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# The Peace of Wild Things
- URL: https://poetry101.love/the-peace-of-wild-things/
- Published: 2022-08-27T01:46:24.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-27T01:46:24.000Z
- Description: by Wendell Berry
- Author: Melissa Anderson
- Tags: Wendell Berry, #Import 2026-11-04 19:11

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 children’s lives may be,  
I go and lie down where the wood drake  
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.  
I come into the peace of wild things  
who do not tax their lives with forethought  
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.  
And I feel above me the day-blind stars  
waiting with their light. For a time  
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Berry, Wendell. [The Peace of Wild Things and Other Poems](https://www.google.com/books/edition/The%5FPeace%5Fof%5FWild%5FThings%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems/LdU0tAEACAAJ?hl=en&kptab=getbook&ref=poetry101.love). United Kingdom, Penguin Books, 2018.