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 - 1880 - 474 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 ; Pine-cones and acorns lay... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...none. Then I said, " I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's client ; 1 leave it behind witli ruin, all dreadfully driven From his eyrie, that beacons the darkness of heaven. 0 liimning over the club-moss bun's ; I inhaled the violet's breath ; Around me stood the oaks and firs... | |
| Austin Barclay Fletcher - 1881 - 498 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... | |
| Anna Callender Brackett - 1881 - 348 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... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...bird from the woodlands to the cage;— The gay enchantment was undone, A gentle wife, but fairy none. How I could forgive her, and love her !" And I swear,...how, after all, old things were best, That I smelt t curl'd its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burrs; I inhaled the violet's breath ; Around... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1882 - 558 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...cheat — I leave it behind with the games of youth." 3. As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 380 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 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;... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 332 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;... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 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... | |
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