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" I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, 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 strayed, Nor knew her beauty's... "
Emerson's Complete Works: Poems - Page 13
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...watched his graceful maid, As 'mid the virgin train she strayed, 30 H Nor knew her beauty's best attire Was woven still by the snow-white choir. At last she...to the cage ; — The gay enchantment was undone, 35 A gentle wife, but fairy none. Then I said, " I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat;...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical Introduction

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 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 from the woodlands to the cage, — The gav enchantment was undone, — A gentle wife, but fairy none. Then, I said, " I covet truth ; Beauty...
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The Poets and Poetry of America

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 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...youth ;" As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground-pine curl'd its pretty wreath, Running over the hair-cap burs ; I inhaled the violet's breath ; Around me...
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The Poets and Poetry of America

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1845 - 538 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...leave it behind with the games of youth ;" As I spoke, buncath my feet The ground-pine curl'd its pretty wreath, Running over the hair-cap burs : I inhaled...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: To the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...virgin train she stray'd, Xor knew her beauty's best attire Was woven still by that snow-white quire. At last, she came to his hermitage, Like the bird...cheat ; I leave it behind with the games of youth ;" Aa I spoke, beneath my feet The ground-pine curl'd its pretty wreath, Running over the hair-cap...
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Poets of England and America: Being Selections from the Best Authors of Both ...

Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...virgin train she strayed, Nor knew her beauty's best attire Was woven still by the snow-white quire ; At last she came to his hermitage, Like the bird from...childhood's cheat, — I leave it behind with the gems of youth.' As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over...
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Golden Leaves from the American Poets

American poetry - 1864 - 428 pages
...the virgin train she strayed ; Nor knew her beauty's best attire Was woven still by the snow white choir. At last she came to his hermitage, Like the...cheat — I leave it behind with the games of youth." The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burrs ; I inhaled the violet's...
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Festival of Song: A Series of Evenings with the Poets

Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...watched his graceful maid, As mid the virgin train she strayed ; Nor knew her beauty's best attire Was woven still by the snow-white choir. At last she...curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burs ; I inhaled the violet's breath ; Around me stood the oaks and firs ; 3V I Pine-cones and acorns...
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Sanders' Rhetorical, Or, Union Sixth Reader: Embracing a Full Exposition of ...

Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...maid, As 'mid the virgin train she strayed; Nor knew her beauty's best attire Was woven still by that snow-white choir ; At last, she came to his hermitage,...enchantment was undone— A gentle wife, but fairy none. IV. Then I said,—" I covet truth; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat— I leave it behind with the...
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Gems for the Bridal Ring: A Gift for the Plighted and the Wedded

Marriage - 1867 - 174 pages
...watched his graceful maid, As 'mid the virgin train she strayed, Nor knew her beauty's best attire Was woven still by the snow-white choir. At last she came to his hermitage Like the bird from the woodland to the cage : The gay enchantment was undone, A gentle wife, but fairy none. RW Emerson. LOVE...
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