A well known Amer­i­can po­et, Bryant at­tend­ed Wil­liams Coll­ege, and stu­died law. He found­ed the New York Re­view and ed­it­ed the New York Ev­en­ing Post. His most fa­mous po­em is prob­ab­ly Than­a­top­sis, but he al­so wrote a num­ber of hymns. In 1869, Hymns by W. C. Bry­ant was pri­vate­ly print­ed.

• Hatfield, pp. 107-10
• Hughes, p. 329
• Julian, pp. 189, 1682

1. All Praise to Him of Naz­a­reth
2. All That in This Wide World We See
3. All Things That Are on Earth
4. Almighty, List­en While We Raise
5. As Sha­dows Cast by Cloud and Sun
6. Close Soft­ly, Fond­ly, While Ye Weep
7. Dear Ties of Mu­tu­al Suc­cor Bind
8. Deem Not That They Are Blest Alone
9. Father, to Thy Kind Love We Owe
10. How Shall I Know Thee in the Sphere Which Keeps
11. Look from Thy Sphere of End­less Day
12. Lord, Who Or­dain­est for Man­kind
13. Mighty One, Be­fore Whose Face
14. Not in the Sol­i­tude
15. O God, Whose Dread and Daz­zling Brow
16. O North with All Thy Vales of Green
17. O Thou Whose Love Can Ne’er For­get
18. Standing Forth in Life’s Rough Way
19. Thou Un­re­lent­ing Past
20. Thou, Whose Un­mea­sured Tem­ple Stands
21. When Doomed by Death the Apos­tle Lay
22. When He Who from the Scourge of Wrong
23. When the Blind Sup­pli­ant in the Way
24. When This Song of Praise Shall Cease
25. Whither, Midst Fall­ing Dew
26. Wild Was the Day, the Win­try Sea