The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk in the shaken pine, And fill the long reach of the old seashore With dialogue divine; And the poet who overhears Some random word they say Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey... The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 316by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903Full view - About this book
| Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 pages
...Margaret and Mr. Emerson towards his home, and I towards mine. . . . THE POET. Ralph Waldo Emerson. THE gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk...say Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey. MAUD MULLER. John Greenleaf Whittier. MAUD MULLER, on a summer's day, Raked the meadow sweet with hay.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 pages
...Yet cannot all withhold. ' When the shadow fell on the lake, The whirlwind in ripples wrote 41-48. " The Gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk...fated man of men Whom the ages must obey." The Poet, II, ix, 255. Cf. Poet, iii, 13. 45. Pan could intoxicate by the strain of his shepherd's pipe, •... | |
| Harry Pratt Judson, Ida Catherine Bender, Ida C. Bender - 1900 - 530 pages
...Sail's"! na ry : bloody ; cruel. A na huac' (wSk) : the plateau of Mexico. The Poet BT RALPH WALDO EMERSON The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk...pine, And fill the long reach of the old seashore 10 With dialogue divine ; 236 And the poet who overhears Some random word they say Is the fated man... | |
| Harry Pratt Judson, Ida Catherine Bender - 1901 - 268 pages
...the breath of the woods, They talk in the shaken pine, And fill the long reach of the old seashore 10 With dialogue divine ; And the poet who overhears...the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey. The Landing of Columbus in the New World and his Return to Spain FROM " THE LIFE OF COLUMBUS," BY WASHINGTON... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 396 pages
...the world as though they were unsubstantial dreams." ' Page 57, note I. From the Timaus. Page 5<?, note I. The gods talk in the breath of the woods....Poet," Poems, Appendix. See also the poem " My Garden." Page^S, note 2. Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book IIL, Canto XI. Page 59, note I. From the Thetetetus.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 392 pages
...elements of the world as though they were unsubstantial dreams." ' Page 57, note I. From the Timifus. Pog' 58, note I. The gods talk in the breath of the woods,...of men Whom the ages must obey. " The Poet," Poems, Appendir. See also the poem " My Garden." Ptge^S, nut 2. Spenser's Fttrit Qmttmt, Book ID., Canto XI.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 376 pages
...opposite the Old Manse, his grandfather's house, see " Fragments on Nature " in the Poems. Page 25, note I. The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk in the shaken pine, etc. " The Poet," Poems, Appendix. Page 26, note I. Thee, gliding through the sea of form. " Ode to... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 pages
...opposite the Old Manse, his grandfather's house, see " Fragments on Nature" in the Poems. Page 25, note I. The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk in the shaken pine, etc. "The Poet," Poems, Appendix. Page 26, note I. Thee, gliding through the sea of form. " Ode to... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1917 - 466 pages
...May. P"gf JO, note i. Compare in "The Poet," in the Appendix to the Poems, the verses beginning, — The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk in the shaken pine. Page 31, note I. He elsewhere quotes Plato as saying, " The man who is master of himself knocks in... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 472 pages
...May. Page 30, note I. Compare in "The Poet," in the Appendix to the Poems, the verses beginning, — The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk in the shaken pine. Page 31, note I. He elsewhere quotes Plato as saying, "The man who is master of himself knocks in vain... | |
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