 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, 10 Dear, tell them that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 pages
...array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, 10 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... | |
 | 1870 - 464 pages
...might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, 10 Dear, tell them that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! little, while аз yet Ч is early morn, — Leave me marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing. Then beauty is its own excuse for... | |
 | 1872 - 710 pages
...array. Rhodora I if the sages ask theo why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, re In chaining down hie heart, and watching 32 AMBITION. AMBITION. To rise Why thou wert there, О rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask ; I never knew, sword ; BE-A.TJTY.... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 pages
...For the idea of this line, I am indebted to Emerson, in his inimitable sonnet to the Ehodora, — " If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." NOTE 42, page 121. Among the earliest converts to the doctrines of Friends in Scotland was Barclay... | |
 | 1873 - 296 pages
...might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his 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... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1874 - 200 pages
...might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on...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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...thine. Good-Bye. What are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet ? Ibid. If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. The Rhodora. The silent organ loudest chants The master's requiem. Dirge. Here once the embattled farmers... | |
 | Louisa May Alcott - 1875 - 234 pages
...all kinds, and love to make it if I can without stopping for any reason but the satisfaction." " ' Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, " ' Then beauty is its own excuse for being,' " observed David, who had a weakness for poetry, and, finding she liked his sort, quoted to Christie... | |
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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! 
