 | Louisa May Alcott - 1875 - 454 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 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. Here once the embattled farmers... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 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... | |
 | Chauncey Wright, James Bradley Thayer - 1877 - 414 pages
...the exercises and disciplines which are serviceable to their use. One of your poets has said, — " If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." I do not know that I quite understand the logic of this, if any was meant. . . . There is an ellipsis... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! ects rise, His heart exults, his spirits cast their l marsh and sky, ' Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 556 pages
...For the idea of this line, I am in1 debted to Emerson, in his inimitable sonnet to the Rhodora, — " If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. ' ' NOTE 4z, page 151. Among the earliest converts to the doctrines of Friends in Scotland was Barclay... | |
 | Isaac Newton Carleton - 1878 - 140 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 the marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - 1879 - 286 pages
...which is one of the very earliest to greet us in the spring, without recalling the lines : " Rhodora, if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on...for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. Why thou wast there, O, rival of the rose I I never thought to ask. I never knew ; But in my simple... | |
 | Massachusetts Horticultural Society - 1879 - 1040 pages
...with its rose-purple flowers in umbel-like clusters, blooming before the leaves appear. " Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on...Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Why thou wert there, 0 rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew : But, in my simple... | |
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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! 
