 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
 | Archibald Edward Gough - 2000 - 298 pages
...HA UPANISHAD. " If the red »layer think he slays, Or the slain think he is slain, They little know the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again....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, Me... | |
 | Carmela Ciuraru - 2001 - 276 pages
...conjunction of death with a cool mind, and I memorized lines like "If the red slayer think he slays, / Or if the slain think he is slain / They know not...the subtle ways / I keep, and pass, and turn again." (Perhaps I was born always to yearn for detachment, and so always to fail to achieve it.) But I never... | |
 | Astrid Fitzgerald - 2001 - 390 pages
...has declared: "Verily, all is Brahman." — Yoga-Vasishtha 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... | |
 | Linda Jones, Sophie Stanes - 2003 - 240 pages
...stilled now, forever, my swift flying feet. Maureen Keaveney Brahma 97 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... | |
 | Lawrence Buell - 2004 - 420 pages
...This became Emerson's best-known encapsulation of Hindu scripture. 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... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 pages
...too late, Under her solemn fillet4 saw the scorn. 1857 Brahma If the red slayer1 thinks he slays, Of 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... | |
 | B. D. Sharma - 2003 - 490 pages
...Bhagavad Gita in the following lines describing the immortality of soul: 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. Another American poet Walt Whitman in his famous poem "Song of Myself" writes: I know 1 am deathless... | |
 | Lewis P. Simpson - 1994 - 274 pages
...mightiest of American hunters, the self pursuing all that is "not self." 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.3 Of these familiar Emersonian lines, Perry Miller grimly observes, "Those who shoot and those... | |
 | Jagmohan - 2005 - 574 pages
...he gave expression to the Vedantic concept of non-duality thus: If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well...me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanish'd gods to me appear, And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When... | |
 | Srinivas Aravamudan - 2006 - 356 pages
...Movement (New Delhi: People's Publishing House, 1981), 28-29. 37. 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... | |
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