 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
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1888 - 476 pages
...might the red bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodoral 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 I never thought to ask, I never knew; But in my simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 pages
...come his plumes to cool, And court the flower {hat cheapens his array. Khodora! if the sages ask thcc why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell...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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1888 - 228 pages
...plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why Tliis charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear,...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 ignorance,... | |
 | 1889 - 92 pages
...shaming, yet rousing, example of faith and fidelity. s. T. COLERIDGE. THE RHODORA. IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh rhodora in...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 simple ignorance,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1889 - 392 pages
...For the idea of this line, I am indebted to Emerson, in his inimitable sonnet to the Rhodora, — " If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." '•*. DATE DUE Reviewed by Pre ervation ~^ Reviewed by Preservation < ... | |
 | Charles Rufus Skinner - 1890 - 528 pages
...tea." CLARA DOTY BATES. I THE RHODORA. ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER? N May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh rhodora in...is its own excuse for being. Why thou wert there, О rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew; But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
 | William Hamilton Gibson - 1890 - 212 pages
...to the twilight primrose : " Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for...seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." But such counsel would be wasted on both flowers. I am sure the evening primrose would carry no such... | |
 | Charles Northend - 1890 - 224 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... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1890 - 676 pages
...tones and sweet,— That beauty, in and of itself, is good.'1 This harmonizes with Emerson's couplet: " If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." It would seem that the divine author of all things must himself love beauty, or else he would not have... | |
 | 1891 - 168 pages
...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 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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