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" 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 Emerson
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 99 pages
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More Borrowings: A Compilation of Healthful Thoughts from Great Authors

1893 - 106 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. — Emerson. A consideration of petty circumstances is the tomb of great things. —Voltaire. It is...
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Must Greek Go?

John Kennedy (of Buffalo.) - 1894 - 76 pages
...soul that o'er him planned ; " # # -X- * " O'er me soared the eternal sky, Pull of light and deity ; Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the...senses stole ; I yielded myself to the perfect whole." But the thought enforced by the " perfect whole " is that a superficial philosophy has been mis-reading...
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Favorite Poems: Selected from English and American Authors

1894 - 360 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 ; Beauty through my senses stole ; — 1 yielded myself to the perfect whole. THE PRESENT. ADELAIDE A. PROCTER. Do not crouch to-day,...
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 356 pages
...lay on the ground ; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity ; Again I saw, again 1 heard, The rolling river, the morning bird ; — Beauty...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...
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Topical Notes on American Authors

Lucy Tappan - 1896 - 350 pages
...neighbor's creed hath lent. All are needed by each one — Nothing is fair or good alone. EACH AND ALL. BEAUTY through my senses stole — I yielded myself to the perfect whole. Into. IF eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. THE RHODORA. NOT from...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 13

Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 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 RHODORA ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE Is THE FLOWER ? IN MAY, when sea- winds pierced our solitudes, I...
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Poems and Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 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 KHODORA:* ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER? IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I...
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Lincoln Literary Collection, Designed for School-room and Family Circle

John Piersol McCaskey - 1897 - 592 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. 60.— OGG, THE SON OF BEORL. GEORGE ELIOT. We must enter the town of St. Ogg's, — that venerable...
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The English Novel: A Study in the Development of Personality

Sidney Lanier - 1908 - 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 morning bird ; Beauty through all my senses stole, I yielded myself to the perfect whole." But again, here Mrs. Browning, speaking...
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Report of the Council of Public Instruction of the North-West Territories of ...

Northwest Territories Council of Public Instruction - 1897 - 628 pages
...truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat." 5. Describe the picture that causes the poet to say — "Beauty through my senses stole — I yielded myself to the perfect whole." C. When tho ceremony was finished, the Scottish Knight looked at the gallery, and bent his head to...
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