TWO RIVERS THY summer voice, Musketaquit, Repeats the music of the rain ; But sweeter rivers pulsing flit Through thee, as thou through Concord Plain. Thou in thy narrow banks art pent: % The stream I love unbounded goes Through flood and sea and firmament... Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 134by Richard Garnett - 1888 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1905 - 798 pages
...is the flowering of Emersonian idealism with perfect poetry: "Thy summer voice, Musketaquit, Repeats the music of the rain; But sweeter rivers pulsing...flood and sea and firmament, Through light, through hie, it forward flows. I see the inundation sweet, I hear the spending of the stream Through years,... | |
| CURTIS HIDDE PAGE - 1905 - 746 pages
...ehreda and flint*. So i> it with me to-day.' (Б. w. Ежшаоя, Emerson in Concord, pp. 232-233). But sweeter rivers pulsing flit Through thee, as thou through Concord Plain. Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; Thou in thy narrow banks art pent:... | |
| 1913 - 530 pages
...us leave the river with these peaceful words from Emerson : "Thy summer voice, Musketaquid, Repeats the music of the rain ; But sweeter rivers pulsing flit Through thee, as thou through Concord Plain. Musketaquid, a goblin strong, Of shard and flint makes jewels gay; They lose their grief who hear his... | |
| John Smith Harrison - 1910 - 348 pages
...in his T<wo Rivers, in which he sets forth life as a flux. "Thy summer voice, Musketaquit, Repeats the music of the rain; But sweeter rivers pulsing...thou through Concord Plain. "Thou in thy narrow banks are pent; The stream I love unbounded goes Through flood and sea and firmament, Through light, through... | |
| James Jackson Putnam - 1915 - 214 pages
...began it, with a quotation from Emerson, the "Two Rivers." "Thy summer voice, Musketaquit, 1 Repeats the music of the rain; But sweeter rivers pulsing...narrow banks art pent: The stream I love unbounded goes J " The Concord River." 174 Through flood and sea and firmament; Through light, through life, it forward... | |
| Percy Holmes Boynton - 1918 - 746 pages
...1857. The Boatswain's Whistle, Boston, Nov. 18, 1864. TWO RIVERS Thy summer voice, Musketaquit, Repeats the music of the rain ; But sweeter rivers pulsing...inundation sweet, I hear the spending of the stream I0 Through years, through men, through Nature fleet, Through love and thought, through power and dream.... | |
| Bliss Perry - 1920 - 416 pages
...animals, in passion and thought. Happy are they who can hear it." "Thy summer voice, Musketaquit, Repeats the music of the rain; But sweeter rivers pulsing...thou through Concord plain. "Thou in thy narrow banks are pent; The stream I love unbounded goes Through flood and sea and firmament; Through light, through... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1920 - 100 pages
...river which Emerson detected flowing underneath the Concord — Thy summer voice, Musketaquit, Repeats the music of the rain, But sweeter rivers pulsing flit Through thee as though through Concord plain. . . . I see the inundation sweet, I hear the spending of the stream,... | |
| William Lyon Phelps - 1923 - 208 pages
...anywhere show more beauty than the opening two lines : TWO RIVERS Thy summer voice, Musketaquit, Repeats the music of the rain; But sweeter rivers pulsing...firmament; Through light, through life, it forward flows. Essential to an understanding of his thought is The Problem, two lines from which are on his tomb.... | |
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...late, to Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn. TWO RIVERS* THY summer voice, Musketaquit, Repeats fancies connected with the air, the stature, the demeanor of the figure, rushing hurriedly 10 Through years, through men, through Nature fleet, Through love and thought, through power and dream.... | |
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