 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
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...thine. Good By. 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. Here once the embattled farmers stood. And fired the shot heard round the world. Hymn... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 344 pages
...fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array....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... | |
 | Florine Thayer McCray, Esther Louise Smith - 1884 - 314 pages
...wheels and falling back into line with the others, "so much for impressionism. I can do better than that: ' If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being.'" " Original, of course! Suppose nobody knows Emerson but Miss Wright," quickly retorted Mrs. Mather.... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1884 - 536 pages
...gives his answer in words of the greatest simplicity, and which have yet the note of true poetry : . if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being : Why them wert there, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew ; But, in my simple ignorance,... | |
 | 1885 - 686 pages
...fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array....is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, О rival of the rose, I never thought to ask, I never knew : But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
 | Isaac Sprague - 1885 - 136 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 self-same... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 544 pages
...home." " What are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet ? " " — If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." " Leave all thy pedant lore apart, God hid the whole world in thy heart." " And conscious Law is King... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 342 pages
...home." " What are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet ? " " — If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." " Leave all thy pedant lore apart, God hid the whole world in thy heart." " And conscious Law is King... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1886 - 204 pages
...fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array....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... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). Dept. of Parks - 1886 - 130 pages
...means than can be found in any public ground could be easily and cheaply adopted for the purpose. ' Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." PART SECOND. PAKT SECOND. THE PLAN OF FRANKLIN PARK. I. OF CERTAIN CONDITIONS OP THE SITE OF FRANKLIN... | |
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