 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...  English Grammar - Page 172by Chestine Gowdy - 1901 - 209 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1880 - 670 pages
...so eloquent an exponent. Every line is weighty; the sense clear; each word in its proper place : '* If eyes were made for seeing. Then beauty is its own excuse for being," compares well with the one famous line of Keats. We can safely promise the reader he will discover... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...thy doom ! ROBERT BURKS. THE RHODORA. JN BEING ASKED, WHENCE is THE FLOWER ? Is May, when sea-winds О rival of the I never thought to ask, I never knew ; But in my simple ignorance suppose The self-same... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 416 pages
...faith, and a sympathy with nature so intimate and noble, as these that close this little poem : — " Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted...is its own excuse for being : Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose I I never thought to ask, I nsver knew ; But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 pages
...array. Rhodora ! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Dear, tell them O rival of the rose ! I never thought tb ask, I never knew ; But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
 | Ethel Coxon - 1881 - 264 pages
...Yes, a beautiful girl. I shall have to quote those two lines you are so fond of. ' Tell them, dear, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being.' " " Beauty — yes," said Roland. " I haven't time to hear a lecture on aesthetics, though I should... | |
 | William Channing Gannett - 1881 - 126 pages
...surface? We used to account for it as sign of God's delight in beauty in itself. We used to say, " If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." Bu-t to-day, again, brings forward a new and richer thought, that all this beauty and fragrance is... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 pages
...ripe liowers. o. KEATS—/ Stood Tiptoe Upon a Liitle urn. RHODORA. Rhodora. In May, when sea-winds ue substances. a. Tiiua Andronicus. Act IIL tic. 2....than tears drown . It. Winter's Tale. Act II. Sc. 1. O rival of the rose! I never thought to ask, I never knew; But, in iny simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...array. Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, 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. But in my simple ignorance suppose The... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pages
...array. lihodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, oh, rival of the rose! I never thought to ask, I never knew : Hut in my simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 pages
...ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made lor Sc. 2. The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temperance, sta О rival of the rose! I never thought to ask, I never knew; But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
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