 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
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Authors, American - 1888 - 228 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...cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why Tliis charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - American literature - 1888 - 1044 pages
...purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might the red bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that...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... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 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...red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower {hat cheapens his array. Khodora! if the sages ask thcc why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - American literature - 1888 - 476 pages
...purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might the red bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodoral if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that... | |
 | American literature - 1889 - 92 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 wert... | |
 | Charles Rufus Skinner - Arbor Day - 1890 - 528 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... | |
 | Poetry - 1890 - 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... | |
 | Charles Northend - Maxims - 1890 - 224 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...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... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1890 - 976 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...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... | |
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