The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 9Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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... leaves , and feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish outbuilt her shell , Painting with morn each annual cell ? Or how the sacred pine - tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew these holy piles , Whilst love and ...
... leaves , and feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish outbuilt her shell , Painting with morn each annual cell ? Or how the sacred pine - tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew these holy piles , Whilst love and ...
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... leaf , Who drinks of Cupid's nectar cup Loveth downward , and not up ; He who loves , of gods or men , Shall not by the same be loved again ; His sweetheart's idolatry Falls , in turn , a new degree . When a god is once beguiled By ...
... leaf , Who drinks of Cupid's nectar cup Loveth downward , and not up ; He who loves , of gods or men , Shall not by the same be loved again ; His sweetheart's idolatry Falls , in turn , a new degree . When a god is once beguiled By ...
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... leaves us in the mire . We cannot learn the cipher That's writ upon our cell ; Stars taunt us by a mystery Which we could never spell.1 If but one hero knew it , The world would blush in flame ; The sage , till he hit the secret , Would ...
... leaves us in the mire . We cannot learn the cipher That's writ upon our cell ; Stars taunt us by a mystery Which we could never spell.1 If but one hero knew it , The world would blush in flame ; The sage , till he hit the secret , Would ...
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... overtaking ; Deep underneath deep ? " Erect as a sunbeam , Upspringeth the palm ; The elephant browses , Undaunted and calm ; In beautiful motion The thrush plies his wings ; Kind leaves of his covert , Your silence he sings THE SPHINX 20.
... overtaking ; Deep underneath deep ? " Erect as a sunbeam , Upspringeth the palm ; The elephant browses , Undaunted and calm ; In beautiful motion The thrush plies his wings ; Kind leaves of his covert , Your silence he sings THE SPHINX 20.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Kind leaves of his covert , Your silence he sings . " The waves , unashamèd , In difference sweet , Play glad with the breezes , Old playfellows meet ; The journeying atoms , Primordial wholes , Firmly draw , firmly ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Kind leaves of his covert , Your silence he sings . " The waves , unashamèd , In difference sweet , Play glad with the breezes , Old playfellows meet ; The journeying atoms , Primordial wholes , Firmly draw , firmly ...
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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