 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
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin, Wilford Merton Aikin - 1922 - 336 pages
...(1803-1882) 57. The Concord Philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson, wrote the following lines as early as 1831, — The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk...dialogue divine; And the poet who overhears Some random words they say Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey. As early as that date, when Emerson... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - 1922 - 1032 pages
...bring the throbbing heart. Then you shall find them full of solicitation, then you shall know that— The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk...long reach of the old seashore With dialogue divine. In the main inarticulate, their talk is not unmeaning. Nature and man nod to each other, like old,... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1923 - 570 pages
...work is expressed in " Fragments on the Poet and the Poetic Gift," especially in the opening stanza : The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk...Is the fated man of men, Whom the ages must obey. Other notable lyrics of. this class are " The Humble Bee," "Rhodora," "Each and All," "Fable," "The... | |
 | Norman Foerster - 1923 - 362 pages
...bring the throbbing heart." Then you shall find them full of solicitation, then you shall know that "The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk...long reach of the old seashore With dialogue divine." In the main inarticulate, their talk is not unmeaning. Nature and man nod to each other, like old,... | |
 | Herbert Brown - 1923 - 292 pages
...The vats shall overflow." Theirs were the mystic words that Emerson listened to when he wrote : ' ' The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk in the shaken pine, And fill the reach of the old seashore And the poet who overhears Some random word they say Is the fated man of... | |
 | Louise Dudley - 1928 - 416 pages
...given for that; God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out. BROWNING, Fra Lippo Lippi The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk...pine, And fill the long reach of the old seashore With a dialogue divine; And the poet who overhears Some random word they say Is the fated man of men Whom... | |
 | 1897 - 962 pages
...seeming in themselves, however, inexplicable. Charles Egbert Craddock. THE STONY PATHWAY TO THE WOODS. " up in one paragraph by John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusett THE way to the woods was by an old road that wound around between the rocks to the top of the ledge,... | |
 | Elizabeth R. Epperly - 1993 - 292 pages
...ambivalent message: The gods talk in the breath of the wold, They talk in the shaken pine. And they fill the reach of the old seashore With dialogue divine; And the poet who overhears One random word they say Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey. (EC 10) Can he be suggesting... | |
 | 1897 - 1218 pages
...seeming in themselves, however, inexplicable. Charles Egbert Craddock. THE STONY PATHWAY TO THE WOODS. - The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk in the shaken pine." THE way to the woods was by an old road that wound around between the rocks to the top of the ledge,... | |
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