William Cullen Bryant

1794-1878

Born: November 3, 1794, Cummington, Massachusetts. Died: June 12, 1878, Long Island, New York. Bryant died from a fall after giving a speech in Central Park, New York City. Buried: Roslyn Cemetery, near Port Washington, New York.

A well known American poet, Bryant attended Williams College, and studied law. He founded the New York Review and was editor of the New York Evening Post. His most famous poem is probably “Thanatopsis,” but he also wrote over 20 hymns. In 1869, Hymns by W. C. Bryant was privately printed.

Hymns:

1. All Praise to Him of Nazareth
2. All That in This Wide World We See
3. All Things That Are on Earth
4. Almighty, Listen While We Raise
5. As Shadows Cast by Cloud and Sun
6. Close Softly, Fondly, While Ye Weep
7. Dear Ties of Mutual Succor Bind
8. Deem Not That They Are Blest Alone
9. Father, to Thy Kind Love We Owe
10. How Shall I Know Thee in the Sphere Which Keeps
11. Look from Thy Sphere of Endless Day
12. Lord, Who Ordainest for Mankind
13. Mighty One, Before Whose Face
14. Not in the Solitude
15. O God, Whose Dread and Dazzling Brow
16. O North with All Thy Vales of Green
17. O Thou Whose Love Can Ne’er Forget
18. Standing Forth in Life’s Rough Way
19. Thou Unrelenting Past
20. Thou, Whose Unmeasured Temple Stands
21. When Doomed by Death the Apostle Lay
22. When He Who from the Scourge of Wrong
23. When the Blind Suppliant in the Way
24. When This Song of Praise Shall Cease
25. Whither, Midst Falling Dew
26. Wild Was the Day, the Wintry Sea