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
| Clara Bancroft Beatley - 1903 - 224 pages
...whene'er thou wilt : 'Tis thy rich stirrup cup to me ; I'll drink it down right smilingly. SIDNEY L.VNIEK. As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time, I mau the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime : ' Lowly faithful, banish fear,... | |
| David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1903 - 570 pages
...that he loved so well, in the cone ing lines of what there is every r> to believe was his last poem. As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time, I I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at pr " Lowly faithful, banish fear,... | |
| Clara Bancroft Beatley - 1903 - 244 pages
...rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime : ' Lowly faithful, banish fear, Eight onward drive unharmed ; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed.' Terminus. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. * Poems of Sidney Lanier. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons. Copyright... | |
| Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin - 1903 - 140 pages
...even ninety. Mrs. Cook closed by applying to Dr. Hamlin the effective lines of Emerson's "Terminus :" "As the bird trims her to the gale I trim myself to the storm of rime. I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve, obeyed at prime: Lowly faithful, banish... | |
| 1903 - 738 pages
...well-known He builded better than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew. And the less known The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed. He is the fearless poet of "The Problem" and "Good-bye, Proud World ;" he is the marvellously subtle... | |
| 1953 - 1224 pages
...Arnold's melancholy "Growing Old," but in the masterful temper of Emerson's familiar trumpet-call : As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed." Human affairs would be much more happily conducted if it were equally in the power of man to be silent... | |
| James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 810 pages
...approach of age, and in 1866 wrote the noble poem " Terminus. " It is time to be old, To take in sail ; I trim myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder,...the sail. Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime." 346 Nevertheless, in the following year he brought out "May-Day,"* long poem, the freshest and most... | |
| Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 pages
...lose life's zest, Because the road's last turn will be the best. Henry van Dyke 5M As the bird trims to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time, I...worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed." Ral-ph Waldo Emerson m Let us see to it ... that our lives, like jewels of great price, be noteworthy... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...WiR Merlin POETRY QUOTATIONS Empson Terminus 46 It is time to be old, To take in sail:- (1. 1-2) 47 As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed." (1. 33—40) AA; AmPP; AWP; FPL; NOBA; OxBA; PoEL-4; PoLF; TAP Two Rivers 48 Thy summer voice, Musketaquit,... | |
| Various - 1996 - 496 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 the storm of time, 35 I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime: "Lowly faithful, banish... | |
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