As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burrs; I inhaled the violet's breath; Around me stood the oaks and firs; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of... Every Day with Emersonby Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 99 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity ; Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the...senses stole ; I yielded myself to the perfect whole. THE PROBLEM. I LIKE a church ; I like a cowl ; I love a prophet of the soul ; And on my heart monastic... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 332 pages
...Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity; Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the...senses stole ; I yielded myself to the perfect whole. THE PROBLEM. I LIKE a church ; I like a cowl ; I love a prophet of the soul ; And on my heart monastic... | |
| Sidney Lanier - 1883 - 312 pages
...Pine cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity ; Again I saw, again I heard The rolling river, the...senses stole, I yielded myself to the perfect whole." But again, here Mrs. Browning, speaking by the mouth of Adam in The Drama of Exile, so far identifies... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 pages
...Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity; Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the...senses stole ; I yielded myself to the perfect whole. THE PROBLEM. I LIKE a church; I like a cowl; I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic... | |
| Joseph H. Head - 1884 - 498 pages
...Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity ; Again I saw, again I heard. The rolling river, the...senses stole — I yielded myself to the perfect whole. The Present. Adelaide .fl. (Procter. O not crouch to-day, and worship The old Past whose life is fled... | |
| Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pages
...Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity: Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the...senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole. From USES OF GREAT MEN. I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which... | |
| Manchester Literary Club - 1884 - 536 pages
...Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity ; Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the morning bird ; — Beauly through my senses stole ; I yielded myself to the perfect whole. This doctrine of Beauty... | |
| Leigh Hadley Irvine - 1886 - 56 pages
...Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity; Again I saw. again I heard, The rolling river, the...senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole. Another little poem, entitled "Friendship," is admired by the lovers of Emerson. The philosophy in... | |
| Mary Wilder Tileston - 1886 - 204 pages
...Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity ; Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the...senses stole ; I yielded myself to the perfect whole. RW Enr.RSo» MORNING AND EVENING. MORNING. " His compassions fail not. They are new every morning."... | |
| Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1882 - 592 pages
...behind with the games of youth.' As I spoke, beneath my feet, The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath : Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the morning bird." What he called " arid metaphysics " had slender chance with such a man : as Goethe, with more faculty... | |
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