From all that's fair, from all that's foul, Peals out a cheerful song. It is not only in the rose, It is not only in the bird, Not only where the rainbow glows, Nor in the song of woman heard, But in the darkest, meanest things There alway, alway something... Charles W. Eliot: The Man and His Beliefs - Page 528by Charles William Eliot - 1926Full view - About this book
| Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1891 - 900 pages
...the song of woman heard, But in the darkest, meanest things. There alway, alway, something sings ! "Tis not in the high stars alone. Nor in the cups...scum of things, There alway, alway. something sings!" How much we all need such a philosophy as that to catch the song, to feel the mellowed and enriched... | |
| 1901 - 1022 pages
...bound. Emerson's Optimism By Joel Benton Let me go where'er I will, 1 hear a sky-born music still. 'Tis not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cups...that smiles in showers . But in the mud and scum of thingsThere alway, alway, something sings. — Emerson. RUSKIN says that in all things throughout the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 pages
...Not only where the rainbow glows, Nor in the song of woman heard, But in the darkest, meanest things "Tis not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cups...scum of things There alway, alway something sings. BY thoughts I lead Bards to say what nations need; What imports, what irks and what behooves, Framed... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 332 pages
...Not only where the rainbow glows, Nor in the song of woman heard, But in the darkest, meanest things 'Tis not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cups...scum of things There alway, alway something sings. BY thoughts I lead Bards to say what nations need; What imports, what irks and what behooves, Framed... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 380 pages
...the song of woman heard, But in the darkest, meanest things There alway, alway something sings. 'T is not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cups of budding...scum of things There alway, alway something sings. BY thoughts I lead Bards to say what nations need ; What imports, what irks and what behooves, Framed... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...only where the rainbow glows, Nor in the song of woman heard, But in the darkest, meanest things 'T is not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cups of budding...scum of things There alway, alway something sings. BY thoughts I lead Bards to say what nations need; What imports, what irks and what behooves, Framed... | |
| Joel Benton - 1883 - 184 pages
...the song of woman heard ; But in the darkest, meanest thingsThere alway, alway, something sings. " "Tis not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cups...But in the mud and scum of things — There alway , al way, something sings. ' ' How well this little eidolon, which I have not abridged, gives us Emerson's... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...hfn glidiir so Pleasrres to aocrthiar stag* Freely as ta>sk ali erw xmioite a sfcy-corn omsa; fr-.'CI 'Tis not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cups...flowers, Nor in the redbreast's mellow tone, Nor in the how that smiles in showers, But in the mud and scum of things There alway, alway something sings. BY... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 344 pages
...the song of woman heard, But in the darkest, meanest things There alway, alway something sings. 'T is not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cups of budding...scum of things There alway, alway something sings. BY thoughts I lead Bards to say what nations need ; What imports, what irks and what behooves, Framed... | |
| 1892 - 848 pages
...He gladly accepts Emerson's philosophy. " Let me go where'er I will, I hear a sky-born music still; Tis not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cups of...showers, — But in the mud and scum of things There always, always something sings." Democracy is the faith that no beautyr or grace, or comfort, or treasure,... | |
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