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... Works - Page 39by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895Full view - About this book
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..." 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...ASKED, 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...court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
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| 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... | |
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...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... | |
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