 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
 | George Herbert - 1995 - 552 pages
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 | Virginia Graham - 1996 - 260 pages
...they feed man when falling as rain. 42 neat - well-ordered. 20 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. 25 For us the winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heav'n move, and fountains flow. Nothing we see,... | |
 | Andrew J. Davis - 1996 - 410 pages
...amity, And both with moods and tides. " Nothing hath gone 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 gladly euro our flesh, because that they Find their acquaintance there. " For us, the winds do blow, The earth... | |
 | Stanton J. Linden - 392 pages
...call the furthest, brother: For head with foot hath private amitie, And both with moons and tides. He is in little all the sphere. Herbs gladly cure our flesh; because that they Finde their acquaintance there. [11. 13-18, 22-24] Herbert's most specifically alchemical poem is "The... | |
 | Mordecai Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - 1997 - 308 pages
...perfection, its flowers and fruit. 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 . More servants wait on man Than he'll take notice of: in every path He treads down that which doth... | |
 | Peter Harrison - 2001 - 330 pages
...correspondence accounted for the healing power of herbs. George Herbert wrote in the poem 'Man' that 'He is in little all the sphere; / Herbs gladly cure our flesh, because that they / Finde their acquaintance there.'243 Nicholas Culpeper, author of one of the standard seventeenth-century... | |
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