He exhorts his reader to "Weep not that the world changes" in "Mutation," and he declares "Woe to the English Soldiery/
This author tells the title character of one of his poems that "The meteors of a mimic day/Shall flash upon thine eyes" after promising to "build of ice thy winter home."  He exhorts his reader to "Weep not that the world changes" in "Mutation," and he declares "Woe to the English Soldiery/That little dread us near!" in a poem about men led by the Marquis de Lafayette.  The collections The White-Footed Deer and The Fountain followed the success of his first collection, the satirical The Embargo.  His best-known poems include one that addresses "him who in the love of Nature holds/Communion with her visible forms" and a poem about the power who "will lead my steps aright" along with guiding the title bird.  FTP name this poet of "To a Waterfowl" and "Thanatopsis."
This author tells the title character of one of his poems that "The meteors of a mimic day/Shall flash upon thine eyes" after promising to "build of ice thy winter home."  
William Cullen Bryant