Calm Is All Nature as a Resting Wheel
Calm Is All Nature as a Resting Wheel - meaning Summary
Solace in Evening Stillness
The speaker describes an evening scene in which nature lies calm and restorative. As animals settle and the landscape darkens, a private harmony quiets the mind. This peace relieves grief only when memory is stilled, so the speaker asks friends to refrain from consoling actions that revive pain. Solitude and the hush of the world are presented as the necessary condition for personal rest and emotional healing.
Read Complete AnalysesCalm is all nature as a resting wheel. The kine are couched upon the dewy grass; The horse alone, seen dimly as I pass, Is cropping audibly his later meal: Dark is the ground; a slumber seems to steal O'er vale, and mountain, and the starless sky. Now, in this blank of things, a harmony, Home-felt, and home-created, comes to heal That grief for which the senses still supply Fresh food; for only then, when memory Is hushed, am I at rest. My Friends! restrain Those busy cares that would allay my pain; Oh! leave me to myself, nor let me feel The officious touch that makes me droop again.
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