PoemsCosimo, Inc., 2007. okt. 1. - 328 oldal Perhaps no writer has so dramatically shaped the course of American philosophy as Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose meditations on spirituality, freedom, and the power of knowledge have informed and inspired generations of activists, scholars, and thinkers. This replica edition of a 1914 collection of his most profound and influential poetry includes: . "Each and All" . "The World-Soul" . "Mithridates" . "The Rhodora" . "Woodnotes I" and "II" . "Etienne de la Boce" . "Compensation" . "Ode to Beauty" . "Bacchus" . "The Apology" . poems on nature and life, the elements, quatrains, "mottoes to the 'essays'" . and many, many more. American poet and philosopher RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882), the "Sage of Concord," was a driving force behind the Transcendental Movement of the early 19th century and remains a major figure in American literature. His works include Representative Men (1850), The Conduct of Life (1860), Society and Solitude (1870), and Parnassus (1875). |
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GOODBYE | 36 |
BERRYING | 42 |
WOODNOTES II | 50 |
GHAHELLE | 149 |
MUSKETAQUID | 155 |
MAYDAY | 171 |
171 | 193 |
NEMESIS | 206 |
VOLUNTARIES | 215 |
LOVERS PETITION | 221 |
MY GARDEN | 236 |
MONADNOC | 63 |
FABLE | 77 |
THE AMULET | 101 |
MERLIN I | 122 |
LOSS AND GAIN | 130 |
PAINTING ANd Sculpture | 140 |
SEASHORE | 243 |
Two RIVERS | 249 |
THE LAST Farewell | 255 |
NOMINALIST and RealisT | 310 |
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Aeolian harp bards beauty beneath bird blood boughs breast breath Bring Canst cheer child cloud cold Count your change Daemons dark dervishes doth earth eternal eyes fate feet fire Fires gardens flame flow flowers forest genius glow gods grace grief Hafiz hand hast hear heaven hide hills Jove lake land leaves light maid Merlin mind moon morning mould mountain mountain heart Muse Nature Nature's never night o'er ordered band pine plant poet polar night pride race rhyme rock rose round royal sails Saadi sail scorn secret shed shining sing smile snow song sons of intellect soul sphere Spring stars stream sung sweet thee thine things thou thought throbbing TITMOUSE to-day tongue town tree vine voice wave wild wind wine wing wise wood youth бо
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7. oldal - The delicate shells lay on the shore; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
7. oldal - I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough; I brought him home, in his nest, at even; He sings the song, but it cheers not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky; He sang to my ear, they sang to my eye.
8. oldal - I covet truth; Beauty is unripe 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 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 saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the morning bird; Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
9. oldal - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.