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... Charnwood forest - Página 81por Frederick Thompson Mott - 1868 - 144 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1842 - 642 páginas
...sound and echo, man and maid, The land reflected in the flood, Body with shadow still pursued; For nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme...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 páginas
...sound and echo, man and maid, The land reflected in the flood, Body with shadow still pursued. For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme...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 - 1847 - 244 páginas
...sound and echo, man and maid ; The land reflected in the flood; Body with shadow still pursued. For nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme...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 - 1851 - 270 páginas
...sound and echo, man and maid, The land reflected in the flood, Body with shadow still pursued. For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme...there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. RALPH WALDO EMF.USON. PREFACE, ALLEGORICAL PORTRAITS OF NATURE; OR, VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL CHARACTERS.... | |
| 1851 - 618 páginas
...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... | |
| 1872 - 806 páginas
...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 - 1907 - 876 páginas
...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 - 1860 - 492 páginas
...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 páginas
...object of beauty, sometimes by that, but yet more by the complex mass of glory of the 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 canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1892 - 996 páginas
...beauty, that purest discovery of the soul, but in song he always recognized its visible reality. For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme...there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. But, as I say, the recantation of beauty, by transcendentalists, realists, and impressionists alike,... | |
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