Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being... Select Essays and Poems - Página 96por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 páginas
...their beauty gsy ; Young RAPHAEL might covet such a school; The lively show beguiled me from my way. 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 páginas
...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 gay ; Here...thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being ; Why... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 páginas
...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 gay ; Here...thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou... | |
| 1857 - 376 páginas
...fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay : Here might the red bird come his plume to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array,...thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. Why thou... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1851 - 142 páginas
...6. 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." NOTE 2, page 54. Winnipiseogee : " Smile of the Great Spirit." NOTE 3, page 70. This legend is the... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1852 - 358 páginas
...petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-breast come, his plumes to cool, And court the flower that...cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why Thy charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 350 páginas
...their beauty gay ; Young RAPHAEL might covet such a school ; The lively show beguiled me from my way. 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... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1886 - 588 páginas
...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 gay — Here...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... | |
| Essex Institute - 1860 - 368 páginas
...slaggUh brouk. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Make the black water with their beauty gay; Hero might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array." In Concoa-nut Hollow the Blood-root (Sanyuinaria canadcntis) blossoms in abundance. Concoa-nut Hollow,... | |
| Essex Institute - 1860 - 364 páginas
...sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in tho pool, Make thu black water with their beauty gay; Hero might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array." In Concoa-nut Hollow the Blood-root (Sanguinaria canadcnsis) blossoms in abundance. Concoa-nut Hollow,... | |
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