 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...  Poets of America - Page 152by Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 516 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1892 - 996 pages
...that purest discovery of the soul, but in song he always recognized its visible reality. For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every...there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. But, as I say, the recantation of beauty, by transcendentalists, realists, and impressionists alike,... | |
 | 1872 - 794 pages
...that fade, Immortal youth returns." GALAHAD (drawing a long breath). How beautiful ! THE ANCIENT. " Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle...carves the bow of Beauty there, And the ripples in rhyme the oar forsake." ZOI'LUS. Peccavi ! THE ANCIENT. Then I will lock up my half-unbolted thunders.... | |
 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 pages
...and echo, man and maid; The land reflected in the flood; Body with shadow still pursued. For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every...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, unaflied, But to... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1873 - 210 pages
...that fade, Immortal youth returns." GALAHAD (drawing a long breath}. How beautiful ! THE ANCIENT. " Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle...carves the bow of Beauty there, And the ripples in rhyme the oar forsake." Zoi'LUS. Peccavi ! THE ANCIENT. Then I will lock up my halfunbolted thunders.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...pursued. For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every nine, Whether she work in laud or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff1 in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples... | |
 | American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...and echo, man and maid; The land reflected in the flood ; Body with shadow still pursued. For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every...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, unaffied, But to... | |
 | Lucy Larcom - 1879 - 140 pages
...shade, Of sound and echo, man and maid, The land reflected in the flood, Body with shadow still pursued. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle...there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. He has elsewhere said that the " difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is... | |
 | 1880 - 592 pages
...as glass. She pulled steadily across toward the Neck, feathering the oars in her very best style. " Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But lt carves the bow of beauty there, And ripples in rhyme the oar forsake." She repeated the lines, half... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1880 - 466 pages
...sunset may reveal inexhaustible delights ; that " You cannot wave your staff in the air, Or dip your paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhyme the oar forsake." Beauty divorced from use ceases to be beautiful, as piety divorced from goodness... | |
 | 1880 - 592 pages
...She pulled steadily across toward the Neck, feathering the oars in her very best style. " Thou oanst not wave thy staff In air. Or dip thy paddle In the lake, But It carvee the bow of beauty there, And rlpplee in rhyme the oar forsake." She repeated the lines, half... | |
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