 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
...to itself. 232 [April, ARTICLE II. AUTHORITY AND THE PULPIT. BY THE REVEREND CHARLES H. OLIPHANT. " I hung my verses in the wind, — Time and tide their faults should find! All were winnowed through and through. Five lines lasted sound and true! Sunshine cannot... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 226 pages
...vain, Yet they who hear it shed their age, And take their youth again. THE TEST. (Musa loquitur.) IT HUNG my verses in the •wind, Time and tide their...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 light. Sunshine... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1881 - 224 pages
...vain, Yet they who hear it shed their age, And take their youth again. THE TEST. (Musa loquitur.) T HUNG my verses in the wind, Time and tide their faults...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 light. Sunshine... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1881 - 224 pages
...vain, Yet they who hear it shed their age, And take their youth again. THE TEST. (Musa loquitur.) T HUNG my verses in the wind, Time and tide their faults...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 light. Sunshine... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 416 pages
...poem, The Test, in which the muse is supposed to be speaking, correctly represents his own methods. " I hung my verses in the wind, Time and tide their...through and through, Five lines lasted sound and true." Thoroughly winnowed are all his poems, as are his essays; but in the same way they are inspirations,... | |
 | 1882 - 404 pages
...marrow of thought without any of the husks and shells! How his poetry, how his prose is winnowed !, " I hung my verses in the wind, Time and tide their...through and through, Five lines lasted sound and true." He abridges and concentrates like the alchemy of nature. Novalis called one of his books the " Pollen... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...inspirational they may appear, that his poems underwent the same patient elaboration as his essays: 'I hung my verses in the wind, Time and tide their faults may find. All were winnoired through and through, Five lines lasted sound and true.' Yet how many of his verses have the... | |
 | Joel Benton - 1883 - 150 pages
...text, to the great perplexity of his publishers (if they have not long since become used to it), — is shown the intense thoroughness and winnowing he applies...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 pages
...in vain, Yet they who hear it shed their age, And take their youth again. THE TEST. (Musa loquitur.) I HUNG my verses in the wind, Time and tide their...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 light. Sunshine... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...tides to flow, — When shall that sun arise ? THE TEST. — SOLUTION. 189 THE TEST. (Musa loquitur.) I HUNG my verses in the wind, Time and tide their...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 light. Sunshine... | |
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