I Know Not That There Is Anything In Nature More Soothing To The Mind Than The Contemplation Of The Moon, Sailing, Like Some Planetary Bark, Amidst A Sea Of Bright Azure. The Subject Is Certainly Hackneyed; The Moon Has Been Sung By Poet And Poetaster. Is There Any Marvel That It Should Be So?

-William Gilmore Simms

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I Know Not That There Is Anything

William Gilmore Simms

I Know Not That There Is Anything In Nature More Soothing To The Mind Than The Contemplation Of The Moon, Sailing, Like Some Planetary Bark, Amidst A Sea Of Bright Azure. The Subject Is Certainly Hackneyed; The Moon Has Been Sung By Poet And Poetaster. Is There Any Marvel That It Should Be So?

Topic

Moon

Sea

Sailing

Better That We Should Err In Action Than Wholly Refuse To Perform. The Storm Is So Much Better Than The Calm, As It Declares The Presence Of A Living Principle. Stagnation Is Something Worse Than Death. It Is Corruption Also.

Storm

Principles

Action