The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 9Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Love works at the centre , Heart - heaving alway ; Forth speed the strong pulses To the borders of day . " Dull Sphinx , Jove keep thy five wits ; Thy sight is growing blear ; Rue , myrrh and cummin for the Sphinx ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Love works at the centre , Heart - heaving alway ; Forth speed the strong pulses To the borders of day . " Dull Sphinx , Jove keep thy five wits ; Thy sight is growing blear ; Rue , myrrh and cummin for the Sphinx ...
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... his face , ( Thy heart saith , Brother , go thy ways ! None shall ask thee what thou doest , Or care a rush for what thou knowest , Or listen when thou repliest , Or remember where thou liest , Or how thy supper DESTINY.
... his face , ( Thy heart saith , Brother , go thy ways ! None shall ask thee what thou doest , Or care a rush for what thou knowest , Or listen when thou repliest , Or remember where thou liest , Or how thy supper DESTINY.
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... heart Each joy the mountain dales impart ; It seemed that Nature could not raise A plant in any secret place , In quaking bog , on snowy hill , Beneath the grass that shades the rill , Under the snow , between the rocks , In damp fields ...
... heart Each joy the mountain dales impart ; It seemed that Nature could not raise A plant in any secret place , In quaking bog , on snowy hill , Beneath the grass that shades the rill , Under the snow , between the rocks , In damp fields ...
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... heart him a hermit made , So long he roved at will the boundless shade . The timid it concerns to ask their way , And fear what foe in caves and swamps can stray , To make no step until the event is known , And ills to come as evils ...
... heart him a hermit made , So long he roved at will the boundless shade . The timid it concerns to ask their way , And fear what foe in caves and swamps can stray , To make no step until the event is known , And ills to come as evils ...
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... heart of all the scene ; On him the sun looked more serene ; To hill and cloud his face was known , - It seemed the likeness of their own ; They knew by secret sympathy The public child of earth and sky . ' You ask , ' he said , ' what ...
... heart of all the scene ; On him the sun looked more serene ; To hill and cloud his face was known , - It seemed the likeness of their own ; They knew by secret sympathy The public child of earth and sky . ' You ask , ' he said , ' what ...
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