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" Merlin's mighty line Extremes of nature reconciled, Bereaved a tyrant of his will, And made the lion mild. Songs can the tempest still, Scattered on the stormy air, Mould the year to fair increase. And bring in poetic peace. He shall not seek to weave,... "
Emerson as a Poet - Page 26
by Joel Benton - 1883 - 134 pages
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...tempest still, Scattered on the stormy air, Mould the year to fair increase, And bring in poetic peace. He shall not seek to weave, In weak, unhappy times,...soaring orbit of the muse exceeds that journey's length. Nor profane affect to hit Or compass that, by meddling wit, Which only the propitious mind Publishes...
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Scribners Monthly, Volume 17

1879 - 1036 pages
...conform to his genius. As he predicts of the true bard, in " Merlin," so he has done before and since : " He shall not seek to weave, In weak, unhappy times,...soaring orbit of the Muse exceeds that journey's length. Nor, profane, affect to hit Or compass that, by meddling wit, Which only the propitious mind Publishes...
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Selected Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...tempest still, Scattered on the stormy air, Mould the year to fair increase, And bring in poetic peace. He shall not seek to weave, In weak, unhappy times,...soaring orbit of the muse exceeds that journey's length. Nor profane affect to hit Or compass that, by meddling wit, Which only the propitious mind Publishes...
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Sonnets and Canzonets

Amos Bronson Alcott - 1882 - 162 pages
...an angel on me smiled. Permit me, then, thus honored, still to be A scholar in thy university. VI. " He shall not seek to weave, In weak, unhappy times,...soaring orbit of the Muse exceeds that journey's length" VII. HlEROPHANT, and lyrist of the soul ! Clear insight thine of universal mind; While from its crypts...
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Emerson as a Poet

Joel Benton - 1883 - 150 pages
...In to the upper doors, Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stair- way of surprise." He shall not seek to weave, In weak,...were mounting to his purpose " by the stair-way of surprise " — or, as if Hafiz or Firdousi himself were speaking. It is said that Persian poetry —...
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Emerson as a Poet

Joel Benton - 1883 - 184 pages
...encumber With the coil of rhythm and number ; But, leaving rule and pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. " Pass in, pass in," the angels...strength. Bird, that from the nadir's floor To the 2enith's top can soar, The soaring orbit of the muse exceeds that journey's length. I detect an almost...
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Complete Works, Volume 9

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 pages
...tempest still, Scattered on the stormy air, Mould the year to fair increase, And bring in poetic peace. He shall not seek to weave, In weak, unhappy times,...soaring orbit of the muse exceeds that journey's length. Nor profane affect to hit Or compass that, by meddling wit, Which only the propitious mind Publishes...
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Concord Lectures on Philosophy, Comprising Outlines of All the Lectures at ...

Concord School of Philosophy - 1883 - 176 pages
...of divine philosophy. He followed closely his own law for the perfect bard laid down in " Merlin " : He shall not seek to weave, In weak, unhappy times,...orbit of the Muse exceeds that journey's length." INDIVIDUALISM. BY MR. ALCOTT. INDIVIDUALITY is a separation from -*- a oneness with God — a becoming...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...tempest still, Scattered on the stormy air, Mould the year to fair increase, And bring in poetic peace. He shall not seek to weave, In weak, unhappy times,...soaring orbit of the muse exceeds that journey's length. Nor profane affect to hit Or compass that, by meddling wit, Which only the propitious mind Publishes...
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Poems, Volume 9

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...tempest still, Scattered on the stormy air, Mould the year to fair increase, And bring in poetic peace. He shall not seek to weave, In weak, unhappy times,...soaring orbit of the muse exceeds that journey's length. Nor profane affect to hit Or compass that, by meddling wit, Which only the propitious mind Publishes...
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