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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... "
Comparative Psychology and Universal Analogy: Vol. 1. Vegetable Portraits of ... - Page v
by M. Edgeworth Lazarus - 1851 - 263 pages
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Literary News, Volume 3

American literature - 1882 - 404 pages
...its music. Nothing can exceed the perfection of — " Thou canst not wave thy staff in the air Nor dip thy paddle in the lake But it carves the bow of...there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake." Yet within the compass of this 'same fine poem • ("Wood Notes") there are passages which elicited...
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Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 332 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...
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Poems, Volume 9

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 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, minified, But to...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 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...
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Complete Works, Volume 9

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1883 - 344 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, unaffled, But to...
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Walks in Weardale

William Herbert Smith - Durham (England : County) - 1883 - 132 pages
...and giving interesting particulars of a botanical excursion to the head of Teesdale. LINKIRK CAVE, " Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme...the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake." RALPH WALDO EMEBSON. Linkirk Cave is situated at the side of Shittlehope burn at some little elevation east of...
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Complete Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 344 pages
...echo, man and maid, The land reflected in the flood, Body with shadow still pursued. For Nature heats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune,...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...
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Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, Volume 10

Manchester Literary Club - English literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...rounds with rhyme her every rune, Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide under ground her alehemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle...there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. The poem called " Each and All," again, may be considered as a series of illustrations of the text...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes - Literature - 1884 - 488 pages
...common aspects of life with the colors of his imagination. He was ready to see beauty everywhere : — " Thou can'st not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy...carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhyme the oar forsake." He called upon the poet to " Tell men what they knew before ; Paint the prospect...
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Epigrams of art, life, and nature

William Watson - 1884 - 120 pages
...almost the best gnomic or sententious-oracular sort. Here is a specially beautiful example : — " 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." To add anything respecting my own theory or practice of Epigram were superfluous,...
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