 As I spoke, beneath my feet 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...  Works - Page 505by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Sidney Lanier - 1892 - 312 pages
...the club-moss burs; 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...senses stole, I yielded myself to the perfect whole." But again, here Mrs. Browning, speaking by the mouth of Adam in The Drama of Exile, so far identifies... | |
 | 1893 - 106 pages
...Never lose an opportunity to see anything beautiful. Beauty is God's hand-writing. —Kingsley. BEAUTY. Then I said, " I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's...senses stole ; I yielded myself to the perfect whole. — Emerson. A consideration of petty circumstances is the tomb of great things. —Voltaire. It is... | |
 | 1894 - 360 pages
...gay enchantment was undone — Then I said : " I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat ; 1 leave it behind with the games of youth. As I spoke,...the morning bird ; Beauty through my senses stole ; — 1 yielded myself to the perfect whole. THE PRESENT. ADELAIDE A. PROCTER. Do not crouch to-day,... | |
 | John Kennedy (of Buffalo.) - 1894 - 76 pages
...the vast soul that o'er him planned ; " # # -X- * " O'er me soared the eternal sky, Pull of light and deity ; Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river,...senses stole ; I yielded myself to the perfect whole." But the thought enforced by the " perfect whole " is that a superficial philosophy has been mis-reading... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 352 pages
...sand and the wild uproar. The lover watched his graceful maid, Aa 'mid the virgin train she strayed, Was woven still by the snow-white choir. At last she...yielded myself to the perfect whole. THE PROBLEM. I 1.1 KK a church ; I like a cowl ; I love a prophet of the soul ; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 pages
...watched his graceful maid, As 'mid the virgin train she strayed, Nor knew her beauty's best attire Was woven still by the snow-white choir. At last she...stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole. THE RHODORA ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE Is THE FLOWER ? IN MAY, when sea- winds pierced our solitudes, I found... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 pages
...above; cf. iv, 57; xii, 116, 132, 140), but also of goodness and truth (i, 210; iv, 126), love and I leave it behind with the games of youth : " As I...stole ; I yielded myself to the perfect whole. THE KHODORA:* ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER? IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - 1897 - 592 pages
...childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth." As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss...senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole. 60.— OGG, THE SON OF BEORL. GEORGE ELIOT. We must enter the town of St. Ogg's, — that venerable... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - 1908 - 332 pages
...the club-moss burs ; 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...The rolling river, the morning bird ; Beauty through all my senses stole, I yielded myself to the perfect whole." But again, here Mrs. Browning, speaking... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 560 pages
...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...senses stole — I yielded myself to the perfect whole. WOMEN AND MEN.* BY THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON. [THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON : An American writer ; born... | |
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