 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
 | Education - 1890 - 436 pages
...desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Make the dark water with the beauty gay; Here might the red-bird come his plumes...cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. D-AFFODIL. I am the Daffodil. The dainty Lady Daffodil Hath donned her amber gown, And on her fair... | |
 | West (U.S.) - 1885 - 686 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...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... | |
 | Isaac Sprague - Flowers - 1885 - 136 pages
...please the desert and a sluggish brook; The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gay;— Here might the red-bird...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... | |
 | Alpheus Baker Hervey - 1885 - 234 pages
...please the desert and a sluggish brook; The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gay; — Here might the red-bird...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 beaut}7 is its own excuse for... | |
 | Animals - 1885 - 456 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...cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. 2. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear,... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - American poetry - 1886 - 204 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...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... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1886 - 268 pages
...a damp nook, To please the desert, and the sluggish In,oak. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay — Here...the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the Jloicer that cheapens his array. Iihodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1887 - 168 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... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Artists - 1887 - 632 pages
...sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made 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. Rhodora I if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Authors, American - 1888 - 230 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...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... | |
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