The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk in the shaken pine, And fill the long reach of the old seashore With dialogue divine; And the poet who overhears Some random word they say Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey... The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 316by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 382 pages
...opposite the Old Manse, his grandfather's house, see " Fragments on Nature" in the Poems. Page 25, aste I. The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk in the shaken pine, etc. " The Poet," Poems, Appendix. Page 26, note I. Thee, gliding through the sea of form. " Ode to... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 386 pages
...the Old Manse, his grandfather's house, see " Fragments on Nature " in the Poems. Page 25, note jr. The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk in the shaken pine, etc. " The Poet," Poems, Appendix. Page 26, note I. Thee, gliding through the sea of form. " Ode to... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...forward and far, Through worlds and races and terms and times Saw musical order and pairing rhymes. II. The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk...say Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey : One who having nectar drank Into blissful orgies sank ; He takes no mark of night or day, He would,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...forward and far, Through worlds and races and terms and times Saw musical order and pairing rhymes. n. The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk...say Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey: One who having nectar drank / Into blissful orgies sank; ;- He takes no mark of night or day, He cannot... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 pages
...forward and far, Through worlds and races and terms and times Saw musical order and pairing rhymes. n. The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk...say Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey: One who having nectar drank Into blissful orgies sank; He takes no mark of night or day, He would,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 332 pages
...forward and far, Through worlds and races and terms and tunes Saw musical order and pairing rhymes. II. The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk...say Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey : One who having nectar drank Into blissful orgies sank; He takes no mark of night or day, He cannot... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 380 pages
...forward and far, Through worlds and races and terms and times Saw musical order and pairing rhymes. IL The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk...say Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey : One who having nectar drank Into blissful orgies sank ; He takes no mark of night or day, He cannot... | |
| Margaret Sidney - 1888 - 120 pages
...guarding the home of Emerson, and this from "The Poet "springs involuntarily to our companion's lips : — "The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk...Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey." And we return for answer, " Never did the ' fated man of men whom the ages must obey,' utter a truer... | |
| Edward Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 286 pages
...receptive condition, and opened the inward ear to the great voices that " talk in the breath of the wood, They talk in the shaken pine, And fill the long reach of the old sea-shore With dialogue divine." But what he " overheard," as he liked to say, must be written down and interpreted in the seclusion... | |
| Margaret Sidney - 1893 - 194 pages
...springs involuntarily to our companion's lips : — " The gods talk in the breath of the woods, Thev talk in the shaken pine, And fill the long reach of...Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey." And we return for answer, "Never did the 'fated man of men whom the ages must obey,' utter a truer... | |
| |