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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEER'S RATIONS, by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Takes sunbeams, spring waters Subject(s): Transcendentalism | |||
TAKES sunbeams, spring waters, Earth's juices, meads' creams, Bathes in floods of sweet ethers, Comes baptized from the streams; Guest of Him, the sweet-lipp'd, The Dreamer's quaint dreams. Mingles morals idyllic With Samian fable, Sage seasoned from cruets, Of Plutarch's chaste table. Pledges Zeus, Zoroaster, Tastes Cana's glad cheer, Sun's, globes, on his trencher, The elements there. Bowls of sunrise for breakfast Brimful of the East, Foaming flagons of frolic His evening's gay feast. Sov'reign solids of nature, Solar seeds of the sphere, Olympian viand Surprising as rare. Thus baiting his genius, His wonderful word Brings poets and sibyls To sup at his board. Feeds thus and thus fares he, Speeds thus and thus cares he, Thus faces and graces Life's long euthanasies, His gifts unabated, Transfigured, translated The idealist prudent, Saint, poet, priest, student, Philosopher, he. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHY MIRA CAN'T GO BACK TO HER OLD HOUSE by MIRABAI MY LIFE by HENRY DAVID THOREAU RUMORS FROM AN AEOLIAN HARP by HENRY DAVID THOREAU ODE TO A BUTTERFLY by THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON THE HEART'S CURE by ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER THE HOUSE OF REST by JULIA WARD HOWE SONNET: 8. TO M. W., ON HER BIRTHDAY by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL GARRISON by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT |
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