The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: PoemsHoughton, Mifflin, 1918 |
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... leaves , and feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish outbuilt her shell , Painting with morn each annual cell ? Or how the sacred pine - tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew these holy piles , Whilst love and ...
... leaves , and feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish outbuilt her shell , Painting with morn each annual cell ? Or how the sacred pine - tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew these holy piles , Whilst love and ...
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... leaf , Who drinks of Cupid's nectar cup Loveth downward , and not up ; He who loves , of gods or men , Shall not by the same be loved again ; His sweetheart's idolatry Falls , in turn , a new degree . When a god is once beguiled By ...
... leaf , Who drinks of Cupid's nectar cup Loveth downward , and not up ; He who loves , of gods or men , Shall not by the same be loved again ; His sweetheart's idolatry Falls , in turn , a new degree . When a god is once beguiled By ...
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... leaves us in the mire . We cannot learn the cipher That's writ upon our cell ; Stars taunt us by a mystery Which we could never spell . ' If but one hero knew it , The world would blush in flame ; The sage , till he hit the secret ...
... leaves us in the mire . We cannot learn the cipher That's writ upon our cell ; Stars taunt us by a mystery Which we could never spell . ' If but one hero knew it , The world would blush in flame ; The sage , till he hit the secret ...
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... overtaking ; Deep underneath deep ? " Erect as a sunbeam , Upspringeth the palm ; The elephant browses , Undaunted and calm ; In beautiful motion The thrush plies his wings ; Kind leaves of his covert , Your silence he sings THE SPHINX.
... overtaking ; Deep underneath deep ? " Erect as a sunbeam , Upspringeth the palm ; The elephant browses , Undaunted and calm ; In beautiful motion The thrush plies his wings ; Kind leaves of his covert , Your silence he sings THE SPHINX.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. Kind leaves of his covert , Your silence he sings . The waves , unashamèd , In difference sweet , Play glad with the breezes , Old play fellows meet ; The journeying atoms , Primordial wholes ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. Kind leaves of his covert , Your silence he sings . The waves , unashamèd , In difference sweet , Play glad with the breezes , Old play fellows meet ; The journeying atoms , Primordial wholes ...
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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.