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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” Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Poems. 1884, repr. 1897 - Page 8
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...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 the...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
...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...
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The Pioneer: Or, Leaves from an Editor's Portfolio

Henry Clapp - 1846 - 238 pages
...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...
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Poets of England and America: Being Selections from the Best Authors of Both ...

1853 - 560 pages
...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 the...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...
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The Metropolitan: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to Religion ..., Volume 1

1853 - 692 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." Charmed with Evangeline, we turn to " Frontenac," by AB Street.s With all our impressions of the "...
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Six Months in Italy, Volume 2

George Stillman Hillard - 1854 - 484 pages
...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,...
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 266 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 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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The Continental Monthly, Volume 4

1863 - 774 pages
...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...
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Golden Leaves from the American Poets

1864 - 428 pages
...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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Poems of the Inner Life: Selected Chiefly from Modern Authors

R. C. J. - 1866 - 312 pages
...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...
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