...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...away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Questions: 1) What is the title of this poem from which these lines are selected? 2) What does the...

...Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 154 Thanatopsis 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 healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter...

...'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...she glides into his darker musings, with a mild and healing sympathy that steals away their sharpness ere he is aware. When thoughts of the last bitter...

...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...thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over the spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the...

...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...she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. (1-8) verges on gentility. The...

...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,...darker musings, with a mild / And gentle sympathy" (lines 3-7). She matches Aw every mood, apparently, with what he interprets as her own mood through...