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
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 380 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... | |
| 1883 - 444 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 - 344 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...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 - 344 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...cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Ehodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that... | |
| 1883 - 456 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...cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. 2. Khodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear,... | |
| John Badcock (F.R.M.S.) - 1883 - 216 páginas
...your jewel be of pure water, A rose.diamond or a white, — But whether it dazzle me with light." " Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." — EMERSON. A GLASS slide, on which are mounted a number of Diatoms, carefully selected and artistically... | |
| Joel Benton - 1883 - 150 páginas
...equally in a score of examples, I only quote here, as an instance, the conclusion to "The Rhodora": 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... | |
| Joel Benton - 1883 - 148 páginas
...equally in a score of examples, I only quote here, as an instance, the conclusion to "The Rhodora": 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... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 páginas
...shown ; Both are most valued where they best are known. 347 Lyttelton : Soliloquy of a Beauty. Line 2. If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. 348 Emerson: The Ithodora. Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny... | |
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