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Days
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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1995
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© The Oxford Companion to American Literature 1995, originally published by Oxford University Press 1995. (Hide copyright information)
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Days, blank‐verse poem by
Emerson, published in the
Atlantic Monthly (1857) and reprinted in
May‐Day and Other Pieces (1867). When the Days come to offer gifts “to each …after his will,” the poet hastily chooses only “a few herbs and apples,” realizing too late the scorn of the departing Day.
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