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" 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 42
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 117 pages
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Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...from the woodlands to the cage ; — The gay enchantment was undone, A gentle wife, but fairy none. merson ; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity;...
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The English Novel and the Principle of Its Development

Sidney Lanier - 1883 - 312 pages
...beautiful when away from its proper relation to the sky and the river and so on, we have this : — "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...
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The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 3

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...my feet The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Eunning over the club-moss burrs ; I inhaled the violet's breath ; Around me stood the oaks and firs...
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Songs of Three Centuries. Ed. by John Greenleaf Whittier. Household Ed. ...

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1883 - 382 pages
...Then I said, "I covet truth; I leave it behind with the games of Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground-pine curled...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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A Hand-book of English and American Literature: Historical and Critical ...

Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pages
...to his hermitage, Like the bird from the woodlands to the cage;— The gay enchantment was undone, 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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Favorite Poems: Selected from English and American Authors

Joseph H. Head - 1884 - 498 pages
...undone — A gentle wife, but fairy none. 25 ! 386 THE PRESENT. Then I said : " I covet truth; Beanty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with...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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Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, Volume 10

Manchester Literary Club - 1884 - 536 pages
...The gay enchantment was undone, A gentle wife, but fairy none. Then I said " I covet truth ; Bcauty is unripe childhood's cheat ; I leave it behind with...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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Quiet Hour: A Collection of Poems

Mary Wilder Tileston - 1886 - 204 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...
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The Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, Volume 18

Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1882 - 592 pages
...Beautiful Soul " that never comes from God empty. Emerson was predetermined to the imaginative mode. " Then I said, ' I covet truth. Beauty is unripe childhood's...my feet, The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath : Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the morning bird." What he called " arid metaphysics...
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Magazine Essays: Containing a Few Short Essays Written During Leisure Hours

Leigh Hadley Irvine - 1886 - 56 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...the games of youth." As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burrs; 1 inhaled the violet's breath...
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