What Can Literature Do for Me?Doubleday, Page, 1913 - 226 páginas |
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... lines : So nigh is grandeur to our dust , So near is God to man , When Duty whispers low , Thou must , The youth replies , I can ! All of us have felt that when we have to do a thing we seem to be given a new power with which to do it ...
... lines : So nigh is grandeur to our dust , So near is God to man , When Duty whispers low , Thou must , The youth replies , I can ! All of us have felt that when we have to do a thing we seem to be given a new power with which to do it ...
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... lines , in other words , meet you halfway ; the multiplication table does not . Emerson's lines are an outlet through which your own thought and feeling flow , and deepen as they flow ; the multiplication table has to be put into you ...
... lines , in other words , meet you halfway ; the multiplication table does not . Emerson's lines are an outlet through which your own thought and feeling flow , and deepen as they flow ; the multiplication table has to be put into you ...
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... line and stanza the poet used , what book or books he probably read before writing the poem , but not a word as to what the poem has in it for you and me or of you and me . Now the life of a poet , the date of his work , the kind of ...
... line and stanza the poet used , what book or books he probably read before writing the poem , but not a word as to what the poem has in it for you and me or of you and me . Now the life of a poet , the date of his work , the kind of ...
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... lines . The italics are my own : Break , break , break , On thy cold gray stones , O Sea ! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me . O well for the fisherman's boy , That he shouts with his sister at play ...
... lines . The italics are my own : Break , break , break , On thy cold gray stones , O Sea ! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me . O well for the fisherman's boy , That he shouts with his sister at play ...
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... line or a whole book . Literature , then , is within you . The masters only bring it out . It is to your soul that they cry " Open Sesame . " Whenever you say of a poem or story , " That's what I have dimly felt before— or felt a ...
... line or a whole book . Literature , then , is within you . The masters only bring it out . It is to your soul that they cry " Open Sesame . " Whenever you say of a poem or story , " That's what I have dimly felt before— or felt a ...
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Página 163 - What thou art we know not; What is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a Poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Página 89 - Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on, how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour ? What is that honour ? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it ? He that died o
Página 44 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the" world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations...
Página 57 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main; The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming Lair.
Página 5 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure We are met on a great battle-field of that war We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live...
Página 139 - So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And so through the night went his cry of alarm • To every Middlesex village and farm, — A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo for evermore!
Página 144 - The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which "they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It...
Página 162 - ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ! To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler!
Página 159 - The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley, he has viewed; And impulses of deeper birth Have come to him in solitude. In common things that round us lie Some random truths he can impart, — The harvest of a quiet eye That broods and sleeps on his own heart.
Página 58 - Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap forlorn! From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings: Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving...