 I covet truth; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth:' As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burrs; I inhaled the violet's breath; Around me stood the oaks...  Poems - Page 8by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2007 - 328 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...the violet's breath; Around me stood the oaks and firs ; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground; 45 Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and...morning bird ; — Beauty through my senses stole ; 50 I yielded myself to the perfect whole. FORERUNNERS. LONG I followed happy guides, I could never... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...breath ; Around me stood the oaks and firs : Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground. Over me soar'd the eternal sky Full of light and of deity ; Again...the morning bird : Beauty through my senses stole, — I yielded myself, to the perfect whole. "GOOD-BYE, PROUD WORLD!" Goon-BTE, proud world ! I'm going... | |
 | Henry Clapp - 1846 - 238 pages
...firs; Pine cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Above me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and Deity ; Again I saw, again I heard The rolling river,...morning bird ; — Beauty through my senses stole, I yielded myself to the perfect whole. THE DISMAL SWAMP. A friend informs us, says the Madisonian,... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...firs ; Pine cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Above me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and deity; Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river,...morning bird; — Beauty through my senses stole, I yielded myself to the perfect whole. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. HENCE, all you vain delights, As short... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pages
...club-moss burs ; I inhaled the violet's breath ; Around me stood the oaks and firs ; 3V I Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Over me soared the...the morning bird ; Beauty through my senses stole — I yielded myself to the perfect whole. His admired poem on the Rhodora commences thus : — In... | |
 | R. C. J. - 1866 - 304 pages
...firs ; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Above me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and deity. Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river,...the morning bird ; Beauty through my senses stole, I yielded myself to the perfect whole. M AN. ' RW EMERSON. MY God, I heard this day That none doth... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 pages
...curled its pretty wreath, I inhaled the violet's breath; Around me stood the oaks and firs; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground; Over me soared the eternal...the morning bird; Beauty through my senses stole— I yielded myself to the perfect WHOLE. EXERCISE CLXXVI. HOMER, the great father of epic poetry, was... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1871 - 484 pages
...the club-moss burrs ; I inhaled the violet's breath ; Around me stood the oaks and firs ; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Over me soared the...river, the morning bird; Beauty through my senses stole — I yielded myself to the perfect whole. RALPH W. EMERSON. Qua Carsum Ventus. AS ships, becalmed... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1872 - 432 pages
...the club -moss burrs; I inhaled the violet's breath; Around me stood the oaks and firs ; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground; Over me soared the eternal...the morning bird ;— Beauty through my senses stole ; I yielded myself to the perfect whole. LXXIV— INVENTIVE GENIUS AND LABOR. IN some respects, our... | |
 | Poems - 1872 - 362 pages
...the club-moss burrs ; I inhaled the violet's breath : Around me stood the oaks and firs ; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and deity. Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the morning bird : Beauty through my senses stole... | |
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