 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
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - Readers - 1890 - 402 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... | |
 | Poetry - 1891 - 168 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 sand,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - Literary Criticism - 1892 - 372 pages
...: — " The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel gave j FREEDOM— BEAUTY 221 " 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... | |
 | California. State Board of Education - Readers - 1893 - 248 pages
...they 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 352 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...the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures homo ; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the Kim and... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 482 pages
...they 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 sand... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Citizenship - 1897 - 268 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... | |
 | Maria Theresa Earle, Lady Constance Lytton - Cooking - 1897 - 406 pages
...a tender double meaning : — The delicate shells lay on the shore ; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearl to their enamel gave, And the bellowing...safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, And brought my sea-born treasures home ; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty... | |
 | Northwest Territories Council of Public Instruction - 1897 - 628 pages
...this difference. B. 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...escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam — I fetch'd my sea born treasures home ; But the poor unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - American literature - 1897 - 592 pages
...latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel gave ; And th^e 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 sun and the sand... | |
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