The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 9Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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... hills alone , — A secret nook in a pleasant land , Whose groves the frolic fairies planned ; Where arches green , the livelong day , Echo the blackbird's roundelay , And vulgar feet have never trod A spot that is GOOD-BYE.
... hills alone , — A secret nook in a pleasant land , Whose groves the frolic fairies planned ; Where arches green , the livelong day , Echo the blackbird's roundelay , And vulgar feet have never trod A spot that is GOOD-BYE.
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... the sea of 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.
... the sea of 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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... secret , Would hang his head for shame . Our brothers have not read it ,. Not one has found the key ; And henceforth we are comforted , We are but such as they.2 Still , still the secret presses ; The nearing clouds draw down ; The ...
... secret , Would hang his head for shame . Our brothers have not read it ,. Not one has found the key ; And henceforth we are comforted , We are but such as they.2 Still , still the secret presses ; The nearing clouds draw down ; The ...
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... secret , The ages have kept ? — I awaited the seer While they slumbered and slept : " The fate of the man - child , The meaning of man ; Known fruit of the unknown ; Dædalian plan ; Out of sleeping a waking , Out of waking a sleep ...
... secret , The ages have kept ? — I awaited the seer While they slumbered and slept : " The fate of the man - child , The meaning of man ; Known fruit of the unknown ; Dædalian plan ; Out of sleeping a waking , Out of waking a sleep ...
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... secret place , In quaking bog , on snowy hill , Beneath the grass that shades the rill , Under the snow , between the rocks , In damp fields known to bird and fox . But he would come in the very hour It opened in its virgin bower , As ...
... secret place , In quaking bog , on snowy hill , Beneath the grass that shades the rill , Under the snow , between the rocks , In damp fields known to bird and fox . But he would come in the very hour It opened in its virgin bower , As ...
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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