 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
 | Charles Madison Curry - 1903 - 572 pages
...Running over the club-moss burrs; I inhaled the violet's breath; Around me stood the oaks and firs; 45 Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground; Over me soared...again I heard, The rolling river, the morning bird;— 5o Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole. SIR FRANCIS HASTINGS DOYLE... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1903 - 366 pages
...Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity ; 34 Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the...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... | |
 | Celia Parker Woolley - 1903 - 258 pages
...breath, standing aloft in the firs and oaks, hinted anew in the fall of the cones and acorns at his feet: "Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the...senses stole, I yielded myself to the perfect whole." Another consideration helps us to strike the moral balance, and that is the universality of both beauty... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 348 pages
...acorns lay on the ground,; "\ Over me soared the eternal sky, \ " i ' Full of light and of deity.; ^ p Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the...senses stole ; I yielded myself to the perfect whole. \ " A V ' THE PROBLEM. ( , \& ^ I LIKE a church ; I like a cowl ; I love a prophet of the soul ; And... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 306 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...yielded myself to the perfect whole. THE PROBLEM. T LIKE a church ; I like a cowl ; 1 I love a prophet of the soul ; And on my heart monastic aisles... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 304 pages
...from the woodlands to the cage ; — The gay enchantment was undone, A gentle wife, but fairy none. Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat ; I leave it behind...yielded myself to the perfect whole. THE PROBLEM. j T LIKE a church ; I like a cd II love a prophet of the soul ; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1905 - 308 pages
...childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth : " — As I spoke, beneath my feet 4° The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running...morning bird; — Beauty through my senses stole; 5° I yielded myself to the perfect whole. 1847. Ralph Waldo Emerson YOUTH AND AGE VERSE, a breeze... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 740 pages
...Effect. Ou the Bliore they lay wet and social, by the sea and under the iky. (Journal, May 16, 1831.) I inhaled the violet's breath ; Around me stood the...morning bird ; — Beauty through my senses stole; 50 I yielded myself to the perfect whole. 1S341 • 1839. THE APOLOGY8 THINK me not unkind and rude... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 730 pages
...Effect. On the shore they lay wet and social, by the sea and under the sky. (Journal, Hay 16, 1834.) I inhaled the violet's breath; Around me stood the...morning bird; — Beauty through my senses stole; 50 I yielded myself to the perfect whole. 1834 f 1839. THE APOLOGY* THINK me not unkind and rude That... | |
 | John Raymond Howard - 1905 - 340 pages
...firs ; Pine cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Above me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and deity ; Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river,...senses stole, I yielded myself to the perfect whole. 35 The Problem I LIKE a church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul, And on my heart monastic... | |
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