Wendell Berry Poetry

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The Peace of Wild Things

โ€˜The Peace of Wild Thingsโ€™ by Wendell Berry is a popular poem about the natural world. The speaker spends the lines relishing in the freedom they experience in the woods.

When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my childrenโ€™s lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

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