Jones Very
Who is Jones Very
Jones Very (August 28, 1813 – May 8, 1880) was an American poet, essayist, clergyman, and mystic associated with the American Transcendentalism movement. He was known as a scholar of William Shakespeare and many of his poems were Shakespearean sonnets. He was well-known and respected amongst the Transcendentalists, though he had a mental breakdown early in his career.
Born in Salem, Massachusetts to two unwed first cousins, Jones Very became associated with Harvard University, first as an undergraduate, then as a student in the Harvard Divinity School and as a tutor of Greek. He heavily studied epic poetry and was invited to lecture on the topic in his home town, which drew the attention of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Soon after, Very asserted that he was the Second Coming of Christ, w...
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Jones Very Poems
- The Fair Morning
The clear bright morning, with its scented air
And gaily waving flowers, is here again;
Man's heart is lifted with the voice of prayer,
And peace descends, as falls the gentle rain;
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- Beauty
I gazed upon thy face--and beating life,
Once stilled its sleepless pulses in my breast
And every thought whose being was a strife
Each in its silent chamber sank to rest;
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- The Morning Watch
'Tis near the morning watch, the dim lamp burns
But scarcely shows how dark the slumbering street;
No sound of life the silent mart returns;
No friends from house to house their neighbors greet;
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- Ehue! Fugaces, Posthume, Labuntur Anni
Fleeting years are ever bearing
In their silent course away
All that in our pleasures sharing
Lent to life a cheering ray.
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- The New Man
THE hands must touch and handle many things,
The eyes long waste their glances all in vain;
The feet course still in idle, mazy rings,
E'er man himself, the lost, shall back regain;
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- Joriepstein: cowboys' jerry jones confirmed he voted in favor of tnf flex proposal.
"i'm all for it. i think what we're suggesting is very good for the nfl & will let us give the appropriate sensitivity to any fans that generally are being disadvantaged by a game moving out of their plans."
- Kjo_mino: i *finally* finished daisy jones and the six and oh it was so good. i little different from the book but not enough to detract from the story and ideas. very good loved it. definitely cried at the end
- Allfamous_org: happy birthday instagram star skyler jones! birthdays are a new start, a fresh beginning and a time to pursue new endeavors with new goals. move forward with confidence and courage. you are a very special person. may today and all of your days be amazing…
- Politicalsphinx: with all due respect to the incomparable ms. jones, i need us to be very clear...
they seem to have plenty to say and so many solutions when they talk about the guns in urban chicago, nyc and la.
- Phnx_dbacks: druw jones came very close to hitting a homer in his first ever at-bat at chase field.
his opposite-field fly-out chased korey holland to the fence and left the bat at 98.4 mph.
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