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" From all that's fair, from all that's foul, Peals out a cheerful song. It is not only in the rose, It is not only in the bird, Not only where the rainbow glows, Nor in the song of woman heard, But in the darkest meanest things There alway, alway something... "
Emerson's Complete Works: Poems - Page 271
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends

Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - Quakers - 1891 - 900 pages
...song of woman heard, But in the darkest, meanest things. There alway, alway, something sings ! "Tis not in the high stars alone. Nor in the cups of budding...scum of things, There alway, alway. something sings!" How much we all need such a philosophy as that to catch the song, to feel the mellowed and enriched...
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Outlook and Independent, Volume 68

1901 - 1022 pages
...bound. Emerson's Optimism By Joel Benton Let me go where'er I will, 1 hear a sky-born music still. 'Tis not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cups of budding...that smiles in showers . But in the mud and scum of thingsThere alway, alway, something sings. — Emerson. RUSKIN says that in all things throughout the...
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Emerson as a Poet

Joel Benton - 1883 - 184 pages
...song of woman heard ; But in the darkest, meanest thingsThere alway, alway, something sings. " "Tis not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cups of budding...But in the mud and scum of things — There alway , al way, something sings. ' ' How well this little eidolon, which I have not abridged, gives us Emerson's...
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Poems, Volume 9

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...glidiir so Pleasrres to aocrthiar stag* Freely as ta>sk ali erw xmioite a sfcy-corn omsa; fr-.'CI 'Tis not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cups of budding...flowers, Nor in the redbreast's mellow tone, Nor in the how that smiles in showers, But in the mud and scum of things There alway, alway something sings. BY...
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The New England Magazine, Volume 6; Volume 12

New England - 1892 - 848 pages
...gladly accepts Emerson's philosophy. " Let me go where'er I will, I hear a sky-born music still; Tis not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cups of budding...showers, — But in the mud and scum of things There always, always something sings." Democracy is the faith that no beautyr or grace, or comfort, or treasure,...
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Complete Works, Volume 9

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1888 - 342 pages
...only where the rainbow glows, Nor in the song of woman heard, But in the darkest, meanest things 'Tia not In the high stars alone, Nor in the cups of budding...in showers, But in the mud and scum of things There aJway, alway something sings. BY thoughts I lead Bards to say what nations need ; What imports, what...
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American Literature, 1607-1885: American poetry and fiction

Charles Francis Richardson - American literature - 1888 - 476 pages
...art, and when in the valleys ; but Emerson would measure his every mood and mental state. Said he : " But in the mud and scum of things There alway, alway something sings;" and that song in his catholic ear was as sacred as the song of the spheres. He was deliberate in his...
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The Unitarian, Volume 4

Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1889 - 608 pages
...the truthfulness of my soul rebels against; nor do I see what possible help it would be to me." "Tis not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cups of budding...scum of things There alway, alway something sings." — Emerson. A clergyman met a man declaiming against foreign missions. " Why doesn't the Church look...
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The Reformed Quarterly Review, Volume 37

Theology - 1890 - 596 pages
...penetrate through the surface of things that externally appear the most beautiful, but he says : " "Tis not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cups of budding...the bow that smiles in showers, But in the mud and scnm of things There alway, alway something sings." and again he says : •' Let me go where'er I will...
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The Arena, Volume 2

United States - 1890 - 844 pages
...mollified. Emerson sings : " Let me go where I will I hear a sky-born music still, "Pis not in the stars alone, Nor in the cups of budding flowers, Nor in the red breasts' yellow tone, Nor in the bow that smiles in showers, But in the mud and scum of things...
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