7 William Cullen Bryant Quotes on Time

William Cullen Bryant quotes on time

9. They talk of short-lived pleasures-be it so- pain dies as quickly: stern, hard-featured pain Expires, and lets her weary prisoner go. The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.

11. Weep not that the world changes-did it keep A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.

14. Thou unrelenting Past! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign.

23. Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers.

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

30. The hills, Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun.

44. Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.