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" I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough; I brought him home, in his nest, at even; He sings the song, but it cheers not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky; He sang to my ear, they sang to my eye. "
Essays and Poems of Emerson - Page 449
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 525 pages
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Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2003 - 564 pages
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The New Anthology of American Poetry: Traditions and Revolutions, Beginnings ...

Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 pages
...round yon Alpine height; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good...the alder bough; I brought him home, in his nest, at even;6 He sings the song, but it pleases not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky— He...
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A Dream Too Wild: A Book of Meditations from the Writings of Ralph Waldo ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...feel that, in spite of our personal losses, the tendency of nature is toward the good of the whole? Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's...home, in his nest, at even; He sings the song, but it cheers not now, For 1 did not bring home the river and sky;— He sang to my ear,—they sang to my...
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Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 564 pages
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The List: The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing

Robert E. Belknap - 2004 - 284 pages
...that their beauty depended on their integration within a whole greater than he could possibly possess: I thought the sparrow's note from heaven; Singing...home, in his nest, at even; He sings the song, but it cheers not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky;— He sang to my ear,—they sang to my...
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The Poetry Cure a Pocket Medicine Chest of Verse

Robert Haven Schauffler - 2004 - 468 pages
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The Oxford Book of American Poetry

David Lehman - 2006 - 1208 pages
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Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty

Alan Jacobs - 1999 - 564 pages
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A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets

Henry George Bohn - 2006 - 732 pages
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Quotable Poems - An Anthology of Modern Verse - Volume Two

Thomas Curtis Clark - 2007 - 380 pages
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