 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 Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...thine. Good-Bye. 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. The silent organ loudest chants The master's requiem. Here once the embattled farmers... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish biook. 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 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...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... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...please the desert and the sluggish brook ; The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters, g damps, And dungeon horrors, by kind fate discharged,...prospects rise, His heart exults, his spirits cast their l marsh and sky, ' Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse... | |
 | Chauncey Wright, James Bradley Thayer - 1877 - 414 pages
...the exercises and disciplines which are serviceable to their use. One of your poets has said, — " 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... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...fallen in the pool Made the blank waters with their beaut; gayHere might the red-bird come his plumes U cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array....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 excuso for... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 556 pages
...For the idea of this line, I am in1 debted to Emerson, in his inimitable sonnet to the Rhodora, — " If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. ' ' NOTE 4z, page 151. Among the earliest converts to the doctrines of Friends in Scotland was Barclay... | |
 | Isaac Newton Carleton - 1878 - 140 pages
...petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gay; — Here might the red -bird come his plumes to 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... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - 1879 - 340 pages
...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,... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - 1879 - 286 pages
...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... | |
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