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
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 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...cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Ehodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that... | |
| 1883 - 456 pages
...please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black waters with their beauty gay : Here might the red-bird come...cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. 2. Khodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear,... | |
| John Badcock (F.R.M.S.) - 1883 - 220 pages
...your jewel be of pure water, A rose.diamond or a white, — But whether it dazzle me with light." " Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." — EMERSON. A GLASS slide, on which are mounted a number of Diatoms, carefully selected and artistically... | |
| Joel Benton - 1883 - 150 pages
...equally in a score of examples, I only quote here, as an instance, the conclusion to "The Rhodora": 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... | |
| Joel Benton - 1883 - 148 pages
...equally in a score of examples, I only quote here, as an instance, the conclusion to "The Rhodora": 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... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pages
...shown ; Both are most valued where they best are known. 347 Lyttelton : Soliloquy of a Beauty. Line 2. If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. 348 Emerson: The Ithodora. Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny... | |
| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...thine. Good By. What are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet? Ibid. If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. The Rhodora. Here once the embattled farmers stood. And fired the shot heard round the world. Hymn... | |
| 1883 - 594 pages
...for they are not expensive decorations ; their use and their beauty are alike a plea for them, for "if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." Some people, doubtless, object strongly against school decoration that is pictorial if it represents... | |
| 1890 - 436 pages
...desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Make the dark water with the beauty gay; Here might the red-bird come his plumes...cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. D-AFFODIL. I am the Daffodil. The dainty Lady Daffodil Hath donned her amber gown, And on her fair... | |
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