 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1886 - 268 pages
...made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. Why thou wert there, 0 rival of the rose! I never thought to ask — I never knew — ; But...suppose The self-same power that brought me there, ln-ought you." Mr. Matthew Arnold says that Trench criticism calls real simplicity, " simplicity,"... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1886 - 204 pages
...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 ; But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The self -same Power that brought me -there brought you. V THE EVENING PRIMROSE " \T7HAT are you looking... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1887 - 632 pages
...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 I never thought to ask,...self-same Power that brought me there, brought you. T HACK BRAY. 1811-1863. materials for a sketch of Thackeray's (thak'srlz) -L life are of the smallest.... | |
 | 1887 - 168 pages
...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; But, in my simple...self-same Power that brought me there brought you. EMERSON (The Rhodora ). 72 HAST thou named all the birds without a gun? Loved the wood-rose, and left... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1888 - 476 pages
...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 I never thought to ask,...self-same power that brought me there brought you. This is the poet's credo, and it could hardly be better stated. It is not heartless "art for art's... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1888 - 228 pages
...made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being : Why them wert there, O rival of the rose 1 I never thought to ask, I never knew, But in my simple...self-same Power that brought me there brought you." Almost equally finished, and gushing from a yet deeper well spring of feeling, is the mystic yet transparent... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...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: But, in my simple ignorance, suppose FROM " WOODNOTES." THE CHILD OF EAHTH AND SKY. TT^WAS one of the charmed days -*- When the genius of... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 pages
...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: But, in my simple ignorance, suppose PROM "WOODNOTES." THE CHILD OF EARTH AND SKY. one of the charmed days -*- When the genius of God doth... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1888 - 236 pages
...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, suppose The self-same Power that brought me there brought you." Almost equally finished, and gushing from a yet deeper well spring of feeling, is the mystic yet transparent... | |
 | 1889 - 92 pages
...made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. Why wert thou there, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew ; But, in my...selfsame Power that brought me there brought you. RW EMERSON. BRIGHT flower, whose home is everywhere! A pilgrim bold in nature's care, And all the long... | |
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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:... 
