...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...

...(Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1964), 292, 280. "The Rhodora, " six lines of which — ending, "if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being" — are still in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Emerson, a biographer observes, was "searching tirelessly...

...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...

...Blue cohosh berries contrast pleasantly with the fallen yellow leaves. Then one may say with the poet, "If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being." impressions. Each region has its own unique charm and value. Ohio is 27 percent forested, and forests...

...in my ear, (1. 68-69) AA; AmPP; AnAmPo; AWP; LiTA; NAAL-1; NOBA; NoP; OxBA; TAP; WGRP The Rhodora 42 r own. (1. 1—6) 7 "Forsooth, let go!" But when we come where comfort is, Sh Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou...

...ostentatious "Made the black water with their beauty gay." The detail to follow "Here might the red bird come his plumes to cool/ And court the flower that cheapens his array" seems not only gratuitous but self-reflexively so, with the bird's "cheapened array" reflecting back...

...Moore's advice tries to resocialize the rose, to turn it away from such haunting background lyrics as "Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being" and "gather ye rosebuds while ye may." For as we know, a rose is often sent as a message to decode...

...care? Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote one of the loveliest answers to these questions in 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. . . 216...

...ask for more than meets the eye and touches the heart in that exquisite little fancy? 'Sure, if our eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.' But nothing about our author delights us so much as the quietness — the apparent leisure, with which...

...NOVEMBER) Today I will make room to be refreshed and restored by the healing power of music. Year 7:2 If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, IN DAYS OF HEALING, DAYS OF JOY (5 JUNE) If we work so hard and are so busy that...