 For us the winds do blow; The earth doth rest, heaven 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. The stars have us to bed; Night draws...  Essays, Lectures and Orations - Page 230by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Brown - 1858 - 430 pages
...the sphere. Herbs gladly cure our flesh, because that they Find their acquaintance there. ' The stars have us to bed ; Night draws the curtain, which the sun withdraws: Music and light attend our head. AH things unto our flesh are kind In their descent and being ; to our mind In tlie.ir ascent and cause.... | |
 | Samuel Brown - 1858 - 402 pages
...Find their acquaintance there. ' The stars have us to bed ; Night draws the curtain, which the suu withdraws : Music and light attend our head. All things unto our flesh are kind In t/teir descent and being ; to our mind In their ascent and cauee. ' More servants wait on man Than... | |
 | Anna Bartlett Warner - 1859 - 658 pages
...delight, or as our treasure. The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure. j The stars have us to bed ; Night draws the curtain ; which the...and being ; to our mind, In their ascent and cause. Each thing is full of duty : Waters united are our navigation : Distinguished, our habitation ; Below,... | |
 | George Herbert - 1859 - 432 pages
...meat : Both are our cleanlinefs. Hath one fuch beauty ? Then how are all things neat ! More fervants wait on Man, Than he'll take notice of: in every path...He treads down that which doth befriend him, When ficknefs makes him pale and wan. H 98 THE POEMS OF Oh mighty love ! Man is one world, and hath Another... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Smith Jackson - 1860 - 656 pages
...delight, or as our treasure : The whole is either our cupboard of food Or cabinet of pleasure. The stars have us to bed ; Night draws the curtain which the...Music and light attend our head: All things unto our FLESII are kind, In their descent and being ; to our MINT, In their ASCENT and came. More servants... | |
 | Richard Knill, Charles Morton Birrell - 1860 - 378 pages
...Mr. Enill's Life and Character by the Rev. JA James, Pages 338-364 POSTSCRIPT Page 886 CHAPTER I. " More servants wait on man Than he'll take notice of:...path He treads down that which doth befriend him." EARLY DATS. IF the reader, in the course of a summer excursion, have sailed along the fine southern... | |
 | Richard Knill - 1860 - 298 pages
...the Rev. JA James, Pp. 247-265 POSTSCRIPT, P. 2C6 CHAPTER I. " More servants wait on man Than he '11 take notice of : in every path He treads down that which doth befriend him." HERBERT. IF the reader, in the course of a summer excursion, have sailed along the fine southern shore... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1861 - 448 pages
...or as our treasure ; The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure. " The stars have us to bed ; Night draws the curtain, which the...and being; to our mind In their ascent and cause." And do you then believe that the great God, whose motto, " waste not, want not," is pictured and practised... | |
 | William Landels - 1861 - 280 pages
...cabinet of pleasure. - " The stars have us to bed : Night draws the curtain, which the sun withdraw* Music and light attend our head. All things unto our...ascent and cause. " More servants wait on man Than he 11 take notice of. In every path He treads down that which doth befriend him When sickness makes... | |
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