 For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune, Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the...  American Literature: And Other Papers - Page 291by Edwin Percy Whipple - 1887 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1842 - 642 pages
...shade, Of sound and echo, man and maid, The land reflected in the flood, Body with shadow still pursued; For nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with...carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. The wood is wiser far than thou ; The wood and wave each other know. Not unrelated,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...Of sound and echo, man and maid ; The land reflected in the flood; Body with shadow still pursued. For nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with...carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. The wood is wiser far than thou : The wood and wave each other know. Not unrelated,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...shade, Of sound and echo, man and maid, The land reflected in the flood, Body with shadow still pursued. For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with...carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. The wood is wiser far than thou ; The wood and wave each other know. Not unrelated,... | |
 | M. Edgeworth Lazarus - 1851 - 286 pages
...shade, Of sound and echo, man and maid, The land reflected in the flood, Body with shadow still pursued. For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with...carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. PREFACE, ALLEGORICAL PORTRAITS OF NATURE; VEGETABLE AND... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1860 - 492 pages
...these exquisite effects ; — CHASING PRODUCED BY WAVES. 233 " Thou canst not wave thy staff in the air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the hrow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake." Now, all that we have said regarding... | |
 | 1879 - 736 pages
...this object of beauty, sometimes by that, but yet more by the complex mass of glory of the universe. " For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune ; Whether she work on land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle... | |
 | Frederick Thompson Mott - 1868 - 172 pages
...earnest will, The world is full of rocks which need thy skill. 0! to w X I NOTES ON NATURAL SCENERY. Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme...carves the bow of beauty there. And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. RW EMERSON. Picturesqueness is the characteristic of natural scenery. The beauty... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1892 - 996 pages
...ideal beauty, that purest discovery of the soul, but in song he always recognized its visible reality. For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with...carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. But, as I say, the recantation of beauty, by transcendentalists, realists,... | |
 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 pages
...shade, Of sound and echo, man and maid; The land reflected in the flood; Body with shadow still pursued. For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with...carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. The wood is wiser far than thou : The wood and wave each other know. Not unrelated,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...shade, Of sound and echo, man and maid, The land reflected in the flood, Body with shadow still pursued. For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every nine, Whether she work in laud or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff1... | |
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