 | William Swinton - 1885 - 624 pages
...from God he could not free-, He builded better than he knew;1 — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves,...Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn2 each annual3 cell? Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads? Such and so... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pages
...better than he knew;1 — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon woodbiwl's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast? Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn2 each annual3 cell? Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads? Such and so... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1886 - 204 pages
...from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves,...Painting with morn each annual cell ? Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror... | |
 | William Channing Gannett, Jenkin Lloyd Jones - 1886 - 152 pages
...house is a more towering manifestation of the invisible God than the Rocky mountains. " Knowest tlion what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves and feathers...Painting with morn each annual cell? Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads? Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 pages
...better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon wood-bird's nest 25 Of leaves and feathers from her breast ; Or how the...Painting with morn each annual cell ; Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? 30 Such and so grew these holy piles Whilst love and... | |
 | F.Warne - 1886 - 992 pages
...Spaulding's. I have wondered if Emerson referred to any particular bird in these lines from " The Problem:" " Know'st thou what wove yon wood-bird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast ? " Cider-duck. Chickadee. Golden-crowned Thrush. Probably not, but simply availed himself of the general... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1884 - 608 pages
...builded better than he knew. The conscious stone to beauty grew. ' Know'st thou what wove yon wood bird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast ? Or...outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn each annual coll I Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads? Such and so grew these holy... | |
 | William Swinton - 1887 - 686 pages
...better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon wood-bird's nest 35 Of leaves and feathers from her breast ; Or how the fish outbuilt her sheii, Painting with morn each annual cell ; Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew;— The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves,...Painting with morn each annual cell ? Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 pages
...from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves,...Painting with morn each annual cell? Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror... | |
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Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone. 
