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" 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... "
Mind and Voice: Principles and Methods in Vocal Training - Page 416
by Samuel Silas Curry - 1910 - 456 pages
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The Fairyland of Flowers: A Popular Illustrated Botany

Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick - 1890 - 232 pages
...usually wavy-white, but sometimes strawcolored. THE RHODORA. In May, when sea-winds pierced my solitndes, I found the fresh rhodora in the woods, Spreading...The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beanty gay, Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower...
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Choice Selections: Being about Six Hundred Extracts from More Than Two ...

Charles Northend - 1890 - 224 pages
...grasshopper's among some grassy hills. 52. The Rhodora.* In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, 1 found the fresh rhodora in the woods, Spreading its...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...
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Good-night Poetry: (Bedside Poetry) A Parent's Assistant in Moral Discipline

1891 - 168 pages
...come hither! Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. SHAKSPERE (As You Like It). 71 IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...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 ask thee why...
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Initial Studies in American Letters

Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 296 pages
...hereby apprised, that whilst the world is a spectacle, something in himself is stable. THE RHODOEA.' IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And c*urt the flower that cheapens liis array. Rhodora 1 if the sages ask thee...
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Sunshine in Life: Poems for the King's Daughters

1891 - 438 pages
...nor toil, nor hope shall mar Its immortal unity. THE RHODORA. On being asked, whence is the flower ? In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...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 ask thee why...
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Initial Studies in American Letters

Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 288 pages
...hereby apprised, that whilst the world is a spectacle, something in himself is stable. THE RHODORA.' IK May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red bird cqrne his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages...
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American Literature

Albert H. Smyth - 1889 - 324 pages
...their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. RHODORA. IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...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. Rhodora...
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Initial Studies in American Letters

Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 298 pages
...hereby apprised, that whilst the world is a spectacle, something in himself is stable. THE RHODORA.' IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora iu the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook....
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A First[-fifth] Reader, Book 5

Jenny H. Stickney - 1892 - 416 pages
...and camels grazing upon the sides of it. JOSEPH ADDISON. LI I.— LESSONS IN FLOWERS. I. THE RHODORA. In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...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 ask thee why...
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Scattered Leaves: Essays in Little on Life, Faith and Work

Channing Auxiliary (San Francisco) - 1892 - 136 pages
...thee homo. 41 THE RHODORA. (Lines on being asked, Whence is the flower?) IN May, when sea-winds pierce our solitudes, I found the fresh rhodora in the woods....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...
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