The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 9Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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... bird from the woodlands to the cage ; The gay enchantment was undone , A gentle wife , but fairy none . Then I said , I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat t ; I leave it behind with the games of youth : As I spoke ...
... bird from the woodlands to the cage ; The gay enchantment was undone , A gentle wife , but fairy none . Then I said , I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat t ; I leave it behind with the games of youth : As I spoke ...
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... bird ; Beauty through my senses stole ; I yielded myself to the perfect whole . THE PROBLEM I LIKE a church ; I like a cowl ; I love a prophet of the soul ; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains , or pensive smiles ...
... bird ; Beauty through my senses stole ; I yielded myself to the perfect whole . THE PROBLEM I LIKE a church ; I like a cowl ; I love a prophet of the soul ; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains , or pensive smiles ...
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... bird , By one music enchanted , One deity stirred , — Each the other adorning , Accompany still ; Night veileth the morning , The vapor the hill . " The babe by its mother Lies bathed in joy ; Glide its hours uncounted , The sun is its ...
... bird , By one music enchanted , One deity stirred , — Each the other adorning , Accompany still ; Night veileth the morning , The vapor the hill . " The babe by its mother Lies bathed in joy ; Glide its hours uncounted , The sun is its ...
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... zones and altitudes ; From all natures , sharp and slimy , Salt and basalt , wild and tame : Tree and lichen , ape , sea - lion , Bird , and reptile , be my game . Ivy for my fillet band ; Blinding dog - wood 28 MITHRIDATES √ MITHRIDATES -
... zones and altitudes ; From all natures , sharp and slimy , Salt and basalt , wild and tame : Tree and lichen , ape , sea - lion , Bird , and reptile , be my game . Ivy for my fillet band ; Blinding dog - wood 28 MITHRIDATES √ MITHRIDATES -
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... bird come his plumes to cool , And court the flower that cheapens his array . Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky , Tell them , dear , that if eyes were made for seeing , Then Beauty is its own ...
... bird come his plumes to cool , And court the flower that cheapens his array . Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky , Tell them , dear , that if eyes were made for seeing , Then Beauty is its own ...
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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