 Fresh pearls 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 Poets and Poetry of America - Page 213by Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 476 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1898 - 394 pages
...sentiment so beautifully expressed in the lines of Emerson : " I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea.born treasures home ; But the poor, unsightly,...shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar." To stand upon the edge of this stupendous gorge, as it receives its earliest greeting from the god... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1898 - 382 pages
...sentiment so beautifully expressed in the lines of Emerson : " I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea.born treasures home ; But the poor, unsightly,...shore. With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar." To stand upon the edge of this stupendous gorge, as it receives its earliest greeting from the god... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 560 pages
...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,...shore, With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar. I CO PS o o $ * ~ tf O Nor knew her beauty's best attire Was woven still by the snow-white choir. At... | |
 | Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 pages
...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,...shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar. The lover watched his graceful maid, As 'mid the virgin train she strayed, Nor knew her beauty's best... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 pages
...bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, 25 I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly,...shore, With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar. The lover watched his graceful maid, 30 As 'mid the virgin train she strayed, Nor knew her beauty's... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 pages
...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,...shore, With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar. The lover watched his graceful maid, As 'mid the virgin train she strayed, Nor knew her beauty's best... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 pages
...weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things I hid 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 strayed, Nor knew her beauty's best... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...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,...shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar. — EACH AND ALL Have you had a similar experience? Why do shells look different at home than at the... | |
 | Robert E. Belknap - 2004 - 284 pages
...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,...Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun and sand and the wild uproar. The lover watched his graceful maid, As 'mid the virgin train she strayed,... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 2006 - 297 pages
...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,...beauty on the shore With the sun and the sand and the wfld uproar." So I would see my man where he belong, in the midst of the things which have produced... | |
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