 As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime: 'Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unharmed; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every...  From a New England Hillside: Notes from Underledge - Page 270by William Potts - 1895 - 305 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 226 pages
...nerveless reins, — Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb.' As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime : ' Lowly faithful, banish fear, Eight onward drive unharmed ; The port, well worth the cruise, is... | |
 | 1867 - 782 pages
...nerveless reins, — Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb." As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...the sail, Obey the voice at eve, obeyed at prime: " Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unharmed ; The port, well worth the cruise, is near,... | |
 | 1867 - 782 pages
...nerveless reins, — Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb." As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve, obeyed at prime : " Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unharmed ; The port, well worth the cruise, is... | |
 | 1901 - 1022 pages
...expressed, in view of the afternoon sun of life, in these lines from his pathetic poem " Terminus :" As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime: " Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unharmed ; The port, well worth the cruise, is near,... | |
 | 1879 - 1036 pages
...wary foot; A little while Still plan and smile, And, fault of novel germs, Mature the unfallcn fruit. As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime : Lowly faithful, banish fear, '. . Right onward drive unharmed ; The port, well worth the cruise,... | |
 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 pages
...nerveless reins, — Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb." As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime. " Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unarmed; The port, well worth the cruise, is near,... | |
 | 1875 - 714 pages
...his epitaph, nothing higher or wiser is uttered : — " As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim me to the storm of time; I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime : Lowly fnithful, banish fear ; Right onward drive unharm'd; The port, well worth the cruise, is near,... | |
 | 1875 - 402 pages
...his epitaph, nothing higher or wiser is uttered : — ' As the bird trims her to the (rale, I trim me to the storm of time ; I man the rudder, reef the sail Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime : Lowly faithful, banish fear; Right onward drive unharm'd ; The port, well worth the cruise, is near,... | |
 | 1875 - 718 pages
...his epitaph, nothing higher or wiser is uttered : — " As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim me to the storm of time; I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice nt eve obeyed at prime : Lowly fmlhful, banish foar; Right onward drive unharm'd; The port, well worth... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...nerveless reins, — Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb.' As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime : 'Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unharmed ; The port, well worth the cruise, is near,... | |
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