| 1850 - 548 Seiten
...that he can write poetry at once melodious and distinct, with rare delicacy of thought and feeling. " My life is like a stroll upon the beach, As near the...edge as I can go, My tardy steps its waves sometimes o'crreach, Sometimes I stay to let them overflow. "My sole employment 'tis, and scrupulous care, To... | |
| Samuel Longfellow - 1853 - 234 Seiten
...me, While all things change, and fade, and flee, In ocean, earth, and sky. WH HURLBTJT. t. d V-.Mv> < MY life is like a stroll upon the beach, As near the...overflow. My sole employment 't is, and scrupulous care To set my gains beyond the reach of tides, Each smoother pebble and each shell more rare, Which ocean... | |
| Samuel Longfellow - 1853 - 228 Seiten
...strength, ye are to me, While all things change, and fade, and flee, In ocean, earth, and sky. WH HURLBUT. MY life is like a stroll upon the beach, As near the...Sometimes I stay to let them overflow. My sole employment 'tis, and scrupulous care To set my gains beyond the reach of tides, Each smoother pebble and each... | |
| Samuel Longfellow - 1853 - 228 Seiten
...strength, ye are to me, While all things change, and fade, and flee, In ocean, earth, and sky. WH HURLBUT. MY life is like a stroll upon the beach, As near the...Sometimes I stay to let them overflow. My sole employment 'tis, and scrupulous care To set my gains beyond the reach of tides, Each smoother pebble and each... | |
| Poems - 1872 - 362 Seiten
...darker grows, Shines out, for every shade, a world of light. MRS. ARTHUR CLIVE. ON THE SEA-BEACH. TV/TY life is like a stroll upon the beach, •*•"•••...Sometimes I stay to let them overflow. My sole employment is, and scrupulous care, To place my gains beyond the reach of tides, Each smoother pebble, and each... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1873 - 430 Seiten
...of snails and cockles. Nevertheless, we were contented to know the better one fair particular shore. My life is like a stroll upon the beach, As near the...to let them overflow. My sole employment 't is, and scrnpulons care, To place my gains beyond the reach of tides, Each smoother pebble, and each shell... | |
| Henry C. Leonard - 1873 - 216 Seiten
...perhaps, go farther and see more than many who sail abroad. Thoreau reports him as singing this charming strain : — " My life is like a stroll upon the beach,...Sometimes I stay to let them overflow. My sole employment 'tis, and scrupulous care, To set my gains beyond the reach of tides, Each smoother pebble and each... | |
| Henry C. Leonard - 1873 - 214 Seiten
...Thoreau reports him as singing this charming strain : — " My life is like a stroll upon the beach, Aa near the ocean's edge as I can go ; My tardy steps...Sometimes I stay to let them overflow. My sole employment 'tis, and scrupulous care, To set my gains beyond the reach of tides, Each smoother pebble and each... | |
| Martha Le Baron Goddard - 1874 - 248 Seiten
...distant men, who must go there, or die. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. MY LIFE IS LIKE A STROLL UPON THE BEACH. ATY life is like a stroll upon the beach, •"-*• As...Sometimes I stay to let them overflow. My sole employment 'tis, and scrupulous care, To place my gains beyond the reach of tides ; Each smoother pebble, and... | |
| Martha Le Baron Goddard - 1874 - 382 Seiten
...WALDO EMRRSON. MY LIFE IS LIKE A STROLL UPON THE BEACH. ATY life is like a stroll upon the beach, -L"- As near the ocean's edge as I can go ; My tardy steps...Sometimes I stay to let them overflow. My sole employment 'tis, and scrupulous care, To place my gains beyond the reach of tides ; Each smoother pebble, and... | |
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