Guest of million painted forms, Which in turn thy glory warms! The frailest leaf, the mossy bark, The acorn's cup, the raindrop's arc, The swinging spider's silver line, The ruby of the drop of wine, The shining pebble of the pond, Thou inscribest with... Emerson as a Poet - Page 84by Joel Benton - 1883 - 134 pagesFull view - About this book
| Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1844 - 556 pages
...intimate stranger ! Thou latest and first ! Lavish, lavish promiser ! Nigh persuading gods to err ; Guest of million painted forms Which in turn thy glory...frailest leaf, the mossy bark, The acorn's cup, the rain drop's arc, The shining pebble of the pond, Thou inscribest with a bond, In thy momentary play,... | |
| Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1844 - 556 pages
...Which in turn thy glory warms, The frailest leaf, the mossy bark, The acorn's cup, the rain drop's arc, The shining pebble of the pond, Thou inscribes! with...thy momentary play, Would bankrupt nature to repay. Ah ! what avails it To hide or to shun Whom the Infinite One Hath granted his throne ? The heaven high... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...men; New-born we are melting Into nature again. Lavish, lavish promiser, Nigh persuading gods to err, Guest of million painted forms Which in turn thy glory...drop of wine, The shining pebble of the pond, Thou inscribest with a bond In thy momentary play Would bankrupt Nature to repay.' Ah! what avails it To... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...New-born, we are melting Into nature again. Lavish, lavish promiser, Nigh persuading gods to err ! Guest of million painted forms, Which in turn thy...drop of wine, The shining pebble of the pond, Thou inscribest with a bond, In thy momentary play, Would bankrupt nature to repay. Ah, what avails it To... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1850 - 380 pages
...Emerson's muse is well developed in these lines : " Lavish, lavish Promiser, Nigh persuading gods to err : Guest of million painted forms Which in turn thy glory...drop of wine, The shining pebble of the pond, Thou inscribest with a bond In thy momentary play Would bankrupt nature to repay." A mere versifier would... | |
| 1849 - 448 pages
...— in material nature, in art, literature, and above all, in human life. He finds it everywhere : " The frailest leaf, the mossy bark, The acorn's cup,...drop of wine, The shining pebble of the pond, Thou inscribest with a bond, In thy momentary play, Would bankrupt nature to repay. " Oft, in streets or... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1850 - 384 pages
...Emerson's muse is well developed hi these lines : " Lavish, lavish Promiser, Nigh persuading gods to err : Guest of million painted forms Which in turn thy glory warms : The frailest leaf, the mossy hark, The acorn's cup, the rain-drop's arc, The swinging spider's silver line, The ruhy of the drop... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1850 - 382 pages
...spider's silver line, The ruby of the drop of wine, The shining pebble of the pond, Thou inscribest with a bond In thy momentary play Would bankrupt nature to repay." A mere versifier would have made those images into a hundred lines ; the true poet condenses ; the... | |
| M. Edgeworth Lazarus - 1852 - 358 pages
...New-born, we are melting Into nature again. Lavish, lavish promiser, Nigh persuading gods to err ! Guest of million painted forms, Which in turn thy...leaf, the mossy bark. The acorn's cup, the raindrop's ark ; The swinging spider's silver line, The ruby of tho drop of wine ; The shining pebble of the pond,... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...— in material nature, in art, literature, and above all, in human life. He finds it everywhere : " The frailest leaf, the mossy bark, The acorn's cup,...drop of wine, The shining pebble of the pond, Thou inscribest with a bond, In thy momentary play, Would bankrupt nature to repay. "Oft, in streets or... | |
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