“Low-anchored cloud...”
by Henry D. Thoreau

Low-anchored cloud
Newfoundland air,
Fountain-head and source of rivers,
Dew-cloth, dream drapery,
And napkin spread by fays;
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,
Bear only perfumes and the scent
Of healing herbs to just men's fields!

Return to Henry D. Thoreau: Works 
Return to Henry D. Thoreau: Works: Poetry 

A Note on the Text:

• Source: Collected Poems of Henry Thoreau edited by Carl Bode (Chicago Packard and Co., 1943) p. 56.

• Title from first line.

• Report errors to the Curator of Collections