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" Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple cloud, She silvered in the moon ; She spired into a yellow flame ; She flowered in blossoms red ; She flowed into a foaming wave ; She stood Monadnoc's head. Thorough a thousand... "
Poems - Page 6
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 199 pages
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The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion, Volume 1

Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1841 - 564 pages
...in stone, She hopped into the baby's eyes, She hopped into the moon, She spired into a yellowjflame, She flowered in blossoms red, She flowed into a foaming...telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am." ORPHIC SAYINGS. BY A. BEONSON ALCOTT. LI. REFORM. The trump of reform is sounding throughout the world...
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The Universalist Quarterly and General Review, Volume 4

Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - Universalism - 1847 - 444 pages
...philosophy of the piece as well as the freshness and purity of the style. 14* "Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple...into a foaming wave ; She stood Monadnoc's head." Through a thousand voices, Spoke the universal dame : " Who telleth one of my meanings, Is master of...
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The North American Review, Volume 64

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1847 - 560 pages
...shows what improvements the poem has undergone in the process of incubation. " Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple...into a foaming wave ; She stood Monadnoc's head." We have not The Dial at hand for reference ; but if memory serves us aright, in the poem as first published,...
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The Southern and Western Literary Messenger and Review, Volume 13

1847 - 814 pages
...what improvements the poem has undergone in the process of incubation. *' Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple...cloud, She silvered in the moon ; She spired into л yellow flame ; She flowered in blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming wave ; She stood Monadnoc's...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 13

1847 - 784 pages
...incubation. '* Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone; She melted into purple clftud, She silvered in the moon ; She spired into a yellow...flame ; She flowered in blossoms red; She flowed into n foaming wave ; She stood Monadnoc's head." We have not The Dial at hand for reference ; but if memory...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

American periodicals - 1849 - 448 pages
...Thus the riddle is solved ; then the Sphinx turns into beautiful things : " Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple...into a foaming wave ; She stood Monadnoc's head." — Poems, pp.8-13. We pass over the Threnody, where " well sung woes " might soothe a " pensive ghost."...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: To the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...She hopp'd into the moon, She spired into a yellow flame. She flowek'd in blossoms red, She flow'd into a foaming wave, She stood Monadnoc's head. Thorough...telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am." THE PROBLEM. I LIKS a church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul, And on my heart monastic...
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The Poets and Poetry of America

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1873 - 730 pages
...yellow flame, She flower'il in blossoms red, She flow'd into a foaming wave, She stood Monntlnoc's head. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame, « Who telleth one of my meaning's Is master of all I nm." THE PROBLEM. I LIKE a church, I like a eowl, I love a prophet of...
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Songs of Three Centuries

John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 392 pages
...And showed his side of llnme, — When the rosebud ripened to the rose, — In both I read thy name. EACH AND ALL. LITTLE thinks, in the field, yon redcloaked clown Of thce from the hill-top looking down ; The heifer that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ..., Volume 4

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 516 pages
...natures ply; Ask on, thou clothed eternity; Time is the false reply. ' Uprose the merry Sphinx, Aud crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple...blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming wave ; She stood Monadnoc'a head. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame : 'Who telleth one of my meanings,...
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