IN an afternoon in April, after a long walk, I traversed an orchard where boys were grafting apple‑trees, and found the Farmer in his cornfield. He was holding the plough, and his son driving the oxen. This man always impresses me with respect, he is so manly, so sweet‑tempered, so faithful, so disdainful of…
I. Thoughts on Modern Literature II. Walter Savage Landor III. Prayers IV. Agriculture of Massachusetts V. Europe and European Books VI. Past and Present VII. A Letter VIII. The Tragic
Literature is but a poor trick, you will say, when it busies itself to make words pass for things ; and yet I am far from thinking this subordinate service unimportant. The secondary services of literature may be classed under the name of Rhetoric, and are quite as important in letters as iron is…
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Nature (1836) (complete book) by Ralph Waldo Emerson A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
IPOEMSGOOD-BYE GOOD-BYE, proud world! I’m going home:Thou art not my friend, and I’m not thine.Long through thy weary crowds I roam;A river-ark on the ocean brine,Long I’ve been tossed like the driven foam;But now, proud world! I’m going home. Good-bye to Flattery’s fawning face;To Grandeur with his wise grimace;To upstart Wealth’s averted eye;To supple Office,…
IIMAY-DAY AND OTHER PIECES MAY-DAYDAUGHTER of Heaven and Earth, coy Spring,With sudden passion languishing,Teaching barren moors to smile,Painting pictures mile on mile,Holds a cup with cowslip-wreaths,Whence a smokeless incense breathes. The air is full of whistlings bland;What was that I heardOut of the hazy land?Harp of the wind, or song of bird, Or vagrant booming…
I POEMS GOOD-BYE GOOD-BYE, proud world! I’m going home: Thou art not my friend, and I’m not thine. Long through thy weary crowds I roam; A river-ark on the ocean brine, Long I’ve been tossed like the driven foam; But now, proud world! I’m going home. Good-bye to Flattery’s fawning face; To Grandeur with his…
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