 They fade in the light of Their meaning sublime. 'The fiend that man harries Is love of the Best; Yawns the pit of the Dragon, Lit by rays from the Blest. The Lethe of Nature Can't trance him again, Whose soul sees the perfect, Which his eyes seek in...  Tufts College Graduate - Page 751911Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 602 pages
...? Who has mixed my boy's bread ? Who, with sadness and madness, Has turned my child's head ? ' " 2 I heard a poet answer Aloud and cheerfully, " Say...sweet Sphinx ! thy dirges Are pleasant songs to me. Deep love lieth under These pictures of time ; They fade in the light of Their meaning sublime. " The... | |
 | United States - 1904 - 712 pages
...evils not her own. Thus the poet begins his song and answer. Says some historian of the dialogue : "I heard a poet answer Aloud and cheerfully, "Say on, sweet Sphinx! thy dirge* Are pleasant songs to me. Deep love lieth under These pictures of time; They fade in the light... | |
 | United States - 1908 - 812 pages
...with something of the deep spiritual sense that complements the reasoning function of man, speaks: "I heard a poet answer Aloud and cheerfully, 'Say...sweet Sphinx! thy dirges Are pleasant songs to me. Deep love lieth under These pictures of time; They fade in the light of Their meaning sublime. '"The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 358 pages
...cup? Who has mixed my boy's bread? Who, with sadness and madness, Has turned my child's head ? ' * I heard a poet answer Aloud and cheerfully, "Say on, sweet Sphinx! thy dirge* Are pleasant songs to me. Deep love lieth under These pictures of time; They fade in the light... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 332 pages
...sphere:— ' Who has drugged my boy's cup ? Who has mixed my boy's bread? Who, with sadness and madness, I heard a poet answer, Aloud and cheerfully, "Say...sweet Sphinx! thy dirges Are pleasant songs to me. Deep love lieth under These pictures of time; They fade in the light of Their meaning sublime. "The... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American poetry - 1912 - 696 pages
...bread ? Who with sadness and madness Has turned the man-child's head ? ' " I heard a poet answer 65 Aloud and cheerfully: "Say on, sweet Sphinx! thy dirges Are pleasant songs to me. Deep love lieth under These pictures of time; 70 They fade in the light of Their meaning sublime. "The... | |
 | Louise Collier Willcox - English poetry - 1917 - 330 pages
...boy's cup ? Who has mixed my boy's bread? Who, with sadness and madness. Has turned my child's head?'" I heard a poet answer, Aloud and cheerfully, "Say...sweet Sphinx! thy dirges Are pleasant songs to me. Deep love lieth under These pictures of time; They fade in the light of Their meaning sublime. "The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...cup? Who has mixed my boy's bread? Who, with sadness and madness, Has turned the man-child's head?'" I heard a poet answer Aloud and cheerfully, "Say on,...sweet Sphinx! thy dirges Are pleasant songs to me; Deep love lieth under These pictures of time; They fade in the light of Their meaning sublime. "The... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...boy's cup? Who has mixed my boy's bread? Who, with sadness and madness, Has turned my child's head?'" immensely sundered stars to one concave sphere. And...so we say that the Judgment is distant or near, tha Deep love lieth under These pictures of time; 70 They fade in the light of Their meaning sublime. "The... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - American literature - 1927 - 1288 pages
...my boy's bread? Wbp, with sadness and madness, Has turned my child's head?' " 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 I heard a poet answer, Aloud and cheerfully, "Say...sweet Sphinx! thy dirges Are pleasant songs to me. Deep love lieth under These pictures of time; ?o They fade in the light of Their meaning sublime. "The... | |
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