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
| George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 416 páginas
...faith, and a sympathy with nature so intimate and noble, as these that close this little poem : — " 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... | |
| Ethel Coxon - 1881 - 264 páginas
...Yes, a beautiful girl. I shall have to quote those two lines you are so fond of. ' Tell them, dear, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being.' " " Beauty — yes," said Roland. " I haven't time to hear a lecture on aesthetics, though I should... | |
| William Channing Gannett - 1881 - 126 páginas
...surface? We used to account for it as sign of God's delight in beauty in itself. We used to say, " If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." Bu-t to-day, again, brings forward a new and richer thought, that all this beauty and fragrance is... | |
| 1882 - 1434 páginas
...please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black wnt^r with their beauty gay; Here might the red-bird come...court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! it the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 páginas
...please the desert and the sluggish brook : Tho purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gay — Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that chea]>ens his array. Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky,... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 páginas
...brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool. Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might (he red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. lihodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Dear, tell them, that... | |
| Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 páginas
...might the red-bird come his plumea to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! it the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made lor seeing. Then Beauty is its own excuFe for being: Why tljou... | |
| Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 páginas
...in a damp nook. To please the desert and the sluggish brouk. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, r eyes. q. POPE — Spring. Line 49. One thought of thee puts all the pomp t plume» to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! it the sages ask thee why... | |
| 1883 - 528 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 - 1883 - 338 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... | |
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