 | Honoré de Balzac - 1898 - 390 pages
...Nature ; and the poetical vision has never been more subtly or sweetly expressed than by Emerson : — " For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with...there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake." So fond is Nature of the curve that it underlies all her work and gives to it the deepest charm and... | |
 | William Cranston Lawton - American literature - 1898 - 296 pages
...all Emersonian strains: "For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune . . . 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." Almost as famous as "Each and All" is the " Problem." But here many readers... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 278 pages
...Highlanders, Ocean tongues to islanders, To Finn, and Lap, and swart Malay, To each his bosom secret say. Come learn with me the fatal song Which knits the...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... | |
 | Honoré de Balzac - 1899 - 622 pages
...; and the poetical vision has never been more subtly or sweetly expressed than by Emerson : -— " For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with...dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of heauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake." So fond is Nature of the curve that it underlies... | |
 | Martin Grove Brumbaugh - Readers - 1899 - 408 pages
...NATURE. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every nine, 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 - 1899 - 278 pages
...pursued. For nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune, Whether she work in l^nd or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst...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... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1899 - 528 pages
...Constitution, Products, Art, and Civilisation, and Omitting a Tiffin in a Tea-house with O-Toyo. " Thou canst not wave thy staff in air Or dip thy paddle...the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And ripples in rhyme the oar forsake." THIS morning, after the sorrows of the rolling night, my cabin porthole... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1899 - 488 pages
...CONSTITUTION, PRODUCTS, ART, AND CIVILISATION, AND OMITTING A TIFFIN IN A TEA-HOUSE WITH O-TOYO. " Thou canst not wave thy staff in air Or dip thy paddle...the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And ripples in rhyme the oar forsake." THIS morning, after the sorrows of the rolling night, my cabin porthole... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Abolitionists - 1899 - 402 pages
...music. Nothing can exceed the perfection of the lines — " Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Nor dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhyme the oar forsake." Yet within the compass of this same fine poem (" Wood - Notes ") there are... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 954 pages
...Strife. "THE MIGHTY HEART" 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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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... 
