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 - Página 213por Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 476 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Tyndall - 1876 - 706 páginas
...but not beautiful. Of gathered shells Emerson writes: I wiped away the weeds and foam, And brought my sea-born treasures home: But the poor, unsightly,...shore. With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar. The promontory of Gibraltar is so burrowed with caverns that it has been called the Hill of Caves.... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 páginas
...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 straved, Nor knew her beauty's best... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 622 páginas
...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 m. The lover watched his graceful maid, As 'mid the virgin train she strayed ; Nor knew her beauty's... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 páginas
...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. Tlie lover watched his graceful maid, As mid the virgin train she strayed, Nor knew her beauty's best... | |
| 1876 - 508 páginas
...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... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 618 páginas
...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 sand and the wild uproar. The lover watched his graceful maid, As mid the virgin train she strayed, Nor knew her beauty's best... | |
| William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 páginas
...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. 9. The lover watched his graceful maid, As 'mid the virgin train she strayed ; 10. Nor knew her beauty's... | |
| John Bartlett - 1878 - 896 páginas
...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,...shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar Each and All. Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. The Problem.... | |
| American poems - 1878 - 536 páginas
...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 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... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 páginas
...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,...the shore, With the sun, and the sand, and the wild up roar. The lover watched his graceful maid, As 'mid the virgin train she strayed ; Nor knew her beauty's... | |
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