 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1852 - 356 páginas
...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,...Then beauty is its own excuse for being. Why thou wert here, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask — I never knew ; But, in my simple ignorance,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 páginas
...Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, (hat if eyes were made 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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 350 páginas
...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
...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, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 540 páginas
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1862 - 588 páginas
...Mr. Emerson, in which he thus apostrophises it. "Rhodora ! if the aagee ask thee why This charm ¡a wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for »eeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. Why thou wert here, rival of the rose ! I never thought... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1863 - 552 páginas
...might the redbird come his plumes to 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 that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 páginas
...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... | |
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Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook. To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black... 
