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
| William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 páginas
...please the desert and the sluggish brook : The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters (lower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thce why This charm is wasted on the marsh... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 páginas
...For the idea of this line, I am indebted to Emerson, in his inimitable sonnet to the Ehodora, — " If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." NOTE 42, page 121. Among the earliest converts to the doctrines of Friends in Scotland was Barclay... | |
| Mary Wilder Tileston - 1874 - 200 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... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - 1874 - 802 páginas
...and the sluggish hrook, The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beanty gay: Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array." Where the bushes, were thickset, the accumulated blossoms, together with their reflections in the water,... | |
| John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 páginas
...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. Dirge. Here once the embattled farmers... | |
| Louisa May Alcott - 1875 - 234 páginas
...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... | |
| Louisa May Alcott - 1875 - 454 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish biook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might...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... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 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...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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