 IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, 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 water with their beauty...  Select Essays and Poems - Página 76por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Channing Auxiliary (San Francisco) - 1892 - 136 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... | |
 | Jenny H. Stickney - 1892 - 416 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 might...cheapens his array. Rhodora, if the sages ask thee why Dear, tell them that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. Why thou... | |
 | Frank Walters - 1893 - 212 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... | |
 | Frank Walters - 1893 - 208 páginas
...damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Hade the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might...thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, fell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being : Why thou... | |
 | Charles Stedman Newhall - 1893 - 264 páginas
...land, close by the low bank of the Penobscot — a bush on fire, without a sign of green about it. " 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. Why thou... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1895 - 316 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 352 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...court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if tin; sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1895 - 320 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...court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora I if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes... | |
 | Robert Comfort Metcalf, Orville T. Bright - 1896 - 268 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... | |
 | William Garrett Horder - 1896 - 408 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...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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