The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happi...est man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself. Th...e genesis and maturation of a planet, its poise and orbit, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every animal and vegetable, are demonstrations of the self-sufficing and therefore self-relying soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river; there, My music playing far off, I will betray... Tawny-finned fishes; my bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, "Ah, ha! y' are caught."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With his head over his shoulder turned, He seemed to find his way without his eyes,... For out o' doors he went without their help, And to the last bended their light on me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The time must come when this coast will be a place of resort for those New-Englanders who really wish to visit the seaside. At pre...sent it is wholly unknown to the fashionable world, and probably it will never be agreeable to them. If it is merely a ten-pin alley, or a circular railway, or an ocean of mint-julep, that the visitor is in search of,--if he thinks more of the wine than the brine, as I suspect some do at Newport,--I trust that for a long time he will be disappointed here. But this shore will never more be more attractive than it is now. Such beaches as are fashionable are here made and unmade in a day, I may almost say, by the sea shifting its sands. Lynn and Nantasket! this bare and bended arm it is that makes the bay in which they lie so snugly. What are springs and waterfalls? Here is the spring of springs, the waterfall of waterfalls. A storm in the fall or winter is the time to visit it; a lighthouse or fisherman's hut, the true hotel. A man may stand there and put all America behind him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If with light head erect I sing, Though all the muses lend their force,... From my poor love of anything, The verse is weak and shallow as its source.
But if with bended neck I grope, Listening behind me for my wit, With faith superior to hope, More anxious to keep back than forward it,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »