 Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow...  Walden - Page 337by Henry David Thoreau - 1882Full view - About this book
 | Paul Elmer More - 1908 - 518 pages
...through my brain," he says on one occasion; and the true harvest of his daily life he pronounced " a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched." This revery, or contemplation that spurned at limitations, passed easily into the romantic ideal of... | |
 | Robert Elliott Speer - Bible - 1915 - 216 pages
...greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible...indescribable as the tints of morning or evening." — Thoreau. " The life of Christ in history cannot cease. His influence waxes more and more; the dead... | |
 | Robert Bridges - English literature - 1916 - 368 pages
...spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. . . The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible...caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. 139 138 Heaven's Shadows 140 DEAR Friend, seest thou not that whatever we look on here Is but an image,... | |
 | Arthur Mee - Christianity and politics - 1918 - 202 pages
...of the harvest of his daily life as something as intangible as the tints of morning or evening — ' a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.' We feel, as Shakespeare felt, that there is a glory not to be conceived until ' this muddy vesture... | |
 | Arthur Stanley Bourinot - Canadian poetry - 1921 - 56 pages
...Poetry" page of The Literary Digest. ASB 433 Daly Avenue, Ottawa. '.J, ?JU •>— »/ *r *> n '> 'I ' '' The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible...caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched." TO NORA —Thoreau. CONTENTS FU. NIGHT ON THE OTTAWA EIVER - - 7 CANADA'S FALLEN 8 WHEN PEACE HAS COME... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated...caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. am glad to have drunk water so long, for the same reason that I prefer the natural sky to an opium-eater's... | |
 | Vernon Louis Parrington - American literature - 1927 - 528 pages
...bless yourself. . . . The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indiscernible as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little...caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. (Ibid., "Higher Laws.") To save one's soul has always been accounted in New England a matter worthy... | |
 | Vernon Louis Parrington - American literature - 1927 - 532 pages
...success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. . . . The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indiscernible as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a nent of the rainbow... | |
 | Kurt Abraham - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1983 - 180 pages
...easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated...star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched."28 On his scale of important faculties Thoreau gave special prominence to: a higher and lower... | |
 | Cecil Day Lewis - Poetry - 1992 - 772 pages
...song. . . . Is It Far To Go? Poems 1943-1947 JILL BALCON XXI and other poems For the Lady Dream-Maker 'It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.' THOREAU The Net 5 Beechen Vigil 5 A Creation 6 Rose-Pruner 7 In a Wood 8 Songs of Sirens 8 A Rune for... | |
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