Poetry Codex

American

Jones Very

1813–1880

Jones Very (1813–1880) was a Salem, Massachusetts, poet, tutor and preacher, a friend of the Transcendentalists, best known for his devotional sonnets.

Griswold included 18 of his poems in The Poets and Poetry of America (16th edition, Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan, 1855), the anthology from which the poems here are taken.

Poems (24)

  1. To the Painted Columbine
  2. Lines to a Withered Leaf Seen on a Poet's Table
  3. The Heart
  4. To the Canary-Bird
  5. Thy Beauty Fades
  6. The Wind-Flower
  7. Enoch
  8. Morning
  9. Night
  10. The Spirit-Land
  11. The Trees of Life
  12. The Ark
  13. Nature
  14. The Tree
  15. The Son
  16. The Robin
  17. The Rail-Road
  18. The Latter Rain
  19. The Old Road
  20. The Idler
  21. The New World
  22. Yourself
  23. The Dead
  24. The Gifts of God

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