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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... "
English Grammar - Page 172
by Chestine Gowdy - 1901 - 209 pages
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The Royal Readers: Special Canadian Series ..., Book 5

1883 - 528 pages
...and woe, which torture us, Thy sleep makes ridiculous. THE RHODORA.* RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882). (On being asked, Whence is the flower ?) In May, when...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...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...RHODORA. — THE HUMBLE-BEE. 39 THE RHODORA: ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWEB ? IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in...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...
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Poems, Volume 9

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...— TnE HUMBLE-BEE. 39 THE RHODORA: ON BEING ASKED, VTHEXCE IS THE FLOWER ? IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in...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...
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The Scottish Review, Volume 1

1883 - 444 pages
...The Rhodora,' written in response to the question ' whence is the flower ? ' ' In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in...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...
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Emerson as a Poet

Joel Benton - 1883 - 148 pages
...equally in a score of examples, I only quote here, as an instance, the conclusion to "The Rhodora": 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 never thought to ask—I never knew; But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The...
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Emerson as a Poet

Joel Benton - 1883 - 150 pages
...equally in a score of examples, I only quote here, as an instance, the conclusion to "The Rhodora": Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is...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...
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The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 3

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 pages
...might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Ehodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on...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...
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Vignettes from invisible life. Repr., with additions, from 'The St. James's ...

John Badcock (F.R.M.S.) - 1883 - 216 pages
...your jewel be of pure water, A rose.diamond or a white, — But whether it dazzle me with light." " Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." — EMERSON. A GLASS slide, on which are mounted a number of Diatoms, carefully selected and artistically...
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The Wesleyan Sunday-school magazine [afterw.] The Wesleyan ..., Volume 9

1883 - 594 pages
...for they are not expensive decorations ; their use and their beauty are alike a plea for them, for "if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." Some people, doubtless, object strongly against school decoration that is pictorial if it represents...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets

Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pages
...shown ; Both are most valued where they best are known. 347 Lyttelton : Soliloquy of a Beauty. Line 2. If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. 348 Emerson: The Ithodora. Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny...
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