course of college education." 
 
 At this period he read Cowper, Thomson, Burns, Southey, 
 etc. These studies, however, did not win him from his rambles, 
 during one of which his thoughts took a shape that proved to 
 be of the greatest consequence in his poetic growth. He had 
 been engaged in comparing Blair's poem, The Grave, with 
 another of the same cast by Bishop Porteous, and his mind was 
 also considerably occupied with a recent volume of Kirke White's 
 verses. " It was in the autumn," we are told, " the blue of the 
 summer sky had faded into gray and the brown earth was 
 heaped with sear and withered emblems of the departed glory
 
 XI CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. 
 
 of the year. As he trod up on the hollow-sounding ground in 
 the loneliness of the woods and among the prostrate trunks of 
 trees that for generations had been moldering into dust, he 
 thought how the vast solitudes about him were filled with the 
 same sad tokens of decay." 
 
 In December, 1811, he began the study of law in the office of 
 Mr. Howe, of Worthington, a quiet little village some four or five 
 miles from Cummington. He congratulated himself in a little 
 poem on his escape from the farm. (See p. 103, Godwin's Life 
 of Bryant.) To this period belongs the love-song beginning: 
 
 I knew thee fair and deemed thee free 
 From fraud and guile and faithless art ; 
 
 Yet had I seen as now I see, 
 Thine image ne'er had stained my heart. 
 
 1812. 
 
 Of this period Parke Godwin says in his Life of Bryant : 
 "Carefully preserved among his papers and he was for the 
 most part inattentive in keeping what concerned himself only 
 are several fragments of poems expressive of the joys, the 
 doubts and the disappointments of love." (See Godwin's Life 
 of Bryant, pp. 107-114, for text of these love poems.) He 
 wrote at this time for the Washington Benevolent Society of 
 Boston a Fourth of July ode, in which are these lines : 
 
 Should justice call to battle 
 
 The applauding shout we'd raise 1 
 A million swords would leave their sheath 
 
 A million bayonets blaze ! 
 
 Another series of poems belonging to this period, and never 
 published save in Godwin's Life of Bryant, is called A Chorus 
 of Ghosts. This was published in the Xew York Eeview for 
 1824 over the signature of X, with several stanzas wanting, but 
 since supplied by Mr. Arthur Bryant. (For full text of these 
 poems see Godwin's Life of Bryant, pp. 115-117.) 
 
 1814. 
 
 In June, 1814, he removed to Bridgewater and resided with 
 his grandfather, Dr. Philip Bryant, and entered the law office
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. xli 
 
 of Mr. William Baylies. To this period belong the lines To a 
 Friend on his Marriage, in the North American Eeview, 
 March, 1818. On the 4th of July he delivered a piece of 
 rhymed declamation, deploring the folly and ravages of war, 
 and rejoicing in the downfall of Napoleon, then sent to Elba. 
 (For text of this Ode see Godwin's Life, p. 121.) On August 9, 
 1814, he passed his preliminary examination for admission to 
 the bar and received a certificate sprinkled with snuff, instead 
 of sand, for which he paid six dollars. Mr. Bryant was at this 
 time completely possessed with the military fever. A letter 
 dated Cummington, November 16, 1814, Mass. State Archives, 
 reads : 
 
 To HIS EXCELLENCY, CALEB STRONG, GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF 
 THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASS. : 
 
 Humbly representing that William C. Bryant, your petitioner, being 
 desirous to enter the service of the State in the present struggle with a pos- 
 sible enemy, etc., etc. 
 
 A severe illness prevented him from enlisting, and after his 
 recovery he penned an Ode to Death, beginning : 
 
 Oh, thou -whom the world dreadeth art thou nigh 
 To thy pale Kingdom Death to summon mef 
 
 1816. 
 
 On July 25, 1816, Mr. Bryant was appointed adjutant in 
 the Massachusetts militia, but returned the commission to the 
 adjutant-general February 8, 1817. The treaty of peace signed 
 at Ghent ended the war. To this period belongs the ode written 
 for the Howard Society of Boston. 
 
 Oh taught by many a woe and fear 
 
 We welcome thy returning wing ! 
 And earth, Oh Peace, is glad to hear, 
 
 Thy name among her echoes ring." 
 
 (For full text of this poem see Godwin's Life, p. 137.) " On 
 the 15th of August, 1816, he left Bridgewater with his creden- 
 tials as an Attorney of the Common Pleas in his pocket." He 
 now adopted the poetic form in which he worked for the rest 
 of his life. See poem I cannot forget with what Fervid Devo-
 
 Xlii CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. 
 
 tion. Mr. Godwin says : " All his papers of this period bear 
 witness to constant and ever renewed attempts in different 
 forms to paint her (Nature's) varying aspects." 
 
 " He hums to himself of flowers, groves, streams, trees, and 
 especially of winds which abounded in the region in which he 
 lived. Among other things, he began an Indian story after the 
 manner of Scott's Highland Poems, but judging by the little of 
 it that was executed, the descriptive quite overmastered the 
 narrative parts." (See p. 141 of Godwin's Life for speci- 
 mens of poems of that period.) " He wrote at this time The 
 Yellow Violet just before leaving Bridge water on a visit to 
 Cummington." 
 
 " Another poem, Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood, 
 published in the Xorth American Eeview, 1817, under the title 
 of A Fragment, was composed in an old forest fronting his 
 father's house." 
 
 1817. 
 
 On December 15, 1817, he walked over to Plainfield, a town 
 seven miles from Cummington on the opposite hillside. Mr. 
 Godwin says in his Life of Bryant : " As he walked up the 
 hills very forlorn and desolate indeed, not knowing what was 
 to become of him in the big world which grew bigger as he 
 ascended and yet darker with the coming on of night. The 
 sun had already set, leaving behind it one of those brilliant 
 seas of chrysolite and opal which often flood the New England 
 skies. While he was looking upon the rosy splendor with rapt 
 admiration, a solitary bird made wing along the illuminated 
 horizon. He watched the lone wanderer until it was lost in 
 the distance, asking himself whither it had come and to what 
 far home it was flying. When he went to the house where he 
 was to stop for the night, his mind was still full of what he 
 had seen and felt, and he wrote those lines, as imperishable as 
 our language, To A Waterfowl : 
 
 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 !
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. xliii 
 
 " He remained in Plainfield eight months, and then entered 
 into a partnership with George H. Ives, of Great Barrington. 
 In June his father wrote to him from Boston that Mr. Willard 
 Philips (an old Hampshire friend) desired him to contribute 
 something to his new Eeview. The younger Bryant either was 
 not tempted, or was too busy to make reply. The father, while 
 his son was at Bridgewater, discovered the manuscripts of 
 Thanatopsis, The Fragment, and a few other poems carefully 
 hidden away in a desk." 
 
 The first number of the North American Eeview appeared 
 in May, 1815. Mr. Tudor acted as editor until 1817, when it 
 passed entirely into the hands of a club. The chief members 
 were Richard H. Dana, Edward T. Channing, and Willard 
 Philips. Edward T. Channing (brother of William Ellery 
 Channing) afterward became Boylston Professor of Ehetoric 
 at Harvard College. Philips was a tutor at Harvard, but 
 became Judge of Probate and writer of law books. Thana- 
 topsis was carried to Philips. Dana said : " Oh, Philips, you 
 have been imposed upon. No one on this side of the Atlantic 
 is capable of writing such verses." Thanatopsis was pub- 
 lished in September. Prefixed were four stanzas on the sub- 
 ject of death, which had no connection with it and were not 
 intended for publication. 
 
 1818. 
 
 In March, 1818, Mr. Bryant wrote To a Friend on his 
 Marriage, Version of Simonides, and in July an essay on Amer- 
 ican poetry. The department of original poetry in the North 
 American Eeview was discontinued in 1818. The essay on the 
 Happy Temperament was published in No. 9, p. 206. In June, 
 1818, he reviewed Paulding's Backwoodman. 
 
 At Mr. Philips's suggestion he wrote an essay on American 
 poetry for the July number, a recent collection of American 
 poetry by Solyman Brown furnishing the subject. On the 
 29th of January, 1818, he delivered an address before the Bible 
 Society of Great Barrington. This was published in the Berk- 
 shire Star of February 6, 1818. In the spring of 1824 the edi- 
 torship of the North American Eeview was changed, Mr. Alex-
 
 lliv CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. 
 
 ander and Edward Everett taking charge. They rejected a 
 critique by Mr. Bryant on The Idleman, and he stopped writ- 
 ing for the magazine. 
 
 1819. 
 
 Mr. Bryant was interested in the local affairs of the town in 
 which he lived, and on March 9th he was elected Tithingman 
 of his native town, whose duties consisted in keeping order in 
 the churches and enforcing the observance of the Sabbath. 
 He was also elected Town Clerk and appointed Justice of the 
 Peace. (Note. " An old gentleman still living makes it a 
 boast that he was 'jined' to his first old woman by Squire 
 Bryant.") 
 
 1820. 
 
 " On the 20th of March, Mr. Bryant's father, who had been 
 ill for a year or more, died at the age of fifty-three. The 
 memory of this loss clung to him for many years." 
 
 " Save the fragment called the The Burial-Place, begun 
 and broken off in 1819, Mr. Bryant had written nothing since 
 he entered upon his practise in 1816. The pieces sent to the 
 North American Review were taken from his scrap-book." 
 
 " Soon after his father's death, while he was yet full of the 
 sentiment it inspired, an appeal was made to him by the Uni- 
 tarians in aid of a collection of hymns. Mr. Henry D. Sewall, 
 the editor, applied to Miss Catherine M. Sedgwick, of Stock- 
 bridge, to use her efforts in his behalf, and the result was that 
 six hymns were sent for the collections." (See note, p. 163, of 
 Godwin's Life.) 
 
 " On the 4th of July he delivered an oration in the Stock- 
 bridge church." 
 
 1821. 
 
 Mr. Godwin says, speaking of this period: "Mr. Dana's 
 project for a periodical to be called The Idleman, and to con- 
 sist of poetry, essays, criticisms, and historical and biographical 
 sketches, enlisted Mr. Bryant's warmest interest from the 
 beginning. As early as May, 1821, Mr. Channing asked his 
 assistance for it, suggesting ' That a literary frolic now and 
 then is the best restorative for a conscientious but overworked
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. xlv 
 
 and jaded attorney.' In reply Mr. Bryant put The Yellow 
 Violet at Mr. Dana's disposal, and enclosed another piece, 
 Green Eiver. He also contributed to it A Winter Piece, The 
 Burial-Place, and a Walk at Sunset." 
 
 " Not long after his settlement at Great Barrington, he met 
 at a village sociable the young lady, Miss Fanny Fairchild, 
 who afterward became his wife. The depth of his attachment 
 was not revealed to him until the object of it was temporarily 
 called away. He began to pity himself very much in rhymes 
 Oh Fairest of the Eural Maids is the only one of these poems 
 the author has cared to print." (See note, p. 167, of Life for 
 Another.) " On Miss Fairchild's return they became engaged, 
 and on the llth of June, 1821, were married at the house of 
 the bride's sister, Mrs. Henderson." (See letter of Mr. Bryant 
 to his mother announcing the event, p. 169 of Godwin's Life.) 
 
 " A few months after his marriage Mr. Bryant was surprised 
 by a communication from the secretary of the Phi Beta Kappa 
 Society of Harvard College, Mr. U. J. Spooner, requesting him 
 'By a unanimous vote of the Society' to deliver the usual 
 poetical address at the next commencement." (See letter to 
 Mr. Spooner dated April 26, 1821, pp. 170-171, of Godwin's 
 Life ; also letter to his wife dated August 25th, pp. 171-172.) 
 
 " His poem called The Ages was delivered August 30th in 
 the Old Congregational Church of Cambridge. Before leaving 
 Boston he consented to have it published with his other poet- 
 ical effusions. The result was a small pamphlet of 44 pages 
 published in September and containing eight poems : The 
 Ages, To a Waterfall, The Fragment from Simonides, Inscrip- 
 tion for the Entrance to a Wood, The Yellow Violet, The 
 Song, Green Eiver, and Thanatopsis. The October number of 
 the North American Eeview contained an elaborate criticism. 
 The entire collection was copied into a selection of American 
 Poetry, by Mr. Eoscoe, published by Allman, London, 1822. 
 Blackwood for June contained a favorable criticism." 
 
 1823. 
 
 " The revolt of the Greeks from Turkish rule excited hia 
 interest. In December, 1823, he delivered an address on the
 
 xlvi CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. 
 
 subject in Great Barrington. He also wrote a farce for the 
 stage called The Heroes, but it was a failure." 
 
 His friends were very anxious for him to come to New 
 York. Henry J. Anderson at this time had revived the 
 Atlantic Magazine (published for a while by Eobert J. Sands). 
 Bliss and White, the publishers, paid him $500 a year and 
 authorized an expenditure of $500 more. (See letter to his 
 wife from New York under date of April 24, 1824. Godwin's 
 Life, p. 189.) 
 
 1824. 
 
 Theophilus Parsons established the United States Literary 
 Gazette in Boston, publishing the first number April 1st. Mr. 
 Bryant's first contribution was a poem called Eizpah. 
 
 A letter written to his friend, Eichard H. Dana, at Cam- 
 bridge, Mass., under date of July 8th, says : " You inquire 
 whether I have written anything except what I have furnished 
 to Parsons (for United States Literary Gazette). Nothing at 
 all. I made an engagement with him with a view in the first 
 place to earn something in addition to the emoluments of my 
 profession, which, as you may suppose, are not very ample ; and 
 in the second place to keep my hand in, for I was very near dis- 
 continuing entirely the writing of verses." He also mentions 
 in this same letter the narrative poem of the Spectre Ship. 
 This is partly extant in manuscript, but was never published. 
 
 His work at this time consisted largely of reviews. See 
 North American Eeview, No. 11, p. 384 ; Eeview of Miss Sedg- 
 wick's Eedwood. North American Eeview, No. 19, p. 42 ; Poems 
 of Henry Pickering. North American Eeview, No. 20, p. 245 ; 
 Eeview of Percy's Masque, by James T. Hillhouse. Besides 
 these the manuscripts of many minor writers were sent to 
 him. He was patient with all, returning often elaborate cor- 
 rections and advice. 
 
 Mr. Bryant fixed two dollars apiece as his compensation 
 for these writings. The publishers, however, offered him $200 
 a year for an average of 100 lines a month, about 16 cents a 
 line. Mr. Philips's account, rendered in 1826, shows that of 
 the 1821 edition of his poems, 750 copies were printed and only 
 270 sold ; a profit of $15, minus eight cents, for five years' sale.
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. 
 
 A note in General James Grant Wilson's Bryant and Ms 
 Friends, p. 42, reads : " The writer met Mr. Bryant in a book- 
 store in the winter of '78, and showed him a copy of this 
 edition he had just purchased for $10. Mr. Bryant remarked, 
 ' Well, that is more than I received for its contents.' " 
 
 The poetry of the Gazette was republished under the title 
 of Miscellaneous Poems in 1826. See criticisms in North 
 American Eeview, vol. xxii, p. 43, 1826. Also Mr. Bryant's 
 own criticism of the poems in New York Eeview, vol. i, p. 
 389, mentioning poems by H. W. L. (We know not who he is). 
 
 He did not at this time neglect his practise of law. He 
 argued cases at Northampton, New Haven, and before the 
 Supreme Court at Boston. Mr. Trueman Smith, at one time 
 Senator from Connecticut, says that he was associated with 
 Mr. Bryant in the conduct of an important trial at New Haven 
 " in which he evinced the very highest learning, acumen, and 
 assiduity." 
 
 For report of his last law case, see Massachusetts Eeports, 3d 
 Pickering, p. 320. He alleged the decision was not in accord- 
 ance with equity, citing in proof one of the last cases in which 
 he was employed. He lost his case on an appeal to the 
 Supreme Court. (Poetical Works, vol. i, p. 99 I broke the 
 spell that held me long.) Interesting data on this period will 
 be found in Godwin's Life, pp. 202-204. 
 
 " His solitary brooding habits, his dislike of his occupation 
 (law), his love of the thickets along Green Eiver and the 
 Housatonic, and his reticent, austere manner with strangers 
 contrasted with his cheerful, entertaining, joyous ways among 
 his friends. He had a strange fondness for talking with farm- 
 ers, woodmen, and stage-drivers. He was a passionate bota- 
 nist, and knew the name of every tree, flower, and spire of 
 grass. In court he often lost his self-control when provoked 
 by adversaries. He was punctual in going to church, but was 
 terribly prone to pick the sermons all to pieces. A French 
 officer of Napoleon's army, a friend of Lafayette, named 
 Bd*unton, gave him lessons in French and fencing." 
 
 On May llth of this year Thanatopsis was first published 
 in the Evening Post, with editorial note by Mr. Coleman.
 
 xlviii CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. 
 
 1825. 
 
 " Mr. Bryant visited New York in both January and Febru- 
 ary, 1825 ' A literary adventurer ' he describes himself. He 
 was three days and nights making the journey by stage. The 
 population of New York was then about 150,000. Broadway 
 extended to Canal Street, the city limit. Then came orchards 
 and fields. Greenwich village, about Twelfth Street, was a 
 summer resort. The fashionable residences were around the 
 Battery and the finest shops were in Maiden Lane. 
 
 " Mr. Bryant became joint editor with Mr. Henry J. Ander- 
 son of a new publication called The New York Eeview and 
 Athenaeum Magazine, the first number appearing in June. 
 This publication was an amalgamation of the Atlantic Maga- 
 zine, which had been started in 1824 by Eobert C. Sands, edited 
 by him for six months, and sold out to Henry J. Anderson, who 
 was editing The Literary Eeview. The first number of The 
 New York Eeview and Athenaeum Magazine appeared May 1st, 
 and contained a review of a poem by James A. Hillhouse, enti- 
 tled Hadad, and an original poem by Bryant called A Song of 
 Pitcairn's Island." 
 
 In July he visited Cummington, writing the poems The 
 Skies and Lines on Eevisiting the Country. In the autumn he 
 prepared four lectures on poetry, and delivered them before 
 the American Athenaeum Society in April, 1826. 
 
 1826. 
 
 There had been for years in New York an institution called 
 The American Academy of Art, of which Jonathan Trum- 
 bull was president, and of which Chancellor Livingston and 
 De Witt Clinton and others were members. This association 
 was managed by laymen, and the artists organized a drawing 
 association, November 8th, which met in the old almshouse 
 building behind the City Hall, January 18, 1826. This became 
 the National Academy of the Arts of Design, with S. F. B. 
 Morse as president. It opened schools and gave exhibitions. 
 Mr. Bryant was appointed one of the professors and read to 
 the classes five lectures on mythology, December, 1827;
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. xlix 
 
 repeated in February, 1828; January, 1829; and November, 
 1831. 
 
 Mr. Bryant contributed largely to The New York Eeview 
 both poetry and prose, but the publication was not a success. 
 It ended with the May number. It was republished from May 
 13th to August 26th, under the title The New York Literary 
 Gazette and American Athenaeum. This too proved a failure. 
 It was then joined with The United States Literary Gazette of 
 Boston, and reissued October 1st with the new title of The 
 United States Eeview and Literary Gazette, under the joint 
 editorship of James G. Carter in Boston (afterward of Charles 
 Folsom) and William C. Bryant in New York. Mr. Bryant's 
 contributions will be found under their appropriate head later 
 on in this work. This Review ran until October, 1827, and then 
 died a natural death. 
 
 Mr. Bryant renewed his license to practise law in the courts 
 of New York in March, and was associated with Mr. Henry 
 Sedgwick in the prosecution of a claim for the recovery of part 
 of the fund raised for the Greeks. He was asked to become 
 temporary editor of The Evening Post. 
 
 1827. 
 
 " As assistant editor of The Evening Post Mr. Bryant's life 
 from this date became largely that of a journalist, and refer- 
 ence must be made to the columns of the above-mentioned 
 paper for data of this period. In politics he was an ardent 
 free trader, but was never an active politician." 
 
 His poetical contributions to The United States Eeview 
 and Literary Gazette in this year were few. He wrote a review 
 of Dana's poems for The North American. (See No. 26, p. 239, 
 1827.) 
 
 In the latter part of this year the first volume of The 
 Talisman was prepared under the joint editorship of E. C. 
 Sands, G. C. Verplanck, and "William C. Bryant. It was pub- 
 li&hed in the name of an imaginary editor, Mr. Francis Her- 
 bert. The Talisman was continued in 1829-'30, three 
 volumes in all, and republished in 1832 under the title of 
 Miscellanies by G. C. Verplanck, Eobert C. Sands, and 
 4
 
 1 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. 
 
 William C. Bryant. The contributions to The Talisman 
 will be found under the proper dates in the Chronology of 
 Bryant's Poems. 
 
 1828. 
 
 On the 8th of January an Ode was delivered by Mr. Bryant 
 at the Jackson dinner in Masonic Hall, the Democratic meet- 
 ing place. This was published in the columns of The Evening 
 Post soon after. 
 
 1829. 
 
 Mr. Bryant became editor-in-chief of The Evening Post on 
 the death of Mr. Coleman in July. For a time his interests 
 were so concentrated on the management of his paper as to 
 leave no time for poetic composition. After a visit to the 
 prairies of the "West in 1832 he wrote one poem, but nothing 
 else for three years. 
 
 1831. 
 
 In this year he prepared a small volume of poems, contain- 
 ing all that he had written since the edition of 1831. This 
 volume was most favorably received, and criticized by William 
 J. Snelling and Henry W. Longfellow in The North American 
 for April, 1832. See also H. W. Prescott in the July number. 
 
 1832, 
 
 At the suggestion of Mr. Verplanck a copy of the poems was 
 sent to Washington Irving in London, and issued with a dedi- 
 cation to Samuel Rogers. For important letters on this sub- 
 ject, see pp. 264-274, Godwin's Life. To Dana he writes, " I 
 printed a thousand copies, and more than half are disposed of." 
 The reception of the poems in England was favorable. (See 
 Foreign Quarterly Review, 1832, and Retrospective Review, 
 vol. i, p. 311, 1824.) John Wilson in Blackwood's for April, 
 1832, was loudest in his praise. 
 
 In a letter to his brother under date of February 9, 1832, 
 he says : " If it [the volume of poems] brings me two hundred 
 or two hundred and fifty dollars, I shall think myself doing 
 pretty well." 
 
 In a letter to Mr. Dana, October 8th, he says concerning his
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. H 
 
 visit to the prairies : " I have seen the great west (Illinois), 
 where I ate corn bread and hominy ; slept in log houses with 
 twenty men and women and children all in the same room. 
 At Jacksonville, where my two brothers live, I got on a horse 
 and traveled a hundred miles to the northward over the 
 immense prairies." 
 
 Before leaving for the west Mr. Bryant had arranged a 
 volume of tales called The Sextad, from the number of au- 
 thors engaged in it. Mr. Verplanck retired from the work, 
 and the title was changed to Tales of the Glauber Spa, and 
 published soon after his return. The five authors were Miss 
 Sedgwick and Messrs. Sands, Leggett, Paulding, and Bryant ; 
 his own contributions consisting of two stories, Medfield and 
 Skeleton's Cave. 
 
 Mr. Sands died very suddenly this year, December 17th, and 
 Mr. Bryant wrote a short memoir of his life, which appeared in 
 the first number of The Knickerbocker Magazine, 1833. 
 
 1833. 
 
 In this year Mr. Bryant wrote no poetry. In the summer 
 he went to Canada, visiting Montreal and Quebec. Just before 
 his departure he was asked to prepare an address on the occa- 
 sion of a benefit to be given to Mr. William Dunlap. Charles 
 Kemble, Fanny Kemble, and a young actor, Edwin Forrest, had 
 volunteered to appear. Bryant, however, refused. Among his 
 papers was found a prologue for a theater (not named). (See 
 Godwin's Life, p. 293.) 
 
 Writing to Dana (p. 295 Godwin's Life), he says: "The 
 edition of my poems by Bliss is sold, all but a handful of copies. 
 ... I think of publishing another edition soon. ..." On Oc- 
 tober 17, 1833, he writes to Dana : " Will you see your book- 
 sellers, Russell, Odiorne & Co., and ask whether they will give 
 me $250 for one thousand copies of my book." November 2d 
 he writes : " I have completed the bargain with Mr. Odiorne, 
 and have given him my book with such corrections and addi- 
 tions as I have been able to make." This edition was pub- 
 lished at Boston by Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf in 1834, and is 
 nowhere mentioned in any bibliography of American poets.
 
 Ill CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. 
 
 A poem called The Robber was suppressed, but afterward 
 published by N. P. Willis in the Mirror. (See p. 299 of God- 
 win's Life for this poem in full. See pp. 300-301 for varia- 
 tions in this poem and The Prairies.) 
 
 1834. 
 
 On June 24th Mr. Bryant sailed for Europe with his family, 
 thus escaping the abolition riots which took place at this time. 
 He visited France and Italy, spending a month in Rome and 
 Florence, and came back through the Tyrol to Munich. It was 
 during this trip that he met Henry W. Longfellow at Heidel- 
 berg, and enjoyed some strolls with him in the pine forests. 
 
 1836. 
 
 Mr. Bryant was summoned home by the illness of Mr. Leg- 
 gett, assistant editor of the Post. He arrived in Xew York 
 March 26th. A testimonial public dinner was offered to him 
 in a letter from Washington Irving, F. G. Halleck, A. B. Du- 
 rand, and G. C. Yerplanck. This dinner Mr. Bryant declined. 
 (See correspondence, pp. 312-313, Godwin's Life.) 
 
 On May 23d Mr. Bryant writes : " I have made a bargain 
 with the Harpers for publishing my poems. They are to do it 
 in a neat manner, with a vignette on the title-page. I have 
 written to Weir to furnish the design ' a copy of a little land- 
 scape at West Point/ They will pay me twenty-five cents a 
 copy. The work is to be stereotyped, and an impression of 
 twenty-five hundred is to be struck off at first. For these I 
 shall be paid $625." 
 
 In September he wrote to his brother John in Illinois: "I 
 think of making some disposition of my interest in The Even- 
 ing Post, and coming out to the western country with a few 
 thousand dollars to try my fortune. . . . My book is out [the 
 edition of 1836]. It contains some thirty pages more than the 
 last edition, and is better printed. . . . The practise of physic 
 is here undergoing a considerable revolution. The let-alone 
 system is becoming fashionable. I am so far a convert to it 
 that I distrust a physician who is inclined to go to work with 
 large quantities of medicine." This is an allusion to his own
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. liii 
 
 conversion to homoeopathy, to which he adhered for the rest of 
 his life. 
 
 His duties in The Evening Post occupied his full time, writ- 
 ing the leading articles and reviews of books, his office hours 
 being from 7 A. M. to 4 p. M. (See pp. 345-357, Godwin's Life, 
 for data on this period of great agitations on the part of the 
 Abolitionists and Bryant's part in it.) 
 
 1838. 
 
 In June he writes : " I have no leisure for poetry. To keep 
 myself in health I take long walks in the country. I accustom 
 myself to the greatest simplicity of diet, renouncing tea, coffee, 
 animal food, etc. . . ." 
 
 1839. 
 
 Mr. Leggett died this year, and Mr. Bryant wrote a memoir 
 for The Democratic Eeview. The elder Dana sent to Mr. Bryant 
 his son's novel, Two Years before the Mast. (See letter, June 
 24, 1839, Godwin's Life, p. 373.) It was refused by all the pub- 
 lishers, but finally, through Mr. Bryant's instrumentality, Har- 
 per and Bros, published it in 1840. 
 
 1840. 
 
 In a letter to Mr. Field, Mr. Bryant writes : " We have left 
 the house in Carmine Street, after inhabiting it for two years 
 and a half, and have taken a house in Ninth Street, near the 
 Sixth Avenue, not far from Brevoort's House. . . . The greatest 
 change that I perceive in New York is the introduction of cabs, 
 and mustachios, and in some instances beards as long as those 
 worn by the Dunkers." 
 
 1841. 
 
 This year he made a trip with Cole, the artist, through 
 the Catskill Mountains. In September he went to Lebanon 
 Springs, and later, with his young friend Samuel J. Tilden, 
 visited ex-President Van Buren at Kinderhook. He also vis- 
 ited E. H. Dana at Eockport, Cape Ann. The Hymn of 
 the Sea was suggested at this time. (See note, p. 391, God- 
 win's Life.)
 
 liv CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. 
 
 1842. 
 
 In a letter to the Rev. Orville Dewey he gives a most in- 
 teresting account of life in New York at this time, and speaks 
 of making an address before the New Homoeopathic Society. 
 (See pp. 392-394, Godwin's Life.) 
 
 Charles Dickens visited America at this time. It was re- 
 ported that his first question on landing was, "Where is 
 Bryant ? " Mr. Bryant called upon him twice in New York, miss- 
 ing him both times, upon which he received the note printed 
 in Godwin's Life, page 395. They breakfasted together at the 
 appointed time, there being also present Fitz-Green Halleck 
 and Prof. Charles Felton, of Cambridge. Bryant entertained 
 Dickens at his own home, and attended the public banquet and 
 ball given to him. At this time Bryant published, through the 
 Harpers, a new edition of his poems, containing all he had writ- 
 ten since the 1836 edition. The title of the new book was 
 The Fountain and other Poems. There were some twenty new 
 poems in all. Dr. Channing's death occurred this year (p. 404, 
 Godwin's Life). Mr. Bryant contributed the hymn sung at 
 the funeral. 
 
 1843. 
 
 The Evening Post was at this time greatly enlarged in size 
 and usefulness. In March he went south to visit William Gil- 
 more Simms, and traveled as far as Florida. On his return he 
 purchased the property at the place afterward called Roslyn. 
 In July he visited a relative living in the Lake Champlain 
 region. 
 
 1844. 
 
 The agitation concerning the annexation of Texas brought 
 forth a letter in The Evening Post, August 20, 1844. (See pp. 
 412-423, Godwin's Life.) 
 
 1845. 
 
 On the 22d of April Mr. Bryant sailed for Europe with a 
 young friend of his, Charles M. Leupp. During this visit he 
 met Samuel Rogers, Thomas Moore, Leigh Hunt, Miss Joanna 
 Baillie, Mary Howett, Cobden, Bright, Fox, and many other men 
 of mark in literature and art. He returned home in November.
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. IT 
 
 1846. 
 
 Though Mr. Bryant had had leisure to write very few new 
 poems since the edition of 1844, he still found time to revise 
 those already written, and a newly illustrated edition of his 
 poems was issued by Messrs. Carey & Hart, of Philadelphia. 
 His old friend Mr. Dana passed criticism upon all those poems. 
 (For a very interesting correspondence between the two, see 
 pp. 13-18, vol. ii, Godwin's Life. For an interesting corre- 
 spondence at this time between Bryant and Longfellow, see pp. 
 24-26, vol. ii, Godwin's Life.) He paid his last visit to his 
 mother in the summer. She died May, 1847, aged eighty. 
 
 1847. 
 
 Mr. Bryant went in the summer to the White Mountains. 
 (See pp. 32-34, Godwin's Life.) 
 
 1848. 
 
 This year was saddened by the death of Thomas Cole, the 
 artist, and on May 4th Mr. Bryant delivered a eulogy at the 
 Academy of Music before the National Academy of Design. 
 
 1849. 
 
 Early in this year Mr. John Bigelow became one of the pro- 
 prietors and editors of The Evening Post. Mr. Bryant was 
 now able to travel extensively. He made a trip to Cuba, being 
 received in the best society. Eeturning to New York, he sailed 
 June 13th for Europe. He met with a most cordial reception 
 from Samuel Eogers and many others. He visited Scotland, 
 including Abbotsford, going to the Continent in August. He 
 found armed forces everywhere, and France on the brink of 
 revolution. He visited Germany and Switzerland, returning to 
 New York in December, and at the suggestion of Mr. Dana 
 prepared a volume of travels, issued by G. P. Putnam in 1850. 
 ..He had little time, however, for literary affairs outside of his 
 editorial duties. 
 
 1852. 
 
 His friend Cooper died in 1851, and on February 25th Mr. 
 Bryant delivered a eulogy before the Historical Society, Daniel
 
 Ivi CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. 
 
 Webster presiding. On the 13th of November Mr. Bryant 
 sailed for the Orient, visiting Egypt, Jerusalem, Damascus, 
 Baalbec, Syria, etc. He returned home in June, 1853. 
 
 1854. 
 
 In 1854 Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. had become his pub- 
 lishers, and have continued to issue his works from this time 
 on. An illustrated edition of his poems, printed in England, 
 with illustrations by Birket Foster, Dalziel, Pickersgill, and 
 others, was issued at this time, and also an edition without 
 illustrations in two volumes. In regard to this edition Mr. 
 Bryant says, writing to R. H. Dana, under date of May 26, 
 1854 : " As to my poems with illustrations, that is an idea of 
 my bookseller. . . . But the first thing which my bookseller 
 it is Appleton has promised to do is to get out a neat edition 
 in two volumes without illustrations. Though I have as great 
 a horror of illustrations as you have, they will, I hope, hurt no- 
 body." The two editions were accordingly issued, one without 
 illustrations in two volumes, printed by D. Appleton & Co., the 
 other in one volume, with illustrations, printed by B. Clay, Broad 
 Street Hill, London. 
 
 1855. 
 
 Mr. Bryant's life at this period was entirely taken up with 
 politics, especially with the formation of the Republican party, 
 in which he was interested from the first. 
 
 1855. 
 
 The death of the poet Rogers brought forth a most interest- 
 ing letter, which will be found on page 84 of Godwin's Life, 
 vol. ii. Mr. Rogers, in an interview with George Bancroft, the 
 historian, said that he " enjoyed reading Bryant's poems more 
 than any other living poet." 
 
 The articles of organization of the new political party, 
 drawn up in Wisconsin, were adopted in Ohio, and ratified at 
 Syracuse in September. 
 
 1856. 
 
 Mr. Bryant attended no political meeting, but at a great 
 gathering held in the New York Tabernacle, April 29th, he
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. Ivii 
 
 gent a letter embodying his views, which was read at the meet- 
 ing. (See Godwin's Life, vol. ii, p. 89.) Fremont and Day- 
 ton were nominated. The attack on Charles Simmer by Pres- 
 ton Brooks occurred about this time. (See contribution of 
 Mr. Bryant to The Evening Post, July 24, 1856, entitled 
 Brooks's Canada Song.) 
 
 1857. 
 
 On May 2d Mr. Bryant sailed for Europe, accompanied by 
 his wife and daughter. He traveled through Europe to Spain, 
 where he was offered great facilities through letters of intro- 
 duction, given him by Archbishop Hughes. Emilio Castelar 
 was presented to him. At the age of twenty-four Castelar was 
 already professor of philosophy in the university. 
 
 1858. 
 
 The early part of this year was spent at Naples, owing to 
 the illness of Mrs. Bryant. Here he finished his poems The 
 Eiver by Night, The Sick-Bed, and The Life that Is, a pendant 
 to The Future Life. A letter from the Rev. E. C. Waterston 
 (p. 108 of Godwin's Life) gives an extremely interesting ac- 
 count of a service held in his rooms, at which Mr. Bryant was 
 baptized and partook of the communion. His own letter (pp. 
 109-113, vol. ii, Godwin's Life) completes the record of those 
 days. In Rome he met Crawford, Story, Gibson, Chapman, 
 Page, Terry, Miss Hosmer, Frederika Bremer, and Nathaniel 
 Hawthorne. (See letter from Hawthorne, Godwin's Life, vol. 
 ii, p. 112.) At Florence he met Hawthorne at Robert Brown- 
 ing's. (See Hawthorne's letter, pp. 113, 114, vol. ii, Godwin's 
 Life.) At Florence also he met Walter Savage Landor, and 
 he speaks with great pleasure of the wise words gathered from 
 his conversations. He returned to America in August. 
 
 1859. 
 
 * A He presided at a lecture given by Abraham Lincoln, and 
 Mr Lincoln said, " It was worth the journey to the east to see 
 such a man." April 19th he speaks of visiting the new park 
 (Central), " in which thousands of men are at work blasting 
 rocks, making roads, etc." He also speaks of meeting Mr.
 
 Iviii CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. 
 
 Cobden, who was in New York at this time. They had met 
 in England in 1845. The poems of these times were The 
 Cloud on the Way, Waiting by the Gate, The New and Old, 
 and The Third of November, all reflecting the gloom caused 
 by the death of so many friends: Theodore Sedgwick, Ben- 
 jamin F. Butler, C. N. Leupp, etc. Washington Irving died 
 in November. 
 
 1860. 
 
 On the 3d of April Mr. Bryant delivered an address on The 
 Life and Character of Washington Irving before the New 
 York Historical Society. Bryant's poems were translated into 
 French by M. Le Chevalier de Chatelain, and published. (See 
 Bryant's letters to John Bigelow, Godwin's Life, vol. ii, p. 134.) 
 He was elected honorary member of the Boston Historical So- 
 ciety. (See letter from the President, R. C. Winthrop, vol. ii, 
 p. 136, Godwin's Life.) See letter from Rev. Mr. Waterston, 
 giving account of Mr. Bryant's visit to him in Boston, and the 
 celebration of the receipt of the news of Garibaldi's and Victor 
 Emanuel's entry into Rome. November 10th, he wrote to 
 President-elect Lincoln (see pp. 150-152, vol. ii, Godwin's Life), 
 and again January 21 and February 5, 1861. 
 
 1861. 
 
 His work in the cause of the " Union " occupied the greater 
 part of his time in this year. The poems of this period were, 
 Not Yet, published in July, and Our Country's Call, pub- 
 lished in August. Every day was filled with stirring events. 
 A Word to the Chief Magistrate of the Union was published 
 at this time. (See p. 169, vol. ii, Godwin's Life, for full text.) 
 
 1862. 
 
 Bryant continued his letters to Lincoln. (See p. 175, vol. ii, 
 Godwin's Life. Letter to Dr. Dewey, p. 176.) In September 
 he had an interview of great importance with President Lin- 
 coln. (See p. 179, vol. ii, Godwin's Life. See Evening Post, July 
 1, 1862.) In a letter to the Rev. S. H. Cox, D. D., November 
 7th, he thanks him for a Latin version of Thanatopsis ; and in a 
 letter, December 3d, he thanks Dr. Adolf Laun, of Oldenberg,
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. Hi 
 
 Germany, for a translation of his poems in the Sonntagsblatt. 
 In another letter of December 3d, to M. P. Jonain, Epaignes, 
 Charente Inferieure, France, he thanks him for the translation 
 of his poems into French. In the winter of 1862, Sella and 
 The Little People of the Snow were written, and he began 
 a third poem called A Tale of Cloudland, which appears in 
 Poetical Works, vol. ii. 
 
 1863. 
 
 On June 25th the office of The Evening Post was attacked 
 by rioters during the draft. At this period Bryant wrote The 
 Poet and The Path, and began the translation of the Odyssey, 
 the fifth book being published in the Atlantic Monthly. A 
 collection of his more recent poems was brought out by D. Ap- 
 pleton & Co., under the title of the Thirty Poems, the transla- 
 tion of the fifth book of the Odyssey being included. (See let- 
 ter, pp. 194-195, vol. ii, Godwin's Life.) In this year he deliv- 
 ered his poem entitled Fifty Years, at the semi-centennial of 
 the class of 1813 at Williamstown. His poems were presented 
 to the Emperor of Brazil, who sent his portrait to Bryant. 
 (See letters, pp. 199-200, vol. ii, Godwin's Life ; also Speech on 
 behalf of Missouri Loyalist, p. 201.) 
 
 1864. 
 
 The volume of Thirty Poems brought forth letters from H. 
 W. Longfellow and E. H. Dana. (See pp. 206-208, Godwin's 
 Life.) October 13th, writing to J. T. Fields, of Boston, he says : 
 "I send you a poem, My Autumn Walk, for the Atlantic 
 Monthly. Ask me for no more verses. A septuagenarian has 
 passed the time when it is becoming for him to occupy himself 
 with The Ehymes and Rattles of the Man and Boy." No- 
 vember 15th, the Century Club celebrated his seventieth birth- 
 day with the greatest enthusiasm. (See pp. 214-220, vol. ii, 
 (jrod win's Life.) He delivered an address at the laying of the 
 corner-stone of the new Academy of Design building. 
 
 1865. 
 
 At the beginning of this year he wrote a letter To the 
 Union Army. (See pp. 221-223, vol. ii, Godwin's Life.) He
 
 Ix CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. 
 
 was pushing a petition to abolish slavery throughout the 
 United States, and wrote to Mr. Everett for assistance. (See 
 p. 224, vol. ii, Godwin's Life.) At the opening of the new 
 building of the Academy of Design he delivered the inaugural 
 address. He wrote an Ode on the Death of Lincoln, but 
 refused to write a memoir of him. One of the mammoth trees 
 of California was named for him this year. (See Bryant's 
 letter, p. 233, vol. ii, Godwin's Life.) His poem on The Death 
 of Slavery, written at this time, was brought forth by the 
 passage of the Constitutional Amendment. (See pp. 235, 236, 
 vol. ii, Godwin's Life.) He purchased his old homestead at 
 Cummington. 
 
 1866. 
 
 He says, February 19th, writing to his friend Dr. Samuel 
 Osgood, in reply to his request for a hymn : " I have written an 
 occasional poem at your suggestion, which is more than I have 
 done for any man for long years, etc. ... In the winter of life 
 the fountain of Hippocrene crystallizes into ice ; and if I were 
 ever so young, occasional verses would be a dangerous experi- 
 ment. ... I have more requests to write than perhaps you 
 would imagine, and am forced to give them all the same an- 
 swer." (See p. 240, vol. ii, Godwin's Life, for important letter 
 to Dr. Samuel Osgood.) The poet's wife died on July 27th of 
 this year. (See Letters, pp. 244-250, vol. ii, Godwin's Life.) 
 In the fall Mr. Bryant wrote the poem October, 1866. (See 
 letter to J. T. Fields, who asked for verses for Atlantic Month- 
 ly, p. 250, vol. ii, Godwin's Life.) He continued his translation 
 of the Odyssey, writing forty lines a day, and carrying a pocket 
 edition of Homer with him wherever he went. In October Mr. 
 Bryant sailed for Europe, visited Spain and Italy, and met 
 Garibaldi, whom he had known in America. He was invited to 
 go with him to Naples, but could not accept, He returned 
 home in August. (See pp. 252-263, vol. ii, Godwin's Life.) 
 
 1868. 
 
 He retired from his office as President of the American Free 
 Trade League, a farewell dinner being given to him on Janu- 
 ary 30th.
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. Ixi 
 
 1869. 
 
 In February he delivered an address before the New York 
 Historical Society on the life and character of Fitz-Greene Hal- 
 leek, who died November 19, 1867. Although engaged with 
 his translations of Homer, Bryant wrote several poems at this 
 period A Brighter Day, Among the Trees, A May Evening. 
 Also a volume of Travels, Letters from the East, brief after- 
 dinner speeches, and an address at the founding of the Metro- 
 politan Museum of Art. 
 
 1870. 
 
 Vol. i of the Iliad was issued in February, and vol. ii in 
 June. Vol. i of the Odyssey, September, 1871 ; vol. ii, March, 
 1872. (See North American Review, April, 1871, and London 
 Saturday Review, April 23, 1870.) Mr. G. C. Verplanck died in 
 March, and Bryant delivered a memorial address on May 17th 
 before the Historical Society. He also delivered a speech 
 on Translators of Homer at the Williams College alumni din- 
 ner ; on the Franco-Prussian "War at a German fair ; on Women 
 and Peace at a woman's convention ; and on Free Trade at a 
 Cooper Union meeting. He made the poetical translations for 
 Mrs. Theresa Robinson's Fifteen Years, besides writing the 
 reminiscences referred to of Miss C. M. Sedgwick for her Me- 
 moirs, prepared by Miss Mary Dewey. The Library of Poetry 
 and Song engaged his attention at this time. His work con- 
 sisted of revising, rejecting, and suggesting other poems, and 
 in writing a general introduction. (See p. 94, vol. ii, Godwin's 
 Life.) 
 
 1871. 
 
 He passed the early summer of this year at Roslyn, the later 
 part at Cummington, and the winters in New York. In a letter 
 to Joseph H. Richards he says, March 30th : " I rise early at this 
 tjme of the year about half-past five ; in summer half an hour 
 or even an hour earlier. Immediately, with very little encum- 
 brance of clothing, I begin a series of exercises for the most 
 part designed to expand the chest and at the same time call 
 into action all the muscles and articulations of the body." (See 
 pp. 297-299, vol. ii, Godwin's Life.) The first volume of the
 
 Ixii CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LITE. 
 
 Odyssey, in twelve books, was finished in April. In January 
 he delivered an address on Italian Unity in the Academy of 
 Music. In May he spoke at the dinner of the Joint High Com- 
 missioners, who had just completed a trade treaty between 
 England and America. He also delivered an address on the 
 Progress of German Literature at a dinner to the German 
 ambassador. He addressed an open-air meeting at the unveil- 
 ing of a statue to Professor Morse in Central Park in June, and 
 later on spoke on the Darwinian Theory to the Williams Col- 
 lege alumni. (See letter, p. 299, vol. ii, Godwin's Life.) On De- 
 cember 7th he sent the last of the Odyssey to his publishers, 
 Messrs. J. E. Osgood & Co. (See pp. 311-317, vol. ii, Godwin's 
 Life, for details of the completion of this work.) 
 
 1872. 
 
 After the completion of the Odyssey Mr. Bryant went to the 
 Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico. (See poem, A Memory, p. 318, 
 vol. ii, Godwin's Life.) In Mexico a formal reception was given 
 to him, and he was made an honorary member of the Geograph- 
 ical Society. He was treated with the highest honors by Presi- 
 dent Juarez and all Mexico. (See Bryant's letter of acknowl- 
 edgment, p. 322, vol. ii, Godwin's Life.) He returned to STew 
 York in April. He presented a library to his native town of 
 Cummington. 1873 
 
 During these years he made about a dozen speeches or more 
 in behalf of the Home for Incurables of the Children's Aid 
 Society, on municipal reform at a great meeting in Cooper In- 
 stitute, for the opening of the new Princeton library, at the 
 unveiling of the statue of Shakespeare in Central Park for his 
 English friends, and at the erection of a statue to Sir Walter 
 Scott for his Scotch friends, besides remarks at the Burns din- 
 ner, the dinner to Salvini the actor, and elsewhere. He pre- 
 pared a volume for G. P. Putnam containing his orations and 
 speeches. He addressed the people of Eoslyn on the subject 
 of Mexico, and went on a southern tour. He was elected to 
 the Eussian Academy, Baron Tolsteneff presenting his name in 
 an eloquent oration. In July his address at the opening of the 
 Princeton Library was delivered.
 
 CHKONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. Ixiii 
 
 1874. 
 
 He began Ms eightieth year with an address on Franklin 
 before the Typographical Society on January 17th. On Febru- 
 ary 24th he made a speech at a free-trade mass meeting at 
 Cooper Union. He wrote an introduction to a work on Pictur- 
 esque America. On November 3d he was presented with an 
 address, signed by thousands, congratulating him on reaching 
 his eightieth year. (See pp. 348, 349, vol. ii, Godwin's Life.) 
 
 1875. 
 
 A new edition of the Library of Poetry and Song was pro- 
 jected at this time, and Mr. Bryant gave it his hearty assistance, 
 writing an introduction to it. (See pp. 353-356, vol. ii, God- 
 win's Life.) Bryant at this time interested himself in a new 
 edition of Shakespeare, writing a preface for it when finished. 
 This was never published owing to delay about the illustra- 
 tions. He was entertained by Governor Tilden at Albany, both 
 branches of the Legislature adjourning in his honor. He ad- 
 dressed both Houses- (See pp. 357-359, vol. ii, Godwin's Life.) 
 He began a poem on the growth of New York, but never fin- 
 ished it. (See p. 365, vol. ii, Godwin's Life.) In September he 
 delivered an address before the Goethe Society, and later pre- 
 sided at the breakfast given to Lord Houghton by the Century 
 Club. 
 
 1876. 
 
 He was asked to write a Centennial Ode, but sent only 
 a hymn to be sung by the choir. His poem The Flood of 
 Years was composed at this time, and on the 20th of June 
 the commemorative vase of bronze was presented to him at 
 Chickering Hall, Dr. Samuel Osgood making the presentation 
 address. The Emperor of Brazil visited New York at this 
 time, and greeted Mr. Bryant as an old friend, sending him a 
 letter, the text of which will be found on p. 373, vol. ii, God- 
 win's Life. 
 
 1877. 
 
 He delivered an address at the unveiling of the statue to 
 Fitz-Greene Halleck in Central Park, and on November 3d
 
 hdv CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. 
 
 attended a complimentary reception at the Goethe Club, mak- 
 ing an address. Our Fellow- Worshippers was the closing poem 
 
 of this year. 
 
 1878. 
 
 In this the last year of his life Mr. Bryant walked daily to 
 his office and back, a distance of three miles. He spoke at a 
 reception to Lord Duff erin given by the Geographical Society ; 
 at a dinner given to Bayard Taylor, recently appointed minister 
 to Germany ; before the Society for the Suppression of Cruelty 
 to Children ; and at a breakfast of clergymen of all denomina- 
 tions. On February 2d he attended the meeting of the Geo- 
 graphical Society, at which Lord Duff erin was elected an hon- 
 orary member on motion of Bayard Taylor. On April 10th he 
 attended a " Commers " given by the German Social Science 
 Association to Bayard Taylor. He says of this " Commers " : 
 " There were five hundred people at fifteen tables in an immense 
 dining hall, besides the Arion singers in the gallery, who, in the 
 clouds of tobacco smoke which ascended from the beer-drinkers 
 below, looked like the gods on Olympus as they are sometimes 
 seen in pictures. Beer and cigars composed the bill of fare, 
 and the exercises consisted of songs and speeches," etc. He 
 attended a breakfast at the Clergymen's Club and made a 
 speech. (See p. 393, vol. ii, Godwin's Life.) May 27th he 
 wrote his last letter a criticism of a poem sent to him by 
 R. H. Stoddard. 
 
 On May 29th he came to the city, spent the morning work- 
 ing at his desk, and in the afternoon drove to Central Park, 
 where he delivered an oration at the unveiling of a statue to 
 the Italian patriot Mazzini. His last words in public were an 
 apostrophe to civil and religious liberty : 
 
 Image of the Illustrious Champion of Civil and Religious Liberty, 
 cast in enduring bronze to typify the imperishable renown of thy orig- 
 inal ! Remain for ages yet to come where we place thee in this resort 
 of millions ; remain till the day shall dawn far distant though it may 
 be when the rights and duties of human brotherhood shall be acknowl- 
 edged by all the races of mankind. 
 
 He went to the house of General James Grant Wilson after 
 the ceremonies were over and fell on the doorstep, receiving
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE. Ixv 
 
 injuries from which he died on the 12th of June, after an ill- 
 ness of several weeks. His funeral occurred on the 14th of 
 June at All Souls' Church, and the interment took place at 
 Eoslyn. Thus as he had wished the old poet was laid at rest. 
 
 I gazed upon the glorious sky 
 
 And the green mountains round ; 
 And thought, that when I came to lie 
 
 Within the silent ground, 
 'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June, 
 When brooks sent up a cheerful tune, 
 
 And groves a joyous sound, 
 The sexton's hand, my grave to make, 
 The rich, green mountain turf should break.
 
 CHKONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S POEMS. 
 
 1803. 
 
 In my ninth year I began to make verses, some of which 
 were utter nonsense. See pp. 22-23, Godwin's Life, for ex- 
 tracts from the poems. 
 
 1804. 
 Description of School, declaimed on schoolroom floor. 
 
 1807. 
 
 Above poem first published in the Hampshire Gazette of 
 March 18th, under the signature of C. B., Northampton, Mass., 
 March 18, 1807. Other pieces of verse were sent anonymously 
 to the paper about the same time, but they can not now be 
 identified. 
 
 1808. 
 
 The Embargo, printed in Boston, 1808. 
 
 1809. 
 
 The Embargo, reprinted 1809, together with The Spanish 
 Revolution, Connecticut River, Reward of Literary Merit, The 
 Contented Ploughman, Drought, Translation from Horace, 
 Carmen 22d, Book L 
 
 1810-1813. 
 
 On pp. 76-82 of Godwin's Life will be found extracts from 
 poems of this period, which were never published in full or 
 recognized by Mr. Bryant in collected editions of his poems. 
 
 1811. 
 
 Thanatopsis was written at this time. See pp. 98-101, God- 
 win's Life. Pp. 90-118, Godwin's Life, contain still further 
 extracts from the unpublished poems of this period.
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S POEMS. Ixvii 
 
 1814. 
 
 The Yellow Violet. 
 
 1815. . 
 
 I Cannot Forget with what Fervid Devotion, and The Hunter 
 of the West. To a Waterfowl. 
 
 1817. 
 
 Thanatopsis, published in the North American Review for 
 September 17th. Agricultural Ode, delivered before the Berk- 
 shire Agricultural Society. The Fragment (afterward known as 
 The Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood). Love's Power. 
 
 1818. 
 
 Agricultural Ode, published. To a Waterfowl, published in 
 the North American Review for March. A Friend on his Mar- 
 riage, published in the North American Review for March. 
 Version of Simonides, Danae, published in the North American 
 Review for March. Essay on American Poetry, published in 
 the North American Review for July. Happy Temperament, 
 published in the North American Review for July. The Burial- 
 place, composed at Great Barrington, first published in Dana's 
 Idleman, 1821. 
 
 1819. 
 
 Green River, written in Great Barrington, published in 
 Dana's Idleman, 1821. 
 
 1820. 
 
 A Winter Piece, written in Great Barrington, published in 
 Dana's Idleman, 1821. A Hymn to Death, Great Barrington, 
 published in the New York Review, October, 1825. Oh Fair- 
 est of the Rural Maids, written at Stockbridge, published in 
 the edition of 1832. 
 
 1821. 
 
 /The West Wind, published in Dana's Idleman. A Walk at 
 Sunset, published in Dana's Idleman. 
 
 Spain, written at Great Barrington. The Ages, Phi Beta 
 Kappa, Poem, August 30th.
 
 Ixviii CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S POEMS. 
 
 1823. 
 
 The Indian Girl's Lament. Ode for an Agricultural Cele- 
 bration, written at Great Barrington, p. 71, edition 1883. 
 
 1824. 
 
 Massacre at Scio, written at Great Barrington. March, 
 written at Great Barrington on March 24th, published in the 
 United States Literary Gazette, June 1st. Bizpah, published 
 in the United States Literary Gazette, April 12th. The Old 
 Man's Funeral, published in the United States Literary Gazette, 
 May 1st. The Kivulet, written at Cummington in 1823, pub- 
 lished in the United States Literary Gazette, May 15th. To 
 , written at Cummington in 1824, published in the Uni- 
 ted States Literary Gazette, June 15th. An Indian Story, 
 written at Great Barrington, published in the United States 
 Literary Gazette, July 1st. Summer Wind, written at Great 
 Barrington, published in the United States Literary Gazette, 
 July 15th. An Indian at the Burial-place of his Fathers, 
 written at Great Barrington, published in the United States 
 Literary Gazette, August 1st. Love's Seasons, written at Great 
 Barrington in 1824, published in the United States Literary 
 Gazette, August 15th. I Broke the Spell that Held Me Long, 
 written at Great Barrington in 1824, published in the Atlantic 
 Souvenir, 1825. Hymn of the Waldenses, published in the 
 United States Literary Gazette, September 1, 1824. Monu- 
 ment Mountain, published in the United States Literary Ga- 
 zette, September 15th. After a Tempest, published in the United 
 States Literary Gazette, October 1st. Autumn Woods, pub- 
 lished in the United States Literary Gazette, October 15th. 
 Mutation, published in the United States Literary Gazette, 
 November 15th. November, published in the United States Lit- 
 erary Gazette, November 15th. Song of the Greek Amazon, pub- 
 lished in the United States Literary Gazette, December 1st. 
 To a Cloud, published in the United States Literary Gazette, 
 
 December 15th. 
 
 1825. 
 
 The Murdered Traveller, published in the United States 
 Literary Gazette, January 14th. Hymn to the North Star,
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S POEMS^ Ixix 
 
 published in the United States Literary Gazette, January 15th. 
 The Lapse of Time, published in the United States Literary 
 Gazette, February 15th. The Song of the Stars, published in 
 the United States Literary Gazette, March 1st. A Forest 
 Hymn, published in the United States Literary Gazette, April 
 1st. June, written at Great Barrington in 1825, published in 
 the Atlantic Souvenir, 1826'. The African Chief, written in 
 New York, 1825, published in the United States Review and 
 Literary Gazette, December, 1826. The Greek Partisan, pub- 
 lished in the United States Literary Gazette, May, 1825. A 
 Song of Pitcairn's Island, published in the New York Review, 
 June, 1825. The Firmament, published in the New York Re- 
 view, July, 1825. Lines on Revisiting the Country, published 
 in the New York Review, August, 1825. To a Mosquito, pub- 
 lished in the New York Review, October, 1825. The Death of 
 the Flowers, published in the New York Review, 1825. 
 
 1826. 
 
 Springtime, published in the United States Literary Gazette, 
 July, 1826. Mary Magdalen, published in the United States 
 Review, October, 1826. Meditation on Rhode Island Coal, 
 published in the New York Review, April. I Cannot Forget 
 with what Fervid Devotion, written at Cummington, 1815, pub- 
 lished in the New York Review, February, 1826. The New 
 Moon, published in the New York Review, March, 1826. The 
 Life of the Blessed, written in New York, 1826, published in 
 the New York Review, May, 1827. The Journey of Life, 
 written in New York, 1826, edition of 1832. The Gladness of 
 Nature, published in the United States Literary Gazette. Mid- 
 summer, published in the United States Literary Gazette, 
 July. A Summer Ramble, published in the New York Mirror, 
 August. The Two Graves, published in the United States 
 Literary Gazette, August. The Conjunction of Jupiter and 
 Venus, published in the United States Literary Gazette, Sep- 
 tember. October, published in the United States Review 
 and Literary Gazette, October. The Damsel of Peru, pub- 
 lished in the United States Review and Literary Gazette, 
 November.
 
 1XX CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S POEMS. 
 
 1827. 
 
 Spring in Town, published in the United States Review, 
 April. A Scene on the Bank of the Hudson, published in the 
 Talisman, 1828. The Hurricane, written in New York, 1827, 
 published in the Talisman, 1828. William Tell, written in New 
 York, 1827, published in the Talisman, 1828. 
 
 1828. 
 
 The Past, written in New York, 1828, published in the 
 Talisman, 1829. Upon the Mountain's Distant Head, written 
 in New York, 1828, published in the Talisman, 1829. The 
 Lament of Romero, published in the New York Review, Feb- 
 ruary, 1826, and Talisman, 1829. The Greek Boy, written in 
 New York, 1828, published in the Talisman, 1829. The Hunt- 
 er's Serenade, written in New York, 1828, published in the 
 Talisman, 1829. 
 
 1829. 
 
 The Evening Wind, written in New York, 1829, published 
 in the Talisman, 1830. Love and Folly, written in New York, 
 
 1829, published in the Talisman, 1830. When the Firmament 
 Quivers, written in New York, 1829, published in the Talisman, 
 
 1830. The Siesta, written in New York, 1829, published in 
 the Talisman, 1830. Innocent Child and Snow White Flower, 
 written in New York, 1829, published in the Talisman, 1830. 
 The Alcayde of Molina, written in New York, 1829, published 
 in the Talisman, 1830. To the River Arve, written in New 
 York, 1829, published in the Talisman, 1830. The Death of 
 Aliatar, written in New York, 1829, published in the Talis- 
 man, 1830. To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe, writ- 
 ten in New York, 1829, published in the Talisman, 1830. The 
 Twenty-second of December, written for the New England 
 Dinner in New York, published in the Talisman, 1829. To 
 the Fringed Gentian, written in New York in 1829. Edition 
 of 1832. 
 
 1830. 
 Hymn of the City, published in the Christian Examiner.
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S POEMS. Ira 
 
 1831. 
 
 Song of Marion's Men, published in the New York Mirror, 
 November. 
 
 1832. 
 
 The Prairies, written in Illinois in 1832, published in the 
 Knickerbocker Magazine, December, 1833. The Arctic Lover, 
 written in New York in 1832, published in the Knickerbocker 
 Magazine, January, 1833. The Hunter of the Prairies, written 
 in Illinois in 1832, published in the New York Mirror, 1834. 
 
 1834. 
 
 Earth, written in Pisa in 1834, published in the New York 
 Mirror, March, 1835. The Serenade, published in the New 
 York Mirror, February, 1834. 
 
 1835. 
 
 Seventy-Six, published in the New York Mirror, May, 1835. 
 Song, published in the New York Mirror, July, 1835. To the 
 Apennines, written in Italy in 1835, published in the New York 
 Mirror, August, 1835. The Knight's Epitaph, written in Pisa 
 in 1835, published in the New York Mirror, September, 1835. 
 The Child's Funeral, written in Sorrento in 1835, published in 
 the Democratic Eeview, 1835. The Living Lost, published in 
 the New York Mirror, September, 1836. The Hunter's Vision, 
 published in the New York Mirror, November, 1835. The 
 Strange Lady, written in Heidelberg in 1835, published in the 
 New York Mirror, May, 1836. Life, written in Munich in 
 
 1835. Edition of 1842. 
 
 1836. 
 
 The Sharpening of the Sabre, written in New York in 1836, 
 published in the Evening Post, July, 1836. Earth's Children 
 Cleave to Earth, published in the New York Mirror, July, 
 
 1836. The Count of Griers, published in the New York Mirror, 
 January, 1836. The Green Mountain Boys, published in the 
 New York Mirror, November, 1836. Catterskill Falls, pub- 
 lished in the New York Mirror, November, 1836. A Presenti- 
 ment, written in New York in 1836, published in the New 
 York Mirror, April, 1837.
 
 Ixxii CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S POEMS. 
 
 1837. 
 
 The Battlefield, published in the Democratic Review, Octo- 
 ber, 1837. 
 
 1838. 
 
 The Death of Schiller, published in the Democratic Review, 
 August, 1838. 
 
 1839. 
 
 The Future Life, published in the Democratic Review, 
 March, 1839, reprinted in the Cypress Wreath, 1844. The 
 Fountain, published in the Democratic Review, April, 1839. 
 The Winds, published in the Knickerbocker Magazine, April, 
 1839. In Memory of William Leggett, published in the Demo- 
 cratic Review, November, 1839. 
 
 1840. 
 
 I Think of Thee, written in New York in 1840, published 
 in Godey's Lady's Book, January, 1844. The Old Man's Coun- 
 sel, published in the Democratic Review, February, 1840. An 
 Evening Revery, written in New York, 1840, published in the 
 Knickerbocker Magazine, January, 1841. A Dream, published 
 in the Democratic Review, December, 1841. 
 
 1842. 
 
 A Northern Legend, written in New York in 1842, pub- 
 lished in Graham's Magazine, January, 1843. The Painted 
 Cup, written in Illinois in 1842, published in the Democratic 
 Review. The Antiquity of Freedom, published in the Knick- 
 erbocker Magazine, May, 1842. The Maiden's Sorrow, written 
 in New York in 1842, published in the Home Library, 1844. A 
 Hymn to the Sea, written in Cape Ann, Mass., in 1842, pub- 
 lished in the Christian Examiner, September, 1842. The 
 Return of Youth, published in Graham's Magazine, October, 
 1842. Noon, written in Weehawken in 1842, published in the 
 Home Library, 1844. 
 
 1843. 
 
 The Crowded Street, published in Graham's Magazine, 
 January, 1843. Paradise of Tears, published in Graham's Mag- 
 azine, January, 1843. The White-footed Deer, published in 
 the Home Library, 1844.
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S POEMS. 
 1844. 
 
 The Waning Moon, published in Graham's Magazine, July, 
 1844. 
 
 1845. 
 
 The Stream of Life, published in Graham's Magazine, July, 
 1845. The Unknown Way, written at Eoslyn in 1845, pub- 
 lished in Graham's Magazine, December, 1846. 
 
 1846. 
 
 The Land of Dreams, written in New York in 1846, pub- 
 lished in Graham's Magazine, January, 1847. Oh Mother of a 
 Mighty Eace, written in New York in 1846, published in Gra- 
 ham's Magazine, July, 1847. 
 
 1849. 
 
 The Planting of the Apple-Tree, written in Eoslyn in 1849, 
 published in the Atlantic Monthly, January, 1864. The May 
 Sun Sheds an Amber Light, written in Eoslyn in 1849, pub- 
 lished in the Knickerbocker Magazine, May, 1852. 
 
 1850. 
 
 The Lady of Castle Windeck. The Saw Mill, published in 
 Graham's Magazine, February, 1850. 
 
 1853. 
 
 The Burial of Love, written in New York, 1853, published 
 in Graham's Magazine, 1854. The Conqueror's Grave, written 
 in New York, 1853, published in Putnam's Magazine, January, 
 1854. The Voice of Autumn, written in Eoslyn in 1853, pub- 
 lished in Graham's Magazine, January, 1854. 
 
 1854. 
 
 The Snow Shower, written in Eoslyn, published in the 
 Knickerbocker Gallery, 1855. A Eam-Dream, written in Eos- 
 lyn, published in the Crayon, January, 1855. 
 
 1855. 
 
 Eobert of Lincoln, written in Eoslyn, published in Put- 
 nam's Magazine, June, 1855. The Twenty-seventh of March, 
 written in Eoslyn, March, 1855.
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S POEMS. 
 
 1857. 
 
 The Lost Bird, written in Madrid in 1857, published in the 
 New York Ledger, 1858. Euins of Italica, written in Madrid 
 in 1857, published in Thirty Poems, 1863. An Invitation to 
 the Country, published in Harper's Weekly, May, 1857. A 
 Song for New Year's Eve, written in New York, published in 
 Harper's Magazine, January, 1859. The Eiver by Night, writ- 
 ten in Naples, 1857, published in Harper's Magazine, June, 
 1858. 
 
 1858. 
 
 The Swallow, written in Naples, February 8, 1858. A 
 Sick-Bed, written in Naples, May, 1858, published in the New 
 York Ledger, July 23, 1859. A Day-Dream, written in Naples, 
 published in the New York Ledger, January 5, 1860. The Life 
 That Is, written in Castellamare, May, 1858, published in Thirty 
 Poems, 1864. The Prairies Glow with Flowers, written in 
 Princeton, 111., 1858. 
 
 1859. 
 
 The Old World Sparrow, written in Koslyn in 1859. The 
 Song of the Sower, written in Roslyn in 1859, published in 
 Thirty Poems, 1864. The New and the Old, written in Roslyn 
 in 1859. 
 
 1860. 
 
 The Cloud on the Way, written in New York in 1860, pub- 
 lished in the New York Ledger, February, 1860. The Tides, 
 written in Roslyn in 1860, published in the New York Ledger, 
 July 28, 1860. Italy, written in Roslyn in 1860, published in 
 the New York Ledger, October 20, 1860. Waiting by the Gate, 
 written in New York in 1860, published in Thirty Poems, 1864. 
 
 1861. 
 
 The Constellations, written in Roslyn, published in Thirty 
 Poems, 1864. Not Yet, written in Roslyn in July, published 
 in the New York Ledger, August 17, 1861. Our Country's 
 Call, written in Cummington in September, published in the 
 New York Ledger, November, 1861. The Third of November, 
 written in Roslyn, published in Thirty Poems, 1864. Civil 
 War, written in New York, 1861. The Song Sparrow, written 
 in Roslyn, August, 1861, published in the Williams Magazine.
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S POEMS. Ixxv 
 
 1862. 
 
 The Better Age, written in Eoslyn in 1862. A Tale of 
 Cloudland, written in Eoslyn in 1862. Castles in the Air, writ- 
 ten in Koslyn in 1862, published in the Atlantic Magazine, 
 January, 1866. Sella, written in Roslyn in 1862. 
 
 1863. 
 
 Fifty Years, written in Eoslyn in 1863, published at Will- 
 iams College. The Little People of the Snow, written in Eos- 
 lyn in 1863, published in Thirty Poems, 1864. The Poet, writ- 
 ten in Eoslyn in 1863, published in Thirty Poems, 1864. The 
 Path, 
 
 1864. 
 
 To the Nightingale, 1864. The Return of the Birds, writ- 
 ten in Eoslyn, March, 1864, published in the Atlantic Monthly, 
 July, 1864. My Autumn Walk, written in Eoslyn, October, 
 1864, published in the Atlantic Monthly, January, 1865. 
 
 1865. 
 
 Dante, written in New York, published in the Atlantic 
 Monthly, January, 1866. Abraham Lincoln, Poetical Tribute 
 to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln, written in New York 
 April, 1865, published in the Atlantic Monthly, January, 1866. 
 A Legend of St. Martin, written in Eoslyn in 1865. The 
 Words of the Koran, written in Eoslyn, November, 1865. 
 
 1866. 
 
 The Order of Nature, written in Eoslyn in 1866 ; edition 
 of 1871. The Death of Slavery, written in Eoslyn, May, 1866, 
 published in the Atlantic Monthly, July, 1866. 
 
 1867. 
 
 > A Brighter Day, written in Eoslyn, October, 1867, published 
 in the New York Ledger, January 4, 1868. 
 
 1868. 
 
 Among the Trees, written in Eoslyn, published in Putnam's 
 Magazine, January, 1869.
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S POEMS. 
 
 1869. 
 
 May Evening, written in Eoslyn, published in Appleton's 
 Journal, May, 1869. 
 
 1872. 
 
 Tree-Burial, written in Eoslyn, published in the New York 
 Ledger, August 17, 1872. A Legend of the Delaware, written 
 in Eoslyn, published in the New York Ledger, November 9, 
 1872. 
 
 1873. 
 
 The Poet's First Song, written in Eoslyn, November, 1873, 
 published in The Mayflower, April, 1876. The Two Travellers, 
 written in Eoslyn, published in the Atlantic Monthly, Janu- 
 ary, 1874. 
 
 1875. 
 
 The Ascension, written in New York, December, 1875, pub- 
 lished in the Independent. The Mystery of Flowers, written 
 in Eoslyn in 1875. Christmas in 1875, written in New York, 
 published in the New York Evening Post, December, 1875. 
 Our Fellow- Worshippers, written in Eoslyn. 
 
 1876. 
 
 The Dead Patriarch, written in Eoslyn in 1876. To , 
 
 written in Eoslyn in 1876. The Flood of Years, written in 
 Eoslyn, published in Scribner's Monthly, July, 1876. A Life- 
 time, written in Cummington in 1876. 
 
 1877. 
 
 The Battle of Bennington, written August 16, 1877. In 
 Memory of John Lothrop Motley, written September, 1877, 
 published in the International Eeview. 
 
 1878. 
 
 The Twenty-second of February, written in New York in 
 February, published in the Sunday-School Times. Cervantes, 
 written April 23, 1878.
 
 PKINCIPAL EDITIONS OF THE POEMS. 
 
 1808. 
 
 The | Embargo, | or | Sketches of the Times ; | A | Satire. | 
 By a Youth of Thirteen. | Boston : Printed for the Purchasers. 
 | 1808. 
 
 Title and pp. 3-12. 
 
 1809. 
 
 The | Embargo ; | or | Sketches of the Times. | A Satire. | 
 The second edition corrected and enlarged. | Together with 
 the | Spanish Eevolution | and | Other Poems. | By William 
 Cullen Bryant. | Boston : | Printed for the author, by E. G. 
 House, | No. 5, Court Street. | 1809. 
 
 Collation : Title as above. Certificate of Copyright on verso, 
 
 p. 2, viz. : 
 
 District of Massachusetts. Be it remembered, that on the eighth day 
 of February, in the thirty-third year of the independence of the 
 United States of America, Peter Bryant, of the said district, has 
 deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he 
 claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit, The Embargo, or 
 Sketches of the Times; a Satire. The second edition corrected and 
 enlarged; together with The Spanish Revolution; and other Poems, 
 by William Cullen Bryant, etc. 
 
 Advertisement, p. 3, viz. : 
 
 A DOUBT having been intimated in the Monthly Anthology of June 
 last, whether a youth of thirteen years could have been the author of 
 this poem in justice to his merits the friends of the writer feel obliged 
 to certify the fact from their personal knowledge of himself and his 
 family, as well as his literary improvement and extraordinary talents. 
 ZThey would premise, that they do not come uncalled before the public, 
 to bear this testimony they would prefer that he should be judged by 
 his works, without favour or affection. As the doubt has been sug- 
 gested, they deem it merely an act of justice to remove it after which 
 they leave him a candidate for favour in common with other literary 
 adventurers. They, therefore, assure the public, that Mr. Bryant, the 
 
 Ixxvii
 
 Ixxviii PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF THE POEMS. 
 
 author, is a native of Cummiugton, in the County of Hampshire, and 
 in the month of November last arrived at the age of fourteen years. 
 The facts can be authenticated by many of the inhabitants of that 
 place, as well as by several of his friends who give this notice ; and 
 if it be deemed worthy of further inquiry, the printer is enabled to 
 disclose their names and places of residence. February, 1809. 
 
 Preface, pp. 5-6, viz. : 
 
 The first sketch of the following poem was written, when the terrapin 
 policy of our Administration, in imposing the Embargo, exhibited un- 
 deniable evidence of its hostility to Commerce, and proof positive, 
 that its political character was deeply tinctured with an unwarrant- 
 able partiality for France. &c., &c. 
 
 Text, pp. 7-36. The Embargo, pp. 7-20. The Spanish Eevo- 
 lution, pp. 21-26. Ode to Connecticut Eiver, pp. 27-29. 
 The Eeward of Literary Merit, pp. 29-31. Enigmas, 
 pp. 31-33. The Contented Ploughman, pp. 33-35. 
 Drought, p. 35. Translation from Horace, Lib. 1, Car. 
 xxii, p. 36. 
 
 1821. 
 
 Poems | by | William Cullen Bryant. | Cambridge : | Printed 
 by Hilliard and Metcalf. | 1821. 
 
 Collation'. 12mo, pp. 44. Brown paper boards with title as 
 
 above. Title as above. Verso blank. Advertisement. 
 The first poem in this collection was delivered before a literary asso- 
 ciation. Some of the others have appeared before, in different periodi- 
 cal publications, and are now by permission, inserted in this volume. 
 
 Text, pp. 7-44. Sub-title, The Ages. Poem, The Ages, pp. 7- 
 24. Sub-title, To a Waterfowl. Poem, To a Waterfowl, 
 pp. 27-28. Translation of a Fragment of Simonides, pp. 
 29-30. Inscription for the Entrance into a Wood, pp. 
 31-32. The Yellow Violet, pp. 33-34. Song, p. 35. 
 Green Eiver, pp. 36-38. Sub-title, Thanatopsis. Poem, 
 Thanatopsis, pp. 41-44. 
 
 Mr. Godwin, in the two-volume edition of the poems, pub- 
 lished in 1883, says of the date when Thanatopsis was written : 
 
 Mr. Bryant was himself for a while somewhat uncertain as 
 to the precise time in which this poem was written. In answer
 
 PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF THE POEMS. Ixxix 
 
 to a gentleman, Mr. S. N. Holliday, who put the question to 
 him, he wrote, under date of New York, March 15, 1855, as 
 follows : 
 
 I cannot give you any information of the occasion which suggested 
 to my mind the idea of my poem Thanatopsis. It was written when I was 
 seventeen or eighteen years old I have not now at hand the memoran- 
 dums which would enable me to be precise and I believe it was com- 
 posed in my solitary rambles in the woods. As it was first committed 
 to paper, it began with the half -line "Yet a few days, and thee" and 
 ended with the beginning of another line with the words "And make 
 their bed with thee." The rest of the poem the introduction and the 
 close was added some years afterward, in 1821, when I published a 
 little collection of my poems at Cambridge." 
 
 He was seventeen years old November 3, 1811, and he wrote 
 the poem shortly after he left Williams College, in the summer 
 of that year. It was put away with others for revision, when 
 his father found it, and procured it to be published in The 
 North American Eeview of 1817. As this poem occupies so 
 prominent a position in the history of American literature, I 
 reproduce it here as it was originally written and printed. 
 The reader will easily discover the changes made in it by the 
 author between that time and 1821, when it was first given to 
 the public in its present shape. It is needless to say that the 
 four rhymed stanzas prefixed to it were not intended to accom- 
 pany it, but, as they were found in the same package with 
 Thanatopsis, they were mistakenly supposed to be an introduc- 
 tion. EDITOE. 
 
 THANATOPSIS. 
 
 Not that from life and all its woes 
 
 The hand of death shall set me free ; 
 Not that this head shall then repose 
 
 In the low vale most peacefully. 
 
 Ah, when I touch time's farthest brink, 
 * A kinder solace must attend ; 
 
 It chills my very soul to think 
 
 On that dread hour when life must end. 
 
 In vain the flattering verse may breathe 
 Of ease from pain and rest from strife,
 
 PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF THE POEMS. 
 
 There is a sacred dread of death 
 Inwoven with the strings of life. 
 
 This bitter cup at first was given 
 When angry Justice frowned severe ; 
 
 And 'tis the eternal doom of heaven 
 That man must view the grave with fear. 
 
 Yet a few days, and thee 
 The all-beholding sun shall see no more 
 In all his course ; nor yet in the cold ground, 
 Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, 
 Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist 
 Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim 
 Thy growth, to be resolv'd to earth again; 
 And, lost each human trace, surrend'ring up 
 Thine individual being, shalt thou go 
 To mix forever with the elements, 
 To be a brother to th' insensible rock 
 And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain 
 Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak 
 Shall send its roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. 
 
 Yet not to thy eternal resting-place 
 
 Shalt thou retire alone nor couldst thou wish 
 
 Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down 
 
 With patriarchs of the infant world with kings, 
 
 The powerful of the earth, the wise, the good, 
 
 Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, 
 
 All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills 
 
 Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, the vales 
 
 Stretching in pensive quietness between, 
 
 The venerable woods, the floods that move 
 
 In majesty, and the complaining brooks 
 
 That wind among the meads and make them green, 
 
 Are but the solemn decorations all 
 
 Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, 
 
 The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, 
 
 Are glowing on the sad abodes of death 
 
 Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread 
 
 The globe are but a handful to the tribes 
 
 That slumber in its bosom. Take the wings 
 
 Of morning, and the Borean desert pierce,
 
 PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF THE POEMS. 
 
 Or lose thyself in the continuous woods 
 
 That veil the Oregon, where he hears no sound 
 
 Save his own dashings yet the dead are there, 
 
 And millions in those solitudes, since first 
 
 The flight of years began, have laid them down 
 
 In their last sleep. The dead reign there alone. 
 
 So shalt thou rest; and what if thou shalt fall 
 
 Unnoticed by the living, and no friend 
 
 Take note of thy departure ? Thousands more 
 
 Will share thy destiny. The tittering world 
 
 Dance to the grave. The busy brood of care 
 
 Plod on, and each one chases as before 
 
 His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave 
 
 Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, 
 
 And make their bed with thee ! 
 
 Since the edition of 1821, certain lines have been further 
 changed. Thus, page 15, line 7 : 
 
 The Barcan desert pierce, 
 has been written : 
 
 traverse Barca's desert sands, 
 and then : 
 
 pierce the Barcan wilderness. 
 
 Page 15, line 14, was originally : 
 
 and what if thou shouldst fall, 
 Unnoticed, by the living 
 
 Page 15, lines 25 and 26, stood in 1821 : 
 
 The bowed with age, the infant in the smile 
 And beauty of its innocent age cut off. 
 
 Page 16, line 3 : 
 
 To that mysterious realm 
 read in 1821 : 
 
 To the pale realms of shade EDITOB. 
 
 1832. 
 
 Poems | by | William Cullen Bryant. | An American. | Ed- 
 ited^ by | Washington Irving. | London : | J. Andrews, 167, New 
 Bond Street. | MDCCCXXXIL 
 
 Collation : 8vo, pp. xii-235. Title as above. Verso ; London : 
 J. Moyes, Castle Street, Leicester Square. Dedication
 
 PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF THE POEMS. 
 
 to Samuel Rogers, Esq., pp. iii-vi, signed Washington 
 Irving, London, March, 1832. Author's Preface, pp. vii- 
 viii, viz. : 
 
 Most of the following poems have been already printed. The longest, 
 entitled The Ages, was published in 1821, in a thin volume, along 
 with about half a dozen others now included in this collection. With 
 a few exceptions, the remainder have since appeared in different publi- 
 cations, mostly of the periodical kind. The favour with which the 
 public have regarded them, and of which their republication in various 
 compilations seemed to the author a proof, has induced him to collect 
 them into a volume. In preparing them for the press, he has made such 
 corrections as occurred to him on subjecting them to a careful revi- 
 sion. Sensible as he is that no author had ever more cause of grati- 
 tude to his countrymen for the indulgent estimate placed by them on 
 his literary attempts, he yet cannot let this volume go forth to the 
 public without a feeling of apprehension, both that it may contain 
 things which did not deserve admission, and that the entire collection 
 may not be thought worthy of the generous and partial judgment 
 which has been passed upon some of the separate poems. 
 
 N. T., January, 1832. 
 Contents, pp. ix-xii, as follows : 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Dedication iii 
 
 Author's Preface vii 
 
 The Ages 1 
 
 To the Past 16 
 
 Thanatopsis 19 
 
 The Lapse of Time 23 
 
 To the Evening Wind 26 
 
 Forest Hymn 28 
 
 The Old Man's Funeral 33 
 
 The Rivulet 35 
 
 The Damsel of Peru 39 
 
 A Song ol Pitcairn's Island 41 
 
 Rizpah 43 
 
 The Indian Girl's Lament 47 
 
 The Massacre at Scio . 50 
 
 Version of a Fragment of Simonides 51 
 
 The Greek Partisan 53 
 
 Romero 55 
 
 Monument Mountain 58 
 
 The Murdered Traveller 64 
 
 Song of the Greek Amazon 66 
 
 The African Chief 68
 
 PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF THE POEMS. Ixxxiii 
 
 PAGE 
 
 " Soon as the Glazed and Gleaming Snow " 71 
 
 An Indian Story 72 
 
 The Hunter's Serenade 76 
 
 Song of Marion's Men 79 
 
 Song " Dost thou idly ask to hear " 82 
 
 Love and Folly 84 
 
 Fatima and Eaduan 86 
 
 The Death of Aliatar 89 
 
 The Alcayde of Molina 93 
 
 From the Spanish of Villegas . .95 
 
 The Life of the Blessed . . . , 96 
 
 Mary Magdalen 98 
 
 The Siesta 100 
 
 From the Spanish of Pedro de Castro y ASaya 102 
 
 Love in the Age of Chivalry 104 
 
 The Love of God 106 
 
 v The Hurricane ^ . . .107 
 
 March 110 
 
 Spring in Town 112 
 
 Summer Wind 115 
 
 Autumn Woods 117 
 
 A Winter Piece 120 
 
 "Oh, Fairest of the Rural Maids!" 125 
 
 The Disinterred Warrior 126 
 
 The Greek Boy 128 
 
 " Upon the Mountain's Distant Head " 130 
 
 Sonnet William Tell 131 
 
 To the River Arve 132 
 
 Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood 134 
 
 "When the Firmament quivers with Daylight's Young Beam " . . 136 
 
 Scene on the Banks of the Hudson 138 
 
 The West Wind 140 
 
 To a Mosquito - . 142 
 
 " I broke the Spell that held me Long " 146 
 
 The Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus . . . . . .147 
 
 June 151 
 
 The Two Graves 154 
 
 The New Moon 158 
 
 The Gladness of Nature 160 
 
 To ^he Fringed Gentian 162 
 
 "Innocent Child and Snow-white Flower!" 164 
 
 Sonnet Midsummer 165 
 
 Sonnet October 166 
 
 Sonnet November . . . .167
 
 PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF THE POEMS. 
 
 PASK 
 
 A Meditation on Rhode Island Coal 168 
 
 An Indian at the Burying-Place of His Fathers 173 
 
 Sonnet To a Painter departing for Europe 177 
 
 Green River 178 
 
 To a Cloud 181 
 
 After a Tempest 183 
 
 The Burial-Place. A fragment 186 
 
 The Yellow Violet 189 
 
 ' ' I cannot forget with what Fervid Devotion " 191 
 
 Lines on revisiting the Country 193 
 
 Sonnet Mutation 195 
 
 "Hymn to the North Star 196 
 
 The Twenty-second of December 198 
 
 Ode for an Agricultural Celebration 199 
 
 A Walk at Sunset 201 
 
 Hymn of the Waldenses 204 
 
 Song of the Stars 206 
 
 Hymn of the City 209 
 
 " No man knoweth his Sepulchre " 211 
 
 " Blessed are they that mourn " 212 
 
 The Skies 214 
 
 Sonnet To 217 
 
 Death of the Flowers 218 
 
 Hymn to Death 220 
 
 To a Waterfowl 227 
 
 Notes 229 
 
 Text, pp. 1-228. Notes, pp. 229-235. 
 
 1832. 
 
 Poems | by | William Cullen Bryant. | New York : | Pub- 
 lished by E. Bliss, 111 Broadway, | And sold by the principal 
 booksellers. | MDCCCXXXII. 
 
 Collation: 12mo, pp. 240. Title as above. Verso, Certificate 
 of Copyright and printer's imprint, as follows : 
 
 Entered according to an act of Congress, in the year one thousand 
 eight hundred and thirty-one, by W. C. Bryant, in the Clerk's Office 
 of the Court of the United States, for the southern district of New 
 York - ( New York: Ludwig & Tolefree, 
 
 -? Printers. Corner Vesey & 
 ( Greenwich Streets.
 
 PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF THE POEMS. 1XXXV 
 
 Preface, p. 3. Text, pp. 5-234. Notes, pp. 235-238. Contents, 
 
 pp. 239-240. 
 
 An edition similar to the above was also printed in Boston 
 in the same year, 1832. The two were in all respects similar. 
 
 1834. 
 
 Poems | by | William Cullen Bryant. | Boston : | Russell, 
 Odiorne & Metcalf. | 1834. 
 
 Collation: 12mo, pp. xii-240. False Title, Bryant's Poems. 
 Full title as above. Verso, Certificate of Copyright, 
 dated 1831, and printer's imprint. Advertisement, p. v, 
 as follows : 
 
 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. 
 
 Preface to the First Edition, pp. vii-viii, dated New York, 
 January, 1832. Table of Contents, pp. ix-xi. Three 
 poems which were not in the previous editions of 1832 
 are: The Prairies; Sonnet, from the Portuguese of 
 Somedo; and The Journey of Life. Text, pp. 1-234. 
 Notes, pp. 235-240. 
 
 1836. 
 First Title-Page : 
 
 Poems | by | William Cullen Bryant. | Vignette, A view 
 near West Point, by E. W. Weir. 
 
 "... enter this wild wood, 
 And view the haunts of nature. " 
 
 P. 180. 
 New York : | Harper & Brothers | 1836. 
 
 Second Title-Page : 
 
 Poems | by | William Cullen Bryant. | Fourth Edition. | 
 New^ York : | Harper & Brothers, Cliff St. | 1836. 
 
 Collation: 12mo, pp. xii-274. Title as above. Verso, Copy- 
 right, 1835. Sub-title, p. iii. Advertisement to the 
 Second Edition, p. v, as follows :
 
 PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF THE POEMS. 
 
 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. 
 
 Preface to the First Edition, New York, January, 1832, pp. vii- 
 viii. Contents, pp. ix-xii. Text, pp. 13-267. Notes, 
 pp. 269-274. 
 
 The following poems appear in this edition for the first 
 time: Earth, To the Apennines, The Knight's Epitaph, Sev- 
 enty-six, The Living Lost, The Strange Lady, The Hunter's 
 Vision, Catterskill Falls, The Hunter of the Prairies, The Count 
 of Greiers From the German, Earth's Children Cleave to 
 Earth. 
 
 Four editions of the above collection of poems were made previous to 
 1839, numbered consecutively from the first to the fifth. 
 
 1839. 
 
 Poems | by | William Cullen Bryant. | Fifth Edition. | New 
 York : | Harper & Brothers, Cliff St. j 1839. 
 
 Collation: 12mo, pp. xii-276. Title as above. Verso, Copy- 
 right, 1836. Sub-title, p. iii. Advertisement to the Fifth 
 Edition, p. v, as follows : 
 
 The present edition, by the advice of the publishers, is somewhat 
 enlarged. A few corrections have also been made in the text of the 
 poems which were published in the other editions. 
 
 Preface to the First Edition, New York, January, 1832, pp. vii- 
 viii. Contents, pp. ix-xii. Text, pp. 13-269. Notes, 
 pp. 271-276. 
 
 The only new poem in this edition is The Battlefield, p. 268. There 
 seem to have been at least five reprints of this edition ; the last, which 
 is called the tenth edition, having been published in 1843. The 
 destruction by fire of the records of Harper Bros, makes it difficult to 
 be more accurate on this point. 
 
 1842. 
 
 The Fountain | and | other Poems. | By | William Cullen 
 Bryant. | New York and London: | Wiley and Putnam. | 
 1842.
 
 PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF THE POEMS. Ixxxvii 
 
 12mo, pp. 100. False Title. Title as above. Verso, 
 Copyright, 1842, and printer's imprint. Contents, p. v. 
 To the Eeader, p. vii : 
 
 The poems which compose this little volume have been written within 
 the last five or six years some of them merely as parts of a longer 
 one planned by the author, which may possibly be finished hereafter. 
 In the meantime he has been tempted to publish them in this form by 
 the reception which another collection of his verses has already met 
 with among his countrymen. NEW YORK, July, 1842. 
 
 Sub-title, The Fountain. | Text, pp. 11-96. | Notes, pp. 
 97-100. 
 
 The following poems appear in this edition for the first 
 time : The Fountain, The Winds, The Green Mountain Boys, 
 The Death of Schiller, A Presentiment, The Future Life, The 
 Old Man's Counsel, The Child's Funeral, A Serenade, To the 
 Memory of William Leggett, An Evening Revery, The Painted 
 Cup, A Dream, The Antiquity of Freedom. 
 
 1844. 
 
 Outside Cover Title : The Home Library. | Poetical Series, 
 No. 1. | The White Footed Deer | and other Poems. | By Will- 
 iam Cullen Bryant. | New York : | I. S. Platt, 111, Fulton 
 Street. | Press of the Home Library, 1844. 
 
 Collation : 16mo, pp. vi-24. Notes, p. 1. 
 
 This little volume has yellow paper covers, with title as above. The 
 back cover contains an advertisement of the Home Library, edited by 
 Evert A. Duyckinck, in which the statement is made that the poetical 
 series will commence with The White Footed Deer. 
 
 False Title, The White Footed Deer and Other Poems. 
 Title, p. iv, The White Footed Deer & Other Poems, by 
 William Cullen Bryant. Copyright on verso, dated 1844, with 
 printers' and stereotyper's names. S. W. Benedict & Co., 128, 
 Fulton St. 
 
 Contents, p. vi. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Advertisement vii 
 
 The White-Footed Deer 1 
 
 Noon 5 
 
 Washington 8
 
 PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF THE POEMS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Maiden's Sorrow 9 
 
 The Crowded Street 11 
 
 The Return of Youth 14 
 
 Northern Legend 16 
 
 A Summer Ramble 18 
 
 The Death of Channing 21 
 
 Hymn of the Sea 22 
 
 Notes 25 
 
 Advertisement. 
 
 All the following trifles in verse except one have been written since 
 the last collection of the author's poems was published. 
 
 NEW YORK, March, 1844. 
 
 Notes, p. 1. 
 
 During the stay of Long's expedition at Engineer Cantonment, three 
 specimens of a variety of the common deer were brought in, having 
 all the feet white near the hoofs, and extending to those on the hind 
 feet from a little above the spurious hoofs, etc. 
 
 P. 5. 
 
 At noon the Hebrew bowed the knee and worshipped. Evening and 
 morn and at noon will I pray and cry aloud, and he shall hear my 
 voice. 
 
 1847. 
 
 Poems | by | William Cnllen Bryant | with Illustrations by 
 E. Leutze. | Engraved by American Artists. | Philadelphia : | 
 Carey and Hart, | 1847. | 
 
 Collation : Eoyal 8vo, pp. 378. Frontispiece, Greek Amazon. 
 Sub-title, Poems by William Cullen Bryant, with vignette 
 portrait, Philadelphia, Carey & Hart. Title as above. 
 Copyright on verso, 1847. 
 
 To the Reader, p. 3 : 
 
 Perhaps it would have been well if the author had followed his orig- 
 inal intention, which was to leave out of this volume, as unworthy of 
 republication, several of the poems which made a part of his previous 
 collections. He asks leave to plead the judgment of a literary friend, 
 whose opinion in such matters he highly values, as his apology for 
 having retained them. With the exception of the first and longest 
 poem in the collection, The Ages, they are all arranged according to 
 the order of time in which they were written, as far as it can be 
 ascertained. NEW YORK, 1846.
 
 PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF THE POEMS. 
 
 Contents, pp. 5-9. List of illustrations, pp. 11-16. Portrait of 
 Bryant, preceding text. Text, pp. 17-361. Notes, false 
 title, p. 363. Notes, pp. 365-378. 
 
 This edition was reprinted complete in one volume without 
 illustrations. Philadelphia, Carey & Hart, 1849. 
 
 1854. 
 
 Poems | by | William Cullen Bryant. | Collected and ar- 
 ranged | by the Author. | In Two Volumes. | Vol. I. | New 
 York, | D. Appleton and Company, | 346 and 348, Broadway. | 
 London : 16 Little Britain. | MDCCCLIV. 
 
 Collation: 12mo, 2 vols. Vol. I, pp. x-296. Vol. II, pp. vi- 
 286. Title as above. Copyright on verso, 1854. 
 
 To the Eeader. (Prefixed to the Edition of 1846.) P. 3 : 
 Advertisement, p. 5. 
 
 The present edition has been carefully revised by the author, and 
 some faults of diction and versification corrected. A few poems not 
 in the previous editions have been added. 
 
 NEW YORK, August, 1854. 
 
 Contents of Vol. I, pp. 7-10. Sub-title, Poems. Text, pp. 
 1-286. Notes, pp. 287-296. 
 
 Vol. II. Title as above. Contents, pp. 3-6. Sub-title, Poems. 
 
 Text, pp. 1-268. Notes. 269-286. 
 
 This edition was reprinted in 1855, 1856, 1857, 1859, 1860, 1862, 1864, 
 1864, 1865, 1866, 1869, 1870. 
 
 An edition of the above collection of poems was published in one 36mo 
 volume, September, 1854. 
 
 A reprint of the Carey & Hart illustrated edition of 1847 was made in 
 this year with the imprint of D. Appleton and Company on the title- 
 page. 
 
 Poems | by | William Cullen Bryant. | Collected and ar- 
 ranged by the Author. | Illustrated with seventy-one engrav- 
 ings. | From drawings by eminent artists. | New York : | D. 
 Appleton and Company, 346-348, Broadway. 
 
 Collation: Sm. 4to, pp. xvi-344. Title as above. Copy- 
 right on verso, 1854. Contents, pp. v-ix. List of illus- 
 trations, x-xii. To the Eeader, prefixed to the edition
 
 XC PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF THE POEMS. 
 
 of 1846, p. xiii. Advertisement, prefixed to the edition 
 of 1854, p. xiv. Sub-title, Poems, p. xv. Text, 1-332. 
 Sub-title, Notes, p. 333. Notes, pp. 335-344. 
 This edition was printed in England, by R. Clay, Bread 
 Street Hill. The following poems appear in this edition for 
 the first time : The Unknown Way, Oh Mother of a Mighty 
 Eace, The Land of Dreams, The Burial of Love, The May Sun 
 Sheds an Amber Light, The Voice of Autumn, The Conqueror's 
 Grave, The Snow-shower,* A Rain -Dream,* Robert of Lin- 
 coln.* 
 
 1864. 
 
 Thirty Poems. | William Cullen Bryant. | New York : | D. 
 Appleton and Company, | 443 and 445 Broadway. | London : 16 
 Little Britain. | MDCCCLXIV. 
 
 Collation : 12mo, pp. 222. Title as above. Copyright on verso, 
 1863. Pp. 3-4. 
 
 To the Reader : 
 
 The author has attempted no other classification of the poems in this 
 volume than that of allowing them to follow each other according to 
 the order of time in which they were written. It has seemed to him 
 that this arrangement is as satisfactory as any other, since, at differ- 
 ent periods of life, an author's style and habits of thought may be 
 supposed to undergo very considerable modifications. One poem 
 forms an exception to this order of succession, and should have 
 appeared in an earlier collection. Three others have already appeared 
 in an illustrated edition of the author's poems. 
 
 NEW YORK, December, 1863. 
 
 Contents, pp. 5-6. Sub-title, Poems, p. 7. Text, pp. 9-210. 
 
 Sub-title, Notes, p. 211. Notes, pp. 213-222. 
 The following poems appear in this edition for the first 
 time : The Planting of the Apple-Tree, The Twenty-seventh of 
 March, An Invitation to the Country, Song for New Year's Eve, 
 The Wind and Stream, The Lost Bird from the Spanish of 
 Carolina Coronado, The Night Journey of a River, The Life 
 that Is, Song, " These Prairies Glow with Flowers," A Sick- 
 
 * The last three poems do not appear in the American edition of this 
 date.
 
 PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF THE POEMS. XC1 
 
 Bed, The Song of the Sower, The New and the Old, The Cloud 
 on the Way, The Tides, Italy, A Day-Dream, The Euins of 
 Italica from the Spanish of Kioja, Waiting by the Gate, Not 
 Yet, Our Country's Call, The Constellations, The Third of No- 
 vember, 1861, The Mother's Hymn, Sella, The Fifth Book of 
 Homer's Odyssey translated, The Little People of the Snow, 
 The Poet. 
 
 1871. 
 
 Poems | by | William Cullen Bryant. | Collected and ar- 
 ranged | by the Author. | New York : | D. Appleton and Com- 
 pany, 549 and 551 Broadway. | London : 16 Little Britain. | 
 1871. 
 
 Collation: 12mo, pp. 390. Frontispiece, portrait of Bryant. 
 Title as above. Copyright on verso, 1871. To the 
 Reader, p. iii, New York, June, 1871. Contents, pp. v-ix. 
 Text, pp. 11-375. Notes, pp. 376-390. 
 
 This is known as the "Red-line" Edition, and has been frequently 
 reprinted. 
 
 1876. 
 
 Poetical Works | of | William Cullen Bryant. | Collected 
 and arranged | by the Author. | Illustrated by one hundred en- 
 gravings. | From drawings by Birket Foster, Harry Fenn, 
 Alfred Fredericks, and others. | New York : | D. Appleton and 
 Company, | 549 and 551 Broadway. 
 
 Collation: Sq. 8vo, pp. x-501. Frontispiece, portrait of 
 Bryant. Title as above. Copyright on verso, 1876. 
 To the Eeader, p. iii, dated New York, August, 1876. 
 Contents, pp. v-x. Sub-title, Poems. Text, pp. 3-486. 
 Notes, 487-501. 
 
 The illustrations in this edition are the same as those used in the 
 English edition of 1854, with the addition of a new illustration to 
 Thanatopsis, p. 21. 
 
 The following poems appear in this edition for the first 
 time: October, 1866, The Order of Nature, Tree -Burial, A 
 Legend of the Delawares, A Lifetime.
 
 XC11 PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF THE POEMS. 
 
 1883. 
 
 The | Poetical Works | of j William Cullen Bryant, | edited 
 by | Parke Godwin. | In Two Volumes. | Volume First. | New 
 York : | D. Appleton and Company. | 1, 3, and 5 Bond Street. | 
 1883. 
 
 Collation : I, 8vo, pp. 358. False Title, The Life and Works 
 of William Cullen Bryant. Vol. III. Title as above. 
 Copyright on verso, 1883. Preface, pp. v-vi. Original 
 Prefaces, vii-x. Contents, xi-xiv. Sub-title, p. 15. 
 Text, pp. 17-326. Notes, pp. 327-358. Vol. II, 
 pp. 372.
 
 SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS. 
 
 1820. 
 
 An Oration, | delivered at Stockbridge, July 4, 1820. | By 
 William C. Bryant, Esq. | Stockbridge : Printed by Charles 
 Webster, 1820. 
 
 12mo. Title, p. 1 (verso blank). Oration, pp. 3-11 (verso 
 blank.) 
 
 1841. 
 
 Popular Considerations on Homo30pathia : | By William Cul- 
 len Bryant, Esq., | delivered before the New York Homoe- 
 opathic Society, | December 23, 1841. New York [1841]. 
 
 8vo, pp. 24. 
 
 1843. 
 
 An Address | to the | People of the United States | in be- 
 half of the American Copyright Club. | Adopted at New York, 
 October 18, 1843. New York : Published by the Club, 1843. 
 
 12mo, pp. 20. 
 
 1848. 
 
 A | Funeral Oration | occasioned by the Death of | Thomas 
 Cole. | Delivered before the | National Academy of Design, | 
 New York, May 4, 1848, | by | William Cullen Bryant. | Pub- 
 lished by order of | the Council of the Academy. | New York. 
 
 8vo, pp. 42. 
 
 1850. 
 
 Letters of a Traveller, | or | Notes of Things | Seen in | 
 Europe and America. | By William Cullen Bryant. | New 
 York, | George P. Putnam, 155, Broadway. | London : Eichard 
 Bentley, | 1850. 
 
 12mo, pp. 442. 
 
 Tkis edition was reprinted in 1851, under the title of The 
 Picturesque Souvenir, Letters of a Traveller, published by 
 Putnam, with thirteen steel engravings.
 
 XC1V SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS. 
 
 1851. 
 
 Keminiscences | of the | Evening Post. | Extracted from 
 the Evening Post | of | November 15, 1851. | With additions 
 and corrections by the Writer. | New York : | William C. 
 Bryant & Co., Printers, 18 Nassau Street, N. Y. | 1851. 
 
 12mo, pp. 22. 
 
 1859. 
 
 Letters of a Traveller. | Second series. | By | William Cullen 
 Bryant. | New York : | D. Appleton and Company | 346 and 348 
 Broadway. | 1859. | 
 
 12mo,pp.277. 
 
 " How Amiable are Thy Tabernacles, Oh Lord of Hosts." | 
 A | Forest Hymn | by | William Cullen Bryant, | with | Illus- 
 trations | by | John A. Nums. | New York : | W. A. Towns- 
 end & Co. | [I860]. 
 
 4to, pp. 32, printed on one side only. 
 
 There are two variations of this title-page, one with the 
 imprint " New York, Hurd & Houghton," with plates some- 
 what worn ; the other, " New York, James G. Gregory." 
 
 1863. 
 
 Class Ode, Fiftieth Anniversary of the Class of 1813 | 
 1863. | Fifty years, | for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Class 
 of Williams College, which was graduated in 1813. 
 
 4to, 2 pp., printed on one side only, signed W. C. B. 
 
 1864. 
 
 Hymns | by | William Cullen Bryant. 
 8vo, pp. iv-40. 
 
 Nineteen hymns are included in this collection, which was printed for 
 private circulation only. Bound in black boards. Title in gilt 
 letters on cover. 
 
 Book of Hymns, 1864. 
 
 " Soon after his father's death (March 20, 1820), while he was yet full 
 of the sentiment it inspired, an appeal was made to him by the Uni- 
 tarians in aid of a Collection of Hymns they projected. Mr. Henry
 
 SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS. XCV 
 
 D. Sewall, the editor, applied to Miss Catherine M. Sedgwick, of 
 Stockbridge, to use her efforts in his behalf." 
 
 In a letter to her brother Robert, of New York, dated May 17, 1820, 
 she writes : 
 
 " I wish you would give my best regards to Mr. Sewall, and tell him 
 I have had great success in my agency. I sent for Mr. Bryant last 
 week, and he called to see me on my return from Court. I told him 
 Mr. Sewall had commissioned me to request some contributions from 
 him to a collection of hymns, and he said, without any hesitation, 
 that he was obliged to Mr. Sewall, and would with great pleasure 
 comply with his request," etc. 
 
 The following is Miss Sedgwick's reply to Mr. Bryant, written more 
 than forty years afterward, on receipt of a copy of hymns published 
 at that time : 
 
 " MY DEAR MR. BRYANT: 
 
 " But for your prohibition I should at once, on the receipt of my 
 precious little Hymns, have sent to you my earnest thanks, and told 
 you how vividly they recall the day when the young poet, one of the 
 first objects of my hero-worship, offered me in my dear home the six 
 hymns, etc." 
 
 Extract from letter W. G. B. to Rev. A. P. Putnam, November 15, 
 1878. 
 
 Hymns. 
 
 Nos. 1 and 2. Composed for some Ordination. Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 
 Composed for collection made by Henry D. Sewall. No. 9. Ordina- 
 tion in England. No. 10. After a lapse of thirty years, for Mr. 
 Waterston, Boston. No. 11. For dedication of the Church of the 
 Pilgrims. No. 12. Composed for anniversary of Foreign Missionary 
 Society. No. 13. Written for Mr. Lombard, of Utica, included in a 
 collection at the end of a School Liturgy, compiled in 1859. No. 14. 
 Written at Dr. Osgood's suggestion in 1861-'62, and included by him 
 in his Liturgy. The remaining five, written to complete collection. 
 
 1869. 
 
 Letters from the East, | by | William Cullen Bryant. | New 
 York : | G. P. Putnam & Son. | 1869. 
 8vo, pp. 256. 
 
 1869. 
 
 Some Notices | of the | Life and Writings | of | Fitz-Greene 
 Halleck. | Eead before the New York Historical Society on the 
 3d of February, 1869. | By William Cullen Bryant, j New
 
 SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS. 
 
 York : | Evening Post Steam Presses, 41 Nassau, Cor. Lib- 
 erty. | 1869. 
 8vo, pp. 35. 
 
 1870. 
 
 The | Iliad of Homer. | Translated into English Blank 
 Verse. | By | William Cullen Bryant. | Volume I. | Monogram 
 of Publishers. | Boston : | Fields, Osgood & Co. | 1870. 
 
 Royal 8vo. I. pp. 398, with rubricated title. II. pp. 426. 
 
 1871. 
 
 The | Odyssey of Homer. | Translated into English blank 
 verse. | By | William Cullen Bryant. | Vol. I (and II). | Mono- 
 gram of publishers. | Boston : | James R. Osgood & Company, | 
 late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood & Co. | 1871. 
 
 8vo, I, pp. xii-324 ; II, pp. vi-311. 
 
 Electrotyped and printed at Cambridge, Mass., by Welch, 
 Bigelow & Co. Reprinted by James R. Osgood & Co., Boston, 
 1873, 2 vols., 8vo. 
 
 1871. 
 
 The | Song of the Sower, | by | William Cullen Bryant. | 
 Illustrated with Forty-two Engravings on Wood. | New York : | 
 D. Appleton and Company. | MDCCCLXXL 
 
 4to, pp. 48. 
 
 Bound in heavy embossed brown morocco boards. Illuminated title 
 
 on back and sides, with vignettes of a harp and plow in gilt, top 
 
 and bottom. 
 
 1873. 
 
 The Little | People of the Snow | by | William Cullen Bry- 
 ant. | Illustrated | from designs by Alfred Fredericks, engraved 
 by A. Bobbett. | New York : | D. Appleton and Company, | 549 
 and 551, Broadway. | 1873. 
 4to, pp. 40. 
 
 1874. 
 
 Among the Trees, | by | William Cullen Bryant. | Illustra- 
 ted. | From designs by Jervis McEntee, Engraved by Harley. | 
 New York : | G. P. Putnam's Sons, | Fourth Avenue and 
 Twenty-third Street. | [1874]. 
 
 Sq. 12mo. Printed on one side only. Pp. 39.
 
 SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS. 
 
 Thanatopsis, | by | William Cullen Bryant. | G. P. Putnam's 
 Sons. | New York. 
 
 4to, pp. 1-18. Printed on one side only. Illustrations, 
 proofs on India paper. 
 
 The | Flood of Years, | by | William Cullen Bryant. | The 
 Illustrations by | W. J. Linton. 
 
 4to, pp. 19-46. Printed on one side only. Proofs on India 
 paper. 
 
 1878. 
 
 The | Flood of Years. | New York : | G. P. Putnam's Sons. | 
 1878. 
 
 4to, pp. 32.
 
 ORATIONS AND ADDRESSES. 
 
 1818. 
 
 Address on the Bible, Berkshire Star (Stockbridge), Febru- 
 ary 6th. 
 
 This address was delivered before the Bible Society at Great 
 Barrington on the 29th of January, 1818. 
 
 1852. 
 
 Memorial | of | James Fenimore Cooper. | New York : | 
 G. P. Putnam. | [1852]. | Bryant's Discourse on the Life, Char- 
 acter, and Genius of Cooper, pp. 39-73. 
 
 1852. 
 
 Report of the Special Committee appointed by the Common 
 Council of the City of New York to make Arrangements for the 
 Reception of Gov. Louis Kossuth, the Distinguished Hungarian 
 Patriot. New York : Published by order of the Common Coun- 
 cil, 1852. 
 
 8vo, pp. iv-756, with portrait. 
 
 Bryant's address as President of the Press Banquet at the 
 Astor House, Monday evening, December 15th, pp. 228-231. 
 (See Orations and Addresses, New York, 1873, p. 261.) 
 
 1856. 
 
 An address delivered at the fiftieth anniversary of the New 
 York Historical Society. 
 
 Address delivered before the New York Horticultural So- 
 ciety at the Exhibition, September 26th. (Orations and Ad- 
 dresses, p. 269, New York, 1873.) 
 
 Music in the Public Schools. An address delivered at the 
 close of a series of lectures by Richard Storrs Willis, December 
 29, 1856. (Orations and Addresses, p. 285, New York, 1873.)
 
 ORATIONS AND ADDRESSES. 
 
 1858. 
 
 The Newspaper Press. New England Society Dinner, De- 
 cember 22d. (Prose Writings, p. 208, New York, 1884.) 
 
 1859. 
 
 Schiller. An address delivered at the Cooper Institute on 
 the occasion of the Schiller Festival, November 11, 1859. (Ora- 
 tions and Addresses, p. 295, New York, 1873.) 
 
 1860. 
 
 The | Centennial Birthday | of | Eobert Burns | as cele- 
 brated by the | 1759 (engraved medallion portrait of Burns) 
 1859 | Burns Club of the City of New York, | Tuesday, January 
 25, 1859. | Edited by J. Cunningham. | New York, 1860. 
 
 8vo, pp. 136, with colored frontispiece. 
 
 Mr. Bryant acted as honorary chairman, p. 47. 
 
 His speech, pp. 53-57. 
 
 1863. 
 
 Banquet given in New York on the 16th day of December, 
 1863, by the Mexican Legation. 
 8vo, pp. 16. 
 
 P. 4, Bryant is mentioned as one of the guests ; pp. 14-15, 
 his toast. 
 
 1864. 
 
 The | Bryant Festival | at | " The Century " | November 5, 
 MDCCCLXIV | New York, | D. Appleton and Company, | 443 
 & 445 Broadway. | MDCCCLXV. 
 
 4to, pp. 88. 
 
 Bryant's reply to Mr. Bancroft, pp. 9-13. 
 
 1865. 
 
 The | Bryant Festival | at | " The Century." | Illustrated 
 Edition. | New York. | Published by the Century Association. | 
 MDCCCLXV. 
 Collation : 4to, pp. 88. Printed on one side only. 
 
 Frontispiece Photograph of the Century Club House. 
 
 Title as above.
 
 C ORATIONS AND ADDRESSES. 
 
 Copyright on verso by the Century Association, 1864. 
 
 Only 150 copies printed. No. 36. 
 
 Photograph of Bryant. 
 
 Text, pp. 3-88. 
 
 Mr. Bryant's reply to Mr. Huntington, p. 42. 
 
 The | National Academy of Design. | Ceremonies on the 
 occasion of [ Laying the cornerstone, | October 21, 1863, | and 
 the | Inauguration of the Building, j April 27, 1865. | New 
 York, | MDCCCLXV. 
 
 Royal 8vo, pp. 92. 
 
 200 copies printed. July, 1865. 
 
 Bryant's address, pp. 20-22. 
 
 1865. 
 
 Address to the Soldiers of the Union Army, January 1, 
 1865 (p. 221, Godwin's Life, vol. ii). 
 
 1866. 
 
 Dinner to Sefior Matias Romero, Envoy Extraordinary and 
 Minister Plenipotentiary from Mexico, on the 29th of March, 
 1864. New York, 1866. 
 
 1867. 
 
 Banquet | to [ Sefior Matias Romero, | Envoy Extraordinary 
 and Minister | Plenipotentiary from Mexico | to the United 
 States, | by the | Citizens of New York, | October 2, 1867. 
 
 Royal 8vo, 46 pp. 
 
 Printed for private distribution. On pp. 3 and 4 Bryant is 
 mentioned as member of the committee, and was the toast- 
 master, pp. 27-30, 36, 38, 40-42, 46. 
 
 1868. 
 
 Complimentary Dinner to Jonathan Sturges. 
 8vo, pp. 28. 
 
 Bryant was one of the guests (p. 3) ; his toast, " Literature, 
 the Fine Arts, and Commerce," pp. 22-25.
 
 ORATIONS AND ADDRESSES. Cl 
 
 1868. 
 
 Freedom of Exchange. Speech at a dinner given to Mr. 
 Bryant in New York, January 30, 1868. (Orations and Ad- 
 dresses, p. 313, New York, 1873.) 
 
 The Electric Telegraph. Speech at a dinner given to Sam- 
 uel Breese Morse, December 29, 1868. (Orations and Addresses, 
 p. 325, New York, 1873.) 
 
 1869. 
 
 A History | of the | Celebration of Eobert Burns' | 110th 
 Natal Day, | at the Metropolitan Hotel, | New York. | Jersey 
 City, | 1869. 
 
 8vo, pp. 99. 
 
 Pp. 31-33, Mr. Bryant's toast on Minstrelsy. 
 
 1869. 
 
 A Metropolitan Art Museum | in the City of New York. | 
 Proceedings of a Meeting | Held at the Theatre of the | Union 
 League Club, Tuesday Evening, November 23, 1869. | Includ- 
 ing | Addresses, Eemarks, and Letters | by | Mr. Wm. C. Bryant, 
 Prof. Comfort, Mr. K. M. Hunt, Mr. Henry GL Stebbins, Mr. 
 William J. Hoppin, Mr. Russell Sturgis, Rev. Dr. Thompson, 
 Rev. Dr. Bellows, Mr. Marshall 0. Roberts, Mr. Geo. Wm. Curtis, 
 and others. | New York. | Printed for the Committee, | 1869. 
 
 Pamphlet of 40 pages. 
 
 Mr. Bryant's address as president will be found on p. 8. 
 
 1870. 
 
 Celebration of the lllth Anniversary of Robert Burns' Natal 
 Day, at Delmonico's Hotel, New York, January 25, 1870. New 
 York, 1870. 
 
 8vo, pp. 52. 
 
 Bryant's toast, " The Memory of Robert Burns," pp. 12-14. 
 (See Prose Writings, New York, 1884, p. 322.) 
 
 1870. 
 
 Translators of Homer. Speech to the Williams College 
 Alumni, February 22, 1870. (Prose Writings, p. 267. New 
 York, 1884.)
 
 Cii ORATIONS AND ADDRESSES. 
 
 1870. 
 
 A Discourse | on the | Life, Character, and Writings | of | 
 Gulian Crommelin Verplanck. | Delivered before the New York 
 Historical Society, | May 17, 1870, | by William Cullen Bryant. | 
 New York. | Printed for the Society. | MDCCCLXX. 60 pages. 
 
 1870. 
 
 The Mercantile Library. Address delivered on the Fiftieth 
 Anniversary of the Founding of the New York Mercantile Li- 
 brary, November 9, 1870. (Orations and Addresses, p. 345. 
 New York, 1873.) 
 
 1871. 
 
 The Struggle for Neutrality in America. An address deliv- 
 ered before the New York Historical Society, at their sixty- 
 sixth anniversary, December 13, 1870, by Charles Francis 
 Adams. New York, 1871. 
 
 8vo, pp. 52. 
 
 Bryant's remarks as foreign corresponding secretary of the 
 Society, pp. 51, 52. 
 
 1871. 
 
 The Unity of Italy. The American Celebration of the 
 Unity of Italy, at the Academy of Music, New York, January 
 12, 1871, with the addresses, letters, and comments of the press. 
 New York, 1871. 
 
 Royal 8vo, pp. 197. 
 
 Bryant's address, pp. 172-175. (See Orations and Ad- 
 dresses, New York, 1873, p. 353.) 
 
 1871. 
 
 The Settlement of the Alabama Question. The Banquet 
 given at New York [May 23d] to Her Britannic Majesty's High 
 Commissioners by Mr. Cyrus W. Field. A report edited with a 
 short introduction by Justin McCarthy. London, 1871. 
 
 8vo, pp. 72, with two group photographs. 
 
 Bryant's speech, pp. 62-66. 
 
 Negotiation vs. War. Remarks made at the dinner given 
 to the High Commissioners who negotiated the Treaty of 
 Washington. New York, May, 1871. (Prose Writings, p. 284. 
 New York, 1884.)
 
 ORATIONS AND ADDRESSES. Clll 
 
 German Literature. Remarks at a dinner given to Baron 
 Gerolt, German Ambassador, May 17, 1871. (Prose Writings, 
 p. 287. New York, 1884.) 
 
 The Morse Statue. Address delivered on the unveiling of 
 the statue of Samuel Finlay Breese Morse, June 10, 1871. (Ora- 
 tions and Addresses, p. 361. New York, 1873.) 
 
 1871. 
 
 Myles Standish, with an Account of the Exercises of Con- 
 secration of the Monument Ground on Captain's Hill, Dux- 
 bury, August 17, 1871. Prepared by Stephen M. Allen. Bos- 
 ton, 1871. 
 
 8vo, pp. 76. 
 
 Letter from Bryant on p. 76. 
 
 1871. 
 
 Darwin's Theory. Remarks at Williams College Alumni 
 Dinner, December 28, 1871. (Prose Writings, p. 291. New 
 York, 1884.) 
 
 1872. 
 
 Literary Missionaries. Remarks at a lecture of George 
 Macdonald on Hamlet, introducing the lecturer. New York, 
 1872. (Prose Writings, p. 298. New York, 1884.) 
 
 1872. 
 
 Reform. Address delivered at a meeting held in the Cooper 
 Institute, September 23, 1872. (Orations and Addresses, p. 
 381. New York, 1873.) 
 
 Sir Walter Scott. Address on the unveiling of the statue 
 of Sir Walter Scott, in Central Park, November 4, 1872. (Ora- 
 tions and Addresses, p. 389. New York, 1873.) 
 
 , 1872. 
 
 Sixty-seventh | Anniversary Celebration | of the | New Eng- 
 land Society | in the City of New York | at Delmonico's, | 
 December 23, 1872. 
 
 8vo, pp. 106. 
 
 Bryant's speech, The Press, is on pp. 42-45.
 
 CIV ORATIONS AND ADDRESSES. 
 
 1873. 
 
 An address before the Geographical and Statistical Society 
 of Mexico, February, 1773. 
 
 (P. 320, Godwin's Life, vol. ii.) 
 
 1873. 
 
 Shakespeare. Ward's Statue in the Central Park, New 
 York [May 22, 1872]. New York, 1873. 
 
 Royal 8vo, pp. 72. Only fifty copies printed. 
 
 Bryant's oration is on pp. 15-22. (See Orations and Ad- 
 dresses, New York, 1873, p. 371.) 
 
 1873. 
 
 The Princeton Library. Address at Princeton, X. J., June 
 24, 1873, on the opening of the new building for the College 
 Library. (Prose Writings, p. 324. New York, 1884.) 
 
 1874. 
 
 Franklin as a Poet. Speech at the celebration of Franklin's 
 birthday by the New York Typographical Society, January 17, 
 1874. (Prose Writings, p. 329. New York, 1884.) 
 
 1874. 
 
 The Reception of Peter Cooper by the Arcadian Club, on 
 his eighty-fourth birthday, Feb. 12, 1874. Printed for private 
 distribution. New York, 1774. 
 
 8vo, pp. 105. 
 
 Bryant's speech, pp. 52-54. 
 
 1874. 
 
 Proceedings at the Mass Meeting of Citizens in the Cooper 
 Institute, New York, Tuesday evening, March 24, 1874, on 
 National Finances. New York, 1874. 
 
 8vo, pp. 63. 
 
 Speech of Bryant as one of the executive committee, pp. 
 12-14. 
 
 1874. 
 
 National Honesty. Address at a mass meeting held in 
 Cooper Institute, March 25, 1874. (Prose Writings, p. 332. 
 New York, 1884.)
 
 ORATIONS AND ADDRESSES. CV 
 
 1874. 
 
 Eightieth Birthday Address, November 3, 1874. 
 (P. 349, vol. ii, Godwin's Life.) 
 
 1875. 
 
 Proceedings at the Complimentary Dinner given to Hon. 
 Simeon B. Chittenden by his friends on the occasion of his 
 retirement from business, March 9, 1875. New York. Printed 
 for private distribution. 1875. 
 
 8vo, pp. 47. 
 
 Bryant's remarks, pp. 18-19. 
 
 1875. 
 
 Goethe. Address delivered at the Centennial Festival given 
 by the Goethe Club, of New York, in honor of Goethe, August 
 27, 1875. (Prose Writings, p. 335. New York, 1884.) 
 
 Addresses delivered before the Senate and Assembly, State 
 of New York. 
 
 (Pp. 358-360, vol. ii, Godwin's Life.) 
 
 1876. 
 
 Speech at the Burns Dinner, January 25, 1876. (Prose 
 Writings, p. 320. New York, 1884.) 
 
 1876. 
 
 To | William Cullen Bryant | at Eighty Years. | From his | 
 Friends and Countrymen. | New York : | Scribner, Armstrong 
 & Co., | 743-745, Broadway, | 1876. 
 
 Picture of Bryant vase, frontispiece. Sm. 4to, pp. 64. 
 
 With full title, both inside and out, pp. 127. 
 
 1877. 
 
 The | Haljeck Memorial. | Edited by | Evart A. Duyckinck. | 
 Privately printed | A Memorial | of | Fitz-Greene Hal- 
 leek. | A Description of the | Dedication of the Monument. | 
 Erected to his Memory | at | Guilford, Connecticut, | and | of 
 the Proceedings connected with the unveiling of the Poet's 
 Statue in the Central Park. | No poet had died and received
 
 CV1 ORATIONS AND ADDRESSES. 
 
 such tribute in America. | Printed for the Committee | by 
 Ammerman and Wilson, | 1 Park Place, New York. | 1877. 
 
 Collation : Pp. 72. | Frontispiece. | Portrait of Halleck, Monu- 
 ment, and Guillord, Conn., and Central Park. 
 
 1878. 
 
 Address delivered at Clergyman's Breakfast, May 1, 1878. 
 
 (Vol. ii, Parke Godwin's Life of Bryant, p. 393. New 
 York, 1883.) 
 
 Mazzini. Address delivered at the unveiling of the bust of 
 Mazzini, in Central Park, New York city, May 20, 1878. (Prose 
 Writings, p. 343. New York, 1884.) 
 
 1879. 
 
 Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, November 
 5, 1878. New York : printed for the Society, 1879. 
 
 8vo, pp. 197-298. 
 
 On pp. 288-289 are Bryant's remarks at the Arctic Meeting 
 at Chickering Hall, January 31, 1878, at the reception of the 
 Earl of Dufferin.
 
 ESSAYS AND KEVIEWS. 
 
 1818. 
 
 An Essay on American Poetry, with several miscellaneous 
 pieces on a variety of subjects, sentimental, descriptive, moral, 
 and patriotic. By Solyman Brown, A. M. New Haven : Flagg 
 & Gray, 1818. North American Eeview, July, 1818, pp. 198- 
 211. 
 
 Bryant's first review of a book now very rare. 
 
 1819. 
 
 Trisyllabic Feet in Iambic Measure, North American Review, 
 September, 1819. 
 
 1824. 
 
 The Ruins of Psestum, North American Review, No. 19, 
 p. 42. Percy's Masque, North American Review, No. 20, p. 245. 
 
 1825. 
 
 Hillhouse's Hadad, New York Review, p. 1. Jehan de Nostre 
 Dame's Lives of the Provencal Poets, New York Review, p. 107. 
 Memoirs of Count Segur, New York Review, p. 291. Lives of 
 Proven9al Poets, New York Review, p. 104. Rammohun Roy's 
 Precepts of Jesus, New York Review, p. 442. Scott's Lives of 
 the Novelists, New York Review, p. 413. United States Lit- 
 erary Gazette, New York Review, p. 219. Wayland's Two Dis- 
 courses, New York Review, p. 142. Webster's Address, New 
 York Review, p. 214. Wheaton's Reports, New York Review, 
 p. 203. Memoir of the Life of Richard Henry Lee, etc., New 
 York Review, p. 23. A Pennsylvania Legend, New York 
 Review, The Atheneum Magazine, December, p. 49. 
 
 1826. 
 
 Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honorable Richard Brins- 
 ley Sheridan, New York Review, February, p. 165. Recent 
 
 cvii
 
 CViii ESSAYS AND REVIEWS. 
 
 Poetry, New York Review, p. 181. PercivaPs Poem, New York 
 Review, March, p. 245. Sketches of Corsica, New York Eeview, 
 April, p. 348. Wheaton's Life of Pinkney, New York Keview, 
 May, p. 435. 
 
 1872. 
 
 Oldham's Poems, Old and New, September, vol. vi, iii, pp. 
 329-335. 
 
 1877. 
 
 Abraham Cowley, North American Eeview, No. 256, May- 
 June, pp. 368-382.
 
 WORKS EDITED BY BRYANT OR CON- 
 TAINING ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS 
 AND INTRODUCTIONS. 
 
 1817. 
 
 North American Review | and | Miscellaneous Journal. | 
 Vol. Fifth. | Boston. | Published by Cummings & Hilliard, | 
 No. 1 Cornhill. | University Press, Hilliard & Metcalf. | 1817. 
 
 Thanatopsis is on p. 338. 
 
 A Fragment, afterward known as The Inscription to the 
 Entrance of a Wood, is on p. 340. 
 
 1818. 
 
 North American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, March, 
 To a Friend on his Marriage. March, Version of Simonides. 
 March, The Waterfowl. July, Essay on American Poetry. No. 9, 
 p. 206, Essay on The Happy Temperament. 
 
 1821-'22. 
 
 The Idleman, by R. H. Dana. Issued in parts. Part I, 
 dated New York, 1821. 
 
 Collation: Part I, Vol. I. Title, The Idleman. Inscription, 
 " How various his employments whom the world calls 
 idle." New York, Wiley & Halsted, No. 3 Wall Street, 
 1821-'22. Certificate of Copyright on verso, dated May 18, 
 1821. Preface, pp. 3-14. Letter-press, pp. 15-57. 
 Volume I consists of four parts, with titles as follow : Part 
 I, pp. 15-57, Domestic Life. Part II, pp. 3-63, The Son. Part 
 III, pp. 3-76, Edward and Mary. Part IV, pp. 5-106, Thomas 
 Thornton. 
 
 This last part of Vol. I is a double number, with an address 
 to the public on p. 3, signed " The Author." 
 
 Volume II. Title and inscription as above, with the date of 
 
 cix
 
 CX WORKS EDITED BY BRYANT. 
 
 1822, and No. 1, Vol. II, in centre of page. Part I, letter-press, 
 pp. 3-156. Paul Felton. Part II. Part III. Part IV, title- 
 page, etc. ; letter-press, pp. 3-64. Men and Books. 
 
 Mr. Bryant's contributions are as follows : Green Eiver, Part 
 II, p. 61, vol. i. The West Wind, Part I, p. 155, vol. ii. The 
 Burial-Place, Part II, vol. ii. Walk at Sunset, Part III, vol. ii. 
 Winter Scenes, Part IV, p. 61, vol. ii. 
 
 This work was published in eight parts, royal 8vo, with 
 brown paper covers, having title in full as above and numbered 
 consecutively, Vol. I : I, II, III, IV, 1821 ; Vol. II : I, II, III, IV, 
 1822. 
 
 1825. 
 
 The | United States | Literary Gazette. | Vol. I. | From 
 April, 1824, to April, 1825. | Boston : | Published by Cummings, 
 Billiard & Co. | 1825. 
 
 Vol. II, April, 1825-October, 1825. Vol. Ill, October, 1825- 
 April, 1826. Vol. IV, April, 1826-October, 1826. 
 
 1826. 
 
 The | New York Review and Atheneum Magazine. | Vol. I. 
 | May to November, 1825. | New York : | E. Bliss & E. White, 
 128 Broadway. | Clayton & Van Norden, Printers. | 1825. 
 
 Vol. II, December, 1825-May, 1826. 
 
 New York Literary Gazette and American Atheneum, May 
 13, 1826, to August 26", 1826. 
 
 In May, 1826, the New York Review and the American 
 Atheneum were united with the Literary Gazette under the 
 above title. October 1, 1826, these two were united under the 
 new title of United States Review and Literary Gazette. 
 
 The Atlantic Souvenir ; a Christmas and New Year's Offer- 
 ing, 1826. Philadelphia : H. C. Carey & I. Lea. 
 
 Bryant's two contributions are June, pp. 64-66, and Oh 
 Fairest of the Rural Maids, p. 135. 
 
 1827. 
 
 The | United States | Review and Literary Gazette. | Vol. 
 I. | From October 1, 1826, to April 1, 1827. | New York : | G.
 
 WORKS EDITED BY BRYANT. Cxi 
 
 and C. Carvill, 108 Broadway. | Boston : | Bowles and Dearborn, 
 72 Washington Street, | 1827. 
 
 Vol. II, April, 1827, to October, 1827. 
 
 The above series form such an important page in the his- 
 tory of magazine literature that a few words of explanation are 
 appended with the hope of throwing some light upon the origin 
 of these various publications, and Mr. Bryant's connection with 
 them. 
 
 The first one of the series was The United States Literary 
 Gazette of Boston, the first number being issued in April, 1824, 
 under the editorship of Theophilus Parsons, afterward so well 
 known as professor in the Cambridge Law School. 
 
 There was at this same time established in New York a 
 monthly periodical under the title of The Atlantic Magazine, 
 edited by Eobert C. Sands, the first number appearing in May. 
 The editorship was assumed by Henry J. Anderson, afterward 
 Professor of Mathematics in Columbia College. This periodical 
 was continued through two volumes until April, 1825, when its 
 name was changed to The New York Eeview and Atheneum 
 Magazine. This periodical ran through two volumes until May, 
 1826, when it was joined with another publication known under 
 the title of the New York Literary Gazette and Phi Beta Kappa 
 Eepository. The title of the new periodical was The New York 
 Literary Gazette and American Atheneum. 
 
 The New York Literary Gazette was first known under the 
 title of The Minerva or Literary Entertaining and Scientific 
 Journal, and was edited by George Houston and James G. 
 Brooks. This periodical ran through three volumes, the first 
 number appearing April 10, 1824, the last, September, 1825. 
 
 In March, 1825, Mr. Brooks became sole editor, and in Sep- 
 tember he started a new publication under the title of The New 
 York Literary Gazette and Phi Beta Kappa Eepository. This 
 ran from September 10, 1825, to March 4, 1826, in May of the 
 same year its title being again changed as stated above to The 
 New York Literary Gazette and American Atheneum. 
 
 Bryant became joint-editor with Mr. Anderson of The New 
 York Eeview and Atheneum Magazine, and when in October, 
 1826, the periodical mentioned above was merged with the
 
 cxii WORKS EDITED BY BRYANT. 
 
 United States Gazette of Boston under the title of The United 
 States Review and Literary Gazette, Mr. Bryant still continued 
 as the New York editor of the new publication, Mr. James G. 
 Carter being the Boston editor. 
 
 Bryant's contributions to these periodicals will be found in 
 the Chronology of his Poems. 
 
 1826. 
 
 Miscellaneous Poems | Selected from the | United States 
 Literary Gazette. | Boston : | Cummings, Hilliard & Company, | 
 and Harrison Gray. | 1826. 
 
 Collation : 18mo, pp. 172. Title as above. Copyright on verso, 
 January 2, 1826. Advertisement, unpaged, verso blank. 
 Contents, pp. i-iv. Text, pp. 1-172. 
 
 1828. 
 
 The Talisman for 1828, 1829, 1830. Published by Elam 
 Bliss, Broadway, New York. 
 
 This work was published as an Annual in three 12mo vols., 
 with numerous illustrations by prominent American artists. 
 Collation: The Talisman, 1828. 12mo, pp. 288. Engraved 
 frontispiece. False title-page engraved. Title-page. 
 Certificate of copyright on verso, dated 1827. Preface, 
 pp. iii-x, signed Francis Herbert, a nom de guerre for R. 
 C. Sands, dated New York, December 1, 1827. Contents, 
 unpaged. List of embellishments, unpaged. Two em- 
 bellishments, unpaged. Etruscan antiquities, vase of 
 flowers. Text, pp. 1-288. 
 
 This publication was the joint production of G. C. Ver- 
 planck, W. C. Bryant, and Robert C. Sands. Bryant's contribu- 
 tions for 1828 were : A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson, The 
 Hurricane, sonnet "William Tell, The Legend of the Devil's 
 Pulpit, The Close of Autumn, and The Cascade of Melsingah. 
 
 1829. 
 
 The Talisman, 1829, 12mo, pp. 342. Bryant's contributions 
 for 1829 were : Recollections of the South of Spain, Moriscan 
 Romance, To the Past, Lament of Romero, Story of the Island
 
 WORKS EDITED BY BRYANT. Cxiii 
 
 of Cuba, The Greek Boy, The Hunter's Serenade, Eeminis- 
 cences of New York. 
 
 1830. 
 
 The Talisman, 1830, 12mo, pp. 358. 
 
 Bryant's contributions for 1830 were : To the Evening Wind, 
 The Indian Spring, Love and Folly, The Whirlwind, song 
 When the Firmament quivers with Daylight's Young Beam, 
 The Siesta, song Innocent Child and Snow-white Flower, To 
 the Eiver Arve, Early Spanish Poetry, Eva, The Alcayde of 
 Molina, The Death of Aliatar, Phanette des Gantelmes, The 
 Marriage Blunder, To Cole the Painter, on his departure for 
 Europe, Eeminiscences of New York, No. 11. 
 
 1830. 
 
 The American Landscape. No. 1. Containing the following 
 views : Weehawken, Catskill Mountains, Fort Putnam, Dela- 
 ware Water Gap, Falls of the Sawkill, Winnipisiogee Lake. 
 Engraved from original and accurate drawings, executed from 
 Nature expressly for this work from well-authenticated pic- 
 tures, with historical and topographical illustrations. New 
 York, published by Elam Bliss, 1830. 
 
 Collation : 4to. Title as above. Engraved cover by J. Smillie, 
 subject, Mambrino's Helmet. Letter-press, pp. 16, in- 
 cluding title-page. Prospectus, pp. 2. The American 
 Landscape, signed by A. B. Durand and E. Waite, 
 Jr., dated New York, December 23, 1830. Preface, 
 pp. 2, signed by William Cullen Bryant. Illustrations 
 (six) ; proof impressions on India paper. No. 1. All 
 published. 
 
 The letter-press of this publication was to have been entirely 
 by Mr. Bryant, and the work was to have consisted of views of 
 well-known American scenery by eminent artists. It proved a 
 failure, and ceased with the first number. 
 
 1832. 
 
 Tales of the Glauber Spa, by several American authors. 
 [Catherine Sedgwick, J. K. Paulding, W. C. Bryant, E. C. 
 
 8
 
 CX1V WORKS EDITED BY BRYANT. 
 
 Sands, and William Leggett.] In two volumes. New York : 
 J. and J. Harper, 1832. 
 
 12mo, I, pp. 276 ; II, pp. 263. 
 
 Bryant's two contributions are both in Vol. I, The Skeleton's 
 Cave, pp. 193-227, and Medfield, pp. 243-276. 
 
 This compilation was to have been called The Sextad, from 
 the number of authors engaged upon it, but Verplanck with- 
 drew, leaving only five. 
 
 1833. 
 
 Miscellanies. | First published under the name of The j 
 Talisman. | By | G. C. Verplanck, | W. C. Bryant, | and | Kobert 
 C. Sands. | In three volumes. | Illustrated with fine engravings. | 
 Vol. I. | Elam Bliss, New York. | MDCCCXXXIIL 
 Collation: Vol. I. 12mo, pp. 288. Illustrated frontispiece. 
 Title as above. Copyright on verso. Advertisement of 
 the publishers. Verso, blank. Preface, pp. iii-x, dated 
 New York, December 1, 1827, signed Francis Herbert. 
 Contents, unpaged. List of embellishments, unpaged. 
 Two embellishments, unpaged. Etruscan antiquities. 
 Vase, flowers. Text, pp. 1-288. 
 Identical in size and contents with The Talisman. 
 Volume II, 12mo, pp. 342. 
 Volume III, 12mo, pp. 358. 
 
 All the original illustrations, prefaces, etc., reproduced from 
 Talisman. 
 
 1834. 
 
 The | Atlantic Club-Book, | being | Sketches in Prose and 
 Verse, | by | various Authors. | In two volumes. | New York : | 
 1834. 
 
 8vo, I, pp. 312. II, pp. 312. 
 
 These volumes are composed of a number of pieces com- 
 piled from the columns of the New York Mirror. 
 
 Bryant's contributions occur on p. 49, vol. i, Song of Mari- 
 on's Men ; p. 217, vol. i, The Robber ; p. 92, vol. ii, August. 
 
 1839. 
 
 The Jubilee of the Constitution. A discourse delivered at 
 the request of the New York Historical Society. New York,
 
 WORKS EDITED BY BRYANT. CXV 
 
 Tuesday, April 30, 1839 ; being the fiftieth anniversary of the 
 inauguration of George Washington as President of the United 
 States. By John Quincy Adams. New York, 1839. 
 
 8vo, pp. 136. 
 
 On p. 124 is an Ode, by Mr. Bryant, in four stanzas, Great 
 were the Hearts, and Strong the Minds, written for the oc- 
 casion. 
 
 1840. 
 
 Harper's | Family Library. | No. CXI. | Selections j from | 
 American Poets. | By | William Cullen Bryant. | New York : | 
 [1840.] 
 
 18mo, pp. 136. 
 
 1842. 
 
 A Discourse occasioned by the Death of William Ellery 
 Channing, D. D., pronounced before the Unitarian Societies of 
 New York and Brooklyn, in the Church of the Messiah, Octo- 
 ber 13, 1842. By Henry W. Bellows. New York, 1842. 
 
 8vo, pp. 28. 
 
 On p. 27 is an original hymn of three stanzas by Bryant, 
 While yet the Harvest Fields are White. 
 
 1847. 
 
 The True Position of the Church in Relation to the Age. A 
 discourse delivered at the dedication of the Church of the 
 Saviour, Wednesday, November 10, 1847. By R. C. Waterston. 
 Boston, 1847. 
 
 8vo, pp. 40. 
 
 On p. 40 is a Dedication Hymn by Mr. Bryant in four 
 stanzas, Ancient of Days ! except Thou Deign. 
 
 1852. 
 
 The Home -Book of the Picturesque ; or, American Scenery, 
 Art, and Literature. Thirteen steel engravings. New York : 
 Putnam, 1852. 
 
 4to, pp. 188. 
 
 Bryant's contribution is The Valley of the Housatonic, pp. 
 155-160, with engraving.
 
 WORKS EDITED BY BRYANT. 
 
 1853. 
 
 Homes | of | American Authors. | New York : G. Putnam 
 & Co. | 10 Park Place, 1853. 
 Sq. 8vo, pp. viii-267. 
 
 Bryant's contribution is a sketch of William Gilmore Simms, 
 p. 257. 
 
 1855. 
 
 The | Knickerbocker Gallery. | A Testimonial | to the Editor 
 of the | Knickerbocker Magazine, j From its Contributors. | 
 With forty-eight portraits on steel. | From original pictures. | 
 Engraved expressly for this work. | New York, 1855. 
 
 4to, pp. xiv + 505. 
 
 Bryant's contribution is the Snow Shower, p. 81. 
 
 1856. 
 
 Celebration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the In- 
 corporation of Bridgewater, Mass., at West Bridgewater, June 
 3, 1856., etc. Frontispiece and portrait. Boston, 1856. 
 
 8vo, pp. 167. 
 
 On pp. 18-19 is an ode by Mr. Bryant of seven stanzas, Two 
 Hundred Times has June Renewed. 
 
 [This Ode occurs again on pp. 70-71 of Celebration of the 
 Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Hadley, 
 Mass., at Hadley, June 8, 1859, etc., Northampton, 1859. 
 
 8vo, pp. 98.] 
 
 1858. 
 
 Memorial of Jessie Willis : prepared for her Little Daughters, 
 Annie, Blanche, and Jessie, by their Father. New York: 
 April, 1858. [For private circulation.] 
 
 12mo, pp. 75. 
 
 On pp. 14-15 is a letter from Bryant to Mr. Willis. 
 
 1859. 
 
 Gifts of Genius : | A Miscellany | of | Prose and Poetry | 
 by | American Authors, | New York : | Printed for C. A. Daven- 
 port. | [1859.] 
 
 8vo, pp. xii-}-264. 
 
 Bryant's contributions are To the Public, pp. vii-viii, dated
 
 WORKS EDITED BY BRYANT. CXVii 
 
 N. Y., June, 1859, and Bocage's Penitential Sonnet, from the 
 Portuguese, p. 264. 
 
 1860. 
 
 Helen Euthven Waterston. [A memorial.] Printed, not 
 published. Boston, 1860. 
 
 8vo, pp. 76. 
 
 Two extracts from Bryant's Letters are given on pp. 12-13 
 
 and 51. 
 
 1862. 
 
 Only Once. Original Papers, by various contributors. Por- 
 traits of Bryant, Lowell, and Catherine Sedgwick. New York, 
 1862. 
 
 4to, pp. 16. 
 
 On p. 5 is a poem by Mr. Bryant, The Better Age. 
 
 1863. 
 
 Imperial Courts | of | France, England, Kussia, Prussia, | 
 Sardinia, Austria. | Richly illustrated with | Portraits of Im- 
 perial Sovereigns | and their | Cabinet Ministers, | with | Bio- 
 graphical Sketches | and | an Introduction by William Cullen 
 Bryant. | Edited by W. H. Bidwell. | New York, | 1863. 
 
 Royal 8vo, pp. xiv-411. 
 
 1863. 
 
 Songs of the War. Part I. Albany, J. Munsell, 1863. 
 
 16mo, pp. 96. 
 
 Bryant's contribution is Our Country's Call, pp. 12-13. 
 
 1864. 
 
 The Spirit of the Fair. Tuesday, April 5, 1864. New York. 
 4to, pp. 206. 
 Bryant's contribution is A Morceau from Metastasio, p. 9. 
 
 1864. 
 
 A Year in China ; and a narrative of capture and imprison- 
 ment, when homeward bound, on board the rebel pirate Florida. 
 By Mrs. H. Dwight Williams. With an introductory note by 
 William Cullen Bryant. New York, 1864. 
 
 12mo, pp. xvi+362. 
 
 The Introductory Note is on pp. xiii-xvi.
 
 Civil! WORKS EDITED BY BRYANT. 
 
 1865. 
 
 Poetical Tributes | to the | Memory of | Abraham Lincoln. | 
 Philadelphia, | 1865. 
 8vo, pp. 306. 
 Bryant's contribution is the first, an Ode, on p. 13. 
 
 1865. 
 
 The Lincoln Memorial : A Record of the Life, Assassination, 
 and Obsequies of the Martyred President. New York, 1865. 
 Portrait and woodcut title-page. 
 
 8vo, pp. 288. 
 
 On p. 205 is Bryant's Ode for the Funeral of Abraham Lin- 
 coln, and on pp. 205-206 three stanzas of A New National 
 Hymn, composed by Mr. Bryant at the request of the reader 
 [Dr. Samuel Osgood], and circulated among a few personal 
 friends, and beginning, Oh, North, with all thy Vales of Green. 
 
 1866. 
 
 Obsequies of Abraham Lincoln, in the City of New York. 
 Under the Auspices of the Common Council. By David T. 
 Valentine. Portrait and illustrations. New York, 1866. 
 Eoyal 8vo, pp. 254. 
 
 Bryant's Ode, which had appeared in Poetical Tributes, 
 1865, is on p. 191. 
 
 1868. 
 
 The League [Published for American Free Trade League]. 
 No. 10. New York, 1868. 
 
 4to, pp. 105-116. 
 
 On p. 105 is a letter dated January 18, 1868, accepting the 
 invitation to a dinner, given by the American Free Trade 
 League, in his honor, January 30th. 
 
 1868. 
 
 A Landscape Book, by American Artists and American 
 Authors. Sixteen steel engravings. New York: Putnam, 
 1868. 
 
 8vo, pp. [4] + 108. 
 
 Bryant's contributions are three : Catterskill Falls (pp. 30-
 
 WORKS EDITED BY BRYANT. 
 
 33), with engraving; The Valley of the Housatonic (pp. 38-43), 
 originally published in the Home Book of the Picturesque, 1852 ; 
 and A Summer Eamble (pp. 63-65). 
 
 1868. 
 
 Banquet to His Excellency Anson Burlingame, and his As- 
 sociates of the Chinese Embassy, by the Citizens of New York, 
 on Tuesday, June 23, 1868. New York, 1868. 
 
 8vo, pp. 65. 
 
 On p. 64 is a letter from Bryant dated Koslyn, June 9, 1868, 
 to Elliot C. Cowdin, declining his invitation to the banquet. 
 
 1868. 
 
 The Atlantic Almanac, 1868. Edited by 0. W. Holmes and 
 Donald G. Mitchell. Illustrated. Boston. 
 Eoyal 8vo, pp. 76. 
 On p. 47 is The Planting of the Apple-tree. 
 
 1870. 
 
 The Atlantic Almanac. 1870. 
 Eoyal 8vo, pp. 72. 
 
 On pp. 53-56 is The Breaking of the Truce. (From the 
 Fourth Book of the Iliad.) 
 
 1871. 
 
 Memorial Eecord in Memory of Hon. Increase Sumner, of 
 Great Barrington, Mass. Portrait. Bridgeport, 1871. 
 
 8vo, pp. 74. 
 
 On p. 28 is a letter from Bryant, dated December 14, 1870, 
 declining an invitation to a banquet of the Berkshire Bar, the 
 last meeting of Judge Sumner with his professional colleagues. 
 
 , 1871. 
 
 Workday Christianity ; or, the Gospel in the Trades. By 
 Alexander Clark. With an introductory note by William Cullen 
 Bryant. Philadelphia, 1871. 
 
 12mo, pp. x + 300. 
 
 The Introductory Note, dated New York, March 16, 1870, 
 is on pp. vii-viii.
 
 CXX WORKS EDITED BY BRYANT. 
 
 1871. 
 
 A Library | of Poetry and Song. | Being | Choice Selections 
 from the Best Poets. | With an introduction by William Cullen 
 Bryant. New York : | J. B. Ford & Co., 1871. 
 
 Eoyal 8vo, pp. xxxii-789, with Frontispiece portrait of 
 Bryant. Introduction, pp. xxiii-xxxi. 
 
 1871. 
 
 II. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society for 
 May, June, July, and August, 1871. 
 
 8vo, pp. 81-156. 
 
 On p. 155 is a letter dated Cummington, August 9, 1871, to 
 the Rev. R. C. Waterston, declining an invitation to the cele- 
 bration of the hundredth anniversary of Scott's birth. 
 
 1872-'74. 
 
 Picturesque America | or | The Land we live in. | A Deline- 
 ation by Pen and Pencil | of | The Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, 
 Forests, Waterfalls, Shores, Canons, Valleys, Cities and other 
 Picturesque Features of our Country. | With illustrations on 
 steel and wood | by Eminent American Artists. | Edited by 
 William Cullen Bryant. | Issued in Nos. | New York : | D. Ap- 
 pleton and Company. | 1872 and 1874. 
 
 2 vols., 4to. 
 
 1873. 
 
 St. Nicholas, Vol. I, No. 1. November, 1873. New York. 
 8vo, pp. 48. 
 
 On p. 2 is Bryant's translation from the Spanish, The 
 Woodman and the Sandal Tree. 
 
 1875. 
 
 The Bryant Celebration by the Chicago Literary Club, No- 
 vember 3, 1874. Chicago, 1875. 
 
 8vo, 33 pages, 
 
 On p. 11, Letter from Bryant dated Roslyn, October 27, 
 1874, to the Rev. Robert Collyer, President of the Chicago 
 Literary Club. On pp. 18-19, 24 lines of A Poem addressed 
 to Mr A. Bryant, Brookfield, May, 1809, written in the poet's
 
 WORKS EDITED BY BRYANT. 
 
 fifteenth year, and beginning, Once more the Bard, with Eager 
 Eye, Keviews. 
 
 1876. 
 
 Laurel Leaves. Original Poems, Stories, and Essays. Illus- 
 trated. Boston, 1876. 
 
 4to, pp. xv + 446. 
 
 Bryant's contributions are two poems from the Spanish, The 
 Price of a Pleasure (p. 53) and The Woodman and the Sandal 
 Tree (p. 54; see preceding item), besides a prose selection, 
 The Poet Goethe (pp. 177-186), an address delivered at the 
 Goethe Celebration, New York, September, 1875. 
 
 1876. 
 
 Ouster's Immortality. A poem, with biographical sketches 
 of the chief actors in the late Tragedy of the Wilderness. By 
 Laura S. Webb. New York, Evening Post Press, [1876]. 
 
 12mo, pp. 72. 
 
 With facsimile letter of one page from Bryant to the author. 
 
 1876. 
 
 New York Tribune. Extra No. 33. Independence Day 
 Orations, July 4, 1876. 
 8vo, pp. 64. 
 
 On p. 64 is a Centennial Ode by Mr. Bryant of four stanzas, 
 Through Storm and Calm the Years have Led, sung at New 
 York, July 4, 1876. 
 
 1876. 
 
 The Centennial Celebration of American Independence, at 
 the Academy of Music, New York, July 4, 1876. Hon. John 
 A. Dix, presiding, with the Oration and the other exercises. 
 
 8vo, pp. 81. 
 
 Centennial Ode on fourth leaf, unpaged. 
 
 1876. 
 
 Memoir of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe. By Julia Ward Howe : 
 with other memorial tributes. Published by the Howe Memo- 
 rial Committee. Portrait. Boston, 1876. 
 8vo, pp. 128.
 
 CXlii WORKS EDITED BY BRYANT. 
 
 On pp. 123, 124 is a letter from Bryant to the Hon. F. W. 
 Bird, Chairman of the Committee. 
 
 1876. 
 
 St. Nicholas, Vol. IV, No. 2, December, 1876. New York. 
 8vo, pp. 65-152. 
 The Boys of my Boyhood, pp. 99-103. 
 
 1877. 
 
 Studies in Bryant. | A Text-Book | by | Joseph Alden, D. D., 
 | of the State Normal School at Albany. | With an Introduc- 
 tion | by | William Cullen Bryant. | New York : | D. Appleton 
 and Company, 1, 3, and 5 Bond Street. | 1877. 
 
 12mo, pp. 127. Introduction, pp. 5-10. 
 
 1877. 
 
 A New | Library of Poetry and Song. | Edited by | William 
 Cullen Bryant. | Published in parts. New York, 1877. 
 4to, 2 vols. 
 Portrait frontispiece. | Introduction, pp. 7-14. 
 
 1878. 
 
 A Popular History | of | The United States | From the | 
 First Discovery of the Western Hemisphere | By the North- 
 men, To the end of the | First Century of the Union | of the 
 States. | Preceded by a sketch of the Pre-Historic Period and 
 the | Age of the Mound Builders. | By William Cullen Bryant | 
 and | Sydney Howard Gay. | Fully Illustrated. | New York : | 
 Charles Scribner's Sons, | Successors to | Scribner, Armstrong 
 & Co. | 1878. 
 Collation : 4 vols., royal 8vo, with complete index. Published 
 
 in monthly parts. Frontispiece, Portrait of Bryant, and 
 
 Preface by Wm. C. Bryant, pp. vii-xxiv. 
 
 1878. 
 
 The Sunday School Times, Vol. XX, No. 8. Philadelphia, 
 February 22, 1878. 
 4to, pp. 113-128.
 
 WORKS EDITED BY BRYANT. CXXlii 
 
 On p. 113 is a poem by Bryant, his last contribution to any 
 newspaper or magazine, The Twenty-second of February, six 
 stanzas beginning, Pale is the February Sky. 
 
 This was a special number of The Sunday School Times. 
 The editorial is followed in the second column by Bryant's 
 poem, and two paragraphs, Eeligious Patriotism, by Edward 
 Eggleston, D. D., and The Face of Washington, by Joseph Cook. 
 Then follow contributions by President Hayes and the Govern- 
 ors of thirteen States. 
 
 1879. 
 
 Thoughts | on | The Eeligious Life | by | Joseph Alden, 
 D. D., LL. D. | Author of The Science of Government, Studies 
 in Bryant, etc. | With an introduction | by | William Cullen 
 Bryant. | New York : | G. P. Putnam's Sons, | 182 Fifth Ave- 
 nue, | 1879. 
 
 12mo, 129 pp., brown covers with outside title. Introduc- 
 tion, pp. 7-12. 
 
 1886. 
 
 Complete Works of Shakespeare. Edited by W. C. Bryant, 
 assisted by E. A. Duyckinck. Illustrated. 
 
 3 volumes, 4to, New York, 1886. 
 
 Bryant wrote the Preface to this edition, the actual work of 
 editing having been done by Mr. Duyckinck.
 
 BIOGKAPHIES OF MR. BRYANT 
 
 1828. 
 
 The | Critic. | A Weekly Keview of Literature, Fine Arts, | 
 and the Drama. | Edited by William Leggett. 
 
 Volume I, from November 1, 1828, to May 2, 1829. 
 
 Biography of William Cullen Bryant, pp. 105-107, December 
 13, 1828. 
 
 The present copy contains Vol. I, through May 2, 1829, and 
 the beginning of a second volume, pp. 1-96, seven numbers, 
 May 9, May 16, May 23, May 30, June 6, June 13, June 20. On 
 p. 89 is a notice signed by the editor, announcing the suspen- 
 sion of publication. 
 
 1846. 
 
 Thoughts on the Poets. By Henry T. Tuckerman. New 
 York, 1846. 
 
 12mo, pp. 318. 
 Biography, pp. 303-318. 
 
 1854. 
 
 Off-hand Takings; or, Crayon Sketches of the Noticeable 
 Men of our Age. By George W. Bungay. Illustrated. New 
 York, 1854. 
 
 12mo, pp. 408. 
 
 Biography of Bryant, pp. 309-315, with steel portrait. 
 
 1877. 
 
 Men of Mark. By Edwin P. Whipple. Atlas Series, No. 2. 
 New York, 1877. 
 8vo, pp. 270. 
 Biography of Bryant by Kay Palmer, pp. 102-126.
 
 BIOGRAPHIES OF MR. BRYANT. CXXV 
 
 1883. 
 
 A Biography | of | William Cullen Bryant, | with | Extracts 
 from his private Correspondence | by | Parke Godwin. | In two 
 volumes. | New York : | D. Appleton and Company, 1883. 
 
 8vo. 
 
 1886. 
 
 Bryant and his Friends. Some Eeminiscences of the Knick- 
 erbocker Writers. By James Grant Wilson. New York, 1886. 
 Bryant and his Friends, pp. 11-127. 
 
 1890. 
 
 William Cullen Bryant. By John Bigelow. American Men 
 of Letters Series. Boston, 1890.
 
 MEMORIAL ADDRESSES, ETC. 
 
 1878. 
 
 Bryant Memorial Meeting of the Century, Tuesday Evening, 
 November 12, 1878. Century Eooms, New York. 
 
 8vo, 74 pages, including title, and a portrait of Bryant en- 
 graved by H. B. Hall, Jr. 
 
 1878. 
 
 The Life, Character, and Writings of William Cullen Bryant. 
 A Commemorative Address delivered before the New York 
 Historical Society, at the Academy of Music, December 30, 
 1878. By George William Curtis. New York : Charles Scrib- 
 ner's Sons, 743 and 745 Broadway. 
 
 8vo, false title, title, pp. 8-64. 
 
 1878. 
 
 Tribute to William Cullen Bryant. By Robert C. Waterston, 
 at the meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, June 
 13, 1878. With an Appendix. Boston : Press of John Wilson 
 & Son, 1878. 
 
 8vo, 54 pages, including title. 
 
 Contains the ancestry of Bryant, several pieces by Bryant, 
 and an account of the circumstances under which they were 
 written and published, numerous anecdotes, and a verbatim 
 reprint of Bryant's last address on unveiling the Bust of Maz- 
 zini in Central Park. 
 
 1878. 
 
 In Memoriam, William Cullen Bryant. Funeral Oration, 
 June 14, 1878. By H. W. Bellows, D. D. New York, 1878. 
 8vo, pp. 11. 
 cxxvi
 
 MEMORIAL ADDRESSES, ETC. 
 
 1879. 
 
 The Bryant Memorial Meeting of the Goethe Club of the 
 City of New York, Wednesday, October 30, 1878. New York : 
 G. P. Putnam's Sons, 182 Fifth Avenue, 1879. 
 
 8vo, 56 pages, including title, portrait of Bryant, coat with 
 "frogs "prefixed. 
 
 As originally published, this Memorial had a paper cover, 
 with a list of Members of the Goethe Club on p. 3. The Ora- 
 tion, Bryant among his Countrymen, the Poet, the Patriot, the 
 Man, by Dr. Samuel Osgood, was published separately, 1879, 
 8vo, pp. 34.
 
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