 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...  American Poetry - Page 195edited by - 1918 - 721 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, 10 Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,...never knew : But, in my simple ignorance, suppose is The self -same Power that brought me there brought you. EACH AND ALL. LITTLE thinks, in the field,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...way. Rhodora ! if 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...ask, I never knew, But in my simple ignorance suppose [you. The selfsame Power that brought me there, brought THE SNOW-STORM. ANNOUNCED by all the trumpets... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 538 pages
...sages ask thec why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, that if eves were m:ule for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being....ask, I never knew, But in my simple ignorance suppose [you. The selfsame Power that brought me there, brought THE SNOW-STORM. NCED by all the trumpets of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...learned clan ; For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet? THE RHODORA: ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER?...self-same Power that brought me there brought you. THE HUMBLE-BEE. BURLY, dozing, humble-bee, Where thou art is clime for me. Let them sail for Porto... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...learned clan ; For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet. THE RHODORA, ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER....self-same power that brought me there, brought you. THE HUMBLE BEE. BURLY dozing humble bee ! Where thou art is clime for me. Let them sail for Porto Rique,... | |
 | 1857 - 376 pages
...fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay : Here might the red bird come his plume to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array,...is its own excuse for being. Why thou wert there, 0 rival of the rose, I never thought to ask — I never knew ; But in my simple ignorance suppose The... | |
 | 1850 - 550 pages
...discover. " Rhodona ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasicd on the marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is...selfsame power that brought me there brought you." Man liveth not by bread alone. That is useful, we cheerfully grant, which ministers to our comfort,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, (hat if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own...ask, I never knew, But in my simple ignorance suppose [youThe selfsame Power that brought me there, brought THE SNOW-STORM. A •»• VKI \ c MI by all... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1886 - 588 pages
...flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for...self-same power that brought me there, brought you." Mr. Matthew Arnold says that French criticism calls real simplicity, " simplicite," and the semblance... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 540 pages
...array. Rhodora ! if 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...selfsame Power that brought me there, brought you. RALI.H WALDO EMERSON. 124 THE MIGHT PIECE. HER eyes the glow-worme lend thee, The shooting-starres... | |
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