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" 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 76
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 pages
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The Fairyland of Flowers: A Popular Illustrated Botany

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...
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Little Flower Folks, Or, Stories from Flowerland for the Home and ..., Volume 1

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,...
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Strolls by Starlight and Sunshine

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...
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Sunshine in Life: Poems for the King's Daughters

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...
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Good-night Poetry: (Bedside Poetry) A Parent's Assistant in Moral Discipline

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...
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American Literature

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...
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Initial Studies in American Letters

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...
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Initial Studies in American Letters

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...
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The Outlines of Rhetoric for School and Colleges

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....
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Initial Studies in American Letters

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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