The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 9Printed at the Riverside Press, 1904 |
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Page 14
... heads , The seraphs frowned from myrtle - beds ; Seemed to the holy festival The rash word boded ill to all ; The balance - beam of Fate was bent ; The bounds of good and ill were rent ; Strong Hades could not keep his own , But all ...
... heads , The seraphs frowned from myrtle - beds ; Seemed to the holy festival The rash word boded ill to all ; The balance - beam of Fate was bent ; The bounds of good and ill were rent ; Strong Hades could not keep his own , But all ...
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... head for shame . Our brothers have not read it , Not one has found the key ; And henceforth we are comforted , We are but such as they.2 Still , still the secret presses ; The nearing clouds draw down ; The crimson morning flames into ...
... head for shame . Our brothers have not read it , Not one has found the key ; And henceforth we are comforted , We are but such as they.2 Still , still the secret presses ; The nearing clouds draw down ; The crimson morning flames into ...
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... head ? ' I heard a poet answer Aloud and cheerfully , 9992 " Say on , sweet Sphinx ! thy dirges Are pleasant songs to me . Deep love lieth under These pictures of time ; They fade in the light of Their meaning sublime . " The fiend that ...
... head ? ' I heard a poet answer Aloud and cheerfully , 9992 " Say on , sweet Sphinx ! thy dirges Are pleasant songs to me . Deep love lieth under These pictures of time ; They fade in the light of Their meaning sublime . " The fiend that ...
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... head . Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame ; " Who telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am . " ALPHONSO OF CASTILE I , ALPHONSO , live and learn , Seeing Nature go astern . Things deteriorate in kind ; Lemons ...
... head . Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame ; " Who telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am . " ALPHONSO OF CASTILE I , ALPHONSO , live and learn , Seeing Nature go astern . Things deteriorate in kind ; Lemons ...
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... heads , And blessed the monument of the man of flowers , Which breathes his sweet fame through the northern bowers . He heard , when in the grove , at intervals , With sudden roar the aged pine - tree falls , - One crash , the death ...
... heads , And blessed the monument of the man of flowers , Which breathes his sweet fame through the northern bowers . He heard , when in the grove , at intervals , With sudden roar the aged pine - tree falls , - One crash , the death ...
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