 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
 | 2005 - 494 pages
...(Lanman, 23). Lanman then proceeds to quote the entire Emerson poem: 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 pages
...means "The Supreme, second to none. " BRAHMA If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain thinks he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I...turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and the sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon... | |
 | 2005 - 494 pages
...Lanman then proceeds to quote the entire Emerson poem: If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slam think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. (171) Far or forgot to me is near, Shadow and sunlight are the same, The vanished gods to me appear,... | |
 | Kim Falconer - 2005 - 218 pages
...foolish as hiding from our own true self. Pluto as a Sign of Transformation: What We Don't Understand 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, They reckon ill who leave me out; When... | |
 | Edward Carpenter - 2005 - 281 pages
...get over that illusion the better :— ** If the red slayer thinks he «lay% And If the slain thinks he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and paw, and turn again," 264 In this scene to-night there is a life which equalises individual fortune... | |
 | Robert D. Richardson - 2006 - 660 pages
...Emerson's poem "Brahma" as an example of how mind actually works.19 182 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. What exactly would a Spencerian (or a Holmesian) calculation of selfbenefit make of such claims? Spencer... | |
 | Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 pages
...is a constantly revolving one. As Emerson states in "Brahma," "If the red slayer thinks he slays, / Or if the slain think he is slain, / They know not...the subtle ways /I keep, and pass, and turn again." It is only when a person becomes trapped in her own sense of time and place that immortality is lost.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2007 - 329 pages
...MISCELLANEOUS PIECES BRAHMA IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near ; Shadow and smlight are the same ; The vanquished gods to me appear ; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon... | |
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