 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
 | Kris Fresonke - 2003 - 220 pages
...blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook, The purple petals, fallen in their 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. Rhodora! if the sages... | |
 | Virginia Jackson - 2005 - 328 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...sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Make the black water with their beauty gay; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 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 sluggish brook, The purpler petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might the red-bird... | |
 | George Rapanos - 2006 - 295 pages
...our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might the redbird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora! if the sages... | |
 | William Roetzheim - 2006 - 760 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 sluggish brook. 1 Form: Iambic pentameter, AABBCDCD end rhymes — Vocabulary: Rhodora: plant with rose-purple flowers:... | |
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