Poems by William Cullen Bryant

Poems by William Cullen Bryant is a collection of beautiful poems about aging, music, the west wind, and more. Excerpt: "When to the common rest that crowns our days, Called in the noon of life, the good man goes, Or full of years, and ripe in wisdom, lays His silver temples in their last repose; When, o'er the buds of youth, the death-wind blows, And blights the fairest; when our bitter tears Stream, as the eyes of those that love us close, We think on what they were, with many fears Lest goodness dies with them, and leave the coming years: II. And therefore, to our hearts, the days gone by,— When lived the honored sage whose death we wept, And the soft virtues beamed from many an eye."