 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
 | Apsley Cherry-Garrard - 1922 - 364 pages
...provided for. — R. ScoTT.1 1 Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 605-607. CHAPTER XIX NEVER AGAIN And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I...once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing. O my onely light, It cannot be That I am he On whom thy tempests fell all night. HERBERT. I SHALL inevitably... | |
 | Thomas Earle Welby - 1925 - 254 pages
...you and your wife By the fountains of life. Such the vision to me Appeared on the sea. William Blake. 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.... | |
 | L. C. Knights - 1981 - 246 pages
...and rustic he enters the city, than was each shade in his looks. (Purgatorio xxv1) to George Herbert, And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I...once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing . . . ('The Flower') to Emily Dickinson, on the snake, the 'narrow Fellow in the Grass', The grass... | |
 | George Every, Richard Harries, Bishop Kallistos Ware - 1984 - 276 pages
...Making a chiming of a passing-bell. We say amisse, This or that is: Thy word is all, if we could spell. And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I...once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing: O my onely light, It cannot be That I am he On whom thy tempests fell all night. February 2g ST JOHN... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1969 - 1278 pages
...when 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 all night. a delicious poem.''1... | |
 | Arthur L. Clements - 1990 - 340 pages
...according to the contemplatives. "Thy word is all," Herbert writes in a poem in which he also writes And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I...once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing: O my onely light, It cannot be That I am he On whom thy tempests fell all night. And, of course, it... | |
 | Donald M. Lewis - 1990 - 328 pages
...Kilby, my encourager Joe Bayly, and Hugh Franklin, husband of my sister in Christ, Madeleine L'Engle. And now in age I bud again — After so many deaths...once more smell the dew and rain and relish versing: O, my only Light — It cannot be That I am (s)he On whom thy Tempests fell all night! Relating Human... | |
 | John Jefferson Bray - 1990 - 84 pages
...was protracted and vehement. No conclusion was reached. Reflections of a Pious Convalescent Epigraph And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I...once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing: O my onley light, It cannot be That 1 am he On whom thy tempests tell all night. The Flower, George... | |
 | George Herbert - 1991 - 500 pages
...mine own, 30 Where all things burn, When thou dost turn, And the least frown of thine is shown? 35 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 40 That I am he On whom thy tempests fell all night. These are thy wonders,... | |
 | Michael C. Schoenfeldt - 1991 - 364 pages
...or even "offring at heaven, "writing is in stanza 6 relished as a sensuous and animating activity: And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I...once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing. Vendler remarks on the "unearthly relief of this stanza." 77 The affirmation of the joy of creation... | |
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