 The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burrs; I inhaled the violet's breath; Around me stood the oaks and firs; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground; Over me soared the eternal sky. Full of light and of deity; Again I...  An Emerson Calendar - Page 42by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 117 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pages
...from the woodlands to the cage ; The gay enchantment was undone — A gentle wife, but fairy none. Then I said, " I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's...curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burs ; I inhaled the violet's breath ; Around me stood the oaks and firs ; 3V I Pine-cones and acorns... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 pages
...from the woodlands to the cage; The gay enchantment was undone— A gentle wife, but fairy none. IV. Then I said,—" I covet truth; Beauty is unripe childhood's...my feet The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, I inhaled the violet's breath; Around me stood the oaks and firs; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1892 - 996 pages
...the sand, and the wild uproar. Disappointed, he forswears the pursuit of beauty, and declares : — I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat ; I leave it behind with the games of youth. But, even as he speaks, the ground-pine curls its pretty wreath beneath his feet, " running over the... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1871 - 484 pages
...from the woodlands to the cage ; The gay enchantment was undone — A gentle wife, but fairy none. Then I said, " I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's...violet's breath ; Around me stood the oaks and firs ; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1872 - 432 pages
...from the woodlands to the cage; — The gay enchantment was undone, A gentle wife, but fairy none. v. Then I said, " I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's...my feet The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Kunning over the club -moss burrs; I inhaled the violet's breath; Around me stood the oaks and firs... | |
 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 pages
...bird from the woodlands to the cage,The gay enchantment was undone, A gentle wife, but fairy none. Then I said, " I covet Truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's...curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burns ; I inhaled the violet's breath ; Around me stood the oaks and firs ; Pine-cones and acorns lay... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1874 - 200 pages
...noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar. Then I said, " I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's...violet's breath ; Around me stood the oaks and firs ; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 pages
...woodlands to the cage;— The gay enchantment was undone, A gentle wife., but fairy none. Then I said, "1 covet truth; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat ;...pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burrs; I iuhaled the violet's breath ; Around me stood the oaks and firs ; Pine-cones and aconis lay on the... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...woodlands to the cage;— The gay enchantment was undone, A gentle wife, but fairy none. Then I said, "1 covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth." As I s]K>ke, beneath my feet The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burrs;... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...from the woodlands to the cage; — Tlie gay enchantment was undone, A gentle wife, but fairy none. Then I said, " I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's...violet's breath ; Around me stood the oaks and firs ; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity;... | |
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