The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 9Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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... sweet strains , or pensive smiles ; Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowlèd churchman be . Why should the vest on him allure , Which I could not on me endure ? Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young ...
... sweet strains , or pensive smiles ; Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowlèd churchman be . Why should the vest on him allure , Which I could not on me endure ? Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young ...
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... sweet , Play glad with the breezes , Old playfellows meet ; The journeying atoms , Primordial wholes , Firmly draw , firmly drive , By their animate poles . " Sea , earth , air , sound , silence , Plant , quadruped , bird , By one music ...
... sweet , Play glad with the breezes , Old playfellows meet ; The journeying atoms , Primordial wholes , Firmly draw , firmly drive , By their animate poles . " Sea , earth , air , sound , silence , Plant , quadruped , bird , By one music ...
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... 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 harries Is love of the Best ; Yawns the pit of the Dragon , Lit ...
... 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 harries Is love of the Best ; Yawns the pit of the Dragon , Lit ...
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... sweet desire , What boots it ? What the soldier's mail , Unless he conquer and prevail ? What all the goods thy pride which lift , If thou pine for another's gift ? Alas ! that one is born in blight , Victim of perpetual slight : When ...
... sweet desire , What boots it ? What the soldier's mail , Unless he conquer and prevail ? What all the goods thy pride which lift , If thou pine for another's gift ? Alas ! that one is born in blight , Victim of perpetual slight : When ...
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... sweet the west wind sounds in my own trees ! How graceful climb those shadows on my hill ! I fancy these pure waters and the flags Know me , as does my dog : we sympathize ; And , I affirm , my actions smack of the soil . ' 3 Where are ...
... sweet the west wind sounds in my own trees ! How graceful climb those shadows on my hill ! I fancy these pure waters and the flags Know me , as does my dog : we sympathize ; And , I affirm , my actions smack of the soil . ' 3 Where are ...
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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