Jones Very

Jones Very (August 28, 1813 – May 8, 1880) was an American essayist, poet, clergymen, and mystic associated with the American Transcendentalism movement. He was known as a scholar of William Shakespeare and many of his poems were Shakespearean sonnets. He was well-known and respected amongst the Transcendentalists, though he had a mental breakdown early in his career.

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• Come! for I need Thy love,
  More than the flower the dew, or grass the rain;
  Come like Thy Holy Dove,
  And let me in Thy sight rejoice to live again.
  • Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 390.

External links

• Very biography through 1840 from Transcendentalism Web
• Very article from Dictionary of Literary Biography
• Harvard Square Library bio
• Essays and Poems (1839) at Making of America Books
• Index entry for Jones Very at Poets' Corner