 O'er England's Abbeys bends the sky As on its friends with kindred eye ; For, out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air, And Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and...  Works - Page 505by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | J. W. Appleton - 1879 - 216 pages
...interesting than the Alps or Niagara, as says the poet : — " Earth proudly bears the Parthenon As the beat gem upon her zone ; And morning opes with haste her...granted them an equal date, With Andes and with Ararat." In the enjoyment of works of genius, we have an illustration of the common but true observation, that... | |
 | 1880 - 672 pages
...from God he conld not free ; He builded better than he knew — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem...granted them an equal date "With Andes and with Ararat." In this poem we see Emerson's belief that the divine influences neither began with Moses nor ended... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...friends with kindred eye; For, out of Thought's interior sphere, These wonders rose to upper air ; 40 And nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into...with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass, 4S Art might obey but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand, To the vast Soul that o'er him... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 pages
...morn each annual cell ? Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? Such arid so grew these holy piles, "Whilst love and terror...temples grew as grows the grass ; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; And the... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn each annual cell? Or how the sacred pine tree 4 4 4 r«t! The passive Master lent his hand To the vast Soul that o'er him plann'd, And the same power that... | |
 | Eliot Church (Lowell, Mass.) - 1881 - 368 pages
...the best gem upon her zone ; And morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids ! 0 'er England's abbeys bends the sky As on its friends,...an equal date, With Andes and with Ararat." These are all the works of man. Man's physical inability is involuntary. He struggles against it. He seeks... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...Painting with morn each annual cell f Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads t Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and...temples grew as grows the grass — Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; And the... | |
 | William Swinton - 1882 - 686 pages
...proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone ; And morning opes with haste her lids 35 To gaze upon the Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys...These temples grew as grows the grass, Art might obey but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand, To the vast Soul that o'er him planned. And the... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pages
...town, And morning opes with haste her lids, To gaze upon the Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends tho sky. As on its friends, with kindred eye; For out...These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; And the... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 396 pages
...feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn each annual cell ? Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves...temples grew, as grows the grass : Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast Soul that o'er him plann'd ; And the... | |
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