Out from Concord



"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." –Thoreau

Walden Pond is in my heart,
   And I feel like Thoreau.
So, farewell world, I must depart
   And go where wise men go ...

Out from Concord's busy streets,
   And into Nature's womb:
The place where truth and beauty meet,
   And merge like bride and groom.

About this poem

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) met a period in his life when the luxuries [encumbrances] of Concord seemed too distracting from life's real internal meaning. He would eventually divest himself of Concord's burdens and seek the raw meaning of existence out in the woods near Walden Pond ...

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Scheme X ABAB XCXC
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 501
Words 103
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4

John W. May

John W. May has lived in Colorado all his life. He currently works in the field of ophthalmology and loves to mountain bike and read about history. John first became a lover of poetry in 2008 after having read a poem by John Milton. He has been reading and studying the works of various poets since. His favorite poets are Emily Dickinson, Fyodor Tyutchev and W. B. Yeats. more…

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