William C. Bryant

The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#buds #february #leaves #sunshine #swells

Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#beats #everything #place #second #second place

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. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#eyes #figures #heaven #herbs #lashes

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

— William C. Bryant

#error #finger #gets #her #locomotive

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#chisel #grows #marble #sculptor #stricken

A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#changeless #indeed #stable #state #twere

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#globe #handful #slumber #tread #tribes

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#death #draws #grow #meek #near

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

— William C. Bryant

#brethren #children #difficulty #foster #greatness

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

— William C. Bryant

#go #list #nature #open #sky