 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...  Literature: A Fifth Reader - Page 311by Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Adaline Wheelock Sterling - 1901 - 512 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1885 - 1148 pages
...array. Rhodora ! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and skv, Dear, tell them that if eyes were made for seeing. Then beauty is...self-same power that brought me there brought you. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. eye THE ROSE OF JERICHO. AND was it not enough that, meekly growing, In lack of... | |
 | Alpheus Baker Hervey - 1885 - 234 pages
...charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing Then beaut}7 is its own excuse for being. Why thou wert there,...self-same Power that brought me there, brought you. Ralph Waldo EmersonI HAVE quoted these words of the great philosopher to intro duce the Azalea, because... | |
 | 1885 - 456 pages
...that if eyes were made for seeing, - Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. Why thou wert there, 0 rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never...self-same Power that brought me there brought you. Emerson. PART II. STRANGE PLANTS AND THEIR WAYS. THE BUILDER'S TREE OF CHINA. 1. A TREE of great importance... | |
 | 1885 - 686 pages
...that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, О rival of the rose, I never thought to ask, I never...selfsame Power that brought me there, brought you. " That is, the self-excuse of the being of beauty and the self-warranty of the higher human nature... | |
 | American Philological Association - 1885 - 558 pages
...for example, from f to £ time. The final verses of Emerson's "Rhodora" contain an instance: — " I never thought to ask ; I never knew, But in my simple...selfsame Power that brought me there brought you." No one can fail to perceive a difference in movement between the last line and the others ; and a little... | |
 | Bradford Torrey - 1885 - 318 pages
...give no explanation. He, too, might well enough have joined the noble company of Emersonians : — '- I never thought to ask, I never knew ; But, in my...ignorance, suppose The self-same Power that brought me here brought you." Almost at the very top of Mount Clinton I was saluted by the familiar ditty of the... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1886 - 268 pages
...that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. Why thou wert there, 0 rival of the rose! I never thought to ask — I never...suppose The self-same power that brought me there, ln-ought you." Mr. Matthew Arnold says that Trench criticism calls real simplicity, " simplicity,"... | |
 | 1887 - 168 pages
...see No enemy But winter and rough weather. SHAKSPERE (As You Like, It). 71 IN May, when sea- winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in...self-same Power that brought me there brought you. EMERSON (The Rhodora ). 72 HAST thou named all the birds without a gun? Loved the wood-rose, and left... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1887 - 632 pages
...made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being ; Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose I I never thought to ask, I never knew; But in my simple...self-same Power that brought me there, brought you. T HACK BRAY. 1811-1863. materials for a sketch of Thackeray's (thak'srlz) -L life are of the smallest.... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1888 - 232 pages
...entirely in the Emersonian style. Such a piece is the " Rhodora," worthy of the Greek Anthology : " In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...self-same Power that brought me there brought you." Almost equally finished, and gushing from a yet deeper well-spring of feeling, is the mystic yet transparent... | |
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