 | Hannah Flagg Gould - Children's poetry - 1927 - 328 pages
...unto the farthest brings; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1849 - 414 pages
...unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form .1 -i: i INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - American periodicals - 1860 - 794 pages
...unto the farthest brings ; The eye rcuJ^ omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the ruse ; And striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.' "Let me now show that we can not tell how far conscious life descends from man, as we have seen that... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It 'writes biographies,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1867 - 226 pages
...faint memories far away. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings, And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. I saw the bud-crowned Spring go forth, Stepping daily onward north To greet staid ancient cavaliers... | |
 | 1901 - 1022 pages
...ascent : Everything with A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; And, striving to be man. the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. In this last couplet he expressed integrally Darwin's doctrine of evolution many years before the " Origin... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,... | |
 | Literature - 1879 - 1036 pages
...unto the farthest brings: The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose. And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." It is to an earlier period than this that some of the love-poems belong, — that for example, " To... | |
 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - American poetry - 1873 - 556 pages
...faint memories far away. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. I saw the bud-crowned Spring go forth, Stepping daily onward north To greet staid ancient cavaliers... | |
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A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. 
