 Wise harbinger of spheres and tides, A lover true, who knew by heart Each joy the mountain dales impart; It seemed that Nature could not raise A plant in any secret place, In quaking bog, on snowy hill, Beneath the grass that shades the rill, Under the...  The Real and Ideal in Literature - Page 173by Frank Preston Stearns - 1892 - 223 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alpheus Baker Hervey - 1885 - 234 pages
...sun-worshipping flower I must be permitted to frame Emerson's picture of the poet naturalist, Thoreau: And such I knew, a forest seer, A minstrel of the natural year, Foreteller of the vernal ides, A lover true who knew by heart Each joy the mountain dales impart; It seemed that Nature could not... | |
 | William Herbert Smith - 1885 - 192 pages
...43 Siskin 44 Crossbill 45 Hooded Crow Grallce. 46 Scolopax gallinula . . | 46 Jack Snipe UP BYE, " A lover true, who knew by heart Each joy the mountain dales impart : « » » When the pine tosses its cones To the song of its waterfall tones, He speeds to the woodland... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 380 pages
...himself, — Who can tell him what he is ? Or how meet in human elf Coming and past eternities ? 2. And such I knew, a forest seer, A minstrel of the natural year, Foreteller of the vernal ides, Wise harhinger of spheres and tides, A lover true, who knew by heart Each joy the mountain dales impart... | |
 | John Norris McClintock - 1888 - 842 pages
...development of his broad acres ? Or was it the allurements of the grand old mountains themselves, and he "A lover true, who knew by heart Each joy the mountain dales impart." The settlement of the colonel lying in the track of the Indians, as they passed from the valley of... | |
 | 1893 - 52 pages
...living bits of prose and poetry the inspiration the tardy season denies us. Woodnotes. And such I know, a forest seer, A minstrel of the natural year, Foreteller...of the vernal Ides, Wise harbinger of spheres and tiies; A lover true, who knew by heart Each joy the mountain dales impart; It seemed that Nature could... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 340 pages
...chiefly at himself, Who can tell him what he is? Or how meet in human elf Coming and past eternities? 2. And such I knew, a forest seer, A minstrel of the...dales impart ; It seemed that Nature could not raise x A plant in any secret place, In quaking bog, on snowy hill, Beneath the grass that shades the rill,... | |
 | Joseph Jackson - 1894 - 400 pages
...description of a naturalist as distinguished from a biologist than that given by Emerson of Thoreau : "And such I knew, a forest seer, A minstrel of the...knew by heart Each joy the mountain dales impart." Thoreau led the way, and the number of his disciples is increasing, though they follow the master witH... | |
 | Joseph Jackson - 1894 - 390 pages
...description of a naturalist as distinguished from a biologist than that given by Emerson of Thoreau : "And such I knew, a forest seer, A minstrel of the...spheres and tides, A lover true who knew by heart Kach joy the mountain dales impart." Thoreau led the way, and the number of his disciples is increasing,... | |
 | 1896 - 532 pages
...chiefly at himself, Who can tell him what he is? Or how meet in human elf Coming and past eternities? a And such I knew, a forest seer, A minstrel of the...Nature could not raise A plant in any secret place, In quaking bog, on snowy hill, Beneath the grass that shades the rill, Under the snow, between the... | |
 | 1897 - 800 pages
...paint more clearly than any others to the alumnae of Mount Holyoke the picture of Miss Shattuck: " A lover true, who knew by heart Each joy the mountain...Nature could not raise A plant in any secret place, In quaking bog, on snowy hill. Beneath the grass that shades the rill, Under the snow between the rocks,... | |
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