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" APOLOGY Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men. Tax not my sloth that I Fold my arms beside the brook; Each cloud that floated in the sky Writes a letter in my book. Chide... "
The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine - Page 372
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The Oxford Book of American Verse

Bliss Carman - American poetry - 1927 - 718 pages
...my heart, for days, Peace that hallows rudest ways. 40. The *Apology ""THINK me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god...that I Fold my arms beside the brook; Each cloud that floated in the sky Writes a letter in my book. Chide me not, laborious band, For the idle flowers I...
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The Oxford Book of American Verse

Bliss Carman - American poetry - 1927 - 714 pages
...carry in my heart, for days, Peace that hallows rudest ways. 40. The ""THINK me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god...that I Fold my arms beside the brook; Each cloud that floated in the sky Writes a letter in my book. Chide me not, laborious band, For the idle flowers I...
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A Book of American Literature

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - American literature - 1927 - 1288 pages
...nobly to repay? 0, be my friend, and teach me to be thine ! THE APOLOGY Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god...To fetch his word to men. Tax not my sloth that I 5 Fold my arms beside the brook; Each cloud that floated in the sky Writes a letter in my book. Chide...
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Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science, Volume 36

Indiana Academy of Science - Science - 1927 - 372 pages
...and easily understood language, his thoughts and his knowledge unto others. He was a man who could "Go to the God of the wood To fetch his word to men." Judge McBride was ever a busy man. He, as do most naturalists, came in time to realize that our years,...
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The Harvest of a Quiet Eye: A Book of Digressions

Odell Shepard - Connecticut - 1927 - 310 pages
...myself, but all the excuse I need may be found in the words of Emerson's 'Apology': Tax me not with sloth that I Fold my arms beside the brook: Each cloud that floated in the sky Writes a letter in my book. It is strange how little has been adequately written...
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英美名詩一百首

American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...願此曲傳入朱門與華堂@ 孟光裕計 係梁枝 63TheApol0 邸 Ralph Waldo Emerson Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god...that I Fold my arms beside the brook; Each cloud that floated in the sky Writes a letter in my book. Chide me not, laborious hand, For the idle flowers I...
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Robinson Jeffers and a Galaxy of Writers: Essays in Honor of William H. Nolte

William B. Thesing - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 242 pages
...Apology," the speaker offers his reason for going into the world of nature: Think me not unkind and rude, That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.22 The reason for interacting with nature has little, if anything, to do with the particulars of...
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Unity, Volume 18

1903 - 400 pages
...all men could but behold it too. Hence Emerson says in " The Apology, " "Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men." His biographers tell us of men who said that Emerson lived the holy life from his youth up, and the...
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Shifting the Ground: American Women Writers' Revisions of Nature, Gender ...

Rachel Stein - Literary Collections - 1997 - 206 pages
...a series of "words," "letters," "thoughts," and "histories" that the poet will "gather in a song": I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men....that I Fold my arms beside the brook, Each cloud that floated in the sky Writes a letter in my book. Chide me not, laborious band, For the idle flowers I...
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Visions of Paradise: Glimpses of Our Landscape's Legacy

John Warfield Simpson - Nature - 1999 - 422 pages
...movement, presented a much different view of nature in his poem "The Apology": Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god...that I Fold my arms beside the brook; Each cloud that floated in the sky Writes a letter in my book. Chide me not, laborious band, For the idle flowers I...
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