 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 352 pages
...sun and shade, Of sound and echo, man and maid, The land reflected in the flood, Body with shallow still pursued. For Nature beats in perfect tune, And...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... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1895 - 548 pages
...broke them wilfully. Now and again he happened on a quatrain than which nothing can be more beautiful : 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. Following Bryant, Emerson put into his verse nature as he saw it about him —... | |
 | English poetry - 1896 - 532 pages
...each his bosom-secret say. ' Come learn with me the fatal song Which knits the world in music strong, Come lift thine eyes to lofty rhymes, Of things with...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... | |
 | Arthur Lefevre - Algebra - 1896 - 242 pages
...lines, in which, with the poet's seer gift, he speaks truer than he knew, then become literal fact : — "For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with...beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake . . . Not unrelated, unaffied, But to each thought and thing allied Is perfect Nature's every part,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hillyer Egleston - Arbor Day - 1896 - 90 pages
...Irving. ACCORDANCE OP NATURE. For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rnne, 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... | |
 | Agriculture - 1896 - 360 pages
...Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune, Whether she work in land or aea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou cans't not wave...there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. The wood is wiser far than thou ; Ihe wood and wave each other know. Not unrelated, unaffled, But to... | |
 | Arbor Day - 1896 - 92 pages
..."Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou cans't not wave thy staft' in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves...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... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - American literature - 1897 - 554 pages
...the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the snow." And again in " Wood-Notes : " — "Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy...there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake." " Wiser far than human seer, Yellow-breeched philosopher. Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Citizenship - 1897 - 264 pages
...things are for its sake, and it is the cause of everything beautiful." x, 258; EWE, 254. " Thou canat not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the...there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake." Woodnotes, II, ix, 53. " As for beauty," said Ellery Channing, voyaging on Concord River with Emerson,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Citizenship - 1897 - 268 pages
...things are for its sake, and it is the cause of everything beautiful." x, 258; EWE, 254. "Thou caust not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, Aud the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake." Woodnoles, II, ix, 53. " As for beauty," said Ellery Chanuing,... | |
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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... 
