 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...  Select Essays and Poems - Page 96by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ronald E. Martin - 1991 - 428 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... | |
 | Merrill C. Gilfillan - 1991 - 156 pages
...Blue cohosh berries contrast pleasantly with the fallen yellow leaves. Then one may say with the poet, "If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being." impressions. Each region has its own unique charm and value. Ohio is 27 percent forested, and forests... | |
 | William Harmon - 1992 - 1176 pages
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 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...in my ear, (1. 68-69) AA; AmPP; AnAmPo; AWP; LiTA; NAAL-1; NOBA; NoP; OxBA; TAP; WGRP The Rhodora 42 r own. (1. 1—6) 7 "Forsooth, let go!" But when we come where comfort is, Sh Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou... | |
 | 1912 - 488 pages
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 | Elisa New - 1993 - 294 pages
...ostentatious "Made the black water with their beauty gay." The detail to follow "Here might the red bird come his plumes to cool/ And court the flower that cheapens his array" seems not only gratuitous but self-reflexively so, with the bird's "cheapened array" reflecting back... | |
 | 1994 - 1211 pages
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 | Lynn Keller - 1994 - 424 pages
...Moore's advice tries to resocialize the rose, to turn it away from such haunting background lyrics as "Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being" and "gather ye rosebuds while ye may." For as we know, a rose is often sent as a message to decode... | |
 | John Shoptaw - 1994 - 406 pages
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 | John Shoptaw - 1994 - 404 pages
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