 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 - 76. oldalszerző: Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 oldal
...their beauty gsy ; Young RAPHAEL might covet such a school; The lively show beguiled me from my 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 its own excuse for... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 oldal
...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 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 oldal
...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... | |
 | 1857 - 376 oldal
...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,...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... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1852 - 356 oldal
...petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-breast come, his plumes to cool, And court the flower that...cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why Thy charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 350 oldal
...their beauty gay ; Young RAPHAEL might covet such a school ; The lively show beguiled me from my 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 its own excuse for... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1886 - 588 oldal
...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...the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for... | |
 | Essex Institute - 1860 - 368 oldal
...slaggUh brouk. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Make the black water with their beauty gay; Hero might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array." In Concoa-nut Hollow the Blood-root (Sanyuinaria canadcntis) blossoms in abundance. Concoa-nut Hollow,... | |
 | Essex Institute - 1860 - 364 oldal
...sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in tho pool, Make thu black water with their beauty gay; Hero might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array." In Concoa-nut Hollow the Blood-root (Sanguinaria canadcnsis) blossoms in abundance. Concoa-nut Hollow,... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1863 - 552 oldal
...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... | |
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