 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...  Select Essays and Poems - Page 76by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1874 - 200 pages
...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 gay ; Here...thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being : Why thou... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1874 - 802 pages
...and the sluggish hrook, The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beanty gay: Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array." Where the bushes, were thickset, the accumulated blossoms, together with their reflections in the water,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish biook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might...thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...please the desert and the sluggish brook : The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gay, — Here might the red-bird...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... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...please the desert and the sluggish brook ; The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters, g damps, And dungeon horrors, by kind fate discharged,...prospects rise, His heart exults, his spirits cast their l marsh and sky, ' Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...fallen in the pool Made the blank waters with their beaut; gayHere might the red-bird come his plumes U cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array....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 excuso for... | |
 | Isaac Newton Carleton - 1878 - 140 pages
...petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gay; — Here might the red -bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Ehodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, that... | |
 | Massachusetts Horticultural Society - 1879 - 1040 pages
...Canadensia, with its rose-purple flowers in umbel-like clusters, blooming before the leaves appear. " Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Why thou wert there, 0 rival of the rose ! I never... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - 1879 - 286 pages
...flower, which is one of the very earliest to greet us in the spring, without recalling the lines : " Rhodora, if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if . eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. Why... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 346 pages
...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 gay ; Here...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... | |
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