 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1871 - 484 pages
...sweep round yon Alpine height Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one — Nothing is fair or...home, in his nest, at even ; He sings the song, but it pleases not now ; For I did not bring home the river and sky ; He sang to my ear — they sang to my... | |
 | Poems - 1872 - 362 pages
...round yon Alpine height ; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbour's creed has lent. All are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good...in his nest at even ; — He sings the song, but it pleases not now ; For I did not bring home the river and sky. He sang to my ear ; they sang to my eye.... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1872 - 418 pages
...Nothingj is fair, or good.)ali5r?e. I thought the spajrpw's notejfrom heaven, Singing at daVny)n the algpr bough • I brought him home, in his nest, at even ; He sings the song, but it pleases not fibw, in For I did not bring home the river and sky ; — -J^ ^"~ f \4 :^ ~N ^^ ije^ sang... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1872 - 432 pages
...round yon Alpine height; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good alone. n. For I did not bring home the river and sky ; — He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye. The... | |
 | 1872 - 710 pages
...round yon Alpine Nor knowest thou what argument [height ; Thy life to thy neighbor's creed lias lent. and benches fail. No : he was serious in a serious cause, RW Emerson. 1167. EXAMPLE, rosthunons. 1 see through the gathering darkness The spire of the village... | |
 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 pages
...round yon Alpine height ; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbour's creed has lent. All are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good...in his nest at even ; — He sings the song, but it pleases not now ; For I did not bring home the river and sky ; He sang to my ear ; they sang to my... | |
 | James Ashcroft Noble - 1873 - 274 pages
...value. Every truth, he seems to say, is worshipful, but no truth is exclusively to be worshipped : " All are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good alone." He is one of the most suggestive of modern writers, for he is, an intellectual explorer who is never... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1874 - 200 pages
...round yon Alpine height ; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good...home, in his nest, at even ; He sings the song, but it pleases not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky ; — He sang to my ear, — they sang... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...round yon Alpine height; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neigh bor's creed has lent. AH are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone....note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough ; ] brought him home, in his nest, at even ; He sings the song, but it pleases not now, For I diil... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 pages
...round yon Alpine height ; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neigh Iwr's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone. 1 thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough ; 1 brought him home,... | |
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I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough; I brought him home, in his nest, at even; He sings the song, but it cheers not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky; — He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye. 
