 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
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pages
...possessions, because they would take away my liberty." — Santayana "Beauty without expression tires." — "If eyes were made for seeing, then Beauty is its own excuse for being." — "Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait." — "Though we travel the world over to find... | |
 | Kris Fresonke - 2003 - 220 pages
...a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook, The purple petals, fallen in their 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... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 2003 - 408 pages
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 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 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 though... | |
 | William Patten - 2003 - 548 pages
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 | Kris Fresonke - 2003 - 220 pages
...purple petals, fallen in their pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might the red-bicd come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that...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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 2003 - 224 pages
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 | George Willis Cooke - 2003 - 408 pages
...a sympathy with nature so intimate and noble, as these that close this little poem : — " Rhodoral 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... | |
 | Consuelo R. Jackson - 2003 - 374 pages
...wanted to hear about your visit, Anak." Alfonso let out a low chuckle. He took a seat beside his mother. 'If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being," he said. "Quoting whom? Speak from your own heart, Ponsing," she said. "I know Lydia's simplicity is... | |
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