 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...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 them; The wood and wave each other know . Not unrelated,... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1888 - 1044 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 and wave each other know. Not unrelated, unaffied, But to each thought... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1888 - 236 pages
...another; in a flat mind the whole disappoints; in a genial mood one would say to Emerson, with Emerson: " Thou can'st not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy...lake ; But it carves the bow of beauty there, And ripples in rhymes the oar forsake." This general investiture of loveliness is unfavourable to sustained... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1888 - 476 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...in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, Arid the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. The wood and wave each other know. Not unrelated, unaffied,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 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 in the lake, But it curves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples iu rhymes the oar forsake. The wood is wiser far than... | |
 | New York State Pharmaceutical Association - 1888 - 684 pages
...scenes like these has grandly and truthfully said : " You cannot wave your hand In air Nor dip your paddle In the lake But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples In rhymes the oars forsake." Who can conceive of a scene more attractive than this by which we are surrounded... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1888 - 230 pages
...in a genial mood one would say to Emerson, with Emerson ; " Thou can'st not wave thy staff in aif, Or dip thy paddle in the lake ; But it carves the bow of beauty there, And ripples in rhymes the oar forsake." This general investiture of loveliness is unfavourable to sustained... | |
 | Adam Gifford - 1889 - 304 pages
...our eye to it, even from the city lanes. If you are a true lover you will find beauty every where. "Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, "Or dip thy...carves the bow of beauty there, "And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake." And if this is so, one lesson which I press on you in passing is ; — as... | |
 | William Hamilton Gibson - 1890 - 212 pages
...and the poet but vitalizes a natural law as pertinent to sound-waves as to rippling water — that " 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," then what a bewildering maze is this palpitating vault, where the very haze... | |
 | 1890 - 168 pages
...Father of the Man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. WORDSWORTH. 74 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. EMERSON ( Woodnotes). 75 ~¥~T7"HEN the enemy is near thee, VV Call on us !... | |
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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... 
