Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VII. Descriptive: Narrative. 1904. | | | | Descriptive Poems: II. Nature and Art | | Mist | | Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) |
| | | LOW-ANCHORED cloud, | |
| Newfoundland air, | |
| Fountain-head and source of rivers, | |
| Dew-cloth, dream-drapery, | |
| And napkin spread by fays; | 5 |
| Drifting meadow of the air, | |
| Where bloom the daisied banks and violets | |
| And in whose fenny labyrinth | |
| The bittern booms and heron wades; | |
| Spirit of lakes and seas and rivers,— | 10 |
| Bear only perfumes and the scent | |
| Of healing herbs to just men’s fields. | | | | |
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