 I hung my verses in the wind, Time and tide their faults may find. All were winnowed through and through, Five lines lasted sound and true; Five were smelted in a pot Than the South more fierce and hot; These the siroc could not melt, Fire their fiercer...  Emerson as a Poet - Page 40by Joel Benton - 1883 - 134 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1904 - 846 pages
...their faults should find! All were winnowed through and through. Five lines lasted sound and true! Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what...to find the five Which five hundred did survive?" RW EMERSON, The Test. "The final form of truth may come to be simply a summing-up of the experience... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 226 pages
...pot Than the South more fierce and hot ; These the siroc could not melt, Fire their fiercer flaming felt, And the meaning was more white Than July's meridian...eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive ? 771 US SOLUTION. T" AM the Muse wno sung alway By Jove, at dawn of the first day. Star-crowned, sole-sitting,... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1877 - 564 pages
...time and tide until now. These the siroc could not melt, Fire their fiercer flaming felt, And their meaning was more white Than July's meridian light....bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know. It was only to be expected that the freshness of thought and felicity of expression discoverable in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1881 - 224 pages
...pot Than the South more fierce and hot ; These the siroc could not melt, Fire their fiercer flaming felt, And the meaning was more white Than July's meridian...eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive ? 5 a SOLUTION. T AM the Muse wno sung alway By Jove, at dawn of the first day. Star-crowned, sole-sitting,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1881 - 224 pages
...pot Than the South more fierce and hot ; These the siroc could not melt, Fire their fiercer flaming felt, And the meaning was more white Than July's meridian...eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive ? 5 « SOLUTION. T AM the M 1.1 so wno sung alway By Jove, at dawn of the first day. Star-crowned,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1881 - 214 pages
...of his later poems have, as in Emerson's " Test," been hung in the wind and smelted in a pot, " Till the meaning was more white Than July's meridian light....bleach the snow, Nor Time unmake what poets know." METAPHYSICAL SUBTILTY IN POETRY. The original traits of Lowell's genius are unmistakable ; and, in... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1881 - 222 pages
...of his later poems have, as in Emerson's " Test," been hung in the wind and smelted in a pot, " Tifl the meaning was more white Than July's meridian light. Sunshine cannot bleach the ?now, Nor Time unmake what poets know." METAPHYSICAL SUBTILTY IX POETRY. The original traits of Lowell's... | |
 | Joel Benton - 1883 - 148 pages
...pot Than the South more fierce and hot — These the siroc could not melt; Five their fiercer flaming felt, And the meaning was more white Than July's meridian...collation, and revision. "In reading prose," he says, "I am sen. sitive as soon ,as a sentence drags, but in poetry as soon as one word drags." Such a value he... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 pages
...pot Than the South more fierce and hot; These the siroc could not melt, Fire their fiercer flaming felt, And the meaning was more white Than July's meridian...eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive ? SOLUTION. I AM the Muse who sung alway By Jove, at dawn of the first day. Star-crowned, sole-sitting,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 332 pages
...pot Than the South more fierce and hot; These the siroc could not melt, Fire their fiercer flaming felt, And the meaning was more white Than July's meridian...eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive ? SOLUTION. I AM the Muse who sung alway By Jove, at dawn of the first day. Star-crowned, sole-sitting,... | |
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