The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 9Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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... heard from the woodland Muse . Where there is any question as to the signi- ficance of a poem or passage , the editor has tried to make clear in which cases the explana- tions he offers are given confidently as based on authority , and ...
... heard from the woodland Muse . Where there is any question as to the signi- ficance of a poem or passage , the editor has tried to make clear in which cases the explana- tions he offers are given confidently as based on authority , and ...
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... heard , lows not thine ear to charm ; The sexton , tolling his bell at noon , Deems not that great Napoleon Stops his horse , and lists with delight , Whilst his files sweep round yon Alpine height ; ' Nor knowest thou what argument Thy ...
... heard , lows not thine ear to charm ; The sexton , tolling his bell at noon , Deems not that great Napoleon Stops his horse , and lists with delight , Whilst his files sweep round yon Alpine height ; ' Nor knowest thou what argument Thy ...
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... heard , The rolling river , the morning 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 ...
... heard , The rolling river , the morning 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 ...
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... heard a poet answer Aloud and cheerfully , 999 2 " Say on , sweet Sphinx ! thy dirges Are pleasant songs to me . Deep love lieth under These pictures of time ; They fade in the light of Their meaning sublime . " The fiend that man ...
... heard a poet answer Aloud and cheerfully , 999 2 " Say on , sweet Sphinx ! thy dirges Are pleasant songs to me . Deep love lieth under These pictures of time ; They fade in the light of Their meaning sublime . " The fiend that man ...
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... heard the Earth - song I was no longer brave ; My avarice cooled Like lust in the chill of the grave . THE RHODORA : ON BEING ASKED , whence IS THE FLOWER ? In May , when sea - winds pierced our solitudes , I found the fresh Rhodora in ...
... heard the Earth - song I was no longer brave ; My avarice cooled Like lust in the chill of the grave . THE RHODORA : ON BEING ASKED , whence IS THE FLOWER ? In May , when sea - winds pierced our solitudes , I found the fresh Rhodora in ...
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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