...everywhere, imbue everything with light and power, and speak her single challenge through a thousand voices: "Who telleth one of my meanings / Is master of all I am." Each part of nature contains the whole, and all parts lead to the same great whole; but the only way...

...suggesting that "To vision profounder / Man's spirit must dive," before concluding, enigmatically, "Who telleth one of my meanings / Is master of all I am." In 1859, eighteen years after he wrote the poem, Emerson himself told the secret: "I have often been...

...lines, snatches of grace. He himself knew the quality of his poetry, and wrote of it, " All were gifted through and through, Five lines lasted sound and true.*'...universal dame : ' Who telleth one of my meanings IK master of all I am.' " He himself has very well described the impression his verse is apt to make...

...flame; She flowered in blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming wave; She stood Monadnoc's head. Thoro a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame: "Who telleth one of my meanings, Is master of all I am." Perhaps here is the way out of our difficulties. If we can unriddle the problem of reality in one instance...

...fields. The unity of human nature and of the universe is so great that Emerson's Sphinx declares, — " Who telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am." Thus, Tennyson also declares that, if he could but understand wholly the little weed in the cranny...