 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 76by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...temple, hail thee still the same, Home of great thoughts, memorial Te'me'raire. Lord Houghton. CCLXXV THE RHODORA: ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER...the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, 10 Dear, tell them that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English poetry - 1870 - 466 pages
...same, Home of great thoughts, memorial Tdmdraire. Lord Houghton. CCLXXVIII THE RHODORA: ON DEING ASEED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER ? In May, when sea-winds pierced...the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, 10 Dear, tell them that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse... | |
 | 1870 - 464 pages
...Lord Houghton. CCLXXVII I THE RHODORA: ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER? In May, when sea- winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in...the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, 10 Dear, tell them that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...brook : The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gay, — Hera voice of the huntsman ? marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing. Then beauty is its own excuse for... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gay, — Here might the mi-bird nd Greeks were, — Whiskered and brown their cheeks...breeks were, — Their pipes did pu(T away ; Each o marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...sluggish brook ; The purple petals fallen in the pool fgay — Hade the black waters, with their beauty grown too dull to hear, [dead-; Gold — where the...senses it should please are Wreaths — where the I if the sages ask theo why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, that if eyes... | |
 | Universalism - 1872 - 980 pages
...rose-purple flowers. " Its purple petals fAllen in the pool Make the black waters with their beauties Ray— Here might the redbird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array." The low Sheep Laurel has red flowers resembling the Mountain Laurel, but much smaller. The Pipsissewa... | |
 | American poetry - 1873 - 296 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...please the desert and the sluggish brook : The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters (lower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thce why This charm is wasted on the marsh... | |
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