 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
 | Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - 1886 - 374 pages
...which must criticized their utility the words the poet puts into the mouth of the retired Rhodora : — "Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." Of course, it is bad for any human beings to be exclusively dancers. " There is a time to dance," and... | |
 | Charles Goodrich Whiting - 1886 - 326 pages
...nestlings stol'n away? Sure only this could weigh thy note With such repairless agony ? EYES FOR SEEING. " If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." jjMERSON'S explanation of the rhodora's wasted bloom beside the wild-wood pool has become a proverb,... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - 568 pages
...possibility and a high obligation ; nature was the mirror of deity ; and beauty— " Tell, them, dear, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." Emerson had now fairly entered upon his literary career. He was lecturing in Boston every winter, on... | |
 | 1887 - 168 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... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1887 - 632 pages
...might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora I if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on...is its own excuse for being ; Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose I I never thought to ask, I never knew; But in my simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - 572 pages
...possibility and a high obligation ; nature was the mirror of deity ; and beauty — " Tell, them, dear, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." Emerson had now fairly entered upon his literary career. He was lecturing in Boston every winter, on... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 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 FROM... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1888 - 1044 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1888 - 236 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....seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being : Why them \vert there, O rival of the rose 1 I never thought to ask, I never knew, Put in my simple ignorance,... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1888 - 476 pages
...might the red bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodoral if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on...is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose I I never thought to ask, I never knew; But in my simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
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