 Ruby wine is drunk by knaves, Sugar spends to fatten slaves, Rose and vine-leaf deck buffoons; Thunder-clouds are Jove's festoons, Drooping oft in wreaths of dread, Lightning-knotted round his head; The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he...  The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 425by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...Thunderclouds are Jove's festoons, Drooping oft in wreaths of dread Lightning-knotted round hia head ; The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats ; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. ESSAY VIII. HEROISM IN the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...Thunderclouds are Jove's festoons, Drooping oft in wreaths of dread Lightning-knotted round his head; The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats ; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. ESSAY VIII. HEROISM. IN the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...Thunderclouds are Jove's festoons, Drooping oft in wreaths of dread Lightning-knotted round his head ; The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats ; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. ESSAY VIII. HEROISM IN the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...Thunderclouds are Jove's festoons ; Drooping oft in wreaths of dread, Lightning-knotted round his head. The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. ESSAY VIII. HEROISM. IN the... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - 1859 - 438 pages
...Thunder-clouds are Jove's festoons, Drooping oft, in wreaths of dread, Lightning-knotted round his head; The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. It seems, however, to be true... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - 1860 - 436 pages
...Thunder-clouds are Jove's festoons, Drooping oft, in wreaths of dread, Lightning-knotted round his head; The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. It seems, however, to be true... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 226 pages
...Thunder-clouds are Jove's festoons, Drooping oft in wreaths of dread, Lightning-knotted round his head ; The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats ; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. CHARACTER. rilHE sun set,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...Thunder-clouds are. Jove's festoons, Drooping oft in wreaths of dread Lightning-knotted round his head; The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head- winds right for royal seals. HEROISM. IN the elder English... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...Thunder-clouds are Jove's festoons, Drooping oft in wreaths of dread Lightning-knotted round his head; The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats ; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. VOL. I. HEROISM. IN the elder... | |
 | George Adderley Bishop - 1876 - 188 pages
...dress.' MEMOIR OF A CAMBRIDGE UNDERGRADUATE. CHAPTER I. ' AND THE CHILD MINISTERED BEFORE THE LORD.' ' The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats : Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.' ' THE bright animated joyous... | |
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