 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
 | 1895 - 812 pages
...unity, fused wholes, is fitly hinted in Emerson's Hymn of 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." * The Inaugural address at the 1896 session Indiana State Teachers' Association. This was the age of... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1901 - 964 pages
...carry in my heart, for days, Peace that hallows rudest ways. BRAHMA IF the red slayer think he slays, =t< vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When... | |
 | James Albert Clark - 1901 - 258 pages
...the Theosophical student scan it studiously and see if it does not: "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 the doubt,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1901 - 1190 pages
...tablets blue, The dancing Pleiads and eternal men. 672. Brahma TF the red slayer think he slays, *. Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanish'd gods to me appear ; And... | |
 | Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 pages
...and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. 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... | |
 | Andrew Feenberg - 1995 - 268 pages
...conflict is illusory, as in Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous poem "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. (quoted in Suzuki 1970: 207) Jorge Luis Borges's story "The Theologians" reaches a similar conclusion.... | |
 | Malini Johar Schueller - 2001 - 266 pages
...appeal for the turbulent years of the antebellum United States: "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." 46 The title of the poem identifies the "I" as Brahma, in transcendental terms the oversoul; however,... | |
 | Patricia Merivale, Susan Sweeney - 1999 - 324 pages
..."Brahma," which Borges cites in his 1947 essay on Whitman ("Note" 69): 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. One question, however, still remains... | |
 | Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari - 1999 - 228 pages
...Brahm Prakash's advice could be heard in Emerson's poem i on Brahma: 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. 97 TO live only for some unknown future is superficial. It is like climbing a mountain to reach the... | |
 | Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...may loosely be identified as the soul or the oversoul. It begins: 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. Once more, then, readers receive the voice of a mysterious entity in enigmatic, oracular quatrains.... | |
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