 and sky, Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse 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 Poets and Poetry of America - Strona 238autor: Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - Liczba stron: 476Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1888 - Liczba stron: 1056
...array. 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; But in my simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - Liczba stron: 504
...array. 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 ; But in my simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
 | 1889 - Liczba stron: 92
...array. 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 wert thou there, O rival of the rose! I never thought to ask, I never knew; But, in my simple ignorance,... | |
 | Brinton Webb Woodward - 1890 - Liczba stron: 336
...Realists of the first water. Emerson spoke to their apprehension an unmeaning parable in his •• If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." Keats wrote for them in a tongue as unknown as Sanscrit or Choctaw when he penned, • A thing of beauty... | |
 | Hiram Erastus Butler - 1890 - Liczba stron: 542
...be tacked on to any creed or philosophy to make it sacred. It is its own divinity. Says Emerson ; " If eyes were made for seeing, "Then beauty is its own excuse for being." (Ed.) A CONCISE COURSE OF LESSONS ON REGENERATION. THERE is a stir throughout the length and breadth... | |
 | 1891 - Liczba stron: 448
...array. 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 ; But in my simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
 | 1891 - Liczba stron: 438
...array. 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 ; But in my simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
 | Albert H. Smyth - 1889 - Liczba stron: 324
...array. 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 ; But in my simple ignorance suppose The... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - Liczba stron: 298
...array. Rhodora I 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 tliou wert there, 0 rival of the rose, I never thought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance,... | |
 | Joseph Henry Gilmore - 1891 - Liczba stron: 192
...Tennyson. " 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. " Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers: But Error,... | |
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