...elements of the world as though they were unsubstantial dreams." 1 Page //, note I. From the Timatus. Page 58, note I. The gods talk in the breath of the...Poet," Poems, Appendix. See also the poem " My Garden." Page 58, note 2. Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book III., Canto XI. Page 59, note I. From the Thetetetus....

...forward and far, Through worlds and races and terms and times Saw musical order and pairing rhymes.2 II The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk...say Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey : One who having nectar drank Into blissful orgies sank ; He takes no mark of night or day, He cannot...

...forward and far, Through worlds and races and terms and times Saw musical order and pairing rhymes.2 II The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk...say Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey : One who having nectar drank Into blissful orgies sank ; He takes no mark of night or day, He cannot...

...Methought like water-haunting birds Divers or dippers were his words, And idle clowns beside the mere And the poet who overhears Some random word they say Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey : One who having nectar drank Into blissful orgies sank ; He takes no mark of night or day, He cannot...

...intrusion of the bustling world effectually " Put her sweet gammer dreams to rout,'' UPON THE WOOD ROAD THE gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk in the shaken pine. EMERSON. n UPON THE WOOD KOAD THE way to the woods on this Island was by an old road that wound around...

...May. Page 30, note I. Compare in "The Poet," in the Appendix to the Poims, 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...

...Time hath his work to do and we have ours. 1830-60. 18S3. FRAGMENTS ON THE POET AND THE POETIC GIFT THE gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk...the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey. THE sun set, but set not his hope : — Stars rose, his faith was earlier up : Fixed on the enormous galaxy,...

...POEM carries some revelation of truth from the are written poet to other men. Emerson says, that " The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk...reach of the old seashore With dialogue divine ; " and that the poet who overhears one of their words becomes the master of men, because of what he has thus...

...Time hath his work to do and we have ours. 1830-GO. 1883. FRAGMENTS ON THE POET AND THE POETIC GIFT THE gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk...long reach of the old seashore With dialogue divine; Some random word they say And the poet who overhears Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey....

...the gods talked, apparently " in the breath of the woods ; " and we have Emerson's word for it that " the poet who overhears Some random word they say Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey." When the Storys were not in Florence there were always possibilities that the Brownings might be in...