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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
STANZAS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature doth have her dawn each day, / but mine are far between
Last Line: With fairest summer weather.
Subject(s): Nature; Sun; Transcendentalism
First Line: Nature doth have her dawn each day, / but mine are far between
Last Line: With fairest summer weather.
Subject(s): Nature; Sun; Transcendentalism
Nature doth have her dawn each day,
But mine are far between;
Content, I cry, for sooth to say,
Mine brightest are, I ween.
For when my sun doth deign to rise,
Though it be her noontide,
Her fairest field in shadow lies,
Nor can my light abide.
Sometimes I bask me in her day,
Conversing with my mate;
But if we interchange one ray,
Forthwith her heats abate.
Through his discourse I climb and see,
As from some eastern hill,
A brighter morrow rise to me
Than lieth in her skill.
As't were two summer days in one,
Two Sundays come together,
Our rays united make one Sun,
With fairest summer weather.
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