 Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone ; And Morning opes with haste her lids, To gaze upon the Pyramids...  Selected Poems - Page 15by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 218 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - Universalism - 1847 - 444 pages
...highest moods. Who will doubt the identity of art and nature after the authoritative annunciation : " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem...opes with haste her lids, To gaze upon the Pyramids. These temples grew as grows the grass, Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive master lent his... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - American essays - 1845 - 564 pages
...shell, Painting with morn each annual cell ! Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst...upon the Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends the nky, As on its friends, with kindred eye : For out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 602 pages
...the works of God, and to which these seem to nod in responsive sympathy. For, as the poet says — " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem...zone ; And Morning opes with haste her lids To gaze npon the Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky As on its friends with kindred eye ; For out... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...shell, Painting with morn each annual cell ; Or how the sacred pine tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst...Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone ; And morning opea with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids; O'er England's Abbeys bonds. the sky As on iU friends... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1852 - 346 pages
...the works of God, and to which these seem to nod in responsive sympathy. For, as the poet says— . " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem...opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids; JOHN MILTON. 1 7 O'er England's abbeys bends the sky As on its friends with kindred eye; For out of... | |
 | 164 pages
...Or how the sacred pine-tree adda To her old leaves new myriads? Such, and so grew these holy piloe, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly...her zone ; And morning opes, with haste, her lids To gnze upon the Pyramids : O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye ;... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1855 - 690 pages
...shell, Painting with morn each annual cell; Or how the sacred pine tree adds To her old leaves new myriads? Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst...the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the bent gem upon her zone ; A nd morning opes with haste her lid« To pue upon the Pyramids ; O'er England's... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 816 pages
...how the sacred pine-tree adds Painting with morn each annunl cell t To her old leaves new myriads f Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and...the Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, For, out of Thought's interior sphere, As on its friends, with kindred eye; And Nature gladly gave... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 838 pages
...Painting with morn each annual cell I Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriada f Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and...laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, Aa the best gem upon her zone ; And Morning opes with haste her lids, To gaze upon the Pyramids ; O'er... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome. He builded better than he knew. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone. Hymn. At the completion of the Concord Monument. Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the... | |
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