The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 9Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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... 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 in ashes the fire - seed slept . But 14 URIEL.
... 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 in ashes the fire - seed slept . But 14 URIEL.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. If in ashes the fire - seed slept . But now and then , truth - speaking things Shamed the angels ' veiling wings ; And , shrilling from the solar course , Or from fruit of chemic force , Procession of a soul in ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. If in ashes the fire - seed slept . But now and then , truth - speaking things Shamed the angels ' veiling wings ; And , shrilling from the solar course , Or from fruit of chemic force , Procession of a soul in ...
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... fire Which drives me mad with sweet desire , What boots it ? What the soldier's mail , Unless he conquer and prevail ? What all the goods thy pride which lift , If thou pine for another's gift ? Alas ! that one is born in blight ...
... fire Which drives me mad with sweet desire , What boots it ? What the soldier's mail , Unless he conquer and prevail ? What all the goods thy pride which lift , If thou pine for another's gift ? Alas ! that one is born in blight ...
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... fire warm me And dress up Nature in your favor.2 One thing is forever good ; That one thing is Success , - Dear to the Eumenides , And to all the heavenly brood . Who bides at home , nor looks abroad , Carries the eagles , and masters ...
... fire warm me And dress up Nature in your favor.2 One thing is forever good ; That one thing is Success , - Dear to the Eumenides , And to all the heavenly brood . Who bides at home , nor looks abroad , Carries the eagles , and masters ...
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... fires , He is the essence that inquires . He is the axis of the star ; He is the sparkle of the spar ; He is the heart of every creature ; He is the meaning of each feature ; And his mind is the sky . Than all it holds more deep , more ...
... fires , He is the essence that inquires . He is the axis of the star ; He is the sparkle of the spar ; He is the heart of every creature ; He is the meaning of each feature ; And his mind is the sky . Than all it holds more deep , more ...
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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