 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
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 560 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...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 Lawson Stoddard - Asia - 1898 - 386 pages
...in the lines of Emerson : " I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched 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 uproa1." To stand upon the edge of this stupendous gorge, as it receives its earliest greeting from... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - Asia - 1898 - 386 pages
...from the beach; a verification of the 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, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - Asia - 1898 - 382 pages
...from the beach ; a verification of the 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, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore. With the sun and the... | |
 | Manual training - 1900 - 252 pages
...my ear; they sang to my eye. The delicate shells lay on the shore ; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearl to their enamel gave ; And the bellowing...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 sea and the... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 452 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...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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 768 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 - 1899 - 278 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...safe escape to me; I wiped away the weeds and foam, And fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty... | |
 | Frank Crane - Christianity - 1899 - 396 pages
...19. "God is the perfect Poet, Who, in His person, acts His own creations." BROWNING, Paracelsus. " 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... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - Readers - 1899 - 456 pages
...pleases not now; For I did not bring home the river and sky; He sang to my ear — they sang to my eye. 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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