 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
 | 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,... | |
 | 卢炳群 - 2003 - 320 pages
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...feel that, in spite of our personal losses, the tendency of nature is toward the good of the whole? Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's...alder bough; I brought him home, in his nest, at even; He sings the song, but it cheers not now, For 1 did not bring home the river and sky;— He sang to... | |
 | Robert E. Belknap - 2004 - 284 pages
...makes plain its subject: the relation of the part to the ensemble. The poem illustrates the lesson that "All are needed by each one; / Nothing is fair or good alone." This thesis statement is abruptly inserted after ten lines. Matthiessen compares the poem to this passage... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...which river and sky, sparrow-song and seashell, cannot be taken out of their context in nature, where "all are needed by each one; / Nothing is fair or good alone." The poem ends with the poet standing amid oaks and firs, pinecones and acorns, actively seeing and... | |
 | W. C. Harris - 2005 - 336 pages
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 | Paul Carus - 2005 - 684 pages
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 | David Lehman - 2006 - 1208 pages
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