 Or by knowledge grown too bright To hit the nerve of feebler sight. Straightway, a forgetting wind Stole over the celestial kind, And their lips the secret kept, If in ashes the fire-seed slept. But now and then, truth-speaking things Shamed the angels...  Poems - Page 29by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 251 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literature - 1879 - 1036 pages
...calendar months and days. • « » • A sad self-knowledge withering fell On the beauty of Uriel ; In heaven once eminent, the god Withdrew, that hour,...But now and then truth-speaking things Shamed the angel's veiling wings ; And out of the good of evil born Came Uriel's laugh of cherub scorn, And a... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1883 - 344 pages
...keep his own, But all slid to confusion. A sad self-knowledge, withering, fell On the beauty of Uriel; In heaven once eminent, the god Withdrew, that hour,...Straightway, a forgetting wind Stole over the celestial kind, If in ashes the fire-seed slept. But now and then, truth-speaking things Shamed the angels' veiling... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...his own, But all slid to confusion. A sad self-knowledge, withering, fell On the beauty of Uriel ; In heaven once eminent, the god Withdrew, that hour,...Straightway, a forgetting wind Stole over the celestial kind, If in ashes the fire-seed slept. But now and then, truth-speaking things Shamed the angels' veiling... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 332 pages
...his own, But all slid to confusion. A sad self-knowledge, withering, fell On the beauty of Uriel ; In heaven once eminent, the god Withdrew, that hour,...Straightway, a forgetting wind Stole over the celestial kind, If in ashes the fire-seed slept. But now and then, truth-speaking things Shamed the angels' veiling... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...his own, But all slid to confusion. A sad self-knowledge, withering, fell On the beauty of Uriel ; In heaven once eminent, the god Withdrew, that hour,...Straightway, a forgetting wind Stole over the celestial kind, If in ashes the fire-seed slept. But now and then, truth-speaking things Shamed the angels' veiling... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...withering, fell On the beauty of Uriel ; In heaven once eminent, the goù Withdrew, that hour, into hii rnation of a thought, and turns to a thought again,...precipitated, and the volatile essence is for ever kmd, t And their lips the secret kept, If in ashes the fire-seed slept. But now and then, truth- speaking... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - Authors, American - 1885 - 530 pages
...ttx> bright To hit the nerre of feebler tight. 1 Jordan's " Sigfridaage," Mr. Davidson 'i traptlitinn. Straightway, a forgetting wind Stole over the celestial...If in ashes the fire-seed slept. But now and then, truth-s]>eaking things Shamed the angels' veiling wings ; And, shrilling from the solar course, Or... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1894 - 340 pages
...his own, But all slid to confusion. A sad self-knowledge, withering, fell On the beauty of Uriel ; In heaven once eminent, the god Withdrew, that hour,...doomed to long gyration In the sea of generation, i Or by knowledge grown too bright I To hit the nerve of feebler sight. Straightway, a forgetting wind... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 278 pages
...keep his own, But all slid to confusion. A sad self-knowledge withering fell On the beauty of Uriel. In heaven once eminent, the god Withdrew that hour...kind, And their lips the secret kept, If in ashes the fibre-seed slept. But now and then truth-speaking things Shamed the angels' veiling wings, And, shrilling... | |
 | John Scott Clark - American poetry - 1900 - 886 pages
...the solid realm." — The World-Soul " A sad self-knowledge, withering, fell On the beauty of Uriel ; In heaven once eminent, the god Withdrew, that hour,...grown too bright To hit the nerve of feebler sight."- Uriel. 6. Americanism. — " Every American has something of Emerson in him, and the secret of the... | |
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