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FAMOUS AMERICAN
AUTHORS.
WHOSE WRITINGS, BIOGRAPHIES AND PORTRAITS
APPEAR IN THIS VOLUME.

Abbott, Lyman.

Adams, Charles Follen, (Yawcob Strauss).

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♦Burdette, Robert J.

♦ ‘Burdett’ replaced with ‘Burdette’

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Child, Lydia Maria. ¹

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Clemens, Samuel L., (Mark Twain).

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Dana, Charles A.

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Hawthorne, Julian.

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Hay, John.

Henry, Patrick.

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Howells, William Dean.

Ik Marvel, (Donald G. Mitchell).

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¹ No Portrait.
“U
T .”

Longfellow.
GREAT POETS OF
AMERICA.

WELL KNOWN AMERICAN POETS

N. P. WILLIS
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH • WALT WHITMAN
RICHARD HENRY STODDARD
RICHARD WATSON GILDER • COL. JOHN HAY
WILLIAM CULLEN
BRYANT.
.

T is said that “genius always manifests itself


before its possessor reaches manhood.”
Perhaps in no case is this more true than in that
of the poet, and William Cullen Bryant was no
exception to the general rule. The poetical
fancy was early displayed in him. He began to write verses at
nine, and at ten composed a little poem to be spoken at a public
school, which was published in a newspaper. At fourteen a
collection of his poems was published in 12 mo. form by E. G.
House of Boston. Strange to say the longest one of these, entitled
“The Embargo” was political in its character setting forth his
reflections on the Anti-Jeffersonian Federalism prevalent in New
England at that time. But it is said that never after that effort did
the poet employ his muse upon the politics of the day, though the
general topics of liberty and independence have given occasion
to some of his finest efforts. Bryant was a great lover of nature.
In the Juvenile Collection above referred to were published an
“Ode to Connecticut River” and also the lines entitled “Drought”
which show the characteristic observation as well as the style in
which his youthful muse found expression. It was written July,
1807, when the author was thirteen years of age, and will be
found among the succeeding selections.

“Thanatopsis,” one of his most popular poems, (though he


himself marked it low) was written when the poet was but little
more than eighteen years of age. This production is called the
beginning of American poetry.
William Cullen Bryant was born at Cummington, Hampshire
Co., Mass., November 3rd, 1784. His father was a physician, and
a man of literary culture who encouraged his son’s early ability,
and taught him the value of correctness and compression, and
enabled him to distinguish between true poetic enthusiasm and
the bombast into which young poets are apt to fall. The feeling
and reverence with which Bryant cherished the memory of his
father whose life was

“Marked with some act of goodness every day,”

is touchingly alluded to in several of his poems and directly


spoken of with pathetic eloquence in the “Hymn to Death”
written in 1825:

Alas! I little thought that the stern power

Whose fearful praise I sung, would try me thus

Before the strain was ended. It must cease—

For he is in his grave who taught my youth

The art of verse, and in the bud of life

Offered me to the Muses. Oh, cut off

Untimely! when thy reason in its strength,

Ripened by years of toil and studious search

And watch of Nature’s silent lessons, taught

Thy hand to practise best the lenient art

To which thou gavest thy laborious days,

And, last, thy life. And, therefore, when the earth


Received thee, tears were in unyielding eyes,

And on hard cheeks, and they who deemed thy skill

Delayed their death-hour, shuddered and turned pale

When thou wert gone. This faltering verse, which thou

Shalt not, as wont, o’erlook, is all I have

To offer at thy grave—this—and the hope

To copy thy example.

Bryant was educated at Williams College, but left with an


honorable discharge before graduation to take up the study of
law, which he practiced one year at Plainfield and nine years at
Great Barrington, but in 1825 he abandoned law for literature,
and removed to New York where in 1826 he began to edit the
“Evening Post,” which position he continued to occupy from that
time until the day of his death. William Cullen Bryant and the
“Evening Post” were almost as conspicuous and permanent
features of the city as the Battery and Trinity Church.

In 1821 Mr. Bryant married Frances Fairchild, the loveliness


of whose character is hinted in some of his sweetest productions.
The one beginning

“O fairest of the rural maids,”

was written some years before their marriage; and “The Future
Life,” one of the noblest and most pathetic of his poems, is
addressed to her:—

“In meadows fanned by Heaven’s life-breathing wind,

In the resplendence of that glorious sphere


And larger movements of the unfettered mind,

Wilt thou forget the love that joined us here?

“Will not thy own meek heart demand me there,—

That heart whose fondest throbs to me were given?

My name on earth was ever in thy prayer,

And wilt thou never utter it in heaven?”

Among his best-known poems are “A Forest Hymn,” “The


Death of the Flowers,” “Lines to a Waterfowl,” and “The
Planting of the Apple-Tree.” One of the greatest of his works,
though not among the most popular, is his translation of Homer,
which he completed when seventy-seven years of age.

Bryant had a marvellous memory. His familiarity with the


English poets was such that when at sea, where he was always
too ill to read much, he would beguile the time by reciting page
after page from favorite authors. However long the voyage, he
never exhausted his resources. “I once proposed,” says a friend,
“to send for a copy of a magazine in which a new poem of his
was announced to appear. ‘You need not send for it,’ said he, ‘I
can give it to you.’ ‘Then you have a copy with you?’ said I.
‘No,’ he replied, ‘but I can recall it,’ and thereupon proceeded
immediately to write it out. I congratulated him upon having
such a faithful memory. ‘If allowed a little time,’ he replied, ‘I
could recall every line of poetry I have ever written.’”

His tenderness of the feelings of others, and his earnest


desire always to avoid the giving of unnecessary pain, were very
marked. “Soon after I began to do the duties of literary editor,”
writes an associate, “Mr. Bryant, who was reading a review of a
little book of wretchedly halting verse, said to me: ‘I wish you
would deal very gently with poets, especially the weaker ones.’”

Bryant was a man of very striking appearance, especially in


age. “It is a fine sight,” says one writer, “to see a man full of
years, clear in mind, sober in judgment, refined in taste, and
handsome in person.... I remember once to have been at a lecture
where Mr. Bryant sat several seats in front of me, and his finely-
sized head was especially noticeable.... The observer of Bryant’s
capacious skull and most refined expression of face cannot fail
to read therein the history of a noble manhood.”

The grand old veteran of verse died in New York in 1878 at


the age of eighty-four, universally known and honored. He was
in his sixth year when George Washington died, and lived under
the administration of twenty presidents and had seen his own
writings in print for seventy years. During this long life—though
editor for fifty years of a political daily paper, and continually
before the public—he had kept his reputation unspotted from the
world, as if he had, throughout the decades, continually before
his mind the admonition of the closing lines of “Thanatopsis”
written by himself seventy years before.

THANATOPSIS. ¹
The following production is called the beginning of American poetry.

That a young man not yet 19 should have produced a poem so lofty in conception, so full of
chaste language and delicate and striking imagery, and, above all, so pervaded by a noble and
cheerful religious philosophy, may well be regarded as one of the most remarkable examples of
early maturity in literary history.

¹ The following copyrighted selections from Wm. Cullen Bryant are inserted
by permission of D. Appleton & Co., the publishers of his works.

O him who, in the love of Nature, holds

Communion with her visible forms, she speaks

A various language; for his gayer hours

She has a voice of gladness, and a smile

And eloquence of beauty, and she glides

Into his darker musings with a mild

And healing sympathy, that steals away

Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts

Of the last bitter hour come like a blight

Over thy spirit, and sad images

Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall,

And breathless darkness, and the narrow house,

Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart;—

Go forth, under the open sky, and list

To Nature’s teachings, while from all around—

Earth and her waters, and the depths of air—

Comes a still voice.—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 nourish’d thee, shall claim

Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again;

And, lost each human trace, surrendering up

Thine individual being, shalt thou go

To mix forever with the elements,

To be a brother to the insensible rock

And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain

Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak

Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould.

Yet not to thine 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,—rivers that move

In majesty, and the complaining brooks

That make the meadows green; and, pour’d round all,

Old ocean’s gray and melancholy waste,—

Are but the solemn decorations all

Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun,

The planets, all the infinite host of heaven,

Are shining 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, traverse Barca’s desert sands,

Or lose thyself in the continuous woods

Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound

Save its 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 withdraw

In silence from the living, and no friend

Take note of thy departure? All that breathe


Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh

When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care

Plod on, and each one, as before, will chase

His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave

Their mirth and their employments, and shall come

And make their bed with thee. As the long train

Of ages glides away, the sons of men—

The youth in life’s green spring, and he who goes

In the full strength of years, matron and maid,

And the sweet babe, and the gray-headed man—

Shall, one by one, be gather’d to thy side,

By those who in their turn shall follow them.

So live that, when thy summons comes to join

The innumerable caravan, which 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, sustain’d 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.


WAITING BY THE GATE.
ESIDES the massive gateway built up in years gone
by,

Upon whose top the clouds in eternal shadow lie,

While streams the evening sunshine on the quiet wood and lea,

I stand and calmly wait until the hinges turn for me.

The tree tops faintly rustle beneath the breeze’s flight,

A soft soothing sound, yet it whispers of the night;

I hear the woodthrush piping one mellow descant more,

And scent the flowers that blow when the heat of day is o’er.

Behold the portals open and o’er the threshold, now,

There steps a wearied one with pale and furrowed brow;

His count of years is full, his ♦allotted task is wrought;

He passes to his rest from a place that needs him not.

In sadness, then, I ponder how quickly fleets the hour

Of human strength and action, man’s courage and his power.

I muse while still the woodthrush sings down the golden day,

And as I look and listen the sadness wears away.

Again the hinges turn, and a youth, departing throws

A look of longing backward, and sorrowfully goes;


A blooming maid, unbinding the roses from her hair,

Moves wonderfully away from amid the young and fair.

Oh, glory of our race that so suddenly decays!

Oh, crimson flush of morning, that darkens as we gaze!

Oh, breath of summer blossoms that on the restless air

Scatters a moment’s sweetness and flies we know not where.

I grieve for life’s bright promise, just shown and then


withdrawn;

But still the sun shines round me; the evening birds sing on;

And I again am soothed, and beside the ancient gate,

In this soft evening sunlight, I calmly stand and wait.

Once more the gates are opened, an infant group go out,

The sweet smile quenched forever, and stilled the sprightly


shout.

Oh, frail, frail tree of life, that upon the greensward strews

Its fair young buds unopened, with every wind that blows!

So from every region, so enter side by side,

The strong and faint of spirit, the meek and men of pride,

Steps of earth’s greatest, mightiest, between those pillars gray,

And prints of little feet, that mark the dust away.

And some approach the threshold whose looks are blank with
fear,
And some whose temples brighten with joy are drawing near,

As if they saw dear faces, and caught the gracious eye

Of Him, the Sinless Teacher, who came for us to die.

I mark the joy, the terrors; yet these, within my heart,

Can neither wake the dread nor the longing to depart;

And, in the sunshine streaming of quiet wood and lea,

I stand and calmly wait until the hinges turn for me.

♦ ‘alloted’ replaced with ‘allotted’

“BLESSED ARE THEY THAT MOURN.”


DEEM not they are blest alone

Whose lives a peaceful tenor keep;

The Power who pities man has shown

A blessing for the eyes that weep.

The light of smiles shall fill again

The lids that overflow with tears;

And weary hours of woe and pain

Are promises of happier years.

There is a day of sunny rest

For every dark and troubled night;


And grief may bide an evening guest,

But joy shall come with early light.

And thou, who, o’er thy friend’s low bier,

Sheddest the bitter drops like rain,

Hope that a brighter, happier sphere

Will give him to thy arms again.

Nor let the good man’s trust depart,

Though life its common gifts deny,—

Though with a pierced and bleeding heart,

And spurned of men, he goes to die.

For God hath marked each sorrowing day,

And numbered every secret tear,

And heaven’s long age of bliss shall pay

For all his children suffer here.

THE ANTIQUITY OF FREEDOM.


ERE are old trees, tall oaks, and gnarled pines,

That stream with gray-green mosses; here the


ground

Was never touch’d by spade, and flowers spring up

Unsown, and die ungather’d. It is sweet


To linger here, among the flitting birds

And leaping squirrels, wandering brooks and winds

That shake the leaves, and scatter as they pass

A fragrance from the cedars thickly set

With pale blue berries. In these peaceful shades—

Peaceful, unpruned, immeasurably old—

My thoughts go up the long dim path of years,

Back to the earliest days of Liberty.

OF ! thou art not, as poets dream,

A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs,

And wavy tresses gushing from the cap

With which the Roman master crown’d his slave,

When he took off the gyves. A bearded man,

Arm’d to the teeth, art thou: one mailed hand

Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword; thy brow,

Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarr’d

With tokens of old wars; thy massive limbs

Are strong and struggling. Power at thee has launch’d

His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee;

They could not quench the life thou hast from Heaven.

Merciless Power has dug thy dungeon deep,


And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires,

Have forged thy chain; yet while he deems thee bound,

The links are shiver’d, and the prison walls

Fall outward; terribly thou springest forth,

As springs the flame above a burning pile,

And shoutest to the nations, who return

Thy shoutings, while the pale oppressor flies.

Thy birth-right was not given by human hands:

Thou wert twin-born with man. In pleasant fields,

While yet our race was few, thou sat’st with him,

To tend the quiet flock and watch the stars,

And teach the reed to utter simple airs.

Thou by his side, amid the tangled wood,

Didst war upon the panther and the wolf,

His only foes: and thou with him didst draw

The earliest furrows on the mountain side,

Soft with the Deluge. Tyranny himself,

The enemy, although of reverend look,

Hoary with many years, and far obey’d,

Is later born than thou; and as he meets

The grave defiance of thine elder eye,


The usurper trembles in his fastnesses.

Thou shalt wax stronger with the lapse of years,

But he shall fade into a feebler age;

Feebler, yet subtler; he shall weave his snares,

And spring them on thy careless steps, and clap

His wither’d hands, and from their ambush call

His hordes to fall upon thee. He shall send

Quaint maskers, forms of fair and gallant mien,

To catch thy gaze, and uttering graceful words

To charm thy ear; while his sly imps, by stealth,

Twine round thee threads of steel, light thread on thread,

That grow to fetters; or bind down thy arms

With chains conceal’d in chaplets. Oh! not yet

Mayst thou unbrace thy corslet, nor lay by

Thy sword, nor yet, O Freedom! close thy lids

In slumber; for thine enemy never sleeps.

And thou must watch and combat, till the day

Of the new Earth and Heaven. But wouldst thou rest

Awhile from tumult and the frauds of men,

These old and friendly solitudes invite

Thy visit. They, while yet the forest trees


Were young upon the unviolated earth,

And yet the moss-stains on the rock were new,

Beheld thy glorious childhood, and rejoiced.

TO A WATERFOWL.
HITHER, ’midst falling dew,

While glow the heavens with the last steps of


day,

Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue

Thy solitary way?

Vainly the fowler’s eye

Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong,

As, darkly limn’d upon the crimson sky,

Thy figure floats along.

Seek’st thou the plashy brink

Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,

Or where the rocking billows rise and sink

On the chafed ocean side?

There is a Power whose care

Teaches thy way along that pathless coast,—

The desert and illimitable air,—


Lone wandering, but not lost.

All day thy wings have fann’d,

At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere,

Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land,

Though the dark night is near.

And soon that toil shall end;

Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest,

And scream among thy fellows; reeds shall bend,

Soon, o’er thy shelter’d nest.

Thou’rt gone; the abyss of heaven

Hath swallow’d up thy form; yet on my heart

Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given,

And shall not soon depart.

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.

ROBERT OF LINCOLN.
ERRILY swinging on brier and weed,

Near to the nest of his little dame,


Over the mountain-side or mead,

Robert of Lincoln is telling his name:

Bob-o’-link, bob-o’-link,

Spink, spank, spink;

Snug and safe is that nest of ours,

Hidden among the summer flowers.

Chee, chee, chee.

Robert of Lincoln is gayly dressed,

Wearing a bright black wedding coat;

White are his shoulders and white his crest,

Hear him call in his merry note:

Bob-o’-link, bob-o’-link,

Spink, spank, spink;

Look what a nice new coat is mine,

Sure there was never a bird so fine.

Chee, chee, chee.

Robert of Lincoln’s Quaker wife,

Pretty and quiet, with plain brown wings,

Passing at home a patient life,

Broods in the grass while her husband sings,

Bob-o’-link, bob-o’-link,
Spink, spank, spink;

Brood, kind creature; you need not fear

Thieves and robbers, while I am here.

Chee, chee, chee.

Modest and shy as a nun is she,

One weak chirp is her only note,

Braggart and prince of braggarts is he,

Pouring boasts from his little throat:

Bob-o’-link, bob-o’-link,

Spink, spank, spink;

Never was I afraid of man;

Catch me, cowardly knaves if you can.

Chee, chee, chee.

Six white eggs on a bed of hay,

Flecked with purple, a pretty sight

There as the mother sits all day,

Robert is singing with all his might:

Bob-o’-link, bob-o’-link,

Spink, spank, spink;

Nice good wife, that never goes out,

Keeping house while I frolic about.

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