 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
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 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... | |
 | Fine Woodworking - 1999 - 216 pages
...to enjoy the craft, so please keep safety foremost in your mind whenever you're working with wood. "If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being" —RALPH WALDO EMERSON CONTENTS INTRODUCTION SURFACE PREPARATION Sanding in Stages Fill the Grain for... | |
 | Chauncey Wright - 2000 - 430 pages
...the exercises and disciplines which are serviceable to their use. One of your poets has said, — M If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." I do not know that I quite understand the logic of this, if any was meant. . . . There is an ellipsis... | |
 | Frank Mehring - 2001 - 194 pages
...were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. 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. Rohdora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that... | |
 | Rachel Blau DuPlessis - 2001 - 260 pages
...educational 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. . . ."18 For as we know, a rose is often sent as a message to... | |
 | Edain McCoy - 2001 - 244 pages
...that leaves you alive and healthy to enjoy the goal you brought into being. tivo Magickal Bath vv XjfU them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. — Ralph Waldo Emerson The magickal bath is a luxury that comes most often to mind when one thinks... | |
 | Kent Gramm - 2001 - 350 pages
...from Keats and Shelley and Browning and Tennyson, moments from Shakespeare, and passages from Milton. "If eyes were made for seeing / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." Only days before her death, Ruth heard and understood long readings from Emerson's essays and his English... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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