...in church in 1839; LOA, i: 259), Emerson reflects upon the problematic attraction of the ministry: I like a church; I like a cowl; I love a prophet of...vest on him allure, Which I could not on me endure? This poem has its beginnings, typically, in a prose passage in Emerson's journals, a source that he...

...of Church and broad of mind, Broad before and broad behind. John Betjeman, The Wykehamist (1932) if, I like a church; I like a cowl; I love a prophet of the soul . . . Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled churchman be. RW Emerson, The Problem (1867)...

...same ground in which I once recognised Christian faith: the quest for truth. Gunther Weber The Problem I like a church; I like a cowl; I love a prophet of...that cowled churchman be. Why should the vest on him alure, Which I could not on me endure? Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias...

...inspiration in a stanza that also contains the phrase he chose as his epitaph (see April 27th.) THE PROBLEM I like a church, I like a cowl I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic isles Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled...

...senses stole ; S° I yielded myself to the perfect whole. THE PROBLEM I IIKE a church ; I like a cow! ; I love a prophet- of the soul ; And on my heart monastic...vest on him allure, Which I could not on me endure ? Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought ; » Never from lips of cunning...