 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
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis, Lewis, Edwin Hebert - 1899 - 442 pages
...my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. 'TWAS ONE OF THE CHARMED DAYS RALPH WALDO EMERSON "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; 5 Or south,... | |
 | 1899 - 260 pages
...tumult of the spring And looks upon the universe once more. PHILIP HENRY SAVAGE. Wood-Notes (AN EXCERPT) '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,... | |
 | John Fiske - 1899 - 444 pages
...also, Sachse, The Fatherland, Philadelphia, 1897, pp. 142-144. 2 For example, Emerson's verses : '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,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 966 pages
...sword of angels could reveal \\hat they conceal. FROM "WOODNOTES" "THE HEART OF ALL THE SCENE1' 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; ( >r south,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 968 pages
..."WOODNOTES" "THE HKART OF ALL THE SCENE " TWAS one of the charmed dnys When tlio genius of God doth How, The wind may alter twenty ways, A tempest cannot blow; It may lilow north, it still is warm; Or south, it still is clear; Or east, it smells like a clover- farm... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1901 - 964 pages
...sword of angels could reveal What they conceal. FROM "WOODNOTES" "THE HEART OF ALL THE SCENE1' T WAS Mq? The wind may alter twenty ways, A tempest cannot blow; It may blow north, it still is warm; Or south,... | |
 | 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,... | |
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