 Pine cones and acorns lay on the ground; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity; Again I saw, again I heard. The rolling river, the morning bird; Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole.  Poems and Essays - Page 62by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 236 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1911 - 300 pages
...discursive poem, always about to clinch and never clinching, ends or almost ends with this immensity : — ' Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity.' In this division of Emerson's poetry are many passages in 'Woodnotes,' the lineal ancestor of Meredith's... | |
 | 1903 - 1038 pages
...unaware of anything around him. His delicate sensitiveness to the world shows in many lines like these: As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground-pine curled...soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity ; Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole. Emerson was insatiable in... | |
 | 1912 - 440 pages
...undone, A gentle wife, but fairy none. Then I said, "I covet truth; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth:" — As...and firs; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground; 2824 Poems of Sentiment and Reflection Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity;... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1912 - 696 pages
...undone, 35 A gentle wife but fairy none. Then I said, "I covet truth: Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth." As I spoke, beneath my feet 40 The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burrs; I inhaled the violet's... | |
 | Edwin Bradley Richards - 1919 - 170 pages
...undone, A gentle wife, but fairy none, Then I said, "I covet truth; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth:" As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club moss burs; I inhaled the violet's breath... | |
 | Alice Marie Krackowizer - 1919 - 270 pages
...things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar." RW Emerson. "As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club moss burs ; I inhaled the violet's breath; Around me stood the oaks and firs ; Pine-cones and... | |
 | 1919 - 966 pages
...gentle wife, but fairy none. Then I said, ' I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat ; 35 1 rapevines that little was to be seen of the trellis wood-work, led straigh 4° The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burrs ; I inhaled the violet's... | |
 | 1920 - 202 pages
...— A gentle wife, but fairy none. Then I said, "I covet truth; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth." As I spoke,...violet's breath; Around me stood the oaks and firs; Pine cones and acorns lay on the ground; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity;... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - 1923 - 890 pages
...undone, A gentle wife, but fairy none. Then I said, "I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat ; I leave it behind with the games of youth." — •...violet's breath ; Around me stood the oaks and firs; Pines and acorns lay on the ground; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and deity; Again... | |
 | 1913 - 420 pages
...and the sand and the wild uproar. "Then I said, 'I covet truth; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.' As I spoke,...its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burrs ; Around me stood the oaks and firs ; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground; Over me soared the eternal... | |
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