He compared "the struggling tides of life" to "eddies of the mighty stream / that rolls to its appointed end" in "The Crowded Street." He wrote about the replacement of Native American societies with the "advancing multitude" of American settlers in a poem about "the gardens of the desert," "The Prairies." This author of "To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe" and "To the Fringed Gentian" published the Federalist satire Embargo in 1804. He first gained fame at seventeen for a poem arguing that deceased souls become part of nature; that poem's title means "meditation upon death." FTP, name this American poet of "To a Waterfowl" and "Thanatopsis."
He compared "the struggling tides of life" to "eddies of the mighty stream / that rolls to its appointed end" in "The Crowded Street." He wrote about the replacement of Native American societies with the "advancing multitude" of American settlers in a poem about "the gardens of the desert," "The Prairies." This author of "To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe" and "To the Fringed Gentian" published the Federalist satire Embargo in 1804. He first gained fame at seventeen for a poem arguing that deceased souls become part of nature; that poem's title means "meditation upon death." FTP, name this American poet of "To a Waterfowl" and "Thanatopsis."
He compared "the struggling tides of life" to "eddies of the mighty stream / that rolls to its appointed end" in "The Crowded Street."
William Cullen Bryant