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" 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. "
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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The Opacity of Signs: Acts of Interpretation in George Herbert's The Temple

Richard Todd - 1986 - 248 pages
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Backgrounds for the Bible

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...
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The Essential Herbert

George Herbert - 1987 - 192 pages
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George Herbert's Christian Narrative

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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The Complete English Poems

George Herbert - 1991 - 500 pages
...both with moons and tides. Nothing hath got so far, But Man hath caught and kept it, as his prey. 2o His eyes dismount the highest star: He is in little...their acquaintance there. For us the winds do blow, 15 The earth doth rest, heav'n move, and fountains flow. Nothing we see, but means our good, As our...
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Nature and Walking

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau - 1994 - 148 pages
...amity. And hoth 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 in little all the sphere Herhs gladly cure our flesh, hecause that they Find their acquaintance there "For us, the winds do...
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Milton, Poet of Duality: A Study of Semiosis in the Poetry and the Prose

Richard Allen Shoaf - 1993 - 260 pages
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Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Student's Guide

Isabel Rivers - 1994 - 248 pages
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George Herbert: The Critical Heritage

C. A. Patrides - 1995 - 420 pages
...and all to all the world besides. ' Head with foot hath private amity, And both with moons and tides. His eyes dismount the highest star: He is in little...flesh, because that they Find their acquaintance there. Each thing is full of duty. More servants wait on Man, Than he'll take notice of: in every path He...
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The Wit of Seventeenth-century Poetry

Claude J. Summers, Ted-Larry Pebworth - 1995 - 248 pages
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