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 wert there, O rival of the rose! I never thought to ask, I never knew:... The Ladies' Companion - Page 431857Full view - About this book
| Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, ' Dear, tell them, n the change : So joys the soul, when from inglorious aims, О rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask ; I never knew, But in my simple ignorance suppose The... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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...Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. Why thou wast there, O, rival of the rose I I never thought to ask. I never knew ; But in my simple ignorance,... | |
| Lucy Larcom - 1879 - 140 pages
...hang its twin-born heads ; or that which, unveiling the woodland retreat of the Rhodora, assures us that — If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. When we read Emerson's poetry, we can scarcely think of surfaces and outlines ; we are in the very... | |
| William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 364 pages
...array. Ehodora! if 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...for being: Why thou wert there, 0 rival of the rose! 1 never thought to ask, I never knew; But, in iny simple ignorance, suppose The self-same Power that... | |
| William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 346 pages
...array. Rhodora ! if 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 being : Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew ; But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...'his charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, )ear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing, 'hen rd, and Hulbert ! never thought to ask ; I never knew, But in my simple ignorance suppose "he self-same Power that... | |
| 1904 - 692 pages
...ugly. I regret that I have not been able to find a satisfactory definition of beauty. Emerson says that " If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being." But unfortunately just now we are not looking for excuses, but for a definition. So I have taken the... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 pages
...array. Rhodora ! if 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 being. * * * ROWLAND BROWN has published some beautiful effusions, which he has exhibited much delicacy of... | |
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