To a Waterfowl

"To a Waterfowl" is a poem by American poet William Cullen Bryant, first published in 1818.

The duck, flying across the sunset, seemed to Bryant as solitary a soul as himself, and he wrote the poem that evening.

[4] "To a Waterfowl" was first published in the North American Review in Volume 6, Issue 18, March 1818.

[citation needed] The narrator in George du Maurier's "Peter Ibbetson" calls it "the most beautiful poem in the world".

Bryant is acknowledged as skillful at depicting American scenery but his natural details are often combined with a universal moral, as in "To a Waterfowl".