Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, 0 rival of the rose! An Emerson Calendar - Page 44by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 117 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alpheus Baker Hervey - 1885 - 234 pages
...— 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 marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing Then beaut}7 is its own excuse for... | |
| Isaac Sprague - 1885 - 136 pages
...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 marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing Then beauty is its own excuse for... | |
| Mary Wilder Tileston - 1886 - 204 pages
...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...never knew ; But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The self -same Power that brought me -there brought you. V THE EVENING PRIMROSE " \T7HAT are you looking... | |
| Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - 1886 - 374 pages
...which must criticized their utility the words the poet puts into the mouth of the retired Rhodora : — "Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." Of course, it is bad for any human beings to be exclusively dancers. " There is a time to dance," and... | |
| Boston (Mass.). Dept. of Parks - 1886 - 130 pages
...means than can be found in any public ground could be easily and cheaply adopted for the purpose. ' Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." PART SECOND. PAKT SECOND. THE PLAN OF FRANKLIN PARK. I. OF CERTAIN CONDITIONS OP THE SITE OF FRANKLIN... | |
| Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - 568 pages
...possibility and a high obligation ; nature was the mirror of deity ; and beauty— " Tell, them, dear, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." Emerson had now fairly entered upon his literary career. He was lecturing in Boston every winter, on... | |
| Charles Goodrich Whiting - 1886 - 326 pages
...nestlings stol'n away? Sure only this could weigh thy note With such repairless agony ? EYES FOR SEEING. " If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." jjMERSON'S explanation of the rhodora's wasted bloom beside the wild-wood pool has become a proverb,... | |
| 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... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - 1887 - 632 pages
...might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora I if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on...being ; Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose I I never thought to ask, I never knew; But in my simple ignorance, suppose The self-same Power that... | |
| Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - 470 pages
...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...for being : Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose 1 I never thought to ask, I never knew ; But in my simple ignorance, suppose The self-same power that... | |
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