William Ellery Channing – amerykański poeta, bratanek kaznodziei Williama Ellery'ego Channinga.
Był synem lekarza Waltera Channinga z Harvard Medical School. Uczył się w Boston Latin School i w Round Hill School w Northampton. W 1834 wstąpił na Harvard College, jednak opuścił uczelnię, aby poświęcić się powołaniu poety.
W 1841 roku poślubił Ellen Fuller, młodszą siostrę Margaret Fuller.
Pisał dla nowojorskiej gazety The Herald, odbył podróż po Europie.
Pierwsze wiersze Williama Ellery'ego Channinga spotkały się z lekceważącym przyjęciem ze strony Edgara Allana Poego i Jamesa Russella Lowella.
William Ellery Channing napisał biografię Henry'ego Davida Thoreau, uzupełnioną o cykl wierszy wspomnieniowych. Wydał też tomiki Poems, Second Series , The Woodsman , Near Home , The Wanderer , Eliot i John Brown and the Heroes of Harper’s Ferry . 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).
Kontekst: 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).