 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 pages
...yon Alpine height ; 5. Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. 6. All are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good alone. 7. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough ; I brought him home... | |
 | Helen A Hertz - 1879 - 292 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...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... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1881 - 600 pages
...the whole picture without mutilating the symmetry of its beauty and spoiling its glorious harmony : "I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing...bough ; I brought him home in his nest at even; He snug the song, but it pleases not now, For I could not bring home the river and sky. He sang to my... | |
 | 1925 - 700 pages
...than statistics. It is a corruptor of youth. A word out of its surroundings is as Emerson's sparrow: "I thought the sparrow's note from Heaven, Singing...brought him home, in his nest, at even ; He sings his song, but it pleases not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky ; He sang to my ear, —... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 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 alone. * * * The delicate shells lay on the shore ; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...round yon Alpine height ; Nor knowest tliou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. tide In torrents from his wounded side. " Then it was trut 1 thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough ; 1 brought him home,... | |
 | Almira Leach Hayward - 1880 - 300 pages
...she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows, Useless each without the other ! HW Long/Mow. All are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good alone. RW Emerson. March 3. For both are his own, — the innocence That climbs from the heart of earth to... | |
 | 1880 - 644 pages
...cannot be denied. Emerson, in those Delphic droplets of song of his, tells us this a thousand times : "All are needed by each one, nothing is fair or good alone." Even such contraries as sense and understanding are, to Kant's mind, but twin stems from a common root.... | |
 | 1880 - 670 pages
...and the fifteen at the conclusion had been omitted. Among its best are these lovely poetic verses : " I thought the sparrow's note from heaven. Singing at dawn on the elder bough ; i88i.J THE POETRY OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 129 I brought htm home in his nest at even... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - 1881 - 348 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...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... | |
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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. 
