 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
 | Channing Auxiliary (San Francisco) - 1892 - 136 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... | |
 | Jenny H. Stickney - 1892 - 416 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...cheapens his array. Rhodora, if the sages ask thee why Dear, tell them that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. Why thou... | |
 | Frank Walters - 1893 - 212 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... | |
 | Frank Walters - 1893 - 208 pages
...damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Hade the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might...thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, fell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being : Why thou... | |
 | Charles Stedman Newhall - 1893 - 264 pages
...land, close by the low bank of the Penobscot — a bush on fire, without a sign of green about it. " 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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1895 - 316 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 - 1895 - 352 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...court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if tin; sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1895 - 320 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...court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora I if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes... | |
 | Robert Comfort Metcalf, Orville T. Bright - 1896 - 268 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... | |
 | William Garrett Horder - 1896 - 408 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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