The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 9Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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... better than he knew- The conscious stone to beauty grew.1 1 Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves , and feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish outbuilt her shell , Painting with morn each annual cell ? Or how the ...
... better than he knew- The conscious stone to beauty grew.1 1 Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves , and feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish outbuilt her shell , Painting with morn each annual cell ? Or how the ...
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... hostages Which I pawn for my release . See to thyself , O Universe ! Thou art better , and not worse . ' And the god , having given all , Is freed forever from his thrall . THE VISIT ASKEST , How long thou shalt stay ? TO RHEA II.
... hostages Which I pawn for my release . See to thyself , O Universe ! Thou art better , and not worse . ' And the god , having given all , Is freed forever from his thrall . THE VISIT ASKEST , How long thou shalt stay ? TO RHEA II.
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... better fortune had , Melancholy without bad . - Knowledge this man prizes best Seems fantastic to the rest : Pondering shadows , colors , clouds , Grass - buds and caterpillar - shrouds , Boughs on which the wild bees settle , Tints ...
... better fortune had , Melancholy without bad . - Knowledge this man prizes best Seems fantastic to the rest : Pondering shadows , colors , clouds , Grass - buds and caterpillar - shrouds , Boughs on which the wild bees settle , Tints ...
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... tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought . ' Whether is better , the gift or the donor ? Come to me , ' Quoth the pine - tree , ' I am the giver of honor . My garden is the cloven rock , And my manure 48 WOODNOTES.
... tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought . ' Whether is better , the gift or the donor ? Come to me , ' Quoth the pine - tree , ' I am the giver of honor . My garden is the cloven rock , And my manure 48 WOODNOTES.
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... better than the lord ; God fills the scrip and canister , Sin piles the loaded board . The lord is the peasant that was , The peasant the lord that shall be ; The lord is hay , the peasant grass , One dry , and one the living tree.2 Who ...
... better than the lord ; God fills the scrip and canister , Sin piles the loaded board . The lord is the peasant that was , The peasant the lord that shall be ; The lord is hay , the peasant grass , One dry , and one the living tree.2 Who ...
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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