 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 pages
...years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore." And still more in these religious lines:— "Now chiefly is my natal hour, And only now my prime...doubt the love untold, Which not my worth nor want have bought, Which wooed me young, and wooes me old, And to this evening hath me brought."87 The habit... | |
 | John Muir, Terry Gifford - 1996 - 940 pages
...the word which once he saith. "I will, then, trust the love untold Which not my worth nor want has bought, Which wooed me young and wooes me old, And to this evening hath me brought." Ever your friend JOHN MUIR to Mrs. JD Hooker Martinez, December 17th, 1910 DEAR MRS. HOOKER I'm glad... | |
 | Edwin Markham - 1926 - 328 pages
...heart hath lit, Then will the verse forever wear — Time cannot bend the line which God has writ. I will not doubt the love untold Which not my worth...wooes me old, And to this evening hath me brought. 127 WALT WHITMAN 1819 — 1892 WRITING to Whitman in 1855, not long after the first appearance of Leaves... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1866 - 832 pages
...senses.' Presently this strain of 1866] Thoreau. [April thought rises to the expression of verse : — Now chiefly is my natal hour, And only now my prime...untold, Which not my worth nor want hath bought, Which woo'd me young and woos me old,' And to this evening me hath brought. Worthy to be quoted also are... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 57 pages
...years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore." And still more in these religious lines : — " Now chiefly is my natal hour, And only now my prime...doubt the love untold, Which not my worth nor want have bought, Which wooed me young, and wooes me old, And to this evening hath me brought." * Whilst... | |
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I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore. 
