WorkWilliam Cullen Bryant

“The Prairies”

The Prairies (1833), Inferred

William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) · 1833

InferredFuller quotes four lines from Bryant's poem 'The Prairies' (1833) 'The clouds / Sweep over with their shadows, and, beneath, / The surface rolls and fluctuates to the eye; / Dark hollows seem to glide along and chase / The sunny ridges.'

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“Sweep over with their shadows, and beneath / The surface rolls and fluctuates to the eye; / Dark hollows seem to glide along and chase / The sunny ridges,”
Summer on the Lakes
Four-line verse passage from Bryant's 'The Prairies' quoted verbatim.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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“Sweep over with their shadows, and beneath The surface rolls and fluctuates to the eye; Dark hollows seem to glide along and chase The sunny ridges,”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Fuller quotes four lines from Bryant's poem '“The Prairies”' (1833) 'The clouds / Sweep over with their shadows, and, beneath, / The surface rolls and fluctuates to the eye; / Dark hollows seem to glide along and chase / The sunny ridges.'