The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: PoemsHoughton, Mifflin, 1918 |
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... face ; To Grandeur with his wise grimace ; To upstart Wealth's averted eye ; To supple Office , low and high ; To crowded halls , to court and street ; To frozen hearts and hasting feet ; To those who go , and those who come ; Good ...
... face ; To Grandeur with his wise grimace ; To upstart Wealth's averted eye ; To supple Office , low and high ; To crowded halls , to court and street ; To frozen hearts and hasting feet ; To those who go , and those who come ; Good ...
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... faces ; To carry man to new degrees Of power and of comeliness . These presents be the hostages Which I pawn for my release . See to thyself , O Universe ! Thou art better , and not worse . ' And the god , having given all , Is freed ...
... faces ; To carry man to new degrees Of power and of comeliness . These presents be the hostages Which I pawn for my release . See to thyself , O Universe ! Thou art better , and not worse . ' And the god , having given all , Is freed ...
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... When thou lookest on his face , Thy heart saith , Brother , go thy ways ! None shall ask thee what thou doest , Or care a rush for what thou knowest , Or listen when thou repliest , Or remember where thou liest , Or how thy supper DESTINY.
... When thou lookest on his face , Thy heart saith , Brother , go thy ways ! None shall ask thee what thou doest , Or care a rush for what thou knowest , Or listen when thou repliest , Or remember where thou liest , Or how thy supper DESTINY.
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... face was known , - It seemed the likeness of their own ; They knew by secret sympathy The public child of earth and sky . ' You ask , ' he said , ' what guide Me through trackless thickets led , Through thick - stemmed woodlands rough ...
... face was known , - It seemed the likeness of their own ; They knew by secret sympathy The public child of earth and sky . ' You ask , ' he said , ' what guide Me through trackless thickets led , Through thick - stemmed woodlands rough ...
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... face , Like wax , their fashioning skill betrays , To fill the hollows , sink the hills , Bridge gulfs , drain swamps , build dams and mills , And fit the bleak and howling waste For homes of virtue , sense and taste . ' The World ...
... face , Like wax , their fashioning skill betrays , To fill the hollows , sink the hills , Bridge gulfs , drain swamps , build dams and mills , And fit the bleak and howling waste For homes of virtue , sense and taste . ' The World ...
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Page 195 - IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Page 8 - Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe...
Page 158 - BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.
Page 6 - I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough; I brought him home, in his nest, at even ; He sings the song, but it cheers not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky; — He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye.
Page 42 - Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, nought cares he For number or proportion.
Page 40 - And brier-roses, dwelt among; All beside was unknown waste, All was picture as he passed. Wiser far than human seer, Yellow-breeched philosopher ! Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care, Leave the chaff, and take the wheat. When the fierce northwestern blast Cools sea and land so far and fast, Thou already slumberest deep; Woe and want thou canst outsleep; Want and woe, which torture us, Thy sleep makes ridiculous.
Page 409 - The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken ; The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.
Page 9 - Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone...
Page 35 - Where are these men? Asleep beneath their grounds: And strangers, fond as they, their furrows plough. Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.
Page 7 - Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore j With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.