 For us the winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heav'n move, and fountains flow. Nothing we see but means our good, As our delight, or as our treasure; The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure.  Works - Page 72by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | William Mountford - 1858 - 536 pages
...enough for a doubt to be in. CHAPTER XXVIII. For us the winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heaven more, and fountains flow. Nothing we see but means our good, As our delight, or as our treasure : The whole ia either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure. The stars have us to bed ; Night draws the... | |
 | Samuel Brown - 1858 - 402 pages
...got so far, But Man hath caught and kept it as his prey. His eyes dismount the highest star : He u in little all the sphere. Herbs gladly cure our flesh, because that they Find their acquaintance there. ' The stars have us to bed ; Night draws the curtain, which the suu withdraws : Music and light attend... | |
 | Samuel Brown - 1858 - 430 pages
...Man hath caught and kept it as his prey. His eyes dismount the highest star : //• it in little att the sphere. Herbs gladly cure our flesh, because that they Find their acquaintance there. ' The stars have us to bed ; Night draws the curtain, which the sun withdraws: Music and light attend... | |
 | William Adolphus Clark - 1860 - 84 pages
...then possessed the language, I could have truthfully exclaimed, in the words of the poet psalmist, ' Herbs gladly cure our flesh, because that they Find their acquaintance there. * * * * * All things unto our flesh are kind.' Tom Jones and Ned Smith were friends till proud Tom,... | |
 | William Landels - 1861 - 280 pages
...be turned to profitable account in the expansion of our minds, and the formation of our character. " For us the winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heaven...good, As our delight, or as our treasure; The whole ia either our cupboard of food Or cabinet of pleasure. - " The stars have us to bed : Night draws the... | |
 | 1861 - 774 pages
...world-book with more intelligent eye, and with a more devout heart, ready to say, with the quaint poet — ' For us the winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heaven move, fiutl fountains flow ; Nothing we see but means our ;,'oou, As our ddirilit or as Our treasure. The... | |
 | George Herbert - 1863 - 372 pages
...hath got so farre, But Man hath caught and kept it as his prey. His eyes dismount the highest starre : He is in little all the sphere. Herbs gladly cure our flesh, because that they Finde their acquaintance there. For us the windes do blow, The earth doth rest, heav'n move, and fountains... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1864 - 210 pages
...nothing for reward : O why should heavenly God to men have such regard ? SPENSER. MAN'S SERVANTS. j]OR us the winds do blow ; The earth doth rest, heaven...our delight or as our treasure : The whole is either cupboard of our food, Or cabinet of pleasure. The stars have us to bed ; Night draws the curtain, which... | |
 | Isaac Leeser - 626 pages
...full of meaning, every line having as much matter as would suffice a modern poet for an entire stanza: For us the winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heaven...Nothing we see but means our good, As our delight, or as OUT treasure ; The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure. The stars have us... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...amity, And both with moons and tides. " Nothing hath got so far But man hath caught and kept it as his prey ; His eyes dismount the highest star ; He is...The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow j Nothing we see, but means our good, As our delight, or as our treasure ; The whole is either our... | |
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