I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough ; I brought him home, in his nest, at even; He sings the song, but it pleases not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky; — He sang to my ear, — they sang to my... An Emerson Calendar - Page 53by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 117 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 622 pages
...hight ; Nor knowest thou what argument All are needed by each one — Nothing is fair or yood alone! I thought the sparrow's note from Heaven, Singing...song, but it pleases not now ; For I did not bring him home the river and sky; He sang to my eai — they sang to my eye. II. The delicate shells lay... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 516 pages
...Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing...home, in his nest, at even ; He sings the song, but it cheers not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky; — He sang to my ear, — they sang to... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each oue; Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing...home, in his nest, at even ; He sings the song, but it cheers not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky; — He sang to my ear, — they sang to... | |
| Mary Potter Thacher Higginson - 1876 - 258 pages
...forest are wanting. And the poor little strangers remind one of Emerson's captured sparrow : — " He sings the song, but it pleases not now, For I did...; — He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye." Now most of our native flowers may be easily coaxed back to the woods and groves, and we have many... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 618 pages
...life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough ; 1 brought him home, in his nest, at even ; He sings the song, but it pleases not now, For 1 did not... | |
| American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...life to thy neighbour's creed has lent. All are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing...and sky ; He sang to my ear ; they sang to my eye. The delicate shells lay on the shore ; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel... | |
| William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 pages
...to thy neighbor's creed has lent. 6. All are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good alone. 7. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing...and sky ; He sang to my ear — they sang to my eye. 8. The delicate shells lay on the shore ; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one — Nothing is fair or good alón«. 1 1 thought tlic sparrow's note from heaven. Singing at dawn on the...and sky: He sang to my ear — they sang to my eye. The delicate shells lay on the shore ; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel... | |
| Helen A Hertz - 1879 - 292 pages
...life to thy neighbour's creed has lent. All are needed by each one — Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing...and sky : He sang to my ear— they sang to my eye. The delicate shells lay on the shore ; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel... | |
| National Sunday school union - 1881 - 600 pages
...the whole picture without mutilating the symmetry of its beauty and spoiling its glorious harmony : "I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing...bough ; I brought him home in his nest at even; He snug the song, but it pleases not now, For I could not bring home the river and sky. He sang to my... | |
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