The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: PoemsHoughton Mifflin, 1918 |
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... lakes young rivers sprang ; He trode the unplanted forest floor , whereon The all - seeing sun for ages hath not shone ; Where feeds the moose , and walks the surly bear , And up the tall mast runs the woodpecker . He saw beneath dim ...
... lakes young rivers sprang ; He trode the unplanted forest floor , whereon The all - seeing sun for ages hath not shone ; Where feeds the moose , and walks the surly bear , And up the tall mast runs the woodpecker . He saw beneath dim ...
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... lake , edged with sand and grass , Was burnished to a floor of glass , Painted with shadows green and proud Of the tree and of the cloud.2 He was the heart of all the scene ; On him the sun looked more serene ; To hill and cloud his ...
... lake , edged with sand and grass , Was burnished to a floor of glass , Painted with shadows green and proud Of the tree and of the cloud.2 He was the heart of all the scene ; On him the sun looked more serene ; To hill and cloud his ...
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... lake , But it carves the bow of beauty there , And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake . ” The wood is wiser far than thou ; The wood and wave each other know Not unrelated , unaffied , But to each thought and thing allied , Is ...
... lake , But it carves the bow of beauty there , And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake . ” The wood is wiser far than thou ; The wood and wave each other know Not unrelated , unaffied , But to each thought and thing allied , Is ...
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... lake , But their long hands it thence will take ; Whilst the country's flinty face , Like wax , their fashioning skill betrays , To fill the hollows , sink the hills , Bridge gulfs , drain swamps , build dams and mills , And fit the ...
... lake , But their long hands it thence will take ; Whilst the country's flinty face , Like wax , their fashioning skill betrays , To fill the hollows , sink the hills , Bridge gulfs , drain swamps , build dams and mills , And fit the ...
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... lake with images , - As garment draws the garment's hem , Men their fortunes bring with them . By right or wrong , Lands and goods go to the strong . Property will brutely draw Still to the proprietor ; Silver to silver creep and 116 ...
... lake with images , - As garment draws the garment's hem , Men their fortunes bring with them . By right or wrong , Lands and goods go to the strong . Property will brutely draw Still to the proprietor ; Silver to silver creep and 116 ...
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Addresses and Lectures Atlantic Monthly bard beauty bird Boston breath brother cheer cloud Compensation Essays Dæmon delight Dial divine doth dream earth Emerson Essays eternal eyes Fate fear fire flame flowers forest genius glow gods GOETHE grace hath hear heart heaven hills James Freeman Clarke journal Jove lake land light lines live Merlin mind Monadnoc moon morning motto mountain Muse Nature Nature's never night o'er Over-Soul passage pine plant Plotinus poem poet Polycrates QUATRAINS race Ralph Waldo Emerson river rock rose round Saadi sail Second Series secret seemed shining sing sleep snow Solitude song soul sphere Sphinx stars stream Succory sweet thee thine things thou thought titmouse to-day town trees twilight sad verse verse-book Vishnu Purana voice walk wave wild wind wine wings wise woods word Xenophanes youth
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Página 296 - Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply: " 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
Página 38 - Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose! I never thought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The self-same Power that brought me there brought you.
Página 119 - THINK me not unkind and rude, That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men. Tax not my sloth that I Fold my arms beside the brook; Each cloud that floated in the sky Writes a letter in my book. Chide me not, laborious band, For the idle flowers I brought; Every aster in my hand Goes home loaded with a thought.
Página 54 - For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune, Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake.
Página 409 - The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken ; The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.
Página 252 - 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, Right onward drive unharmed; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed.
Página 281 - The rounded world is fair to see, Nine times folded in mystery: Though baffled seers cannot impart The secret of its laboring heart, Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast, And all is clear from east to west.
Página 518 - Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Página 7 - As the best gem upon her zone, And Morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids ; . * O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye ; For out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air...
Página 5 - Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore j With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.