Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb.' As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime: 'Lowly faithful, banish fear,... Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 178by Richard Garnett - 1888 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 pages
...As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder, reef, and sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime : ' Lowly faithful, banish fear, Eight onward drive unharmed ; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed.'... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pages
...mod'rate ills, And sympathize with others suffering more. 2729 Cowper : Task. Bk. iv. Line 383. As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm...worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed." 2730 Emerson: Terminus. Life is a strange avenue of various trees and flowers ; Lightsome at commencement,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...ebbing veins, I Amid the Muses, left thee deal and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb.' As the bird trims her to the gale, '< I trim myself to the...the cruise, is near, } And every wave is charmed." THE NUN'S ASPIRATION. THE yesterday doth never smile, The day goes drudging through the while, Yet,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...ebbing veins, Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb.' As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm...worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed.' THE NUN'S ASPIRATION. THE yesterday doth never smile, The day goes drudging through the while, Yet,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 pages
...nerveless reins, — Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb." As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm...eve obeyed at prime : " Lowly faithful, banish fear, Eight onward drive unharmed ; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed."... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 pages
...ebbing veins, Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb.' As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm...rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prune: « Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unharmed; The port, well worth the cruise,... | |
| Marshall Pinckney Wilder - 1883 - 130 pages
...evening so well befitting its close, we have the right to address to him the words of Emerson : — Lowly faithful, banish fear; Right onward drive, unharmed....worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed. Very truly yours, FW BIRD. CHB BRECK, Esq. Letter of the Hon. Charles Levi Woodbury. BOSTON, Sept.... | |
| George Prentice - 1883 - 558 pages
...concluding lines, and read them aloud : " As the bird trims him to the gale, I trim myself to the storms of time ; I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime, Lowly. faith ful, banish fear. Right onward drive unharmed, The port well worth the cruise is near, And every... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 332 pages
...rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime : ' Lowly faithful, banish fear, Eight onward drive unharmed ; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed.' THE NUN'S ASPIRATION. THE yesterday doth never smile, The day goes drudging through the while, Yet,... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 488 pages
...nerveless reins, — Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb. " As the bird trims her to the gale I trim myself to the storm...drive unharmed ; The port, well worth the cruise, is lear, And every wave is charmed.'" CHAPTER XL 1868-1873. 2E& 65-70. Lectures on the Natural History... | |
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