 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 - 1904 - 574 pages
...lay on the ground ; ^V Over me soared the eternal sky, X 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... | |
 | 1904 - 118 pages
...gossamer clouds is something. If at the close of such a day one could say in the words of Emerson, — "Beauty through my senses stole, — I yielded myself to the perfect whole." would it not be enough ? But as the sunshine awakens life in the chrysalis until at last it bursts... | |
 | Bliss Carman - 1904 - 332 pages
...ideal and fact, wish and performance; but from a profound inexplicable content is only able to say: " Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole." I do not mean to speak in fables; I only refer to those experiences of the magic of nature which we... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1891 - 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." That which distinguishes Greek art from all others and gives it its immortality, rendering endeavor... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone. (1. 5 — 12) 19 , merrily I flow, OI may be an old foul river but I have plenty of go. (1. 50-51) AA; AmPP; AnAmPo; AWP; BLPL; NAAL-1; NOBA; OHFP; OxBA; TAP; WGRP Experience 20 The lords... | |
 | Elisa New - 1993 - 294 pages
...in a landscape not tinctured by poetic will, that will, knowing too much for its own good, prevails: "Again I saw, Again I heard, / The rolling river,...senses stole; / I yielded myself to the perfect whole." Lapsing in the last line to a possessive and totalizing "All," this "all" stills the poetic movement... | |
 | Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 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. SEA-SHORE I heard or seemed to hear the chiding Sea Say, Pilgrim, why so late and slow to come? Am... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 pages
...stood the oaks and firs; 45 Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground, Over me soared the eternal sky, Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the morning bird; — 50 Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole. 1839 THE HUMBLE-BEE Burly,... | |
 | Eric L. Haralson, John Hollander - 1998 - 598 pages
...his feet, hears the morning songbird, and becomes aware of the context of forest and sky and river: "Beauty through my senses stole; / I yielded myself to the perfect whole." The perfect whole here would seem to be a unity of thought and impression, of the individual with the... | |
 | 1883 - 1002 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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