 The delicate shells lay on the shore; The bubbles of the latest wave 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...  Select Essays and Poems - Page 77by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...sang to my eye. The delicate shells lay on the shore ; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel gave ; And the bellowing of the savage...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 sun and the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...sang to my eye. The delicate shells lay on the shore ; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel gave ; And the bellowing of the savage...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 sun and the... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 508 pages
...sang to my eye. The delicate shells lay on the shore ; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage...and foam — 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 618 pages
...of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel gave ; And the bellowing of the savage sea f! reeted 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 Hud left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1878 - 508 pages
...sang to my eye. 8. The delicate shells lay on the shore ; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage...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 sun and the... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations, English - 1878 - 896 pages
...Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his Highland Mary. Lines on Barns, RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 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 sun and the... | |
 | American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...sang to my eye. The delicate shells lay on the shore ; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel gave ; And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their sate escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, And fetched my sea-born treasures home ; But the... | |
 | Helen A Hertz - 1879 - 292 pages
...sang to my eye. The delicate shells lay on the shore ; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage...and foam — 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... | |
 | John Tyndall - Chemical reactions - 1879 - 662 pages
...gathered shells Emerson writes : I wiped away the weeds and foam, And brought my sea.born treasures home : But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their...the shore, With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproa The promontory of Gibraltar is so burrowed with caverns that it has been called the Hill of Caves.... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1879 - 508 pages
...sang to my eye. 4. The delicate shells lay on the shore ; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. 5. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home ; But the poor, unsightly,... | |
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