 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.  Select Essays and Poems - Page 77by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Roy Jay Cook - 1958 - 200 pages
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 | Ted Goodman - 1997 - 1008 pages
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 | 1955 - 476 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | Bruce Ross - 1999 - 248 pages
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