 And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I live and write; I once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing: O my only light, It cannot be That I am he, On whom thy tempests fell all night.  Works - Page 488by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Wood - 1892 - 174 pages
...a nobler poet, George Herbert. His health had broken down, and he had lost all power of song. But " Now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I live...once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing : O my only light, It cannot be That I am he On whom thy tempests fell all night." This then is the... | |
 | 1893 - 352 pages
...two years of his life — and this verse points to some pause in pain during his latest hours — " And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I...more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing." The Country Parson was completed in 1632; this must have absorbed the good man's thoughts and time... | |
 | John Jeremiah Daniell - 1893 - 348 pages
...two years of his life — and this verse points to some pause in pain during his latest hours — " And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I...more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing." The Country Parson was completed in 1632 ; this must have absorbed the good man's thoughts and time... | |
 | 1894 - 136 pages
...they have blown ; Where they together All the hard weather, Dead to the world, keep house unknown. And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I...once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing : O my only light, It cannot be That I am he On whom thy tempests fell at night. HERBERT. 60 "IS IT,... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1894 - 376 pages
...is not the zone Where all things burn, When thou dost turn, And the least frown of thine is shown ? And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I...once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing : O my only Light, It cannot be That I am he On whom thy tempests fell at night. These are thy wonders,... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - 1896 - 536 pages
...is not the zone Where all things burn, When tliou dost turn, And the least frown of thine is shown ? And now in age I bud again : After so many deaths...once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing. 0 my only Light! It cannot be That I am he On whom thy tempests fell all night! These are thy wonders,... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - 1896 - 378 pages
...or of affliction h frequent in Vaughan. Herbert, too, has it, especially in The Flower (p. 208) : " And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I...once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing : O, my only Light, It cannot be That I am he On whom Thy tempests fell all night." All tJu ear\.tK\.... | |
 | Thomas Costley - 1897 - 404 pages
...growing and groaning thither ; Nor doth my flow'r want a spring shower ; My sins and I joining together. And now in age I bud again — After so many deaths...once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing. Oh, my only light, It cannot bo that I am he On whom Thy tempests fell all night ! These are Thy wonders,... | |
 | Thomas Costley - 1897 - 378 pages
...growing and groaning thither ; Nor doth my flow'r want a spring shower ; My sins and I joining together. And now in age I bud again — After so many deaths...once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing. Oh, my only light, It cannot be that I am he On whom Thy tempests fell all night ! These are Thy wonders,... | |
 | Maud Going - 1899 - 434 pages
...suggested by the story of the awakening April woods. CHAPTER IV THE FLOWERING OF THE FOREST-TREES " And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I...once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing. O my Only Light, It cannot be That I am he On whom Thy tempests fell all night." — George Herbert.... | |
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