This poem's second stanza urges the reader that "Yet not to thine eternal resting place / Shalt thou retire alone…"
This poem's second stanza urges the reader that "Yet not to thine eternal resting place / Shalt thou retire alone…" The poem goes on to state that the sun, planets, and "all the infinite host of heaven" are looking down upon "the sad abodes of death." The final lines urge the reader to approach death "sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust" like one who "lies down to pleasant dreams." This poem opens with the lines "To him who, in the love of Nature, holds / Communion with her visible forms…" FTP, identify this 1821 poem, a meditation on death, written by William Cullen Bryant.
This poem's second stanza urges the reader that "Yet not to thine eternal resting place / Shalt thou retire alone…"
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