 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...  Lights of Two Centuries - Page 256edited by - 1887 - 603 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1886 - 204 pages
...sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water 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 This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1886 - 268 pages
...might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the Jloicer that cheapens his array. Iihodora! if 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... | |
 | 1887 - 168 pages
...sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water 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 This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water 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 This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,. Tell them, dear, that if eyes... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1888 - 232 pages
...sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water 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 This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1888 - 1044 pages
...purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water 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 This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1888 - 476 pages
...purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might the red bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodoral if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 pages
...sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower {hat cheapens his array. Khodora! if the sages ask thcc why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,... | |
 | 1889 - 92 pages
...sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water 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 This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes... | |
 | Charles Rufus Skinner - 1890 - 528 pages
...sluggish brook. The purple petals fallen in the pool, Made the black water 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 This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes... | |
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