 | 1890 - 168 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, 0 rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew; But, in my simple... | |
 | Charles Rufus Skinner - 1890 - 528 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, О rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew; But, in my simple... | |
 | Philip Young - 2010 - 177 pages
...(Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1964), 292, 280. "The Rhodora, " six lines of which — ending, "if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being" — are still in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Emerson, a biographer observes, was "searching tirelessly... | |
 | Ronald E. Martin - 1991 - 428 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! But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The self-same Power... | |
 | Merrill C. Gilfillan - 1991 - 156 pages
...Blue cohosh berries contrast pleasantly with the fallen yellow leaves. Then one may say with the poet, "If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being." impressions. Each region has its own unique charm and value. Ohio is 27 percent forested, and forests... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...(1. 68-69) AA; AmPP; AnAmPo; AWP; LiTA; NAAL-1; NOBA; NoP; OxBA; TAP; WGRP The Rhodora 42 Rhodora! . 1—6) 7 "Forsooth, let go!" But when we come where...HAP; NAEL-1; NIP; NoP; OBSC; PoE Jack and Joan th Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose! I never thought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance,... | |
 | Elisa New - 1993 - 294 pages
...temporal dissolve become altogether clear as we reach what we realize is the poem's peroration: 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 ignorance,... | |
 | Edwin A. Peeples - 1994 - 278 pages
...Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote one of the loveliest answers to these questions in The Rhodora: . . .Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on...for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. . . 216 (continued from front flap) and neighbor Funderwite, an irascible farmer armed with a pitchfork.... | |
 | Lynn Keller - 1994 - 424 pages
...Moore's advice tries to resocialize the rose, to turn it away from such haunting background lyrics as "Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being" and "gather ye rosebuds while ye may." For as we know, a rose is often sent as a message to decode... | |
 | John L. Idol, Buford Jones - 1994 - 568 pages
...ask for more than meets the eye and touches the heart in that exquisite little fancy? 'Sure, if our eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.' But nothing about our author delights us so much as the quietness — the apparent leisure, with which... | |
| |
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! 
