Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone; She melted into purple cloud, She silvered in the moon; She spired into a yellow flame; She flowered in blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming wave: She stood Monadnoc's head. Thorough a thousand... Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ... - Page 11by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876Full view - About this book
| Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1841 - 564 pages
...in stone, She hopped into the baby's eyes, She hopped into the moon, She spired into a yellowjflame, She flowered in blossoms red, She flowed into a foaming wave, She stood Monadnoc's head. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame, " Who telleth one of my meanings... | |
| Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - Universalism - 1847 - 444 pages
...philosophy of the piece as well as the freshness and purity of the style. 14* "Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple...blossoms red ; She flowed into a foaming wave ; She stood Monadnoc's head." Through a thousand voices, Spoke the universal dame : " Who telleth one of my meanings,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1847 - 560 pages
...what improvements the poem has undergone in the process of incubation. " Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple...blossoms red ; She flowed into a foaming wave ; She stood Monadnoc's head." We have not The Dial at hand for reference ; but if memory serves us aright, in the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1847 - 244 pages
...natures ply, Ask on, thou clothed eternity,— Time is the false reply." Uprose the merry Sphynx, And crouched no more in stone, She melted into purple...blossoms red, She flowed into a foaming wave, She stood Monadnoc's head. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame, ' Who telleth one of my meanings,... | |
| 1847 - 784 pages
...incubation. '* Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone; She melted into purple clftud, She silvered in the moon ; She spired into a yellow...flame ; She flowered in blossoms red; She flowed into n foaming wave ; She stood Monadnoc's head." We have not The Dial at hand for reference ; but if memory... | |
| 1847 - 814 pages
...what improvements the poem has undergone in the process of incubation. *' Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple cloud, She silvered in the moon ; She spired into л yellow flame ; She flowered in blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming wave ; She stood Monadnoc's... | |
| American periodicals - 1849 - 448 pages
...the riddle is solved ; then the Sphinx turns into beautiful things : " Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple...blossoms red ; She flowed into a foaming wave ; She stood Monadnoc's head." — Poems, pp.8-13. We pass over the Threnody, where " well sung woes " might soothe... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...a yellow flame. She flowek'd in blossoms red, She flow'd into a foaming wave, She stood Monadnoc's head. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal...telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am." THE PROBLEM. I LIKS a church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul, And on my heart monastic... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1873 - 730 pages
...yellow flame, She flower'il in blossoms red, She flow'd into a foaming wave, She stood Monntlnoc's head. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame, « Who telleth one of my meaning's Is master of all I nm." THE PROBLEM. I LIKE a church, I like a eowl, I love a prophet of... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...natures ply ; Ask on, thou clothed eternity; Time is the false reply. ' Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple cloud, She silvered in tlie moon; She spired into a yellow flame; She flowered in blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming... | |
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