 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...  Works - Page 248by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892Full view - About this book
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1842 - 642 pages
...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...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
...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...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
...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...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
...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...carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. PREFACE, ALLEGORICAL PORTRAITS OF NATURE; VEGETABLE AND... | |
 | 1872 - 806 pages
...fade. Immortal youth returns.0 GALAHAD (drawing a long breath). How beautiful ! THE ANCIENT. " Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle...there. And the ripples in rhyme the oar forsake." ZOILUS. Peccavi ! THE ANCIENT. Then I will lock up my half-unbolted thunders. The Master does not need... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1907 - 876 pages
...carving whales' teeth with designs of rough and unmistakable charm. But where is beauty absent ? Thou canst not wave thy staff in air Or dip thy paddle...beauty there And the ripples in rhyme the oar forsake. In these lodges the men in summer went about naked as the woodland deities themselves, and the women... | |
 | 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
...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...the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And ripples in rhyme the oar forsake.'' As yet no attempt has been made to show the utility of this promiscuous... | |
 | Frederick Thompson Mott - 1868 - 172 pages
...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...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
...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...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,... | |
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