William Ellery Channing, né le 29 novembre 1818 à Boston et mort le 23 décembre 1901 à Concord dans le Massachusetts, est un poète transcendantaliste américain. Wikipedia
“She still is there, the guardian on the tower,
To open for the world a purer hour.”
William Ellery Channing (poet)
New England, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Contexte: I sing New England, as she lights her fire
In every Prairie's midst; and where the bright
Enchanting stars shine pure through Southern night,
She still is there, the guardian on the tower,
To open for the world a purer hour.
“Most joyful let the Poet be;
It is through him that all men see.”
William Ellery Channing (poet)
The Poet of the old and new Times, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
William Ellery Channing (poet)
Hymn of the Earth, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me;
If my bark sinks, 't is to another sea.”
William Ellery Channing (poet)
A Poet's Hope, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.”
William Ellery Channing (poet)
Tears in Spring, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
