| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...O, be my friend, and teach me to be thine ! THE RHODORA: ON BEING ASKED " WHENCE IS THE FLOWER ? " IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...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 - 1843 - 558 pages
...torture us, Thy sleep makes ridiculous. THE RHODORA. LINES ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWEB? Iir May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...The 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... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 538 pages
...torture us, Thy sleep makes ridiculous. THE RHODORA. LINES ON DEINO ASEED. WHENCE U THE FLOWER? IK May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...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 - 264 pages
...conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet? THE RHODORA: ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER? IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet. THE RHODORA, ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER. IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why... | |
| 1857 - 376 pages
...few lines from the transatlantic poet Emerson, on being asked "Whence is the Flower?"— THE RHODORA. In 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 sluggish brook. The purple petals fallen... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1852 - 356 pages
...your breast, And drawn your balmiest sweets away ; Oh come, and grace my Anna's breast. Emerson| N May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...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
...makes ridiculous. THE RHODORA. LINES ON BEING ASKED. WHENCE IS TEE FL' r.rFR > IN May, when sea- winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in...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
...alone t THE RHODORA. LINES ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWEB f V n. 'S ' BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON. IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...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... | |
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