 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.  Select Essays and Poems - Page 77by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - American poetry - 1877 - 204 pages
...round yon Alpine height ; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. A!l are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good alone....alder bough ; I brought him home, in his nest, at even ; He sings the song, but it pleases not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky ; — He sang... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 618 pages
...round yon Alpine height ; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good...note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough ; 1 brought him home, in his nest, at even ; He sings the song, but it pleases not now, For 1 did not... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...round yon Alpine height ; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbour's creed has lent. whom my soul can trust. — Brown. A.MIUTION УЛ-MBITION H — Emerson. 1113. EXAMPLE: of the great. His faults, that in a private station sits, Do mainly harm... | |
 | American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...round yon Alpine height ; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbour's creed has lent. All are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good...alder bough. I brought him home in his nest at even ; — He sings the song, but it pleases not now ; For I did not bring home the river and sky ; He sang... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one — Nothing is fair or good alón«. 1 1 thought tlic sparrow's note from heaven. Singing at dawn on the...bough ; I brought him home, in his nest, at even. He sings the song, but it pleases not now ; For I did not bring home the river and sky: He sang to... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1878 - 508 pages
...yon Alpine height ; 5. Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. 6. All are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good alone. 7. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough ; I brought him home... | |
 | Helen A Hertz - 1879 - 292 pages
...round yon Alpine height ; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbour's creed has lent. All are needed by each one — Nothing is fair or...bough ; I brought him home, in his nest, at even. He sings the song, but it pleases not now ; For I did not bring home the river and sky : He sang to... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1881 - 600 pages
...the whole picture without mutilating the symmetry of its beauty and spoiling its glorious harmony : "I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing...alder bough ; I brought him home in his nest at even; He snug the song, but it pleases not now, For I could not bring home the river and sky. He sang to... | |
 | Education - 1925 - 700 pages
...than statistics. It is a corruptor of youth. A word out of its surroundings is as Emerson's sparrow: "I thought the sparrow's note from Heaven, Singing...alder bough ; I brought him home, in his nest, at even ; He sings his song, but it pleases not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky ; He sang to... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1880 - 644 pages
...cannot be denied. Emerson, in those Delphic droplets of song of his, tells us this a thousand times : "All are needed by each one, nothing is fair or good alone." Even such contraries as sense and understanding are, to Kant's mind, but twin stems from a common root.... | |
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