The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 9Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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... tell me my 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 ...
... tell me my 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 ...
Page 38
... Tell them , dear , that if eyes were made for seeing , Then Beauty is its own excuse for being : Why thou wert there , O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask , I never knew : But , in my simple ignorance , suppose I The self ...
... Tell them , dear , that if eyes were made for seeing , Then Beauty is its own excuse for being : Why thou wert there , O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask , I never knew : But , in my simple ignorance , suppose I The self ...
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... tell him what he is ? Or how meet in human elf Coming and past eternities ? And such I knew , a forest seer , A minstrel of the natural year , Foreteller of the vernal ides , Wise harbinger of spheres and tides , A lover true , who knew ...
... tell him what he is ? Or how meet in human elf Coming and past eternities ? And such I knew , a forest seer , A minstrel of the natural year , Foreteller of the vernal ides , Wise harbinger of spheres and tides , A lover true , who knew ...
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... tell the sign By which thy hurt thou may'st divine . When thou shalt climb the mountain cliff , Or see the wide shore from thy skiff , To thee the horizon shall express But emptiness on emptiness ; There lives no man of Nature's worth ...
... tell the sign By which thy hurt thou may'st divine . When thou shalt climb the mountain cliff , Or see the wide shore from thy skiff , To thee the horizon shall express But emptiness on emptiness ; There lives no man of Nature's worth ...
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... tell thee the mundane lore . Older am I than thy numbers wot , Change I may , but I pass not . Hitherto all things fast abide , And anchored in the tempest ride . Trenchant time behoves to hurry All to yean and all to bury : All the ...
... tell thee the mundane lore . Older am I than thy numbers wot , Change I may , but I pass not . Hitherto all things fast abide , And anchored in the tempest ride . Trenchant time behoves to hurry All to yean and all to bury : All the ...
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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