About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
This poem describes a time when one shall lie with "the hoary seers of ages past" and "patriarchs of the infant world", when the oak has sent his roots abroad and pierced the addressee's mould. This poem refers to "old Ocean's grey and melancholy waste" and "the hills, rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun" as "solemn decorations" . The addressee of this poem is urged not to go like a quarry-slave to a dungeon, but rather to approach "like one who wraps the drapery of his couch / About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." This poem describes an "innumerable caravan" which moves to the afterlife, and it is addressed "to him who in the love of Nature holds / Communion with her various forms." For 10 points, identify this poem, a meditation upon death by William Cullen Bryant.
This poem describes a time when one shall lie with "the hoary seers of ages past" and "patriarchs of the infant world", when the oak has sent his roots abroad and pierced the addressee's mould.
"Thanatopsis"