 I hung my verses in the wind, Time and tide their faults may find. All were winnowed through and through, Five lines lasted sound and true; Five were smelted in a pot Than the South more fierce and hot; These the siroc could not melt, Fire their fiercer...  The Writings of John Burroughs: Indoor studies - Stran 153avtor: John Burroughs - 1895Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1904 - 846 strani
...REVEREND CHARLES H. OLIPHANT. " I hung my verses in the wind, — Time and tide their faults should find! All were winnowed through and through. Five lines lasted sound and true! Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what Poets know. Have you eyes to find the five Which... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 226 strani
...again. THE TEST. (Musa loquitur.) IT HUNG my verses in the •wind, Time and tide their faults may find. All were winnowed through and through, Five lines...eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive ? 771 US SOLUTION. T" AM the Muse wno sung alway By Jove, at dawn of the first day. Star-crowned, sole-sitting,... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1877 - 564 strani
...the Secret,' of Nizami, of Kheyam. Their parables and verses have survived time and tide until now. These the siroc could not melt, Fire their fiercer flaming felt, And their meaning was more white Than July's meridian light. Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1881 - 224 strani
...again. THE TEST. (Musa loquitur.) T HUNG my verses in the wind, Time and tide their faults may find. All were winnowed through and through, Five lines...eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive ? 5 « SOLUTION. T AM the M 1.1 so wno sung alway By Jove, at dawn of the first day. Star-crowned,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1881 - 224 strani
...again. THE TEST. (Musa loquitur.) T HUNG my verses in the wind, Time and tide their faults may find. All were winnowed through and through, Five lines...eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive ? 5 a SOLUTION. T AM the Muse wno sung alway By Jove, at dawn of the first day. Star-crowned, sole-sitting,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1881 - 214 strani
...of his later poems have, as in Emerson's " Test," been hung in the wind and smelted in a pot, " Till the meaning was more white Than July's meridian light....bleach the snow, Nor Time unmake what poets know." METAPHYSICAL SUBTILTY IN POETRY. The original traits of Lowell's genius are unmistakable ; and, in... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1881 - 222 strani
...of his later poems have, as in Emerson's " Test," been hung in the wind and smelted in a pot, " Tifl the meaning was more white Than July's meridian light. Sunshine cannot bleach the ?now, Nor Time unmake what poets know." METAPHYSICAL SUBTILTY IX POETRY. The original traits of Lowell's... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 416 strani
...correctly represents his own methods. " I hung my verses in the wind, Time and tide their faults may find. All were winnowed through and through, Five lines lasted sound and true." Thoroughly winnowed are all his poems, as are his essays; but in the same way they are inspirations,... | |
 | 1882 - 404 strani
...poetry, how his prose is winnowed !, " I hung my verses in the wind, Time and tide their faults may find. All were winnowed through and through, Five lines lasted sound and true." He abridges and concentrates like the alchemy of nature. Novalis called one of his books the " Pollen... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 strani
...SOLUTION. 189 THE TEST. (Musa loquitur.) I HUNG my verses in the wind, Time and tide their faults may find. All were winnowed through and through, Five lines...eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive ? SOLUTION. I AM the Muse who sung alway By Jove, at dawn of the first day. Star-crowned, sole-sitting,... | |
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