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 - Side 77af Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Tyndall - 1871 - 562 sider
...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 beauty on the suore, With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar. The promontory of Gibraltar is so burrowed... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1872 - 432 sider
...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,... | |
 | Poems - 1872 - 362 sider
...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... | |
 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 sider
...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... | |
 | 1874 - 202 sider
...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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 sider
...Greeted their safe escape to me. 1 wiped away the weeds and foam, 1 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 ami the wild uproar. The lover watched his graceful maid, As mill the virgin train she strayed, Nor... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 898 sider
...Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his Highland Mary. Lines on Burns. 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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 762 sider
...pearls to their enamel gave ; And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. 1 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 sider
...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,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 622 sider
...sang to my eye. II. 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... | |
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