Emerson as a PoetM. L. Holbrook & Company, 1883 - 134 páginas |
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... measured and still , and the literary world together , fall- * An anecdote , giving some pleasant badinage between Emerson and an interviewer on this point , is gracefully told by a writer in Scribner's Monthly for February , 1880 . ing ...
... measured and still , and the literary world together , fall- * An anecdote , giving some pleasant badinage between Emerson and an interviewer on this point , is gracefully told by a writer in Scribner's Monthly for February , 1880 . ing ...
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... measured , a society is formed around his name , and he has the unmistakable distinction of having caused reams of paper to be written over with most careful praise or the most complimentary fault- finding . Who has yet sounded the true ...
... measured , a society is formed around his name , and he has the unmistakable distinction of having caused reams of paper to be written over with most careful praise or the most complimentary fault- finding . Who has yet sounded the true ...
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... measure define his own position . I open his oldest book of poems almost by accident at " Merlin , " and hear him say : The trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear ; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze , Free ...
... measure define his own position . I open his oldest book of poems almost by accident at " Merlin , " and hear him say : The trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear ; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze , Free ...
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... measures ; he em- ploys , as the Asiatic bards do , all the machinery of subtle , unexpected and fan- tastic conceit . His sensitive harp catches in the air many tones . You find echoes of Marlowe , Chapman , Milton , Marvell , Her ...
... measures ; he em- ploys , as the Asiatic bards do , all the machinery of subtle , unexpected and fan- tastic conceit . His sensitive harp catches in the air many tones . You find echoes of Marlowe , Chapman , Milton , Marvell , Her ...
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... measure . Go , then , sad youth , and shine ! Go , sacrifice to fame ; Put love , joy , health , upon the shrine , And life to fan the flame ! Thy hapless self for praises barter , And die to Fame an honored martyr . I do not forget the ...
... measure . Go , then , sad youth , and shine ! Go , sacrifice to fame ; Put love , joy , health , upon the shrine , And life to fan the flame ! Thy hapless self for praises barter , And die to Fame an honored martyr . I do not forget the ...
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Æolian Harp Bacchus bard bird Bost Brahma breeze charm chords Christian Examiner colored Conc Concord couplet critic Dædalus deep delight Divine doubt drop earth edition Emer Emerson Emerson's poems Emerson's poetry essay eternal Fate flame genius Give Goethe Hafiz heaven Hymn inspiration leaves Lectures Literary World Living Age Love Magazine Matthew Arnold May-Day melody Merlin Milton mind mold Monad Monadnock Monthly muse Musketaq mystic Nature never nock notes Ode to Beauty oriental PARTHENON pebble Persian Phidias poet poetic Prob Problem prose quatrain reader Review Rhodora rhymes rhythm Rivers rose round Saadi samkeit says Shakespeare shining son's Sordello soul Southern Literary Messenger speak speech sphere Sphinx spirit stair-way stanza stars subtle sweet taries Terminus thee things thought Threnody tinkling tions translation utterance verse wild wine Woodnotes words Writings written
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Página 66 - 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 60 - Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.
Página 26 - Merlin's mighty line Extremes of nature reconciled, Bereaved a tyrant of his will, And made the lion mild. Songs can the tempest still, Scattered on the stormy air, Mould the year to fair increase. And bring in poetic peace. He shall not seek to weave, In weak, unhappy times, Efficacious rhymes ; Wait his returning strength. Bird that from the nadir's floor To the zenith's top can soar, — The soaring orbit of the muse exceeds that journey's length.
Página 84 - Guest of million painted forms, Which in turn thy glory warms! The frailest leaf, the mossy bark, The acorn's cup, the raindrop's arc, The swinging spider's silver line, The ruby of the drop of wine, The shining pebble of the pond, Thou inscribest with a bond, In thy momentary play, Would bankrupt nature to repay.
Página 40 - I hung my verses in the wind, Time and tide their faults may find. All were winnowed through and through, Five lines lasted sound and true; Five were smelted in a pot Than the South more fierce and hot; These the siroc could not melt, Fire their fiercer flaming felt, And the meaning was more white Than July's meridian light. Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know. Have you eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive?
Página 87 - His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end.
Página 87 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.
Página 79 - Who'll tell me my secret, The ages have kept? — I awaited the seer While they slumbered and slept...
Página 36 - 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; And Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat.
Página 34 - Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought; Never from lips of cunning fell The thrilling Delphic oracle ; but from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe...