 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
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - 572 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... | |
 | Philip Young - 2010 - 177 pages
...(Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1964), 292, 280. "The Rhodora, " six lines of which — ending, "if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being" — are still in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Emerson, a biographer observes, was "searching tirelessly... | |
 | Ronald E. Martin - 1991 - 428 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! But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The self-same Power that brought me there brought you. 3 Presumably... | |
 | Merrill C. Gilfillan - 1991 - 156 pages
...Blue cohosh berries contrast pleasantly with the fallen yellow leaves. Then one may say with the poet, "If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being." impressions. Each region has its own unique charm and value. Ohio is 27 percent forested, and forests... | |
 | Elisa New - 1993 - 294 pages
...answer desire but rather judges it unwarranted. Yearning snaps back on itself in aphorism preprepared. "Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." Such lines as would intensify and virtualize the ripening of need never come. Instead, the poet suggests... | |
 | Edwin A. Peeples - 1994 - 278 pages
...care? Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote one of the loveliest answers to these questions in The Rhodora: . . .Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is...for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. . . 216 (continued from front flap) and neighbor Funderwite, an irascible farmer armed with a pitchfork.... | |
 | Lynn Keller - 1994 - 424 pages
...Moore's advice tries to resocialize the rose, to turn it away from such haunting background lyrics as "Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being" and "gather ye rosebuds while ye may." For as we know, a rose is often sent as a message to decode... | |
 | John L. Idol, Buford Jones - 1994 - 568 pages
...ask for more than meets the eye and touches the heart in that exquisite little fancy? 'Sure, if our eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.' But nothing about our author delights us so much as the quietness — the apparent leisure, with which... | |
 | Jean Howarth, Mike Walton - 1995 - 490 pages
...NOVEMBER) Today I will make room to be refreshed and restored by the healing power of music. Year 7:2 If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, IN DAYS OF HEALING, DAYS OF JOY (5 JUNE) If we work so hard and are so busy that... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 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...Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou were there, O rival of the rose! I never thought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance,... | |
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