 Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being...  Language Reader - Página 195por Franklin Thomas Baker, George Rice Carpenter, Katherine Bowditch Owens - 1906Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 350 páginas
...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 being. Why, thou wert there, 0, rival of the rose .' I never thought to ask, I never knew, But in my simple ignorance suppose The... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 690 páginas
...why This charm is wasted on the marsh and skv. Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made (or secir.; Then beauty is its own excuse for being. Why, thou wert there, O, rival of the rose ! [ never thought to ask, I never knew, But in my simple ignorance suppose [vw The selfsame Power that... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 540 páginas
...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...for being. Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew ; But. in my simple ignorance suppose The selfsame Power that... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 340 páginas
...page 8. For the idea of this line, I am indebted to Emerson, in bis inimitable sonnet to the Ehodora : "If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.'' NOTE 2, page 31. Among the earliest converts to the doctrines of Friends in Scotland, was Barclay of... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1862 - 558 páginas
...10. Rhodora' ! If the sages ask tbee why This charm is wanted on the marsh and sky'. Dear, tell them that if eyes were made for seeing. Then beauty is its own excuse for being. Why thou wert there, oh rival of the roso' ! I never thought to ask, I never knew; But in my simple ignorance supposo The... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1863 - 552 páginas
...tile desert and the sluggish brook ; . " The purple putals, fallen in the pool, Made the black waters with their beauty gay ; Here might the redbird come...cool. And court the flower that cheapens his array. 10. Rhodora' 1 if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the mareh and sky', Dear, tell them... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 páginas
...please the desert and the sluggish brook : The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come...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... | |
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