...recalling the lines : " 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 wast there, O, rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask. I never knew ; But in my simple ignorance,...

...flower, which is one of the very earliest to greet us in the spring, without recalling the lines : " 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...

...Canadensia, with its rose-purple flowers in umbel-like clusters, blooming before the leaves appear. " 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, Why thou wert there, 0 rival of the rose ! I never...

...hang its twin-born heads ; or that which, unveiling the woodland retreat of the Rhodora, assures us that — If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. When we read Emerson's poetry, we can scarcely think of surfaces and outlines ; we are in the very...

...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...

...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...cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Ehodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Dear, tell them that...

...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...

...ugly. I regret that I have not been able to find a satisfactory definition of beauty. Emerson says that " If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being." But unfortunately just now we are not looking for excuses, but for a definition. So I have taken the...

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...so eloquent an exponent. Every line is weighty; the sense clear; each word in its proper place : '* If eyes were made for seeing. Then beauty is its own excuse for being," compares well with the one famous line of Keats. We can safely promise the reader he will discover...