 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
 | George Herbert - 1981 - 382 pages
...or as our treasure: The whole is, either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure. 30 The stars have us to bed; Night draws the curtain, which the...withdraws; Music and light attend our head. All things unto ourflesh are kind In their descent and heing; to our mind 33 In their ascent and cause. Each thing... | |
 | George Herbert - 1991 - 500 pages
...or as our treasure: The whole is, either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure. 30 The stars have us to bed; Night draws the curtain, which the...flesh are kind In their descent and being; to our mind 35 In their ascent and cause. Each thing is full of duty: Waters united are our navigation; Distinguished,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau - 1994 - 148 pages
...teeasure, The whole is either our cuphoard of food Or cahinet of pleasure "The stars have us to hed. Night draws the curtain, which the sun withdraws....attend our head. All things unto our flesh are kind In thtir descent and heing, to OUT mind In their ascent and cause "More servants wait on man Than he'll... | |
 | Virginia Graham - 1996 - 260 pages
...or as our treasure: The whole is, either our cupboard of food, 30 Or cabinet of pleasure. The stars have us to bed; Night draws the curtain, which the...attend our head. All things unto our flesh are kind 35 In their descent and being; to our mind In their ascent and cause. Each thing is full of duty: Waters... | |
 | Arthur Versluis - 2001 - 240 pages
...does not merely quantify the world, but is able to see that as the Christian poet George Herbert wrote All things unto our flesh are kind, In their descent and being; to our mind, In their ascent and cause.64 Ascent to what Plotinus called "Authentic Being" takes place through the mind, and only such... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 284 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...things unto our flesh are kind. In their descent and betug; to our mtud, In their ascent and cause. More servants wait on man Than he'll take notice of.... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 2007 - 284 pages
...emblematic. In "Man" Herbert notes carelessness of medicinal herbs: "More servants wait on Man / Then he'll take notice of: in every path / He treads down that which doth befriend him, / When sicknesse makes him pale and wan."10 Despite the personification, this statement is not emblematic... | |
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