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William Cullen Bryant

  • The Death of Slavery

    A poem hailing the demise of slavery’s “cruel reign”

    • William Cullen Bryant
    • The Civil War Issue
  • The Two Travelers

    • William Cullen Bryant
    • February 1875 Issue
  • The Descent of Neptune to Aid the Greeks: From the Thirteenth Book of the Iliad

    • William Cullen Bryant
    • January 1870 Issue
  • Dante

    • William Cullen Bryant
    • January 1869 Issue
  • The Combat of Diomed and Mars: From Homer's Iliad, Book V

    • William Cullen Bryant
    • January 1868 Issue
  • The Contention Between Achilles and Agamemnon: From the First Book of the "Iliad" of Homer -- Translated

    • William Cullen Bryant
    • January 1867 Issue
  • The Death of Slavery

    A year after the close of the Civil War, William Cullen Bryant, longtime editor of the New York Evening Post and the first American poet to attain international prominence, hailed the demise of slavery's "cruel reign."

    • William Cullen Bryant
    • July 1866 Issue
  • Castles in the Air: From an Unpublished Poem

    • William Cullen Bryant
    • January 1866 Issue
  • The Parting of Hector and Andromache: From the Sixth Book of the Iliad

    • William Cullen Bryant
    • December 1865 Issue
  • My Autumn Walk

    • William Cullen Bryant
    • January 1865 Issue
  • The Return of the Birds

    • William Cullen Bryant
    • July 1864 Issue
  • The Planting of the Apple-Tree

    • William Cullen Bryant
    • January 1864 Issue
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