| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8968 |
| QUOTATION: | When beechen buds begin to swell,
And woods the blue-bird’s warble know,
The yellow violet’s modest bell
Peeps from the last year’s leaves below. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878), U.S. poet. The Yellow Violet (l. 1–4). . .
Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I–II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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