 Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night...  The Dial - Page 506edited by - 1843Full view - About this book
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 528 pages
...messenger of dawn, Circling above thy hamlets as thy nest ; Or else, departing dream and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts ; By night...hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame." But there is nothing in his verse so poetical as his best "WALDEN"— "EXCURSIONS." 817 prose, as in... | |
 | 1887 - 604 pages
...; Lark without song, and messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest, «« * « • t Go thou, my incense, upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.' But he gets closer still to his subject in "Smoke in Winter." It seems as if it had been written from... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - 568 pages
...thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy spirits; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light...hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. Some of those who felt the Transcendental influence could certainly paint word-pictures of nature in... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - 572 pages
...thy nest ; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy spirits ; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light...hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. Some of those who felt the Transcendental influence could certainly paint word-pictures of nature in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Johnson Woodbury - 1890 - 208 pages
...messenger of dawn, Circl1ng above the hamlets as thy nest ; Or else, departing dream and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts ; By night...hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.' " He was penetrated with the elder classical influence ; he breathed the antique. Yet it was impossible... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - 1890 - 340 pages
...messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest ; Or else, departing dream and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts ; By night...hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame." These lines were declared by Emerson to be "better than any poem of Simonides," though as a rule he... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1901 - 324 pages
...messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest ; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts ; By night...thou, my incense, upward from this hearth. And ask the god» to pardon this clear dame. SMOKE IN WINTER. THE sluggish smoke curls up from some deep dell,... | |
 | 1921 - 558 pages
...messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest ; Or else, departing dream and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts ; By night...hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame." Virtually blank verse, this delicate yet classically firm little poem suggests the possibilities of... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night...hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. Hard green wood just cut, though I used but little of that, answered my purpose better than any other.... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 646 pages
...messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night...hearth. And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. WORK AND PAY From 'Walden.' Copyright 1854, by Henry D. Thoreau; 1893, by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. A:... | |
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