 For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune, Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the...  Collected Essays - Page 297by Augustine Birrell - 1902Full view - About this book
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1842 - 642 pages
...flood, Body with shadow still pursued; For nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune, Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground...there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. The wood is wiser far than thou ; The wood and wave each other know. Not unrelated, unaflied, But to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...flood, Body with shadow still pursued. For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune, Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground...there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. The wood is wiser far than thou ; The wood and wave each other know. Not unrelated, unaffied, But to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1847 - 244 pages
...flood; Body with shadow still pursued. For nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune, Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground...there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. The wood is wiser far than thou : The wood and wave each other know. Not unrelated, unaffied, But to... | |
 | M. Edgeworth Lazarus - Anthropomorphism - 1851 - 286 pages
...flood, Body with shadow still pursued. For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune, Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground...there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. PREFACE, ALLEGORICAL PORTRAITS OF NATURE; VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL CHARACTERS. HUMAN... | |
 | Country life - 1851 - 618 pages
...beauty : — " Thou canst not wave thy staff ill the air, Or dip thy padcle in the lake, But it forms the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake.'1 After a survey of the glories of creation, the thought that first suggests itself to a reflective... | |
 | American essays - 1872 - 806 pages
...that fade. Immortal youth returns.0 GALAHAD (drawing a long breath). How beautiful ! THE ANCIENT. " Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle...carves the bow of Beauty there. And the ripples in rhyme the oar forsake." ZOILUS. Peccavi ! THE ANCIENT. Then I will lock up my half-unbolted thunders.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1907 - 876 pages
...in carving whales' teeth with designs of rough and unmistakable charm. But where is beauty absent ? Thou canst not wave thy staff in air Or dip thy paddle...carves the bow of beauty there And the ripples in rhyme the oar forsake. In these lodges the men in summer went about naked as the woodland deities themselves,... | |
 | John Tyndall - Alps - 1860 - 492 pages
...these exquisite effects ; — CHASING PRODUCED BY WAVES. 233 " Thou canst not wave thy staff in the air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the hrow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake." Now, all that we have said regarding... | |
 | 1879 - 736 pages
...universe. " For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune ; Whether she work on land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou...the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And ripples in rhyme the oar forsake.'' As yet no attempt has been made to show the utility of this promiscuous... | |
 | Frederick Thompson Mott - Charnwood Forest (England) - 1868 - 172 pages
...0! to w X I NOTES ON NATURAL SCENERY. Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune, Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground...there. And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. RW EMERSON. Picturesqueness is the characteristic of natural scenery. The beauty which results from... | |
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