...Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 154 Thanatopsis To him who, in the love of Nature, holds...steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony,...

...'twere cause indeed to weep. Thanatopsis1 To him who in the love of nature holds communion with her visible forms, she speaks a various language; for...steals away their sharpness ere he is aware. When thoughts of the last bitter hour come like a blight over thy spirit, and sad images of the stern agony,...

...this novel appeared in this passage. It is To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for...she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And gentle sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Questions: 1) What...

...composure in Bryant's calmly flowing lines. To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for...that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. (1-8) verges on gentility. The straightforward diction, though, was a quality nurtured on this side...

...a source of beauty and moral influence. "To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for...she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And gentle sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter...

...her lover, therefore, agree with one another, but what is the language they speak? Bryant explains, "for his gayer hours / She has a voice of gladness,...glides / Into his darker musings, with a mild / And gentle sympathy" (lines 3-7). She matches Aw every mood, apparently, with what he interprets as her...