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" Ever the words of the gods resound ; But the porches of man's ear Seldom in this low life's round Are unsealed, that he may hear. "
Confessions and Criticisms - Page 160
by Julian Hawthorne - 1887 - 266 pages
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 91

1866 - 848 pages
...Of one import, of varied tone ; They chai t the bliss of their abodes To man impri.-oned in his own. Ever the words of the gods resound, But the porches...in this low life's round Are unsealed that he may htar. Wandering voices in the air, And murmurs in the wold, Speak what I cannot declare, Yet cannot...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18

1866 - 808 pages
...Of one import, of varied tone ; They chant the bliss of their abodes To man imprisoned in his own. Ever the words of the gods resound, But the porches...this low life's round Are unsealed that he may hear. Wandering voices in the air, And murmurs in the wold, Speak what I cannot declare, Yet cannot all withhold....
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May-day, and Other Pieces

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 226 pages
...Of one import, of varied tone ; They chant the bliss of their abodes To man imprisoned in his own. Ever the words of the gods resound ; But the porches...this low life's round Are unsealed, that he may hear. Wandering voices in the air, And murmurs in the wold, Speak what I cannot declare, Yet cannot all withhold....
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Selected Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...gods, Of one import, of varied tone; They chant the bliss of their abodes To man imprisoned in his own. Ever the words of the gods resound ; But the porches...this low life's round Are unsealed, that he may hear. Wandering voices in the air, And murmurs in the wold, Speak what I cannot declare, Yet cannot all withhold....
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Essays: The poet. Experience. Character. Manners. Gifts. Nature. Politics ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 386 pages
...world was all torches That suddenly caught the flame. "May Morning," Poems, Appendix. Page 8, note 2. Ever the words of the gods resound ; But the porches...this low life's round Are unsealed, that he may hear. "My Garden," Poems. Page y, note I. The allusion here is probably to Tennyson, who had not come to...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ..., Volume 4

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 516 pages
...gods, Of one import, of varied tone; They chant the bliss of their abodes To man imprisoned in his own. Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches...this low life's round Are unsealed, that he may hear. Wandering voices in the air, And murmurs in the wold, Speak what I cannot declare, Yet cannot all withhold....
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 382 pages
...was all torches That suddenly caught the flame. " May Morning," P serns, Appendix. F*ge 8, note 2. Ever the words of the gods resound ; But the porches...this low life's round Are unsealed, that he may hear. "My Garden," Poemt. Page p, note I. The allusion here is probably to Tennyson, who had not come to...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 2d series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 380 pages
...world was all torches That suddenly caught the flame. " May Morning," Poems, Appendix. Page S, note 2. Ever the words of the gods resound ; But the porches...this low life's round Are unsealed, that he may hear. "My Garden," Poems. Page 9, note I. The allusion here is probably to Tennyson, who had not come to...
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Education, Volume 41

1921 - 744 pages
...wood-bell's peal and cry, Write in a book the morning's prime, Or match with words that tender sky? Ever the words of the gods resound ; But the porches...this low life's round Are unsealed, that he may hear. But the meanings cleave to the lake, Cannot be carried in book or urn; Go thy ways now, come later...
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May-day, and Other Pieces

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1881 - 224 pages
...Of one import, of varied tone ; They chant the bliss of their abodes To man imprisoned in his own. Ever the words of the gods resound ; But the porches...this low life's round Are unsealed, that he may hear. Wandering voices in the air, And murmurs in the wold, Speak what I cannot declare, Yet cannot all withhold....
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