 I hung my verses in the wind, Time and tide their faults may find. All were winnowed through and through, Five lines lasted sound and true; Five were smelted in a pot Than the South more fierce and hot; These the siroc could not melt, Fire their fiercer...  Emerson as a Poet - Page 40by Joel Benton - 1883 - 134 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 336 pages
...pot Than the South more fierce and hot; These the siroc could not melt, Fire their fiercer flaming felt, And the meaning was more white Than July's meridian...to find the five Which five hundred did survive?" This was Emerson's method, — not to write a perfect poem, a poem that should be an inevitable whole,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 574 pages
...melt, / Fire their fiercer flaming felt, / / / . , ,»>'</< tr.ien,t 7U.. / ,».''•«. fm [A"' r ,• And the meaning was more white " < » ' . Than July's...eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive ? * SOLUTION I am the Muse who sung alway By Jove, at dawn of the first day. Star-crowned, sole-sitting,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 566 pages
...melt, Fire their fiercer flaming felt, And the meaning was more white Than July's meridian light. IC Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what...eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive ? ' SOLUTION On spawning slime my song prevails, Wolves shed their fangs, and dragons scales ; Flushed... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman - 1906 - 408 pages
...hymns which have lived. I could name five of these. Brethren, answer the question of Emerson, — " Have you eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive?" At the beginning of our second century, we come upon the name of John Pierpont, preacher, patriot,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 358 pages
...pot Than the South more fierce and hot; These the siroc could not melt, Fire their fiercer flaming felt, And the meaning was more white Than July's meridian...eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive ? SOLUTION. I AH the Muse who sung alway By Jove, at dawn of the first day. Star-crowned, sole-sitting,... | |
 | Lilian Whiting - 1911 - 616 pages
...pot Than the South more fierce and hot; These the siroc could not melt ; Fire their fiercer flaming felt ; And the meaning was more white Than July's...eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive t " Dr. Holmes, Edwin P. Whipple, Dr. Parsons, and several of their contemporaries, who were almost... | |
 | Jessie Belle Rittenhouse - 1915 - 344 pages
...pot Than the South more fierce and hot; These the siroc could not melt, Fire their fiercer flaming felt, And the meaning was more white Than July's meridian...eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive? RALPH WALDO EMIRSON PREFACE The Little Book of American Poets is designed as a companion volume to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1918 - 564 pages
...Five were smelted in a pot Than the South more fierce and hot ; These the siroc could not melt, Fire their fiercer naming felt, And the meaning was more...eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive ? ' SOLUTION I am the Muse who sung alway By Jove, at dawn of the first day. Star-crowned, sole-sitting,... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1918 - 746 pages
...pot Than the South more fierce and hot; These the siroc could not melt, Fire their fiercer flaming felt, And the meaning was more white Than July's meridian...eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive? 218 219 THE TITMOUSE You shall not be overbold When you deal with arctic cold, As late I found my lukewarm... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster - 1918 - 750 pages
...melt, Fire their fiercer flaming felt, And the meaning was more white Than July's meridian light. I0 Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what...eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive? 218 219 THE TITMOUSE You shall not be overbold When you deal with arctic cold, As late I found my lukewarm... | |
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