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"The green silence dost displace With thy mellow, breezy bass." "The Snow-Storm" naturally enough brings to mind the descriptions of Thomson and of Cowper, and fragment as it is, it will not suffer by comparison with either. "Woodnotes," one of his best poems, has passages that might have been found in Milton's "Comus;" this, for instance:
Uriel, 326, 331, 398. Voluntaries, 241. Waldeinsamkeit, 221. Walk, The, 402. Woodnotes, 46, 159, 331, 338. World-Soul, The, 331. Emersoniana, 358. Emerson, Thomas, of Ipswich, 38. Emerson, Waldo, child of Ralph Waldo: death, 177, 178; anecdote, 265. Emerson, William, grandfather of Ralph Waldo: minister of Concord, 8-10, 14; building the Manse, 70; patriotism, 72.
Comedy carted home through leafy ways shall trill her woodnotes her native woodnotes wild in Henley-in-Arden!" The wagon had been packed and had departed, Mrs. Mortimer perched high on a pile of tent cloths, and Mr. Mortimer waving farewells from the tail-board.
The most gifted poets, from Dante, pealing his threefold anthem from the topmost peak of Parnassus, to Shakespeare, with "his woodnotes wild"; from Milton, with his "sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies," to Tennyson, with his "happy bells," which "Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand," but chief of all which "Ring in the Christ that is to be,"
Most widely known of Homer's epigrams is that reply of Telemachus to Antiochus in the Odyssey, which Pope has rendered: "True hospitality is in these terms expressed, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest." To which the following couplet from "Woodnotes" seems almost like a continuation: "Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome;"
But the two men were almost equally addicted to outdoor walking, and both preferred to walk alone. Emerson formed the habit of betaking himself to Walden woods, which extended to within a mile or so of his door; thence would he return with an exalted look, saying, "The muses are in the woods to-day"; and no one who has read his Woodnotes can doubt that he found them there.
It seems a long way from Dante to Emerson, and yet there are Dantean passages in "Woodnotes" and "Voluntaries." They are not in Dante's matchless measure, but they have much of his grace, and more of his inflexible will.
"The green silence dost displace With thy mellow, breezy bass." "The Snow-Storm" naturally enough brings to mind the descriptions of Thomson and of Cowper, and fragment as it is, it will not suffer by comparison with either. "Woodnotes," one of his best poems, has passages that might have been found in Milton's "Comus;" this, for instance:
This ranks among the finest of Emerson's poems. All his earlier verse has a certain freshness which belongs to the first outburst of song in a poetic nature. "Each and All," "The Humble-Bee," "The Snow-Storm," should be read before "Uriel," "The World-Soul," or "Mithridates." "Monadnoc" will be a good test of the reader's taste for Emerson's poetry, and after this "Woodnotes."
In his "Boston Hymn" and in several other poems he comes very close to socialism. In "Woodnotes" he says: "The lord is the peasant that was; The peasant the lord that shall be, The lord is the hay, the peasant the grass; One dry, and one the living tree." Democracy is limited in America by the conservative structure of our government and the good sense of the community.
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