The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 9Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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... round yon Alpine height ; ' Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent . All are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good alone . I thought the sparrow's note from heaven , I Singing at dawn on the ...
... round yon Alpine height ; ' Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent . All are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good alone . I thought the sparrow's note from heaven , I Singing at dawn on the ...
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... rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew- The conscious stone to beauty grew.1 1 Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's ...
... rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew- The conscious stone to beauty grew.1 1 Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's ...
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... round ; In vain produced , all rays return ; Evil will bless , and ice will burn . ' As Uriel spoke with piercing eye , A shudder ran around the sky ; The stern old war - gods shook their heads , The seraphs frowned from myrtle - beds ...
... round ; In vain produced , all rays return ; Evil will bless , and ice will burn . ' As Uriel spoke with piercing eye , A shudder ran around the sky ; The stern old war - gods shook their heads , The seraphs frowned from myrtle - beds ...
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... made . If on the foeman fell his gaze , Him it would straightway blind or craze , In the street , if he turned round , His eye the eye ' t was seeking found . It seemed his Genius discreet Worked on the Maker's own IX GUY.
... made . If on the foeman fell his gaze , Him it would straightway blind or craze , In the street , if he turned round , His eye the eye ' t was seeking found . It seemed his Genius discreet Worked on the Maker's own IX GUY.
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... Round every windward stake , or tree , or door . Speeding , the myriad - handed , his wild work So fanciful , so savage , nought cares he For number or proportion . Mockingly , On coop or kennel he hangs Parian wreaths ; A swan - like ...
... Round every windward stake , or tree , or door . Speeding , the myriad - handed , his wild work So fanciful , so savage , nought cares he For number or proportion . Mockingly , On coop or kennel he hangs Parian wreaths ; A swan - like ...
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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