The lost, the lost, he cannot restore; And, looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return. I see my empty house, I see my trees repair their boughs; And he, the wondrous child, Whose silver warble wild Outvalued every pulsing sound... Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 112by Richard Garnett - 1888 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
| Anna Garlin Spencer - 1923 - 338 pages
...of the family is but a memory of one who early passes on. Emerson sang in his beautiful "Threnody" : "The gracious boy, who did adorn The world whereinto he was born, And by his countenance repay The favor of the loving Day, — Has disappeared from the Day's eye; Far and wide she cannot find him;... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...darling who shall not return. I see my empty house, I see my trees repair their boughs, And he,—the wondrous child, Whose silver warble wild Outvalued...his countenance repay The favour of the loving Day, Has disappeared from the Day's eye ; Far and wide she cannot find him, My hopes pursue, they cannot... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...The darling who shall not return. / I see my empty house, I see my trees repair their boughs; And he, the wondrous child, Whose silver warble wild Outvalued...whereinto he was born, And by his countenance repay The favor of the loving Day, — Has disappeared from the Day's eye; Far and wide she cannot find him;... | |
| M. A. H. - 1849 - 160 pages
...The darling who shall not return. I see my empty house, I see my trees repair their boughs ; And he, the wondrous child, Whose silver warble wild Outvalued...whereinto he was born, And by his countenance repay The favor of the loving day, — Has disappeared from the day's eye ; Far and wide she cannot find him... | |
| 1855 - 576 pages
...hundred times more voluminous. 4n his " Threnody," a funeral song on the death of his infant boy, — " The hyacinthine boy, for whom Morn well might break, and April bloom," — there is the following passage, full of the profoundest tenderness : — " On that shaded day Dark... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1858 - 420 pages
...darling who shall not return. I see my empty house,— I see my trees repair their boiu:hs ; And he, the wondrous child, Whose silver warble wild Outvalued...his countenance repay The favour of the loving Day, Has disappeared from the Day's eye. 371 Far and wide, she cannot find him,— My hopes pursue, they... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1858 - 426 pages
...darling who shall not return. I see my empty house, — I see my trees repair their boughs ; And he, the wondrous child, Whose silver warble wild Outvalued...pulsing sound Within the air's cerulean round. The byacinthine boy, for whom Morn well might break, and April bloom , The gracious boy who did adorn The... | |
| Paul Hamilton Payne - 1859 - 614 pages
...Literary Notices. 565 Outvalued every pulsing sound, Within the Air's cemlian round — The hyaeinthine boy, for whom Morn well might break, and April bloom;...his countenance repay The favour of the loving Day — Has disappeared from Ihe Day's eye ; Far and wide, she cannot find him ; My hopes pursue, they... | |
| John Daniel Morell - 1874 - 336 pages
...the darling who shall not return. I see my empty house ; I see my trees repair their boughs; and he, the wondrous child, whose silver warble wild out-valued...his countenance repay the favour of the loving day, has disappeared from the day's eye. Far and wide she cannot find him ; my hopes pursue, they can not... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...The darling who shall not return. I see my empty house, I see my trees repair their boughs; And he, the wondrous child, Whose silver warble wild Outvalued...bloom, • The gracious boy, who did adorn The world whereiuto he was born, And by his countenance repay The favor of the loving Day, — Has disappeared... | |
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