 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
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 340 pages
...page 8. For the idea of this line, I am indebted to Emerson, in bis inimitable sonnet to the Ehodora : "If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.'' NOTE 2, page 31. Among the earliest converts to the doctrines of Friends in Scotland, was Barclay of... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1862 - 558 pages
...10. Rhodora' ! If the sages ask tbee why This charm is wanted on the marsh and sky'. Dear, tell them that if eyes were made for seeing. Then beauty is its own excuse for being. Why thou wert there, oh rival of the roso' ! I never thought to ask, I never knew; But in my simple ignorance supposo The... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1863 - 552 pages
...tile desert and the sluggish brook ; . " The purple putals, fallen in the pool, Made the black waters with their beauty gay ; Here might the redbird come...cool. And court the flower that cheapens his array. 10. Rhodora' 1 if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the mareh and sky', Dear, tell them... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 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...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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pages
...3. For the idea of this line, I am indebted to Emerson, in. nis inimitable sonnet to the Rhodora: " If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." NOTE 2, page 81. Among the earliest converts to the doctrines of Friends in Scotland, was Barclay of... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook ; The purple petals, fallen in the pool, 5 Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here...the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, 10 Dear, tell them that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 430 pages
...3. Fot flie idea of this line, I am indebted to Emerson, ir nis inimitable sonnet to the Rhodora : u If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." NOTE 2, page 31. Among the earliest converts to the doctrines of Friends in Scotland, was Barclay of... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 pages
...a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook ; The purple petals, fallen in the pool, 5 Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here...the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, 10 Dear, tell them that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...brook : The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gay, — Hera voice of the huntsman ? marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing. Then beauty is its own excuse for... | |
 | 1872 - 900 pages
...purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gay, — Here might the mi-bird nd Greeks were, — Whiskered and brown their cheeks...breeks were, — Their pipes did pu(T away ; Each o marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for... | |
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