THE SPHINX The Sphinx is drowsy, Her wings are furled: Her ear is heavy, She broods on the world. "Who'll tell me my secret, The ages have kept? — I awaited the seer While they slumbered and slept... The Arena - Página 1381904Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1841 - 564 páginas
...Nature shall mind her own affairs, I will attend my proper cares, In rain, or sun, or frost THE SPHINX. THE Sphinx is drowsy, Her wings are furled, Her ear is heavy, She broods on the world. " Who '11 tell me my secret The ages have kept ? I awaited the seer While they slumbered and slept... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 páginas
...DIRGE, 232 THRENODY, 236 HYMN, SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE CONCORD MONUMENT, 250 POEMS. THE SPHINX. THE Sphinx is drowsy, Her wings are furled ; Her ear...; The meaning of man ; Known fruit of the unknown ; Daedalian plan ; Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep ; Life death overtaking; Deep underneath... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 páginas
...181 DIRGE ........ 185 THRENODY ....... 188 CONCORD MONUMENT ...... 200 POEMS. THE SPHYNX. THE Sphynx is drowsy, Her wings are furled, Her ear is heavy,...manchild, The meaning of man; Known fruit of the unknown, Daedalian plan ; Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep, Life death overtaking, Deep underneath... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 páginas
...Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, 201 THE SPHINX. THE Sphinx is drowsy, Her wings are furl'd, Her ear is heavy, She broods on the world. "Who'll tell me my secret The agea have kept! I awaited the seer While they slumberM and slept « The fate of the manchild, — The... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 690 páginas
...snow. 300 301 THE SPHINX. THE Sphinx is drowsy, Her wings are furl'd, Her ear is heavy, She brood* on the world. « Who'll tell me my secret The ages have kept ! I awaited the seer While they slumbcr'd and slept. « The fato of the monchild, — The meaning of man, — Known fruit of the unknown,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 266 páginas
...DIRGE, 232 THRENODY, 236 HYMN, SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE CONCORD MONUMENT, 850 POEMS. THE SPHINX. THE Sphinx is drowsy, Her wings are furled; Her ear...world. "Who'll tell me my secret, The ages have kept 1 — I awaited the seer, While they slumbered and slept;" The fate of the man-child ; The meaning... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 516 páginas
...CONCORD FIGHT 202 BOSTON HYMN 203 FOURTH OF JULY ODE 207 VOLUNTARIES 209 BOSTON 214 POEMS. THE SPHINX. THE Sphinx is drowsy, Her wings are furled; Her ear is heavy, She broods on the world. ' Who '11 tell me my secret, The ages have kept ? — I awaited the seer, While they slumbered and... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 páginas
...CONCORD FIGHT 202 BOSTON HYMN 203 FOURTH or JULY ODE 207 VOLUNTARIES 209 BOSTON 214 POEMS. THE SPHINX. THE Sphinx is drowsy, Her -wings are furled; Her ear is heavy, She broods on the world. ' Who '11 tell me my secret, The ages have kept ? — I awaited the seer, While they slumbered and... | |
| William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 600 páginas
...This human mind wrote history, and tliis must read it. The Sphinx mustsolve her own riddle. Emerson. The Sphinx is drowsy, Her wings are furled; Her ear...awaited the seer. While they slumbered and slept" Emerson* And she — Colossal Woman, couchant in the sands, Who has a lion's body, paws for hands,... | |
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