This poem lists "patriarchs of the infant world" and "hoary seers of ages past" as inhabitants of a place whose "solemn decorations" include "the venerable woods," "rivers that move in majesty," and "hills rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun."
This poem lists "patriarchs of the infant world" and "hoary seers of ages past" as inhabitants of a place whose "solemn decorations" include "the venerable woods," "rivers that move in majesty," and "hills rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun." This poem urges the reader to "go forth under the open sky, and list to Nature's teachings" when certain (*) thoughts "come like a blight." It was published by the North American Review when its author was only seventeen, though this poem was later expanded to include an exhortation to "go not, like the quarry slave at night" but to "approach thy grave like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him" and lie "down to pleasant dreams." For 10 points, name this "meditation on death" by William Cullen Bryant.
This poem lists "patriarchs of the infant world" and "hoary seers of ages past" as inhabitants of a place whose "solemn decorations" include "the venerable woods," "rivers that move in majesty," and "hills rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun."
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