 | Charles Wesley Emerson - 1891 - 258 oldal
...listening to the melodies. The poet says : "All are needed by each one, Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing...sky; He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye." After the poet has tested those manifestations in nature and human experience which give the highest... | |
 | Charles Wesley Emerson - 1891 - 250 oldal
...listening to the melodies. The poet says : " All are needed by each one, Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing...sky; He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye." After the poet has tested those manifestations in nature and human experience which give the highest... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1891 - 334 oldal
...listening to the melodies. The poet says : , " All are needed by each one, Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing...sky; He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye." After the poet has tested those manifestations in nature and human experience which give the highest... | |
 | Mary Richardson - 1891 - 268 oldal
...listening to the melodies. The poet says : " All are needed by each one, Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing...nest at even ; He sings the song, but it pleases not ni.w, For I did not bring home the river and sky; He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye." After... | |
 | 1896 - 710 oldal
...heaven. Singing at dawn on an elder bough; I bro't him home In his nest at even,— He sings the soug but It pleases not now ; For I did not bring home the river and skyHe sang to my ear— they sang to my eye." This sentiment is very graphically illustrated also in... | |
 | Frederick Noël Paton - 1894 - 604 oldal
...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." So an endeavour has been made to bring the "river and sky" into the book along with the birds; and... | |
 | John Vance Cheney - 1895 - 466 oldal
...has matched the exceptional excellences of the next two poems, " Each and All," and " The Problem." " I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing...; — He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye." "Good-Bye," "Woodnotes," "The Rhodora," « The Humble-Bee," " The Snow-Storm," — these poems lack... | |
 | 1895 - 768 oldal
...brought him home, in his nest, at even ; He sings the song, but it pleases not now, For I brought not home the river and sky ; — He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye. Emerson, NAVIGATION. Eude as their ships was navigation then, No useful compass or meridian known ;... | |
 | Alexander M. Bisset - 1896 - 368 oldal
...us how he listened with rapture to a bird " Singing at dawn on the aulder bough ; I brought him homo in his nest at even, He sings the song, but it pleases...sky ; He sang to my ear — they sang to my eye,"— and in like manner quotations dissociated from their original setting lose much of their beauty ; so... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - 1908 - 332 oldal
...modern men — would be much the same with that which Emerson has noted in his poem Each and All: " I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing...sang to my eye. The delicate shells lay on the shore ; Bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel gave ; And the bellowing of the savage sea... | |
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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. 
