 I heard a poet answer Aloud and cheerfully, "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 man harries Is love of the Best; Yawns...  The Arena - Page 3271908Full view - About this book
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1841 - 564 pages
...Who has mixed my boy's bread ? Who, with sadness and madness, Has turned the manchild'a head ? ' " I heard a poet answer Aloud and cheerfully, " Say...Dragon Lit by rays from the Blest ; The Lethe of Nature Can't trance him again, Whose soul sees the Perfect Which his eyes seek in vain. " Profounder, profounder... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...Who has mixed my boy's bread? Who, with sadness and madness, Has turned the man-child's head ? ' " I heard a poet answer, Aloud and cheerfully, " Say...Dragon, Lit by rays from the Blest. The Lethe of nature Can't trance him again, Whose soul sees the perfect, Which his eyes seek in vain. " Profounder, profounder,... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1847 - 570 pages
...Who has mixed my boy's bread ? Who, with sadness and madness, Has turned the man-child's head ? " ' " I heard a poet answer, Aloud and cheerfully, ' Say...Dragon, Lit by rays from the Blest. The Lethe of nature Can't trance him again, Whose soul sees the Perfect, Which his eyes seek in vain. " ' Profounder, profounder,... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1847 - 576 pages
...? Who has mixed my boy's bread ? Who, with sadness and madness, Has turned the man-child's head ? " I heard a poet answer, Aloud and cheerfully, ' Say...Dragon, Lit by rays from the Blest. The Lethe of nature Can't trance him again, Whose soul sees the Perfect, Which his eyes seek in vain. " ' Profounder, profounder,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...turned the manchild's head ?'B 2 I heard a poet answer Aloud and cheerfully, ' Say on, sweet Sphynx! thy dirges Are pleasant songs• to me. Deep love...Dragon Lit by rays from the Blest. The Lethe of Nature Can't trance him again, Whose soul sees the Perfect, Which his eyes seek in vain. Profounder, profounder,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1847 - 560 pages
...as intelligibly as forwards, and no mortal can trace the slightest connection between the verses. " The fiend that man harries Is love of the Best ; Yawns...Dragon, Lit by rays from the Blest. The Lethe of nature Can't trance him again, Whose soul sees the perfect, Which his eyes seek in vain. " Profounder, profounder,... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pages
...superior to the events of his own history, so the joy which he has attained is always unsatisfactory : " The fiend that man harries Is love of the Best ; Yawns...Dragon, Lit by rays from the Blest. The Lethe of nature Can't trance him again, Whose soul sees the perfect, Which his eyes seek in vain. " Profounder, profounder,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...boy's bread ? Who, with sadness and madness, Has turn'd the manchild's headl* " I heard a poet answer1 Aloud and cheerfully, " Say on, sweet Sphinx !—...Dragon Lit by rays from the Blest; The Lethe of Nature Can't trance him again, Whose soul sees the Perfect Which his eyes seek in vain. " Profcunder, profounder... | |
 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1891 - 900 pages
...entire selves in supreme trust upon the Invisible and Everlasting. Emerson sings : "Deep love lies under These pictures of time; They fade in the light Of their meaning sublime. " " He whose heart has not been pierced with a diamond, " says a Persian poet, " is still not worthy... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1854 - 426 pages
...professed for two thousand years, but which it has never understood. Hear my favorite poet : — ' The Fiend that man harries Is love of the Best ; Yawns...Dragon Lit by rays from the Blest ; The Lethe of nature Can't trance him again, Whose soul sees the Perfect, Which his eyes seek in vain. ' Profounder, profounder... | |
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