 CHARACTER The sun set; but set not his hope: Stars rose; his faith was earlier up: Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Deeper and older seemed his eye: And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of time. He spoke, and words more soft than rain Brought...  May-day, and Other Pieces - Page 164by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 205 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 376 pages
...world exists to realize will be the transformation of genius into practical power.1 Ill CHARACTER THE sun set ; but set not his hope: Stars rose ; his faith...taciturnity of time. He spoke, and words more soft than raia Brought the Age of Gold again: His action won such reverence sweet, As hid all measure of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 382 pages
...world exists to realize will be the transformation of genius into practical power. 1 Ill CHARACTER THE sun set ; but set not his hope: Stars rose ; his faith...taciturnity of time. He spoke, and words more soft than raic Brought the Age of Gold again: His action won such reverence sweet, As hid all measure of the... | |
 | Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York - 1903 - 348 pages
...purpose was fixed. No mischance of fortune could swerve that inflexible and irrefragable will. " The sun set ; but set not his hope ; Stars rose ; his...his sufferance sublime — The taciturnity of time." My father, when I was a boy, often told me, with a breaking voice, the story of that night, as his... | |
 | 1903 - 772 pages
...other and should be read together. It was as a poet that he would have wished to be remembered. "The sun set, but set not his hope. Stars rose ; his faith was earlier up." An Estimate of Emerson There are, as Arnold has pointed out, three estimates of the worth of any poet:... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 524 pages
...after a short illness. His life, brave, serene and happy, was in exact accord with his words : — The sun set, but set not his hope ; Stars rose, his faith was earlier up. EWE NATURE A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens... | |
 | Clara Bancroft Beatley - 1903 - 224 pages
...jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Eight onward. To Cyriac Skinner. JOHH MILTON. The sun set, but set not his hope : Stars rose ; his faith was earlier up. Character. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. XIII. THE HOPE THAT SAVES. Prophetic Hope, thy fine discourse Foretold... | |
 | Clara Bancroft Beatley - 1903 - 244 pages
...Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Eight onward. To C'vriac Skinner. JOHN Mr I.TON. The sun set, but set not his hope : Stars rose ; his faith was earlier up. Character. KALPJI WALDO EMERSON. THE HOPE THAT SAVES. Prophetic Hope, thy fine discourse Foretold not... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 304 pages
...great are jails, And head- winds right for royal sails. CHARACTER. sun set, but set not his hope : J[ Stars rose ; his faith was earlier up : Fixed on the...reverence sweet As hid all measure of the feat. CULTURE. CAN rules or tutors educate The semi-god whom we await ? He must be musical, Tremulous, impressional,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 602 pages
...things Heeds no longer lapse of time, Rushing ages moult their wings, Bathing in thy day sublime. The sun set, but set not his hope : — Stars rose, his...matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of Time.1 Beside his hut and shading oak, Thus to himself the poet spoke, ' I have supped to-night with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1854 - 598 pages
...My heart at the heart of things Heeds no longer lapse of time, Rushing ages moult their wings, The sun set, but set not his hope : — Stars rose, his...matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of Time.1 Beside his hut and shading oak. O » Thus to himself the poet spoke, ' I have supped to-night... | |
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