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16 poems of Jones Very
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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.''
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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 Univ...
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'''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:''
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Jones Very (1831-1880), U.S. poet. Yourself (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Pres...
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''A word perhaps loud spoken you may get,
Or hear our feet when heavily they tread;
But he who speaks, or him who's spoken to,
Must both remain as strangers still to you.''
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Jones Very (1831-1880), U.S. poet. Yourself (l. 11-14). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Pr...
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I see them,—crowd on crowd they walk the earth,
Dry leafless trees no autumn wind laid bare;
And in their nakedness find cause for mirth,
And all unclad would winter's rudeness dar...
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Jones Very (1831-1880), U.S. poet. The Dead (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Pres...
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''The hand and foot that stir not, they shall find
Sooner than all the rightful place to go;''
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Jones Very (1831-1880), U.S. poet. The Hand and Foot (l. 1-2). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford Univer...
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They borrow words for thoughts they cannot feel,
That with a seeming heart their tongue may speak;
And in their show of life more dead they live
Than those that to the earth with many t...
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Jones Very (1831-1880), U.S. poet. The Dead (l. 11-14). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Pr...
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