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
| Annette Lucile Noble - 1901 - 364 pages
...Ward, wagging a prophetic forefinger, " Elvira will be fascinating." XI On the Jastedalsbrae '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,... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1902 - 434 pages
...the beach,— I have but few companions by the shore." "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." EMERSON. This well-known speech to his large and respectable circle of acquaintance beyond the mountains... | |
| John Fiske - 1902 - 528 pages
...quarters condemned. Curiously enough, there is no one who seems 1 For example, Emerson's verses, — '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,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 348 pages
...he keeps 'o spy what danger on his pathway creeps ; Go where lie will, the wise man is at home, • His hearth the earth, — his hall the azure dome...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,... | |
| Clara Bancroft Beatley - 1903 - 224 pages
...than hands and feet. The Higher Pantheism. ALFRED TENNYSON. Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, — his hall, the azure dome...there's his road, By God's own light, illumined and foreshown. Woodnotes. RALPH WALDO EMBRSON. O God, whose presence glows in all, Within, around us, and... | |
| Clara Bancroft Beatley - 1903 - 226 pages
...than hands and feet. The Higher Pantheism. ALFRED TENNYSON. Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth,— his hall, the azure dome...there's his road, By God's own light, illumined and foreshown. Woodnotes. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. HYMN. O God, whose presence glows in all, Within, around... | |
| John Fiske - 1903 - 524 pages
...have been the poet Edmund Spenser who first suggested to Queen Elizabeth — perhaps when he came to The wind may alter twenty ways, A tempest cannot blow...blow north, it still is warm ; Or south, it still U clear ; Or east, it smells like a clover farm ; Or west, no thunder fear have thus been rendered... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 472 pages
...of character, to serve such a constituency ? IV RESOURCES 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. DAY tiy day for her darlings to her... | |
| Samuel McChord Crothers - 1903 - 348 pages
...doing all sorts of things in all sorts of ways ; and we are glad that we are there to see them. It is one of the " charmed days When the Genius of God doth flow ; The wind may alter twenty ways But a tempest cannot blow." On such days it does n't matter what happens.... | |
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