The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 9Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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Page 9
... once departed From the eyes of the false - hearted , And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light ; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed , Thou shalt seem , in each reply , A vixen to his ...
... once departed From the eyes of the false - hearted , And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light ; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed , Thou shalt seem , in each reply , A vixen to his ...
Page 10
... once beguiled By beauty of a mortal child And by her radiant youth delighted , He is not fooled , but warily knoweth His love shall never be requited . And thus the wise Immortal doeth , - ' Tis his study and delight To bless that ...
... once beguiled By beauty of a mortal child And by her radiant youth delighted , He is not fooled , but warily knoweth His love shall never be requited . And thus the wise Immortal doeth , - ' Tis his study and delight To bless that ...
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... Once , among the Pleiads walking , Seyd overheard the young gods talking ; And the treason , too long pent , To his ears was evident . The young deities discussed Laws of form , and metre just , Orb , quintessence , and sunbeams , What ...
... Once , among the Pleiads walking , Seyd overheard the young gods talking ; And the treason , too long pent , To his ears was evident . The young deities discussed Laws of form , and metre just , Orb , quintessence , and sunbeams , What ...
Page 14
... once eminent , the god Withdrew , that hour , into his 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 ...
... once eminent , the god Withdrew , that hour , into his 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 ...
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... Once found , for new heavens He spurneth the old . " Pride ruined the angels , Their shame them restores ; Lurks the joy that is sweetest In stings of remorse . Have I a lover Who is noble and free ? I would he were nobler Than to love ...
... Once found , for new heavens He spurneth the old . " Pride ruined the angels , Their shame them restores ; Lurks the joy that is sweetest In stings of remorse . Have I a lover Who is noble and free ? I would he were nobler Than to love ...
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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