 | Lucy Larcom - 1879 - 140 pages
...hang its twin-born heads ; or that which, unveiling the woodland retreat of the Rhodora, assures us that — If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. When we read Emerson's poetry, we can scarcely think of surfaces and outlines ; we are in the very... | |
 | 1904 - 692 pages
...ugly. I regret that I have not been able to find a satisfactory definition of beauty. Emerson says that " If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being." But unfortunately just now we are not looking for excuses, but for a definition. So I have taken the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 346 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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 pages
...might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, An;, 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... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 364 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... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! at Why thou wert there, О rival of the I never thought to ask, I never knew ; But in my simple ignorance... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 pages
...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 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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! 
