...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...

...in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red bird cqrne his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array....seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why then wert there, O rival of the rose, I never thought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance,...

...Till cold winds woke the gray-eyed morn, About the lonely moated grange." — Tennyson. " Bhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on...seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." — Emerson. " Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again ; The eternal years of God are hers: But Error,...

...plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodoral if the sages ask thee why _I This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them,...seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thon wert there, 0 rival of the rose, I never thought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance,...

...(Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1964), 292, 280. "The Rhodora, " six lines of which — ending, "if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being" — are still in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Emerson, a biographer observes, was "searching tirelessly...

...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! But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The self-same Power that brought me there...

...Blue cohosh berries contrast pleasantly with the fallen yellow leaves. Then one may say with the poet, "If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being." impressions. Each region has its own unique charm and value. Ohio is 27 percent forested, and forests...

...in my ear, (1. 68-69) AA; AmPP; AnAmPo; AWP; LiTA; NAAL-1; NOBA; NoP; OxBA; TAP; WGRP The Rhodora 42 r own. (1. 1—6) 7 "Forsooth, let go!" But when we...NoP; OBSC; PoE Jack and Joan they think no ill S Jac O rival of the rose! I never thought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The...

...answer desire but rather judges it unwarranted. Yearning snaps back on itself in aphorism preprepared. "Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." Such lines as would intensify and virtualize the ripening of need never come. Instead, the poet suggests...

...care? Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote one of the loveliest answers to these questions in The Rhodora: . . .Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is...for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. . . 216 (continued from front flap) and neighbor Funderwite, an irascible farmer armed with a pitchfork....