Fresh pearls to their enamel gave; And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me; I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With... Methodist Magazine and Review - Page 191903Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; 25 But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun and...graceful maid, As 'mid the virgin train she strayed, 30 H Nor knew her beauty's best attire Was woven still by the snow-white choir. At last she came to... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...away the weeds and foam, I feteh'd my sea-born treasures home, But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar. Nor rose, nor stream, nor bird is fair, Their concord is beyond compare. The lover wateh'd his graceful... | |
| Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 228 pages
...the weeds and foam, And fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar! Then I said, " I covet Truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat,— I leave it behind with the games... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1850 - 608 pages
...could not bring with him the scene of which they were a part. " And the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the wind and the wild uproar." So, when a speech is printed, you cannot print with it the speaker's looks... | |
| Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...foam, EACH AND ALL. And fetched my sea-born treasures home ; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun, and...beauty's best attire Was woven still by the snow-white quire ; At last she came to his hermitage, Like the bird from the woodlands to the cage, — The gay... | |
| 1853 - 692 pages
...away the weeds and foam , I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar." Charmed with Evangeline, we turn to " Frontenac," by AB Street.s With all our impressions of the "... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Italy - 1854 - 484 pages
...the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home ; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.' EMEKSON. To judge fairly of a Roman Carnival, we must view it in connection with the prevailing tastes,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1856 - 266 pages
...away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun,...the virgin train she strayed, Nor knew her beauty's beet attire Was woven still by the snow-white choir. At last she came to his hermitage, Like the bird... | |
| American periodicals - 1863 - 774 pages
...away the weeds and foam, I fetched my seaborn treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar.' It is not mere unrelated variety which charms us, for a forest of all manner of trees is poor in its... | |
| American poetry - 1864 - 428 pages
...the weeds and foam — I fetched my sea-born treasures home ; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uprow The lover watched his graceful maid, Ai mid the virgin train she strayed ; Nor knew her beauty's... | |
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