William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) American romantic poet and journalist
Autumn Woods. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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“An Arab, by his earnest gaze,
Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes;
A smile within his eyelids plays
And into words his longing gushes.”
"Love Sowing and Reaping Roses", p. 295.
Poetry of the Orient, 1893 edition
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