 CHARACTER The sun set; but set not his hope: Stars rose; his faith was earlier up: Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Deeper and older seemed his eye: And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of time. He spoke, and words more soft than rain Brought...  Poems - Page 231by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...be the transformation of genius into practical power. CHARACTER THE sun set; but set not his hope1. Stars rose; his faith was earlier up: Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Deener and older seemed his eye: And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of time. He spoKe,... | |
 | CURTIS HIDDEN PAGE, PH. D. - 1905 - 778 pages
...And the poet who overhears Some random word they say Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey. THE sun set, but set not his hope : — Stars rose,...such reverence sweet As hid all measure of the feat. THE Dervish whined to Said, ' Thou didst not tarry while I prayed. Beware the fire that Eblis burned.'... | |
 | CURTIS HIDDE PAGE - 1905 - 746 pages
...Some random word they say And the poet who overhears Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey. THE sun set, but set not his hope : — Stars rose,...matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of Time. 2 He spoke, and words more soft than rain Brought the Age of Gold again: His action won such reverence... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 730 pages
...And the poet who overhears Some random word they say Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey. THE sun set, but set not his hope : — Stars rose,...matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of Time.2 He spoke, and words more soft than rain Brought the Age of Gold again: His action won such reverence... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 738 pages
...galaxy, Deeper and older seemed his eye, And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of Time.8 He spoke, and words more soft than rain Brought the...such reverence sweet As hid all measure of the feat. THE Dervish whined to Said, ' Thou didst not tarry while I prayed. Beware the fire that Eblis burned.'... | |
 | William Roger Greeley - 1906 - 224 pages
...the sacred Seven; But thou, meek lover of the good I Find me, and turn thy back on heaven. CHARACTER THE sun set; but set not his hope: Stars rose; his...such reverence sweet, As hid all measure of the feat. CONCORD HYMN BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1906 - 146 pages
...than thy bosom holds." He believed that the spiritual force of human character imaged the divine: — "The sun set, but set not his hope : Stars rose ;...enormous galaxy, Deeper and older seemed his eye." Yet man is not an order of nature, but a stupendous antagonism, because he chooses and acts in his... | |
 | Josephine Latham Swayne - 1906 - 438 pages
...owe it that he first proclaimed our intellectual independence of the mother country."1 EMERSON.* " He spoke, and words more soft than rain Brought the...again. His action won such reverence sweet As hid all measures of the feat." —Character by Emerson. " Some half-dozen or more years since, a shriek, sharper... | |
 | William Thomas Herridge - 1906 - 160 pages
...ultimately determines how life shall look to us. The quality of the microcosm is the all-important thing. " Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Deeper and older seemed...matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of time." One may still hold his head erect through poverty or toil or pain, and triumph over them, but it is... | |
 | Edwin Winfield Bowen - 1908 - 418 pages
...clan ; For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet? CHARACTER The sun set, but set not his hope: Stars rose; his...such reverence sweet As hid all measure of the feat. TERMINUS It is time to be old, To take in sail:— The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came... | |
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