| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 sider
...What he knows he hides, not vaunts. Knowledge this man prizes best Seems fantastic to the rest: 30 Pondering shadows, colors, clouds, Grass-buds and...violet's petal, Why Nature loves the number five, 35 And why the star-form she repeats : Lover of all things alive, Wonderer at all he meets, Wonderer... | |
| Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1841 - 564 sider
...buds, and caterpillars' shrouds, Boughs on which the wild bees settle, Tints that spot the violets' petal, Why nature loves the number five, And why the...Lover of all things alive, Wonderer at all he meets, Wonderer chiefly at himself,— Who can tell him what he is ; Or how meet in human elf Coming and past... | |
| 1855 - 846 sider
...George W. Briggs & Co., Boston. " Pondering shadows, colors, clouds, Grass-bads and caterpillar shrouds. Boughs on which the wild bees settle, Tints that spot the violet's petal." [JSmersons Wood Nota. Merrie England. Travels, Descriptions, Tales, and Historical Si-etches. By GRACE... | |
| Chandler Robbins - 1845 - 138 sider
...Seems fantastic to the rest ; Pondering shadows, colors, clouds, Grass buds, and caterpillars' shrouds, Boughs on which the wild bees settle, Tints that spot...Lover of all things alive, Wonderer at all he meets, Wonderer chiefly at himself, — Who can tell him what he is ; Or how meet in human elf Coming and... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 sider
...fantastic to the rest, Pondering shadows, colours, clouds, Grass buds, and caterpillars' shrouds, D 2 Boughs on which the wild bees settle, Tints that spot...Lover of all things alive, Wonderer at all he meets, Wonderer chiefly at himself,— Who can tell him what he is, Or how meet in human elf Coming and past... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1847 - 660 sider
...Grass-birds and caterpillar shrouds. Boughs on which the wild-bees settle, Tints thut spot the violet petal, Why Nature loves the number five, And why the...repeats : Lover of all things alive, Wonderer at all ho meets, Wonderer chiefly at himsolf, Who can tell him what he u 7 Or how meet in human elf Coming... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 sider
...I What he knows he hides, not vaunts. Knowledge this man prizes best Seems fantastic to the rest : Pondering shadows, colors, clouds, Grass-buds, and...on which the wild bees settle, Tints that spot the violets' petal, Why Nature loves the number five, And why the star-form she repeats : Lover of all... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 690 sider
...caterpillars' shrouds, Boughs on which the wild bees settle, Tints that spot the violets' petal, ^V hy nature loves the number five, And why the star-form...Lover of all things alive, Wonderer at all he meets, Wondcrcr chiefly at himself, — Who can tell him what he is; Or how meet in human elf Coming and past... | |
| 1910 - 964 sider
...substitute for his dreams of mechanical invention speculations on Man, Nature, and God, questionings why 'Nature loves the number five, and why the star-form she repeats,' we have the typical vegetal: all the wistful earnestness of the man, all his physical patience and... | |
| American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 sider
...fantastic to the rest ; Pondering shadows, colours, clouds, Grass-buds, and caterpillars' shrouds, Boughs on which the wild bees settle, Tints that spot...Lover of all things alive, Wonderer at all he meets, Wonderer chiefly at himself, — Who can tell him what he is, Or how meet in human elf Coming and past... | |
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