 As the best gem upon her zone, And Morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids ; . * O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye ; For out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air...  The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Poems - Page 7by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1918Full view - About this book
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...Know'st thou what wove yon wooclbird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish ^ those holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 pages
...Know'st thou what wove yon wood-bird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn each annual...leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew these holy piles, While love and terror laid the tiles. 5. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1879 - 508 pages
...Know'st thou what wove yon wood-bird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn each annual cell ? Or how the sacred pine tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew these holy piles, While love and terror... | |
 | 1885 - 650 pages
...accordance with them, using them as our allies and helpers. So it is true, as Emerson says, that " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone," implying that the Parthenon is just as much part of the old earth of nature as any natural development... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...Know'st thou what wove yon wood-bird's nest 25 Of leaves and feathers from her breast ; Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn each annual...sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? 30 Such and so grew these holy piles Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1880 - 536 pages
...inspired to make his statue and to build the Parthenon. " Such and so grew those holy piles, While love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her /one, And morning opes in haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends the... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1880 - 536 pages
...to build the Parthenon. " Such and so grew these boly piles, While love and terror laid the tilua. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone, And morning opes in haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky As on its friends... | |
 | Heinrich Brugsch - 1880 - 268 pages
...Iliad, of the Psalms, the ^Eueid, and the Inferno, — of Prometheus, Hamlet, and Paradise Lost. " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone ; " but in the thought that planned the Hall of Columns, or sculptured the rock temple of Amon, was... | |
 | Heinrich Brugsch - 1880 - 266 pages
...the Iliad, of the Psalms, the ^neid, and the Inferno, — of Prometheus, Hamlet, and Paradise Lost. " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone ; " but in the thought that planned the Hall of Columns, or sculptured the rock temple of Amon, was... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 pages
...Know'st thou what wove yon woodbirdY nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast? Or how tlie fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn each annual...pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? Such arid so grew these holy piles, "Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon,... | |
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