 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 348 pages
...Shadow and sunlight are the same ; The vanished gods to me appear ; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly,...doubter and the doubt. And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain the sacred Seven ; But thou, meek lover of the... | |
 | 1903 - 1254 pages
...Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly...doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain the sacred Seven; But thou, meek lover of the good,... | |
 | 1903 - 418 pages
...doubt his affirmation of the Eternal, and he makes of their very doubt a witness of his God: — " They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly,...and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings." Thus to the rationalist, the system-maker, the "understanding" of man, — to use Emerson's free adaptation... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1903 - 176 pages
...and pass, and turn again. " They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly, I am the wings, 1 am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings." But remember that if God is infinite in this sense, then He must be unknown and unknowable. He cannot... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 526 pages
...not care to peep beyond the curtain. He said, "I am. The whole fact is here or nowhere." Page 285, note I. The Spirit lodged in man has spurred him to...Brahmin sings. "Brahma," Poems. Page 286, note I. Thou an the unanswered question. " The Sphinx," Poems. God enters by a private door into every individual.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 602 pages
...Shadow and sunlight are the same ; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly,...doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain the sacred Seven ; But thou, meek lover of the... | |
 | 1904 - 1058 pages
...Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear ; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly,...doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain the sacred Seven; But thou, meek lover of the good... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1904 - 280 pages
...ploughman, the plough, and the furrow are of one stuff." And this is the thought in " Brahma " : — " They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly,...and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings." There have been poets — Dante for instance — whose poetry has risen on occasion into the region... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 574 pages
...Shadow and sunlight are the same ; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly,...doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain the sacred Seven ; But thou, meek lover of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 306 pages
...to me are shame and fame. j They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly, I am the wings ; J I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain the sacred Seven ; i But thou, meekjover of the... | |
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If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are... 
