Science with its retorts would have put me to sleep; it was the opportunity to be ignorant that I improved. It suggested to me tha...t there was something to be seen if one had eyes. It made a believer of me more than before. I believed that the woods were not tenantless, but choke-full of honest spirits as good as myself any day,--not an empty chamber, in which chemistry was left to work alone, but an inhabited house,--and for a few moments I enjoyed fellowship with them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,... Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined,... With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Was it the proud full sail of his great verse, Bound for the prize of all too precious you,... That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inherse, Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew? Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. The way of the wicked ...is like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »