 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
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 pages
...in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook, The purpler 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... | |
 | Virginia Jackson - 2005 - 328 pages
...damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Make 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... | |
 | William Roetzheim - 2006 - 760 pages
...exists with or without observations of the beauty by people. 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... | |
 | George Rapanos - 2006 - 295 pages
...in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee Gill - 2006 - 136 pages
...this, but LW and Tom don't. Please quit talking." I remember her reciting in her soft southern voice, "Rhodora, if the sages ask thee why/ This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,/ Tell them, deah, that if eyes were made for seeing,/ Then beauty is its own excuse for being." Once... | |
 | Stephanie Lintz - 2007 - 132 pages
...book is an opportunity to cherish the beauty that is uniquely yours. The Seven Virtues of Inner Beauty "If eyes were made for seeing, Then, Beauty is its own excuse for being."7 — Ralph Waldo Emerson Beauty as defined in Webster's Dictionary is, "An assemblage of graces... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2007 - 329 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...why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, 10 TeE them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being : Why thoo.... | |
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