The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 9Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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... cloud ; Whether doomed to long gyration In the sea of generation , Or by knowledge grown too bright To hit the nerve of feebler sight.2 Straightway , a forgetting wind Stole over the celestial kind , And their lips the secret kept , If ...
... cloud ; Whether doomed to long gyration In the sea of generation , Or by knowledge grown too bright To hit the nerve of feebler sight.2 Straightway , a forgetting wind Stole over the celestial kind , And their lips the secret kept , If ...
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... clouds draw down ; The crimson morning flames into The fopperies of the town . Within , without the idle earth , Stars weave eternal rings ; The sun himself shines heartily , And shares the joy he brings . And what if Trade sow cities ...
... clouds draw down ; The crimson morning flames into The fopperies of the town . Within , without the idle earth , Stars weave eternal rings ; The sun himself shines heartily , And shares the joy he brings . And what if Trade sow cities ...
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... ; Glide its hours uncounted , The sun is its toy ; Shines the peace of all being , Without cloud , in its eyes ; And the sum of the world In soft miniature lies . " But man crouches and blushes , Absconds and conceals THE SPHINX 21.
... ; Glide its hours uncounted , The sun is its toy ; Shines the peace of all being , Without cloud , in its eyes ; And the sum of the world In soft miniature lies . " But man crouches and blushes , Absconds and conceals THE SPHINX 21.
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... crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple cloud , She silvered in the moon ; She spired into a yellow flame ; She flowered in blossoms red ; I She flowed into a foaming wave : She stood Monadnoc's 24 THE SPHINX.
... crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple cloud , She silvered in the moon ; She spired into a yellow flame ; She flowered in blossoms red ; I She flowed into a foaming wave : She stood Monadnoc's 24 THE SPHINX.
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... cloud ! Hither ! take me , use me , fill me , Vein and artery , though ye kill me ! ' I TO J. W. SET not thy foot on graves ; Hear what wine and roses say ; The mountain chase , the summer waves , The crowded town , thy feet may well ...
... cloud ! Hither ! take me , use me , fill me , Vein and artery , though ye kill me ! ' I TO J. W. SET not thy foot on graves ; Hear what wine and roses say ; The mountain chase , the summer waves , The crowded town , thy feet may well ...
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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