 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 - Page 76de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, ダ ـ 饕 o ꂀ thce why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Henry Allen - 1897 - 416 pages
...the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water'with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his...cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Khodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that... | |
 | Edward Dahlberg - 1967 - 260 pages
...Ibsen, I stood at the corner of 7th Street and declaimed whatever happened to come into my head: O Rhodora, if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for... | |
 | Ronald E. Martin - 1991 - 428 pages
...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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...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... | |
 | Elisa New - 1993 - 294 pages
...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... | |
 | Edwin A. Peeples - 1994 - 278 pages
...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... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 pages
...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... | |
 | Frank Mehring - 2001 - 194 pages
...were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might...cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rohdora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that... | |
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