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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... "
A Short History of American Literature - Page 245
by Henry Augustin Beers - 1906 - 291 pages
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...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 the...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...
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The Western Messenger, Volume 7

James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - 1839 - 444 pages
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The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical Introduction

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...
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The Poets and Poetry of America

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...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...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical Introduction

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1848 - 600 pages
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The Ladies' Companion

1857 - 376 pages
...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...
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Garden Walks with the Poets

Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1852 - 358 pages
...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 the...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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The Poets and Poetry of America: To the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

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...
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Gift of Flowers: Love's Wreath for 1854

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 350 pages
...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 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...
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The Poets and Poetry of America

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 690 pages
...ridiculous. THE RHODORA. LINES ON nEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWED In May, when sea-winds pierced I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading...The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty гзг ; Young IÏ i mi t EL might covet such я schooi ; The lively show...
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