 | American Institute of Instruction - 1891 - 332 pages
...are unconsciously awakened in the mind, while singing or listening to the melodies. The poet says : " 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 to my... | |
 | Erich Segal - 1986 - 561 pages
...Eliot. They — and a fifth, still half a world away — are the heroes of this story. DANIEL ROSSI 1 thought the sparrow's note from heaven. Singing at...cheers not now, For I did not bring home the river and the sky. RALPH WALDO EMERSON CUSS OF 1821 From earliest childhood Danny Rossi had a single, desperate... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...round yon Alpine height; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. the people to bathe in me, especially women. "(1. 1-4) 7 H (1. 5 — 12) 19 Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole. (1. 50-51)... | |
 | Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 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...not bring home the river and sky;— He sang to my ear,—they sang to my eye. The delicate shells lay on the shore; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 pages
...round yon Alpine height; Nor knowest thou what argument 10 Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good...note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough; 15 I brought him home, in his nest, at even; He sings the song, but it pleases not now, For I did not... | |
 | Eric L. Haralson, John Hollander - 1998 - 598 pages
...to be a unity of thought and impression, of the individual with the universal, and of each and all: "All are needed by each one; / Nothing is fair or good alone." But the whole is also the poem itself, since it is only by means of the poem that one comes to the... | |
 | Lang Elliott - 1999 - 144 pages
...its song. Ralph Waldo Emerson, probably referring to this species, wrote in "Each and All" (1867): "I thought the Sparrow's note from heaven, singing at dawn on the alder bough." Wilson Flagg (1881), considered the Song Sparrow "the true harbinger of spring; and, if not the sweetest... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 pages
...this question as it concerns beauty, and offers three instances from which an induction is made that All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone. "The Problem" applies this theme to religion. Religious fabrics and forms are products of spirit, but... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 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...the alder bough; I brought him home, in his nest, at even;6 He sings the song, but it pleases not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky— He... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 2003 - 302 pages
...as beautiful alone as it is in composition or context, as Emerson argues in the poem "Each and AH": "All are needed by each one; / Nothing is fair or good alone." Ironically, then, despite his earlier assertion that objects of nature are complete in themselves,... | |
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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. 
