12) 20. Death of the Flowers. William Cullen Bryant. Yale Book of American Verse
...And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and...

13) 28. Planting of the Apple-Tree. William Cullen Bryant. Yale Book of American Verse
...What plant we in this apple-tree? 10 Buds, which the breath of summer days Shall lengthen into leafy sprays; Boughs where the thrush, with crimson breast, Shall haunt...

14) 26. Oh Mother of a Mighty Race. William Cullen Bryant. Yale Book of American Verse
...Yet lovely in thy youthful grace! The elder dames, thy haughty peers, Admire and hate thy blooming years. With words of shame 5 And taunts of scorn they join thy...

15) A Word about Anthologies. Lounsbury, Thomas R., ed. 1912. Yale Book of American Verse
...The Library of Poetry and Song. To it was prefixed an introduction by William Cullen Bryant. Though not actually compiled by him, it passed under his supervision...