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" Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple cloud, She silvered in the moon ; She spired into a yellow flame ; She flowered in blossoms red ; She flowed into a foaming wave ; She stood Monadnoc's head. Thorough a thousand... "
Poems - Page 6
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 199 pages
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Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...thousand natures ply ; Ask on, thou clothed eternity; Time is the false reply. ' Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple cloud, She silvered in tlie moon; She spired into a yellow flame; She flowered in blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming...
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The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, Volumes 72-73

1880 - 670 pages
...and ambles about wildly. Is the author really facetious when he says, defiant of rhyme, 11 Through a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame : * Who...telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am.' " But, after all, we are not left entirely to ourselves among the stony ruins of Memphis. There are...
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Education, Volume 1

1881 - 662 pages
...the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone ; She hopped into the baby's eyes, She hopped into the moon ; She spired into a yellow flame, She flowered in blossoms red, She flowed into a foaming stream. She stood Monadnoc's head. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal Dame, — Whoso telleth...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...thousand natures ply ; Ask on, thou clothed eternity ; Time is the false reply.' Uprose the merry Sphinx, essed." Savages cling to a local god of one tribe...an amiable parson, like Jung Stilling, or Robert down Of thee from the hill-top looking dowa ; The heifer that lows in. the upland farm, Far-heard,...
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 380 pages
...clothed eternity ; Time is the false reply." Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone 5 She melted into purple cloud, She silvered in the...telleth one of my meanings, Is master of all I am." 8 EACH AND ALL. LITTLE thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked (down Of thee from the hill-top looking...
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Poems, Volume 9

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...thousand natures ply : Ask on, thou clothed eternity; Time is the false reply." Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone; She melted into purple...blossoms red ; She flowed into a foaming wave; She stood Monadnoc'a head. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame; " Who telleth one of my meaning!,...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 344 pages
...thousand natures ply : Ask on, thou clothed eternity; Time is the false reply." Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone; She melted into purple...Spoke the universal dame ; **Who telleth one of my meaning^ Is master of all I am." EACH AND ALL. LITTLE thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown Of...
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The Andover Review, Volume 8

1887 - 708 pages
...phenomena as alike maintained and destroyed by an innate principle of life. " Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple...flowed into a foaming wave, She stood Monadnoc's head." in. We have seen the influence in modern poetry of the primary note of the scientific temper. In the...
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The Princeton Review, Volume 14

1884 - 354 pages
...know what God and man is." Emerson, as Mr. Stedman has observed, had put it in this wise : " Through a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame: Who telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am." " A leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time," says Emerson in " Nature," " is related to the whole,...
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Poets of America

Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 544 pages
...and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is," Emerson had put it in this wise : — " Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame...telleth one of my meanings, Is master of all I am.'" The reference, in "Bacchus," to the ascent of life from form to form, still remains incomparable for...
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