The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 9Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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Page 119
... But birds tell it in the bowers . One harvest from thy field Homeward brought the oxen strong ; A second crop thine acres yield , Which I gather in a song . MERLIN I THY trivial harp will never please Or fill THE APOLOGY.
... But birds tell it in the bowers . One harvest from thy field Homeward brought the oxen strong ; A second crop thine acres yield , Which I gather in a song . MERLIN I THY trivial harp will never please Or fill THE APOLOGY.
Page 137
... second reappears the first . The specious panorama of a year But multiplies the image of a day , — A belt of mirrors round a taper's flame ; And universal Nature , through her vast And crowded whole , an infinite paroquet , Repeats one ...
... second reappears the first . The specious panorama of a year But multiplies the image of a day , — A belt of mirrors round a taper's flame ; And universal Nature , through her vast And crowded whole , an infinite paroquet , Repeats one ...
Page 188
... second day , we heed them not , Nay , we saluted them Auxiliaries , Whom earlier we had chid with spiteful names . For who defends our leafy tabernacle From bold intrusion of the travelling crowd , - Who but the midge , mosquito and the ...
... second day , we heed them not , Nay , we saluted them Auxiliaries , Whom earlier we had chid with spiteful names . For who defends our leafy tabernacle From bold intrusion of the travelling crowd , - Who but the midge , mosquito and the ...
Page 223
... SECOND CHURCH , AT THE ORDINATION OF REV . CHANDLER ROBBINS WE love the venerable house Our fathers built to God ; - In heaven are kept their grateful vows , Their dust endears the sod . 224 HYMN Here holy thoughts a light have shed ...
... SECOND CHURCH , AT THE ORDINATION OF REV . CHANDLER ROBBINS WE love the venerable house Our fathers built to God ; - In heaven are kept their grateful vows , Their dust endears the sod . 224 HYMN Here holy thoughts a light have shed ...
Page 302
... second , the Universe slay . FROM IBN JEMIN Two things thou shalt not long for , if thou love a mind serene ; A woman to thy wife , though she were a crowned queen ; And the second , borrowed money , ing lender say though the smil- That ...
... second , the Universe slay . FROM IBN JEMIN Two things thou shalt not long for , if thou love a mind serene ; A woman to thy wife , though she were a crowned queen ; And the second , borrowed money , ing lender say though the smil- That ...
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Addresses and Lectures angels Atlantic Monthly bard beauty bird Boston Brahma brother cheer cloud Concord Dæmon Dial divine doth dream earth Emerson wrote Essays eternal eyes Fate fire flame flowers forest genius give glow gods Hafiz hath hear heard heart heaven Henry Thoreau James Freeman Clarke journal lake land light lines live Margaret Fuller Merlin mind Monadnoc moon morning motto mountain Muse Nature Nature's never night o'er Over-Soul passage Peter's Field pine plant Plotinus poem poet Polycrates printed QUATRAINS Ralph Waldo Emerson rhyme river rose round Saadi Second Series secret seemed Selected Poems shine sing Solitude song soul sphere Sphinx stars Succory sweet thee thine things thou thought titmouse to-day trees verse verse-book Vishnu Purana voice walks wave wind wine wings wise woods word written Xenophanes youth