William Ellery Channing (poet)

thumb|right|I sing New England, as she lights her fireIn every Prairie's midst; and where the brightEnchanting stars shine pure through Southern night,She still is there, the guardian on the tower,To open for the world a purer hour. William Ellery Channing (June 10, 1818 – December 23, 1901) was a Transcendentalist poet and nephew of the Unitarian preacher William Ellery Channing. Quotes thumb|Most joyful let the Poet be;It is through him that all men see. I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me;If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea. "A Poet's Hope", Poems (1843) p. 100 A wail in the wind is all I hear;A voice of woe for a lover's loss. "Tears in Spring", Thoreau: The Poet-Naturalist (1873) p. 340 I sing New England, as she lights her fire  In every Prairie's midst; and where the bright  Enchanting stars shine pure through Southern night,She still is there, the guardian on the tower,To open for the world a purer hour. "New England", Poems of Sixty-Five Years (1902) p. 66 My highway is unfeatured air,My consorts are the sleepless stars,And men my giant arms upbear —My arms unstained and free from scars. "Hymn of the Earth", Poems of Sixty-Five Years (1902) p. 86 Most joyful let the Poet be;It is through him that all men see. "The Poet of the old and new Times", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) p. 725 External links Ellery Channing Remembers Henry Thoreau Category:Poets from Boston Category:1901 deaths Category:19th-century poets from the United States