 Rhodora! if the sages ask 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 wert there, O rival of the rose! I never thought to ask, I never knew;...  The Jones Fifth Reader - Página 79por Lewis Henry Jones - 1903 - 496 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 páginas
...might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Ehodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on...is its own excuse for being : Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew ; But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 380 páginas
...made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being : Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew : But, in my...self-same Power that brought me there brought you. 4 (49) THE HUMBLE-BEE. BURLY, dozing humble-bee, Where thou art is clime for me. Let them sail for... | |
 | John Badcock (F.R.M.S.) - 1883 - 220 páginas
...your jewel be of pure water, A rose.diamond or a white, — But whether it dazzle me with light." " Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." — EMERSON. A GLASS slide, on which are mounted a number of Diatoms, carefully selected and artistically... | |
 | Joel Benton - 1883 - 184 páginas
...made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the Rose ! I never thought to ask — I never knew; But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The self -same power that brought me there brought you. This ecstasy and raptness melt at times into a... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 344 páginas
...gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is...is its own excuse for being : Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew : But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1884 - 536 páginas
...gives his answer in words of the greatest simplicity, and which have yet the note of true poetry : . if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being : Why them wert there, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew ; But, in my simple ignorance,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1884 - 676 páginas
...asked the use of the beautiful rhodora — Why thon wert there, 0 rival of the rose ! I never thonght to ask, I never knew, But in my simple ignorance suppose The self-same Power that bronght me here brought yon.1 A few exceptions to the general state of union of the particles of the... | |
 | Florine Thayer McCray, Esther Louise Smith - 1884 - 314 páginas
...wheels and falling back into line with the others, "so much for impressionism. I can do better than that: ' If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being.'" " Original, of course! Suppose nobody knows Emerson but Miss Wright," quickly retorted Mrs. Mather.... | |
 | 1885 - 456 páginas
...: Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. 2. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is...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 self-same Power that... | |
 | 1885 - 686 páginas
...gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is...is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, О rival of the rose, I never thought to ask, I never knew : But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
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