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
| Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick - 1890 - 232 pages
...and the sluggish brook; The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beanty gay, Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his arrav. Rhodora! if the sages ask thee -why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Dear, tell them... | |
| Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick - 1890 - 152 pages
...petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-breast come, his plumes to cool And court the flower that cheapens his array. JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT. Jack-in-the-pulpit is preaching to-day That's what the birds and the children say,... | |
| William Hamilton Gibson - 1890 - 212 pages
...lines of Emerson to his recluse Rhodora, and which are equally applicable to the twilight primrose : " Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for... | |
| 1891 - 448 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... | |
| 1891 - 168 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... | |
| Albert H. Smyth - 1889 - 324 pages
...brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here'might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the...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... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 288 pages
...petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red bird cqrne his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens...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 then... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 296 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 the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And c*urt the flower that cheapens liis array. Rhodora 1 if the sages ask thee why This cliarm is wasted... | |
| Joseph Henry Gilmore - 1891 - 192 pages
...Till cold winds woke the gray-eyed morn, About the lonely moated grange." — Tennyson. " Bhodora ! 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." — Emerson.... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 298 pages
...purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might the red bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodoral if the sages ask thee why _I This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that... | |
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