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Jones Very
(1813 - 1880)

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Born in Salem, Massachusetts, August 22, 1813; died there, May, 1880. His father was a sea captain and the son went with him upon many voyages. He was educated at Harvard and taught Greek there for a short time after his graduation. He belonged to the Transcendentalist group of writers and was a clo .. .. more >>

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"It is the way unseen, the certain route,
Where ever bound, yet thou art ever free;
The path of Him, whose perfect law of love
Bids spheres and atoms in just order move."
Jones Very (1831-1880), U.S. poet. The Hand and Foot (l. 11-14). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.

"'Tis to yourself I speak; you cannot know
Him whom I call in speaking such a one,
For you beneath the earth lie buried low,
Which he alone as living walks upon:"
Jones Very (1831-1880), U.S. poet. Yourself (l. 1-4). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.

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Jones Very
Prophet, poet and madman, Jones Very was, to say the very least, unique among the men of his time. His childhood was unconventional, his college career ...
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/very/

Jones Very--Poetry
Jones Very. Selected Poetry. Poems about Nature. Nature. The bubbling brook doth leap when I come by, Because my feet find measure with its call, ...
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/very/verypoems.html

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I received a letter on Monday of this week from Jones Very of Salem, formerly Tutor in Greek at Harvard College — which institution he left, ...
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Jones Very
A mystic poet of New England, Jones Very was born in Salem, Massachusetts. The son of sea-captain Jones Very was nine years old when he went to sea with his ...
http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/poets/very.php

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