| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 "... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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