Jones Very : The Complete Poems

Very, Jones (1813-1880)

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SONNETS ON RECONSTRUCTION

I. A Nation's Life Of Slow Growth

II. The Ends For Which A Nation Exists

III. Political Ambition

IV. National Unity

Reflections on the History of Nations

Scepticism With Regard To The Gospels

The Tide

The Spiritual Birth

The Youth and the Stream

The Daily News

On A Hyacinth From Georgia

Things Unseen

The Oak And The Poplar

The Sparrows And The Crop of Weeds

Ye have hoarded up treasure in the last days.—James 5:3.

Hymn

The Fireflies

Be Not Many Teachers

Military surprises and the capture of capitals, are the events of a by-gone age. D'Israeli.

The Bible Does Not Sanction Polygamy

Bitter-Sweet Rocks

Humanity Mourning For Her Children Slain In War

The Poor Clergyman

The Teaching Of History Confirmed

Childhood's Songs

Hymn,

The Lessons of History Unlearned

The Fulness of The Gentiles

To a Cloud

The Child's Dream of Reaching the Horizon

Lead Me To The Rock That Is Higher Than I

Forevermore

Man's First Experience of Winter

Interpreting God's Ways

I Prayed, Thy Kingdom Come

Justification By Faith

The First of May

On the Great Divisions of the Christian Church, The Catholic, the Protestant, and the Greek

The Nine O'Clock Bell

“Are there Few that be Saved?”

On Seeing the White Mountains from Cook's Hill, in West Peabody

Signs in the Natural World

A Walk in Harmony Grove

The Prayer of Jabez

The Life of the Flower

The Old Danvers Burying-Ground

Hymn

Norman's Rocks

On visiting the beautiful estate of H. H. Hunnewell, Esq., at Wellesley.

The Revelation of The Spirit Through The Material World

And a little child shall lead them. Isaiah XI. 6.

The Blessing of Rain

On the Mountain Ash Tree

October

The Mound Builders.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

There shall be one Flock, one Shepherd

Old Houses of Salem

Columbines and Anemones

The Hepatica in Winter

Reverence

Inward Phenomena

To the Memory of Alpheus Crosby

The Birds

Superfluities

Arethusa Meadow

The Night Blooming Cereus

On The Wild Flowers of the Art Exhibition

Interpreting Nature

The Incarnation

On a Lichen from North Cape

For we Walk by Faith, not by Sight

On the Neglect of Public Worship

Behold, I Make All Things New

Oliver C. Felton, Esq., of Brookfield

On the Increase of Crime since the Late Civil War

The Meteorologists

The Origin of Man

Sailing on Cakes of Ice in the North River

Original Hymn

The Faith of the First Christians

On the Great Earthquake in New Grenada

The Woodwax in Bloom

On Visiting the Graves of Hawthorne and Thoreau

On Viewing the Falls of Niagara, as Photographed by George Barker

Knowledge and Truth

Mt. Shasta.

Song

Nature Teaches Us of Time and its Duration

Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. Mark 13:33.

The Ancient Burial Places in Peabody

Man's Need of a Spiritual Birth

On some Eternals from a friend's garden

Hymn

“Tuesday night, the schooner Weaver, of Glen Creek, N.J., went to pieces near Sandy Hook, and her entire crew were lost.”—Transcript, March 22d.

The Purification of the Temple

The May Flower

The International Exhibition at Philadelphia

Evolution

Capt. Samuel Cook

On the Beautiful Roses,

The Cows waiting at the Pasture Gate

Song

On some blue and golden Columbines from Pike's Peak, Colorado

The Stony Desert of Life

Cadmus

The True Worshipers

Song

The Gospel the Reconciling Power

Every Day a Day of Freedom

Hymn

On Hearing the Clock Strike, in Harmony Grove

The Indians' Belief in a Future State

The Telephone

Love Needing a Visible Object

The Perfect Love that Casts out Fear

The Glacial Marks on our Hills

The Future State of the Wicked and its Duration

Faith in the Resurrection Confirmed

Spring and Summer Flowers

The Return of the Columbine

Man's Accountability

Hymn

The Nodding Meadow Lily

The Destruction of Public Property by Mobs

Do Nations Ever Become Insane?

Know Thyself

The Blueberry Blossoms

William Cullen Bryant

“Agriculture the Source of Individual and of National Prosperity.”—Anne Pratt.

Pleasure

On The Late Tornado, At Wallingford, Conn.

Hymn

On the Neglect of the Study of History

Christ's Final Victory

Thanksgiving Flowers

Original Hymn

Our Lighthouses

The African's First Sight of the Ocean

The Zodiacal Light

Education

The Kingdom of Heaven

Azalea Swamp

Guido's Aurora

The Humming Bird

Jupiter as the Evening Star

The National Thanksgiving

The Stock-Gilly Flowers

Spiritual Intercourse

Invitation to the Robin

The Influence of Channing

[Here let the Church her holy mission prove]

The Puritan Church and State

Appeal

Influence of Puritanism

The Bible

The Common School

A Christian Commonwealth

Discontent

Conclusion

The Old Organ

On Some Beautiful Crocuses

The Return of the Savior

The Kingdom of the Truth

Sunset after a Clouded Day in April

Hymn

Friendship

Hymn

The Day calling us to a New Life

To the Misses Williams,

Jacob wrestling with the Angel

The Soul's Opportunities

The Book of Life

For the Sailors' Fair

Parting Hymn

The Peace Congress the Promise of a Higher Civilization

Hymn to the Living

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The Hepatica in Winter

Underneath its snowy bed,
The hepatica lies dead!
All its beauteous colors fled!

No, not dead, but sleeping; Spring
Shall again its beauty bring,
And its beauty poets sing.

There, protected from the cold,
Doth the plant its life still hold,
Woolly leaves the germ infold.

In the bud a flower survives,
Hidden from man's searching eyes;
'Tis not Beauty's self that dies!

Beauty still is born anew,
We again its tints shall view,
Rosy purple, deepest blue.

Poem No. 751; c. 24 February 1874

University of Virginia Library

The Hepatica in Winter