 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 pages
...highest star : lie is in little all the sphere. Herbs gladly cure our flesh, beeause that they Find thcir acquaintance there. " For us, the winds do blow, The...good, As our delight, or as our treasure; The whole is cither our cupboard of food, Or eabinet of pleasure. "The stars have us to bed: Night draws the curtain... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 674 pages
...antitv, 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...because that they Find their acquaintance there. " For ns, the winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow; Nothing we see, but means... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 492 pages
...kept it as his prey ; 20 His eyes dismount the highest star ; Ho ie in little all the sphere ; Herb» gladly cure our flesh, because that they Find their...acquaintance there. For us the winds do blow, The earth resteth, heaven moveth, fountains flow ; Nothing we see but means our good, As our delight or as our... | |
 | Duncan M. West - 1883 - 348 pages
...designed to educate our souls for God. "For us the windes do blow, The earth doth rest, heav'n moves, 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 starres have us to bed ; Night draws the... | |
 | Daniel Worcester Faunce - 1884 - 244 pages
...amity, And both with moon 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, in little, all the sphere. Herbs cure our flesh because that they Find their acquaintance there." If then such be the world without... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 pages
...amity, And both with moons and tides. "Nothing hath got no far Bat man liath caught and kept it a* his prey ; His eyes dismount the highest star ; He is in little all the sphere. Herbi gladly cure our flesh, because that they Find their acquaintance there. " For us, the windi do... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 818 pages
...those lines of delightful old George Herbert, who himself possessed some share of the mystic gift : — For us the winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heaven...means our good, As our delight, or as our treasure l The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure. Now the main charge against the... | |
 | Michael Patrick O'Connor, David Noel Freedman - 1987 - 392 pages
...not mute, They go upon the score. Nothing hath got so far, But man hath caught and kept it, as his prey. His eyes dismount the highest star: He is in...flesh; because that they Find their acquaintance there. Such legends have a fairy-tale feel: grass or vegetation derives from the hair of the primal man and... | |
 | Harold Toliver - 1989 - 296 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. This has the look of an early poem (it is in the Williams manuscript)... | |
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