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" 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... "
The Poets and Poetry of America - Page 213
by Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 476 pages
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; 25 But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their...shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar. The lover watched his graceful maid, As 'mid the virgin train she strayed, 30 H Nor knew her beauty's...
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The Pioneer: Or, Leaves from an Editor's Portfolio

Henry Clapp - 1846 - 228 pages
...bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me : I wiped away the weeds and foam, And fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly,...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...
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...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,...shore, With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar. The lover watched his graceful maid, As 'mid the virgin train she strayed, Nor knew her beauty's best...
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The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 49

1850 - 608 pages
...up and brought them home; but he 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...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: To the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, ' fetch'd my sea-born treasures home, But the poor,...shore, With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar. ^or rose, nor stream, nor bird is fair, Their concord is beyond compare. The lover watch'd his graceful...
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Poets of England and America: Being Selections from the Best Authors of Both ...

1853 - 560 pages
...savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me ; I wiped away the weeds and foam, EACH AND ALL. And fetched my sea-born treasures home ; But the poor, unsightly,...shore With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar. The lover watched his graceful maid As 'mid the virgin train she strayed, Nor knew her beauty's best...
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The Metropolitan: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to Religion ..., Volume 1

1853 - 688 pages
...bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel gave; I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly...shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar. " Charmed with Evangeline, we turn to " Frontenac," by AB Street.* With all our impressions of the...
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Six Months in Italy, Volume 2

George Stillman Hillard - 1854 - 484 pages
...influence. ' The delicate shells lay on the shore ******* I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home ; But the poor, unsightly,...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,...
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Six Months in Italy

George Stillman Hillard - 1860 - 588 pages
...The delicate shells lay on the shore I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasure home ; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had...shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.' EMERSON. To judge fairly of a Roman Carnival, we must view it in connection with the prevailing tastes,...
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The Continental Monthly, Volume 4

1863 - 774 pages
...bellowing of the savage sea Greeted Iheir safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my seaborn treasures home; But the poor, unsightly,...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...
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