...Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song and messenger of dawn, Circling above thy hamlets as thy nest ; Or else, departing dream and...hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame." But there is nothing in his verse so poetical as his best prose, as in the pathetic allegory, familiar...

...; Lark without song, and messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest, «« * « • t Go thou, my incense, upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.' But he gets closer still to his subject in "Smoke in Winter." It seems as if it had been written from...

...thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy spirits; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light...hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. Some of those who felt the Transcendental influence could certainly paint word-pictures of nature in...

...thy nest ; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy spirits ; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light...hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. Some of those who felt the Transcendental influence could certainly paint word-pictures of nature in...

...happening. His poetry is of a new order. The poem on Smoke is instinct with the spirit of Simonides:— ' Light-winged Smoke ! Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions...hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.' " He was penetrated with the elder classical influence ; he breathed the antique. Yet it was impossible...

...idyllic touches in the verses on " Smoke," and one or two of the other short pieces of blank verse : " Light-winged Smoke! Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions...hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame." These lines were declared by Emerson to be "better than any poem of Simonides," though as a rule he...

...bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight ; Lark w1thout song, and messenger of dawn, Circl1ng above the hamlets as thy nest ; Or else, departing...hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.' " He was penetrated with the elder classical influence ; he breathed the antique. Yet it was impossible...

...various wild inhabitants of Walden vale, by a smoky streamer from my chimney, that I was awake. — Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions...hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. Hard green wood just cut, though I used but little of that, answered my purpose better than any other....

...various wild inhabitants of Walden vale, by a smoky streamer from my chimney, that I was awake. — Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions...hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. Hard green wood just cut, though I used but little of that, answered my purpose better than any other....

...with many a shipwrecked crew. SMOKE By permission of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., publishers LGHT-wINGED Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward...hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. WORK AND PAY From ' Walden.' Copyright 1854, by Henry D. Thoreau; 1893, by Houghton, Mifflin & Co....