Henry David Thoreau High Poems

  • 1.
    Great God, I ask for no meaner pelf
    Than that I may not disappoint myself,
    That in my action I may soar as high
    As I can now discern with this clear eye.
    ...
  • 2.
    There is a vale which none hath seen,
    Where foot of man has never been,
    Such as here lives with toil and strife,
    An anxious and a sinful life.
    ...
  • 3.
    ALL things are current found
    On earthly ground,
    Spirits and elements
    Have their descents.
    ...
  • 4.
    Great God, I ask for no meaner pelf
    Than that I may not disappoint myself,
    That in my action I may soar as high
    As I can now discern with this clear eye.
    ...
  • 5.
    Within the circuit of this plodding life
    There enter moments of an azure hue,
    Untarnished fair as is the violet
    Or anemone, when the spring stew them
    ...
  • 6.
    Sending
    In delinquency
    To disappoint
    The amber of water
    ...
  • 7.
    O Nature! I do not aspire
    To be the highest in thy choir, -
    To be a meteor in thy sky,
    Or comet that may range on high;
    ...
  • 8.
    Within the circuit of this plodding life
    There enter moments of an azure hue,
    Untarnished fair as is the violet
    Or anemone, when the spring strews them
    ...
Total 8 High Poems by Henry David Thoreau

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