Oh could I raise the darken’d veil
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
‘Oh could I raise the darken’d veil’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne describes what it would be like to see into the future and then regret having looked.
Nathaniel Hawthorne was a 19th-century American novelist and part of the Dark Romantic movement. He’s considered one of the most important writers in American history. His novel The Scarlett Letter is studied around the world.
‘Oh could I raise the darken’d veil’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne describes what it would be like to see into the future and then regret having looked.
‘The Ocean’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a short sanguine poem about the peace that lost sailors find, after death, in the depths of the ocean.