• The first page of "Uriel" as it appears in Poems (1847). "Uriel" is a poem by American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson. Overview.
  • It fell in the ancient periods Which the brooding soul surveys, Or ever the wild Time coined itself Into calendar months and days. This was the lapse of Uriel, Which in...
  • The poem focuses on the angel Uriel, who is shunned in paradise after uttering a truth that no one is ready to hear.
  • It fell in the ancient periods, Which the brooding soul surveys, Or ever the wild Time coined itself Into calendar months and days. This was the lapse of Uriel, Which in Paradise befell.
  • A sad self-knowledge, withering, fell On the beauty of Uriel; In heaven once eminent, the god Withdrew, that hour, into his cloud; Whether doomed to long gyration...
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  • A sad self-knowledge withering fell On the beauty of Uriel; In heaven once eminent, the god Withdrew that hour into his cloud...
  • A sad self-knowledge withering fell On the beauty of Uriel; In heaven once eminent, the god Withdrew that hour into his cloud...
  • As Uriel spoke with piercing eye ... A sad self-knowledge withering fell On the beauty of Uriel; In heaven once eminent, the god Withdrew that hour into his cloud...
    • This was the lapse of Uriel
    • As Uriel spoke with piercing eye
    "Uriel" is reprinted from Early Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson.