The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: PoemsHoughton Mifflin, 1918 |
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... learned clan ; For what are they all , in their high conceit , When man in the bush with God may meet ? EACH AND ALL LITTLE thinks , in the field , yon red - cloaked clown Of thee from the hill - top looking down ; The heifer that lows ...
... learned clan ; For what are they all , in their high conceit , When man in the bush with God may meet ? EACH AND ALL LITTLE thinks , in the field , yon red - cloaked clown Of thee from the hill - top looking down ; The heifer that lows ...
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... learned lecture , well ; Spare the clergy and libraries , Institutes and dictionaries , For that hardy English root Thrives here , unvalued , underfoot . Rude poets of the tavern hearth , Squandering your unquoted mirth , Which keeps ...
... learned lecture , well ; Spare the clergy and libraries , Institutes and dictionaries , For that hardy English root Thrives here , unvalued , underfoot . Rude poets of the tavern hearth , Squandering your unquoted mirth , Which keeps ...
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... learned jurist's chair ; But they hurry to their peers , To their kinsfolk and their dears ; Louder than with speech they pray , - What am I ? companion , say . ' And the friend not hesitates To assign just place and mates ; Answers not ...
... learned jurist's chair ; But they hurry to their peers , To their kinsfolk and their dears ; Louder than with speech they pray , - What am I ? companion , say . ' And the friend not hesitates To assign just place and mates ; Answers not ...
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... learned with me the lore of time , Who loved this dwelling - place ! They took this valley for their toy , They played with it in every mood ; A cell for prayer , a hall for joy , - They treated Nature as they would . They colored the ...
... learned with me the lore of time , Who loved this dwelling - place ! They took this valley for their toy , They played with it in every mood ; A cell for prayer , a hall for joy , - They treated Nature as they would . They colored the ...
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... learned classifiers , Men knowing what they seek , armed eyes of experts . We praise the guide , we praise the forest life : But will we sacrifice our dear - bought lore Of books and arts and trained experiment , Or count the Sioux a ...
... learned classifiers , Men knowing what they seek , armed eyes of experts . We praise the guide , we praise the forest life : But will we sacrifice our dear - bought lore Of books and arts and trained experiment , Or count the Sioux a ...
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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.