 IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black water with their beauty...  The Ladies' Companion - Page 431857Full view - About this book
 | John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 466 pages
...when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the...purple 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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 376 pages
...when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the...The purple 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... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868
...when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the...sluggish brook ; The purple petals, fallen in the pool, 5 Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 789 pages
...when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh rhodora in the woods Spreading its leafless answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest...where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like tji waters with their beauty gay, — Hera might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower... | |
 | 1872 - 696 pages
...when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh rhodora in the woods Spreading its leafless ure, Is frozen, in the very flush of youth, Into a...cold, care-fretted, heartless man. And what is its rew fgay — Hade the black waters, with their beauty Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool,... | |
 | 1873 - 160 pages
...when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, 1 found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the...purple 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... | |
 | 1874 - 182 pages
...sea-winds pierced our solitudes, •*- I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and 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. Rhodora ! if the sages... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1874
...thick and even where not interfered with by the growth of the swamp-oaks. " Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish hrook, The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beanty gay: Here might... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 934 pages
...when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the...The purple 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 218 pages
...when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rliodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms 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... | |
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