 Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple cloud, She silvered in the moon ; She spired into a yellow flame ; She flowered in blossoms red ; She flowed into a foaming wave ; She stood Monadnoc's head. Thorough a thousand...  The Early Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 8by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 220 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Carroll Everett - 1901 - 378 pages
...with the poem of Tennyson, as dealing with the same theme, the flash of poetry in Emerson's lines : " Who telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am." We must not forget that if the concreteness of the imagination is an element of obscurity in unfamiliar... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 348 pages
...thousand natures ply ; Ask on, thou clothed eternity ; Time is the false reply." Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple...Spoke the universal dame : " Who telleth one of my meaning^ Is master of all I am.'!/EACH AND ALL. I i LITTLE thinks, inj the field, yon red-cloaked clown,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 396 pages
...book Of creatures, and men need no farther look." Also the last verse in Emerson's " Sphinx ": — Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame...telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am." Page I20, note I. In the Timaus it is told that Solos heard from Egyptian priests this account of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 392 pages
...book Of creatures, and men need no farther look." Also the last verse in Emerson's " Sphinx ": — Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame...telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am.'' Page 120, note I. In the Timaus it is told that Solon heard from Egyptian priests this account of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 392 pages
...book Of creatures, and men need no farther look." Also the last verse in Emerson's " Sphinx " : — Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame...telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am. ' ' Page I2O, note I. In the Tim-ns it is told that Solon heard from Egyptian priests this account... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - 1903 - 320 pages
...all in all, I should know what God and man is," — Emerson had put it in this wise : — " Through a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame : Who telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am." " A leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time," says Emerson in " Nature," " is related to the whole,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 306 pages
...thousand natures ply ; Ask on, thou clothed eternity ; Time is the false reply." Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple...my meanings, Is master of all I am." EACH AND ALL. T ITTLE thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, I / Of thee from the hill-top looking down ; The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 304 pages
...natures ply ; Ask on, thou clothed eternity,; t.Time is the false , ' " U**"" Uprose the iperry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple...telleth one of my meanings, Is master of all I am." v EACH AND ALII T ITTLE thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked down J / Of thee from the hill- top looking... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 602 pages
...thousand natures ply ; Ask on, thou clothed eternity ; Time is the false reply." Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple...telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am." ' ALPHONSO OF CASTILE I, ALPHONSO, live and learn, Seeing Nature go astern. Things deteriorate in kind... | |
 | Elisabeth Luther Cary - 1904 - 394 pages
...reconcilement we can think only of the concluding stanzas in his poem The Sphhix : Up rose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone; She melted into purple...dame: Who telleth one of my meanings, Is master of all 1 am. Critics of Emerson from within the pale of organised Christianity have found him unappreciative... | |
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