 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
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1902 - 564 pages
...the woodlands to the cage ; — The gay enchantment was undone — A gentle wife, but fairy none. 7. Then I said, " I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's...cheat ; I leave it behind with the games of youth." — 8. As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1891 - 332 pages
...itself is beautiful, nor does it give pleasure to the imagination in any way. The poet continues : " Then I said ' I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games u£ youth.' As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the... | |
 | Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 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...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;... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 pages
...from the woodlands to the cage; — 35 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." — 40 As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss... | |
 | Eric L. Haralson, John Hollander - 1998 - 598 pages
...speaker to turn away from the pursuit of beauty in order to pursue the more ascetic way of knowledge: "Then I said, 'I covet truth; / Beauty is unripe childhood's...cheat; / I leave it behind with the games of youth.'" In a romantic reprise, we discover that there can be no truth without beauty, and no beauty without... | |
 | 1883 - 1002 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...and firs; Pine cones and acorns lay on the ground; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity; Again I saw, again I heard The rolling... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 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...violet's breath; Around me stood the oaks and firs; 4. Listens. 6. Evening. 5. Columns of soldiers. Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground, Over me soared... | |
 | Bonnie Costello - 2003 - 252 pages
...encompassing "all" — its wreath, its unchanging repetitions and returns, its eternal sky, regulate the flux: The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running...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 deity; Again... | |
 | Robert E. Belknap - 2004 - 284 pages
...beauty. The possession of parts fails, and the speaker gives over to the whole, with predictable results: As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over club-moss burrs; I inhaled the violet's breath; Around me stood the oaks and firs; Pine-cones and acorns... | |
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