 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
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 364 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 might...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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...brook : 'he purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gay, — 1ère g*2 f*2 f*2 thodora ! if the sages ask thee why 'his charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, )ear, tell them, that... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 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 come his plumes to cool, An;, court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook : The purple petals fallen in the pool Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. Why thou... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 pages
...in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook : The purple petals, fallen in the pool, marsh and sky, Dear, tell them that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 416 pages
...faith, and a sympathy with nature so intimate and noble, as these that close this little poem : — " 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 thou... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 pages
...please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black wnt^r with their beauty gay; Here might the red-bird come...court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! it the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...please the desert and the sluggish brook : Tho purple 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 chea]>ens his array. Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky,... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pages
...might the red-bird come his plumea to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! it the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made lor seeing. Then Beauty is its own excuFe for being: Why tljou... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pages
...brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool. Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might (he red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. lihodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Dear, tell them, that... | |
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