William Cullen Bryant’s Death – Cause and Date

The poet William Cullen died at the age of 83. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

American poet, editor, and journalist who is most famous for his 1817 poem, “Thanatopsis.” His other well-known poetic works include “To a Waterfowl” and “The Ages.”

He was a descendant of English settlers who had traveled to America on the Mayflower. He married Frances Fairchild in 1821.

Quotes

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness – a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster – children into strength and athletic proportion.

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Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.

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Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature’s teachings.

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The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.

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Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.