William Cullen Bryant: Poems Glossary

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Melancholy

sad

Wailing

mourning

Naked

without clothing

Heaped

piled

Sprang

grew

Beauteous

good looking

Frost

ice

Plague

disease

Upland

hilly land

Glade

a place in the forest that is open

Glen

a valley

Meek

gentle, submissive

Blossom

the flower of a plant

Cast

tossed

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