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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 sider
...adjourn The nearest matters to another moon ? Why see new men Who have not understood the old ? BLIGHT. GIVE me truths, For I am weary of the surfaces, And...simples of the wood, Rue, cinquefoil, gill, vervain, and pimpernel, Blue-vetch, and trillium, hawkweed, sassafras, Milkweeds, and murky brakes, quaint pipes... | |
| Robert Montgomery Smith Jackson - 1860 - 656 sider
...and spirit ? So would sing the poet the secret of their spirit and life which "the ages have kept." " If I knew Only the herbs and simples of the wood,...gill, vervain, and agrimony, Blue-vetch, and trillium, hawkwced, sassafras, Milkweeds, and murky brakes, quaint pipes, sundew, And rare and virtuous roots,... | |
| Lady Wilde - 1864 - 258 sider
...VI.— GOD'S JUSTICE 226 „ VII.— GOD'S MERCY. , 23Q 1 POEMS. THE BROTHERS. A SCENE FROM '98. " Oh ! give me truths, For I am weary of the surfaces, And die of inanition."— EMEKSON. I I. 'Tis midnight, falls the lamp-light dull and sickly On a pale and anxious crowd, Through... | |
| American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 sider
...in vain concealed, That blessed gods in servile masks Plied for thee thy household tasks." BLIGHT. GIVE me truths, For I am weary of the surfaces, And...simples of the wood, Rue, cinquefoil, gill, vervain and pimpernel, Blue-vetch and trillium, hawkweed, sassafras, Milkweeds and murky brakes, quaint pipes and... | |
| 1873 - 532 sider
...It was out of a profound conviction of ' the shallowness of popular teaching that Emerson wrote : " Give me truths ; For I am weary of the surfaces, And...inanition. If I knew Only the herbs and simples of the word, Rue, cinquefoil, gill, vervain, and agrimony, Blue-vetch and trillium, hawkweed, sassafras, Milkweeds,... | |
| 1873 - 630 sider
...forms. It was out of a profound conviction of the shallowness of popular teaching that Emerson wrote : " Give me truths ; For I am weary of the surfaces. And...inanition. If I knew Only the herbs and simples of the word, Rue, cinquefoil, gill, vervain, and agrimony, Blue-vetch and trillium, hawkweed, sassafras, Milkweeds,... | |
| American poems - 1878 - 536 sider
...Fraudulent Time in vain concealed, That blessed gods in servile masks Plied for thee thy household tasks." GIVE me truths, For I am weary of the surfaces, And...simples of the wood, Rue, cinquefoil, gill, vervain and pimpernel, Blue-vetch and trillium, hawkweed, sassafras, Milkweeds and murky brakes, quaint pipes and... | |
| John Burroughs - 1881 - 268 sider
...his " May-Day " is full of our spring sounds and tokens ; he knows the " punctual birds," and th« '' herbs and simples of the wood : " — "Rue, cinque-foil,...Milk-weeds and murky brakes, quaint pipes and sun-dew." Here is a characteristic touch : — " A woodland walk, A quest of river-grapes, a mocking thrush,... | |
| John Burroughs - 1909 - 348 sider
...poet; his " May-Day" is full of our spring sounds and tokens ; he knows the " punctual birds," and the " herbs and simples of the wood : " — "Rue,...sassafras, Milk-weeds and murky brakes, quaint pipes and sun -dew." . Here is a characteristic touch : — "A woodland walk, A quest of river-grapes, a mocking... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 sider
...thoughts and things at home, but still adjourn The nearest matters for a thousand days ? VOL. III. BLIGHT. GIVE me truths ; For I am weary of the surfaces, And...If I knew Only the herbs and simples of the wood, Eue, cinquefoil, gill, vervain, and agrimony, Blue-vetch, and trillium, hawkweed, sassafras, Milkweeds,... | |
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