 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
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edward Waldo Emerson - 1889 - 294 pages
...this friend, as they voyaged on Concord River, seems to have given the hint for the verse, — " 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." 1846. Journal. " ' As for beauty, I need not look beyond an oar's length for... | |
 | Honoré de Balzac, George Frederic Parsons - 1889 - 384 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." So fond is Nature of the curve that it underlies all her work and gives to... | |
 | Adam Gifford - 1889 - 304 pages
...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 paddle...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... | |
 | 1890 - 168 pages
...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 !... | |
 | William Hamilton Gibson - 1890 - 212 pages
...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... | |
 | 1891 - 168 pages
...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 ( WoodnotesJ. 75 WHEN the enemy is near thee, Call on us ! In our hands... | |
 | AUGUSTINE BIRRELL - 1891 - 350 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. Not unrelated, unaffied, But to each thought and thing allied, Is perfect nature's... | |
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