...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Waldo Emerson wrote, v_^ "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." This certainly has been true in writing this book. I think of Ruth McCormack and all of the librarians...

...Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbour's creed has lent, 10 All are needed by eaeh one ; Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the...alder bough ; I brought him 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...