 Khodora! 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. — Emerson : The  Primary Education - Página 2421898Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 516 páginas
...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 wasted on...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,... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 páginas
...might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! hose lips of love Divine Sweetest draughts of life ar marsh and sky, ' Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing. Then beauty is its own excuse... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1878 - 1116 páginas
...might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! to look down, And, from the vales, to view the noble...And all anxieties, my safe retreat; What safety, Why thou wert there, О rival of the roeel I never thought to ask, I never knew ; But in my simple... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - 1879 - 340 páginas
...which is one of the - very earliest to greet us in the spring, without recalling the lines: “Rhodora, if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on...for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. \Vhy thou wast there, 0, rival of the rose! I never thought to ask. I never knew; But in my simple... | |
 | Lucy Larcom - 1879 - 140 páginas
...hang its twin-born heads ; or that which, unveiling the woodland retreat of the Rhodora, assures us that— If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. When we read Emerson's poetry, we can scarcely think of surfaces and outlines ; we are in the very... | |
 | Lucy Larcom - 1879 - 146 páginas
...hang its twin-born heads; or that which, unveiling the woodland retreat of the Rhodora, assures us that— If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. When we read Emerson's poetry, we can scarcely think of surfaces and outlines ; we are in the very... | |
 | Lucy Larcom - 1879 - 138 páginas
...hang its twin-born heads; or that which, unveiling the woodland retreat of the Rhodora, assures us that— If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. When we read Emerson's poetry, we can scarcely think of surfaces and outlines ; we are in the very... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1879 - 536 páginas
...For the idea of this line, I am ins dehted to Emerson, in his inimitable *onnet to the Rhodora, — " If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." NOTE 4z, page 151. Among the earliest converts to the doctrines of Friends in Scotland was liarclay... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1879 - 874 páginas
...might the red-bird come his plumee к cool, And court the flower that cheapens hfe array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made fo: seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1880 - 524 páginas
...For the idea of this line, I am indebted to Kmerson, in his inimitable sonnet to the Rhodora,— " If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." NOTE 56, page 261. Eleonora Johanna Von Merlau, or, as Sewall the Quaker historian gives it, Von Merlane,... | |
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