Like currents journeying through the windless deep.

The welcome morning with its rays of peace.

-The Poet.

-Mutation.

Eternal love doth keep,

In his complacent arms, the earth, the air, the deep.

-The Ages.

O Traveller of the Night! thine eyes are dim
With watching; and the mists, that chill the vale
Down which thy feet are passing, hide from view
The ever-burning stars—

Fair clustered splendors, with whose rays the Night
Shall close her march in glory, ere she yield,
To the young Day, the great earth steeped in dew.
-The Constellations.

ADDITIONAL QUOTATIONS

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT

REFERENCES FOR STUDY

I. EDITIONS. The only complete edition of Bryant's works is that published by D. Appleton & Co., N. Y. Poetical Works, 2 vols., $6.00. Prose Writings, 2 vols., $6.00. The best complete edition of the poems in one volume is the Roslyn edition. This is an illustrated edition and contains valuable chronologies of Bryant's life and poems, and a bibliography of his poetical and prose writings. The price is $2.00. Cheaper one-volume editions are the Household, $1.50, practically complete, and the Cabinet, $1.00. All published by Appleton. T. Y. Crowell & Co., of New York, publish the Astor edition, price 60 cents. The three last named are prefaced by a life of the poet. Selections for school use may be had from Maynard, Merrill & Co., New York, and from the Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. Good school editions of the Iliad and the Odyssey are published by the Houghton Mifflin Co.

II. BIOGRAPHIES. The standard biography is that edited by Parke Godwin, Bryant's son-in-law. It is in two volumes, price $6.00. More compact biographies are Bradley's William Cullen Bryant (English Men of Letters Series), Macmillan; Bigelow's (American Men of Letters Series), Houghton Mifflin Co.; and Symington's, Harper Brothers. Hill's Life of Bryant, and Wilson's Bryant and His Friends may also be consulted.

III. CRITICISM. Stedman's Poets of America. Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism, vol. 7. Richardson's American Literature. Wendell's Literary History of America.

E. P. Whipple's Literature and Life. Curtis, Life, Character and Writings of William Cullen Bryant. Vincent's American Literary Masters. Burton's Literary Leaders of America. Page, Chief American Poets. Mitchell, American Lands and Letters. Deshler's Afternoons with the Poets. Collins, C., The Poetry and Poets of America. Cody, Four American Poets. Collins, J. C., Studies in Poetry. Banks, Religious Life of Famous Americans. Poe, Works, volume 2, pages 268-305, Harrison Edition. Also volume 9, pages 268-305, of same edition. Wilkinson, A Free Lance in the Field of Life and Letters. Abernethy, Thanatopsis and Other Poems, Maynard's English Classic Series. Good brief articles are to be found in the New International Encyclopaedia, and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The several histories of American literature listed on page 155 of this bulletin, have each a section on Bryant. Many articles, some of them of considerable interest and merit, have appeared in the magazines. These may be found by consulting the guides to periodical literature. Among the more valuable articles may be mentioned: Craftsman, vol. 20:372; Century (Scribner's), vol. 16: 368; Century, vol. 50: 368; Harper's, vol. 89: 630; New England Magazine, vol. 11: 148; Poet Lore, vol. 11: 606; Review of Reviews, vol. 10:401; Atlantic Monthly, vol. 13:233.

TRIBUTES IN VERSE. Many tributes in verse not apt to be found preserved elsewhere are given in the biographies of the poet. Among others most apt to be accessible to the ordinary reader may be mentioned: Boker, "Bryant"; Hayne, "Bryant Dead"; Holmes, "Bryant's Seventieth Birthday"; Lowell, "On Board the Seventy-six"; Stedman, "The Death of Bryant"; Taylor, "Epicedium, William Cullen Bryant"; Whittier, "Bryant on his Birthday."