 ... 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...  Poems - Page 25by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1873 - 730 pages
...virgin train she stray'd, Nor knew her beauty's best attire Was woven still by that snow-white quire. At last, she came to his hermitage, Like the bird...the woodlands to the cage, — The gay enchantment wan undone, — A gentle wife, but fairy none. Then, I said, " I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 pages
...unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar. The lover watched his graceful maid, As mid the virgin...undone, A gentle wife., but fairy none. Then I said, "1 covet truth; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat ; I leave it behind with the games of youth." As... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...uproar. The lover watched his graceful maid, As mill the virgin train she strayed, Nor knew her beautv's best attire, Was woven still by the snow-white choir....undone, A gentle wife, but fairy none. Then I said, "1 covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth." As... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar. Tlie lover watched his graceful maid, As mid the virgin...hermitage, Like the bird from the woodlands to the cage; — Tlie gay enchantment was undone, A gentle wife, but fairy none. Then I said, " I covet truth ;... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar. The lover watched his graceful maid, As mid the virgin train she straved, Nor knew her beauty's best attire j Was woven still by the snow-white choir. I At last she... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 618 pages
...unsightly, noisome things Hud left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar. The lover watched his graceful maid, As mid the virgin..."I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat ; 1 leave it behind with the games of youth."— As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground-pine curled... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun, and the sand, and the wild up roar. The lover watched his graceful maid, As 'mid the virgin...his hermitage, Like the bird from the woodlands to tin cage; The gay enchantment was undone — A gentle wife, but fairy none. Then I said, "I covet truth;... | |
 | American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar. The lover watched his graceful maid As 'mid the virgin...beauty's best attire Was woven still by the snow-white quire. At last she came to his hermitage, Like1 the bird from the woodlands to the cage,The gay enchantment... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 pages
...noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand, and the wild uproar. 9. The lover watched his graceful maid, As 'mid the virgin train she strayed ; 10. Nor knew her beauty's best attire Was woven still by the snow-white choir. 11. At last she came... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1879 - 508 pages
...noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproai 6. The lover watched his graceful maid, As 'mid the virgin...enchantment was undone — A gentle wife, but fairy none. 7. Then I said, " I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat ; I leave it behind with the games... | |
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