If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are... Essays and Poems of Emerson - Page 470by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 525 pagesFull view - About this book
| Gail Hamilton - 1874 - 328 pages
...from three hundred feet of hemlock skeletons filing past the front door, that pleasure I enjoy. * ' Far or forgot to me is near ; Shadow and sunlight are the same ; The vanished gods to me appear ; And one to me are shame and fame." And Hassan the Turk immediately added... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...Is the word they wish to hear. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. LINES BRAHMA. IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain- think he is slain, They know not...me is near ; Shadow and sunlight are the same ; The vanished gods to me appear ; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out ; When... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 516 pages
...brave; My avarice cooled Like lust in the chill of the grave. BEAHMA. IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well...me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same ; The vanished gods to me appear ; And one to ine are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out ;... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...brave; My avarice cooled Like lust in the chill of the grave. BRAHMA. IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Tar or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear ; And... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...brings Is the word they wish to hear. RALPH WALDO KMERSON. BRAHMA. IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well...me is near ; Shadow and sunlight are the same ; The vanished gods to me appear ; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out ; When... | |
| John Burroughs - 1877 - 278 pages
...compost of them both, and her ends are prospered 'whichever succeed. " If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again." What is the end of Nature ? Where is the end of a sphere ? The sphere balances at any and every point.... | |
| WM. James - 1878 - 460 pages
...might teleology (had she a voice) exclaim With Emerson's Brahma: " If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass and turn again. ********** "They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 274 pages
...beginning and end of all. Dschelaledclin Rumi. Tr. FF Sitter. BRAHMA. IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, aud turn again. Far or forgot to me is near, The vanished gods to me appear, And one to me are shame... | |
| 1878 - 818 pages
...often more cunning than the Sphinx ; and, like Emerson's Brahma, she may declare to her students — " They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass and turn again." We have looked into her face a little, measured some of her ellipses and angles, weighed her gases... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear. BRAHMA. IF the red slayer think he slays, 2 ami sunlight arc the same ; The vanished gods to me appear ; And one to me are shame and fame. They... | |
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