Twas one of the charmed days When the genius of God doth flow, The wind may alter twenty ways, A tempest cannot blow; It may blow north, it still is warm; Or south, it still is clear; Or east, it smells like a clover-farm; Or west, no thunder fear. Select Essays and Poems - Page 83by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 340 pages
...keeps To spy what danger on his pathway creeps; Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His^hearth the earth, — his hall the azure dome ; 'Where his clear spirit leads him, there 's his road, / By God's own light illumined and foreshowed. ' •Twas one of the charmed days... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 356 pages
...home, His hearth the earth, — his hall the azure dome ; Where his clear spirit leads him, there 's his road By God's own light illumined and foreshowed....the charmed days When the genius of God doth flow, The wind may alter twenty ways, A tempest cannot blow; It may blow north, it still is warm ; Or south,... | |
| Caroline Atwater Mason - 1895 - 200 pages
...Emily joins them, and the women meet with unaffected kindness " 150 A MINISTER OF THE WORLD I. "T was one of the charmed days When the genius of God doth flow, The wind may alter twenty ways, A tempest cannot blow ; It may blow north, it still is warm ; Or south,... | |
| John Vance Cheney - 1895 - 466 pages
...summed in the line, — " Put off thy years, wash in the breeze." The day it was conceived, " 'T was one of the charmed days When the genius of God doth flow." Strewn with those happy " finds," " As if a sunbeam showed the place," it is not only " Painted with... | |
| 1896 - 532 pages
...watch he keeps To spy what danger on his pathway creeps ; Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, — his hall the azure dome;...road By God's own light illumined and foreshowed. 4 T was one of the charmed days When the genius of God doth flow; The wind may alter twenty ways, A tempest... | |
| Mary Wilder Tileston - 1896 - 392 pages
...watch he keeps To spy what danger on his pathway creeps ; Go wnere he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, — his hall the azure dome...Where his clear spirit leads him, there's his road, Ey God's own light illumined and foreshowed. RW EMERSON nTHOUGH I sympathize, I do not share in the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 264 pages
...watch he keeps To spy what danger on his pathway creeps ; Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, — his hall the azure dome ; Where his clear spirit leads him, there 's his road, 95 .By God's own light illumined and foreshowed. 4. JX 'T was one of the charmed... | |
| James Willis Westlake - 1898 - 206 pages
...WORDSWORTH : She was a Phantom, etc. The Wise Man.} CCXXV. Go where he will, the wise man is at home; His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome; Where...road, By God's own light illumined and foreshowed. Autumn.] Trutk.\ CCXXVI. He liveth long who liveth well ! All other life is short and vain. He liveth... | |
| Charles Edward Jefferson - 1898 - 204 pages
...come must be seized and used. Some days are opaque. No light streams through. And then there comes — One of the charmed days When the genius of God doth flow. Mind and heart are ready. In a few hours the work of weeks bursts into blossom, an argument is forged,... | |
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