[Manuscript:] The last lines of 'Thanoptis'.

Bryant (William Cullen)

[Manuscript:] The last lines of 'Thanoptis'.

Description: written in black ink on Bryant's embossed headed-paper, bifolium, a few faint spots, p. [1], foolscap 8vo, sometime folded, very good condition

Publication Details: [1862]

Notes: The closing lines of his most famous poem ('[...] Approach thy grave/ Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch/ About him and lies down to pleasant dreams.'), identifiably in the author's hand and signed by him at the foot - dated to March 29th 1862, by which time he was a major public figure, editor of the New York Evening Post.