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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... "
The Early Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 9
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 220 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...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...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical Introduction

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I feteh'd my sea-born treasures home, But the poor, unsightly,...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...
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The Pioneer: Or, Leaves from an Editor's Portfolio

Henry Clapp - 1846 - 238 pages
...pleases not now ; For I did not bring home the river and sky ; He sang to my ear ; they sang to my eye. The delicate shells lay on the shore ; The bubbles...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...
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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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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 14; Volume 49

1850 - 550 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 HIM and the wind and the wild uproar." So, when a, speech is printed, you cannot print with it the...
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The Metropolitan: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to Religion ..., Volume 1

1853 - 688 pages
...The 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,...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
...electric 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,...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, Volume 2

George Stillman Hillard - 1854 - 480 pages
...electric 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,...shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.' EMERSON. To judge fairly of a Eoman Carnival, we must view it in connection with the prevailing tastes,...
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 266 pages
...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,...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...
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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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