Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FOREVER IN MY DREAM AND IN MY MORNING THOUGHT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU


Poetry Explorer

Classic and Contemporary Poetry

FOREVER IN MY DREAM AND IN MY MORNING THOUGHT, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
Last Line: He knows not when nor how
Subject(s): Dreams; Mountains


Forever in my dream & in my morning thought
''aEastward a mount ascends''"
But when in the sunbeam its hard outline is sought''"
''aIt all dissolves & ends.
5
The woods that way are gates''"the pastures too slope up
''aTo an unearthly ground''"
But when I ask my mates, to take the staff & cup,
''aIt can no more be found''"
Perchance I have no shoes fit for the lofty soil
10
''aWhere my thoughts graze''"
No properly spun clues''"nor well strained mid day oil
''aOr''"must I mend my ways?
It is a promised land which I have not yet earned,
''aI have not made beginning
15
With consecrated hand''"I have not even learned
''aTo lay the underpinning.
The mountain sinks by day''"as do my lofty thoughts,
''aBecause I'm not highminded.
If I could think alway above these hills & warts
20
''aI should see it, though blinded.
It is a spiral path within the pilgrim's soul
''aLeads to this mountain's brow
Commencing at his hearth he reaches to this goal
''aHe knows not when nor how.





Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!


Other Poems of Interest...
Home: PoetryExplorer.net