 The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burrs; I inhaled the violet's breath; Around me stood the oaks and firs; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground; Over me soared the eternal sky. Full of light and of deity; Again I...  The Pioneer: Or, Leaves from an Editor's Portfolio - Pagina 65door Henry Clapp - 1846 - 208 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Charles Wesley Emerson - 1891 - 250 pagina’s
...itself is beautiful, nor doe<s it give pleasure to the imagination in any way. The poet continues : "Then I said, 'I covet truth; Beauty is unripe childhood's...cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.' As 1 spoke, beneath my feet The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, .Running over the club-moss burrs;... | |
 | 1892 - 750 pagina’s
...imagination." One who is in no sense a Gradgrind Philosopher has written for us sweeter wisdom in "Than I said, 'I covet truth; Beauty is unripe childhood's...cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.' AP 1 spoke, beneath my feut The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burrs;... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1892 - 372 pagina’s
...sand, and the wild uproar." Disappointed, he forswears the pursuit of beauty, and declares : — " I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat ; I leave it behind with the games of youth." But, even as he speaks, the ground-pine curls its pretty wreath beneath his feet, "running over the... | |
 | 1893 - 106 pagina’s
...Never lose an opportunity to see anything beautiful. Beauty is God's hand-writing. —Kingsley. BEAUTY. Then I said, " I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's...violet's breath ; Around me stood the oaks and firs ; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 340 pagina’s
...enchantment was undone, A gentle wife, but fairy none. Then I said, ' I covet truth ; Beauty is unrip# childhood's cheat ; I leave it behind with the games...violet's breath ; Around me stood the oaks and firs ; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity... | |
 | 1894 - 360 pagina’s
...gay enchantment was undone — Then I said : " I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat ; 1 leave it behind with the games of youth. As I spoke,...violet's breath ; Around me stood the oaks and firs ; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 352 pagina’s
...from the woodlands to the cage ; — The gay enchantment was undone, A gentle wife, but fairy none. Then I said, ' I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's...violet's breath ; Around me stood the oaks and firs ; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity;... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 pagina’s
...bird from the woodlands to the cage; The gay enchantment was undone — A gentle wife, but fairy none. Then I said, "I covet truth: Beauty is unripe childhood's...violet's breath ; Around me stood the oaks and firs; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity;... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 pagina’s
...above; cf. iv, 57; xii, 116, 132, 140), but also of goodness and truth (i, 210; iv, 126), love and I leave it behind with the games of youth : " As I...violet's breath ; Around me stood the oaks and firs ; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - 1897 - 592 pagina’s
...childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth." As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss...violet's breath ; Around me stood the oaks and firs; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity... | |
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