 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...  Elson Grammar School Readers - Page 318by William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1910Full view - About this book
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...FLOWERS : do not bloom in vain. IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh rhodora rded strength of years, And lose more rapidly Than...law Of inactivity. Tis true of souls. They gather waters, with their beauty gay — Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower... | |
 | Isaac Newton Carleton - 1878 - 140 pages
...1T96-1S21. 52. The Rhodora.* In May, when sea- winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp...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, And court the flower... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...ASKED, WHENCE 18 THE FLOWER 1 IN May. when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I fuund the fresh Rhodora in the woods Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp...brook : The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the blank waters with their beaut; gayHere might the red-bird come his plumes U cool, And court the flower... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 364 pages
...ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER ? IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I fouud the fresh rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp...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... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 346 pages
...ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER ? Tx May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp...cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Dear, tell them that... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 pages
...Rhodora commences thus : — In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 pages
...ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWF.R ? IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora Rhodora ! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Dear, tell them that... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...ASKED, WHENCE is THE FLOWER ? Is May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora ode Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pages
...bishop be. THE RHODOKA. IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please...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... | |
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