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
| 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... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 páginas
...3. For the idea of this line, I am indebted to Emerson, in. nis inimitable sonnet to the Rhodora: " If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." NOTE 2, page 81. Among the earliest converts to the doctrines of Friends in Scotland, was Barclay of... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 páginas
...a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook ; The purple petals, fallen in the pool, 5 Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here...the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, 10 Dear, tell them that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 430 páginas
...3. Fot flie idea of this line, I am indebted to Emerson, ir nis inimitable sonnet to the Rhodora : u 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... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 páginas
...a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook ; The purple petals, fallen in the pool, 5 Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here...the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, 10 Dear, tell them that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 páginas
...brook : The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gay, — Hera voice of the huntsman ? marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing. Then beauty is its own excuse for... | |
| 1872 - 900 páginas
...purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gay, — Here might the mi-bird nd Greeks were, — Whiskered and brown their cheeks...breeks were, — Their pipes did pu(T away ; Each o marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for... | |
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