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Share a book or a poem that is especially meaningful to you.
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Dec 24, 2025 | Replies (29)Comment receiving replies
I love the poem about the pathless woods written by Lord Byron in 1700. It shows you how beautiful and peaceful the woods and nature must have been in those days. It is also rather sad because today there are no more pathless woods. We have developed them all one way or another.
Perhaps with God's help we will one day get back to that kind of beauty.
Enjoy the poem!
PML
There Is Pleasure In The Pathless Woods
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
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I just wanted to thank you for posting the Lord Byron poem. I love that poem. Your comment made me think of walks I took in the redwoods as a child, and the happy memories. 💙
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@pml I've always loved this poem! Here in the mountains of New Mexico there are indeed still pathless woods. People get lost with regularity, so the rule of thumb is to always tell somewhere where you will be going. Also, I do feel like my human heart is a pathless wood, a place to "mingle." Thank you for the poetic reminder.