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
| 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... | |
| Helga Essmann - 1992 - 410 pages
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| 1912 - 488 pages
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| 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.... | |
| John Shoptaw - 1994 - 406 pages
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| John Shoptaw - 1994 - 404 pages
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| 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... | |
| 1994 - 1211 pages
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| 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... | |
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