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... Routine and Ideals: By Le Baron Russell Briggs - Página 82de Le Baron Russell Briggs - 1904 - 232 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Frank Preston Stearns - 1892 - 260 páginas
...and with characteristic calmness he writes " Terminus," a fitting consummation of a glorious life. " As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed." XIV. THE MULLER AND WHITNEY CONTROVERSY. [Note. My excuse for bringing this subject before the public... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 574 páginas
...nerveless reins, — Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb. Amid the gladiators, halt and numb." As the bird trims her to the gale I trim myself to...reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime : a Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unharmed ; The port, well worth the cruise, is... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 páginas
...nerveless reins, — Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb." As the bird trims her to the gale I trim myself to the storm of time, 1 man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime : <* Lowly faithful, banish... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 608 páginas
...rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime : 54 Lowly faithful, banish fear, Bight onward drive unharmed ; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed." CHAPTER XI. 1868-1873. MT. 65-70. Lectures on the Natural History of the Intellect. — Publication... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 páginas
...nerveless reins, — Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb." As the bird trims her to the gale I trim myself to the storm of time, 1 man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime : 44 Lowly faithful, banish... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 340 páginas
...nerveless reins, — Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb.' As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed.' THE NUN'S ASPIRATION. THE yesterday doth never smile, The day goes drudging through the while, Yet,... | |
| 1894 - 136 páginas
...spite of grief, To gambol with life's falling leaf. WORDSWOBTH. "AS THE BIRD TRIMS HER TO THE GALE." As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed." EMERSON. 93 WAITING. SERENE I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea ; I rave no... | |
| H. W. Thorne - 1894 - 264 páginas
...attention devoted to it Let him attune his life to the sentiment, and voice the words of the poet: " As the bird trims her to the gale, " I trim myself...cruise, is near, " ' And every wave is charmed.'" CHAPTER IX. STENOGRAPHER-LAW. THE STATUTES now in force in, and the decisions of the courts of, the... | |
| William Potts - 1895 - 330 páginas
...surrendered into other hands, though we be old, the world is yet young, and it has no retired list. As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime. It is not well to be always analyzing one's sensations and one's character ; seeds will not germinate... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 páginas
...nerveless reins, — so Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb." As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed." « 23-32. Cf. the fragments, written in feeble health, 1827-31, ix, 290-292 : — *' I bear in youth... | |
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