 Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb.' As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime: 'Lowly faithful, banish fear,...  The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 312by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904Full view - About this book
 | 1875 - 718 pages
...his epitaph, nothing higher or wiser is uttered : — " As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim me to the storm of time; I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice nt eve obeyed at prime : Lowly fmlhful, banish foar; Right onward drive unharm'd; The port, well worth... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 516 pages
...nerveless reins, — Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb.' As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed.' DIRGE. KNOWS he who tills this lonely field, To reap its scanty corn, What mystic fruit his acres yield... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...nerveless reins, — Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb.' As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed." DIEGE. KNOWS he who tills this lonely field, To reap its scanty corn, What mystic fruit his acres yield... | |
 | 1899 - 1076 pages
...State of North Dakota, the other of the two being his companion, John Tanner, who was also a Baptist. As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed." — Emerson, Please look at the mailing label on this paper, and see how your personal account with... | |
 | American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...nerveless reins, — Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb." As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to..." Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unarmed; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed." THE debt is paid, The... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1879 - 80 pages
...gracious age in which he could have applied to himself most fittingly the lofty lines of Emerson : " As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...worth the cruise is near, And every wave is charmed ! ' " It is more than time that my voice were stilled, but I linger and linger, for when these words... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1900 - 460 pages
...seldom accomplished ; I praise him none the less now that the shore for which he sailed is in view. The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed. LITTLE BROWN MITTENS. By Alice DO Green-wood. Little brown mittens worn and old, Vain are your fleecy... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1881 - 224 pages
...nerveless reins, — Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb. Amid the gladiators, halt and numb.' As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed.' THE PAST. mHE debt is paid, The verdict said, The Furies laid, The plague is stayed, All fortunes made... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1881 - 224 pages
...nerveless reins, — Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb. Amid the gladiators, halt and numb.' As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...eve obeyed at prime : ' Lowly faithful, banish fear, Eight onward driye unharmed ; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed.'... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 416 pages
...sung this faith and trust. It is a worthy last word of a poet so true, faithful, and pure as. he. " As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder, reef, and sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime : ' Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive... | |
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