A well known Amer­i­can po­et, Bryant at­tend­ed Wil­liams Coll­ege, and stu­died law. He found­ed the New York Re­view and was ed­i­tor of the New York Ev­en­ing Post. His most fa­mous po­em is prob­ab­ly “Than­a­top­sis,” but he al­so wrote a num­ber of hymns. In 1869, Hymns by W. C. Bryant was pri­vate­ly print­ed.

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Hymns

1. All Praise to Him of Nazareth
2. All That in This Wide World We See
3. All Things That Are on Earth
4. Almighty, Listen While We Raise
5. As Shadows Cast by Cloud and Sun
6. Close Softly, Fondly, While Ye Weep
7. Dear Ties of Mutual Succor Bind
8. Deem Not That They Are Blest Alone
9. Father, to Thy Kind Love We Owe
10. How Shall I Know Thee in the Sphere Which Keeps
11. Look from Thy Sphere of Endless Day
12. Lord, Who Ordainest for Mankind
13. Mighty One, Before Whose Face
14. Not in the Solitude
15. O God, Whose Dread and Dazzling Brow
16. O North with All Thy Vales of Green
17. O Thou Whose Love Can Ne’er Forget
18. Standing Forth in Life’s Rough Way
19. Thou Unrelenting Past
20. Thou, Whose Unmeasured Temple Stands
21. When Doomed by Death the Apostle Lay
22. When He Who from the Scourge of Wrong
23. When the Blind Suppliant in the Way
24. When This Song of Praise Shall Cease
25. Whither, Midst Falling Dew
26. Wild Was the Day, the Wintry Sea