 The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem ; the shepherd, his lamb ; the farmer, corn ; the miner, a gem ; the sailor, coral and shells ; the painter, his picture ; the girl, a handkerchief of her...  Complete Works - Page 155by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 606 pages
...hints which may help to give form to a generous impulse : — "The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings...picture ; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing. " "Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 pages
...hints which may help to give form to a generous impulse : — "The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings...picture ; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing." "Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 pages
...help to give form to a generous impulse: — "The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must Heed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd,...picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing." "Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 pages
..."The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for ine. Therefore the poet brings his poein; the shepherd, his lamb ; the farmer, corn ; the miner,...picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing." "Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray... | |
 | Emilie Poulsson - 1893 - 484 pages
...signs of love. From the Essay on Gift*, Ralph 'Waldo Emerson. " The only gift is a portion of thyself. Therefore the poet brings his poem: the shepherd,...picture ; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing. " " I fear to breathe any treason against the majesty of love which is the genius and god of gifts... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - 1896 - 382 pages
...me, correspondent to my flowing unto nim. — EMERSON. The only gift is a portion of thyself. * * * Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd,...picture ; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing. — EMERSON. A gift — its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it... | |
 | Adelaide Anne Procter - 1896 - 468 pages
...do not represent our life. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Therefore let the farmer give his corn ; the miner, a gem ; the sailor, coral and shells; the painter, bis picture ; and the poet, liu. poem," — EMERSON'S 7?^«>j, AAP Majr, 1858, , AN INTRODUCTION. BY... | |
 | Florence Ursula Palmer - 1899 - 260 pages
..."The only gift is a portion of thyself— therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lambs; the farmer, corn; the miner, a gem; the sailor, coral...painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing."1 A Christmas Gift. Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said, "It is more blessed... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 644 pages
...— The Superlative. Self the Only Thing (livable.— The only gift is a portion of thyself. . . . Therefore the poet brings his poem ; the shepherd,...picture ; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing. — Essays : Gifts. The Simplicity of Greatness.— Nothing is more simple than greatness ; indeed,... | |
 | Florence Ursula Palmer - 1900 - 262 pages
...only gift is a portion of thyself — therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lambs; the farmer, corn; the miner, a gem; the sailor, coral...painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing."1 A Christmas Gift. Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said, "It is more blessed... | |
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