 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...agrimony, Clover, catchfly, adder's-tongue And brier-roses, dwelt among; All beside was unknown waste, 60 All was picture as he passed. Wiser far than human...Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, 55 Thou dost mock at fate and care, Leave the chaff, and take the wheat. When the fierce northwestern... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...than human seer, Yellow-breech'd philosopher, Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is swoet Thou dost mock at fate and care, Leave the chaff and take the wheat. When the fieree north-western blast Cools sea and land so far and fast, — Thou already slumberest deep, Wo... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 558 pages
...unsavoury or unclean Hath my insect never seen, But violets, and bilberry bells, Maple sap, and daffbdels, Clover, catchfly, adders-tongue, And brier-roses dwelt...All beside was unknown waste, All was picture as he pass'd. Wiser far than human seer, Yellow-breech'd philosopher, Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1844 - 636 pages
...unsavory or unclean Hath my insect never seen, But violets, and bilberry bells, Maple sap, and daffodels, Clover, catchfly, adders-tongue, And brier-roses dwelt...among. All beside was unknown waste, All was picture as ke past. This is not merely beautiful, though ' beauty is its own excuse for being.' There is pleasant... | |
 | Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - 1847 - 444 pages
...with horn of honey, Scented fern and agrimony, Clover, catch-fly, adder's tongue, And brier roses, dwelt among; All beside was unknown waste, All was picture as he passed." Surely the only lines which can be compared with these, are the choice passages from " II Penseroso,"... | |
 | 1847 - 814 pages
...with horn of honey, Scented fern, and agrimony, Clover, calchfly, adder's tongue, And brier roses, dwelt among ; All beside was unknown waste, All was...Thou dost mock at fate and care, Leave the chaff, and lake Ihe wheat. When the ñerce northwestern blast Cools sea and land so far and faat, Thou already... | |
 | 1847 - 784 pages
...with horn of honey, Scented fern, und agrimony, Clover, catchfly, adder's tongue, And brier roses, dwelt among ; All beside was unknown waste, All was...Thou dost mock at fate and care, Leave the chaff, and lake Ihe wheat. When ihe fierce northwestern blast Cools sea and land so far and fait, Thou already... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...with horn of honey, Scented fern, and agrimony, Clover, catch-fly, adder's-tongue, And briar-roses, dwelt among ; All beside was unknown waste, All was picture as he past. Wiser far than human seer, Yellow-breech'd philosopher! Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 690 pages
...beside was unknown waste, All wan picture as he pass'd. Wiser far than human seer, Yellow-breech'd philosopher, Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only...mock at fate and care, Leave the chaff and take the «heu When the fierce north-western blast Cools sea and land so far and fast,— Thou already slu interest... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 808 pages
...with horn of honey. Scented fern, and agrimony, Clover, catchfly, adder's tongue, And brier roses, dwelt among ; All beside was unknown waste, All was...dost mock at fate and care. Leave the chaff, and take tlie wheat. When the fierce north-western blast Cools sea and land so far and fast, Thou already slumbcri'st... | |
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Wiser far than human seer, Yellow-breeched philosopher ! Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care, Leave the chaff and take the wheat. 
