And, chiefest prize, found I true liberty In the glad home plain-dealing Nature gave. The polite found me impolite ; the great Would mortify me, but in vain ; for still I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me. Poems - Page 150by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 368 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...impolite ; the great Would mortify me, but in vain; for still I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me. All my hurts My garden spade can...: ' Dost love our manners ? Canst thou silent lie ? Caust thou, thy pride forgot, like nature pass Into the winter night's extinguished mood? Canst thou... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 380 pages
...disappointed social ambition recalls his verses in " Musketaquid," though his troubles were not these: — All my hurts My garden spade can heal. A woodland...wild-rose, or rock-loving columbine, Salve my worst wounds. Page Ij3, note 2. The ascension to a high plane, which characterizes the end of the essays, here appears... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 386 pages
...disappointed social ambition recalls his verses in " Musketaquid," though his troubles were not these: — All my hurts My garden spade can heal. A woodland...wild-rose, or rock-loving columbine, Salve my worst wounds. Page IJ3, note 2. The ascension to a high plane, which characterizes the end of the essays, here appears... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 382 pages
...disappointed social ambition recalls hi» verses in " Musket aqu id," though his troubles were not these: — All my hurts My garden spade can heal. A woodland...wild-rose, or rock-loving columbine, Salve my worst wounds. Page 1fj, note 2. The ascension to a high plane, which characterizes the end of the essays, here appears... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 292 pages
...impolite; the great Would mortify me, but in vain; for still I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me. All my hurts My garden spade can...extinguished mood ? Canst thou shine now, then darkle, A ud being latent feel thyself no less ? As when the all-worshipped moon attracts the eye, The river,... | |
| Amos Bronson Alcott - 1882 - 98 pages
...impolite j the great Would mortify me, but in vain; for still I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me. All my hurts My garden spade can...wild-rose, or rock-loving columbine, Salve my worst wounds. of both knew how to insinuate into their text and talk, without overstepping the bounds of social or... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 pages
...impolite ; the great Would mortify me, but in vain ; for still I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me. All my hurts My garden spade can...: ' Dost love our manners ? Canst thou silent lie t Canst thou, thy pride forgot, like nature pass Into the winter night's extinguished mood ? Canst... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...impolite ; the great Would mortify me, but in vain ; for still I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me. All my hurts My garden spade can...wounds. For thus the wood-gods murmured in my ear : Canst thou, thy pride forgot, like nature pass Into the winter night's extinguished mood ? Canst... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 pages
...impolite; the great Would mortify me, but in vain ; for still I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me. All my hurts My garden spade can...wounds. For thus the wood-gods murmured in my ear: Canst thou, thy pride forgot, like nature pass Into the winter night's extinguished mood? Canst thou... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 332 pages
...impolite ; the great Would mortify me, but in vain ; for still I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me. All my hurts My garden spade can...wounds. For thus the wood-gods murmured in my ear : Canst thon, thy pride forgot, like nature pass Into the winter night's extinguished mood ? Canst... | |
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