 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
..." WHENCE IS THE FLOWER ? " IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp...sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, 5 Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...FLOWER? Is May, when sea-winds piereed our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreadmg its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the...The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gsy ; Young RAPHAEL might covet such a school; The lively show beguiled me... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 538 pages
...ASEED. WHENCE U THE FLOWER? IK May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp...the sluggish brook ; The purple petals fallen in the IEKi! Made the black waters with their beauty gay ; Young RAPHAEL might covet such a school ; The lively... | |
 | 1857 - 376 pages
...May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafy blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the...black water with their beauty gay : Here might the red bird come his plume to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array, Rhodora ! if the sages... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1852 - 356 pages
...grace my Anna's breast. Emerson| N May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods ; Spreading its leafless blooms in a...black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-breast come, his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...WHENCE IS TEE FL' r.rFR > IN May, when sea- winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp...The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gay ; Toung KA rn AF.L might covet such a school ; The lively show beguiled... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 350 pages
...'S ' BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON. IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp...purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black waters with their beauty gay ; Young RAPHAEL might covet such a school ; The lively show beguiled me... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - 1859 - 438 pages
...Massachusetts, is also remarkably good as a dried fruit. Nor must we fail to glance, in passing, at the rhodora, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook To please the desert; still, as when Bigelow wrote, beautiful in the Notch, in June, and on the mountains, later ; at the... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1886 - 588 pages
...Our American poet says : — "In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Bhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp...the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for... | |
 | Essex Institute - 1860 - 368 pages
...slaggUh brouk. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Make the black water with their beauty gay; Hero might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array." In Concoa-nut Hollow the Blood-root (Sanyuinaria canadcntis) blossoms in abundance. Concoa-nut Hollow,... | |
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In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool. Made the black water with their beauty... 
