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
| Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 pages
...in a damp nook. To please the desert and the sluggish brouk. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, r eyes. q. POPE — Spring. Line 49. One thought of thee puts all the pomp t plume» to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! it the sages ask thee why... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 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...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... | |
| 1883 - 444 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 380 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... | |
| 1883 - 528 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 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...cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Ehodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that... | |
| 1883 - 456 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...cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. 2. Khodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear,... | |
| Joel Benton - 1883 - 150 pages
...equally in a score of examples, I only quote here, as an instance, the conclusion to "The Rhodora": 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... | |
| Joel Benton - 1883 - 148 pages
...equally in a score of examples, I only quote here, as an instance, the conclusion to "The Rhodora": 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... | |
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