 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - Liczba stron: 350
...way. Rhodora ! if 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 being. Why, thou wert there, 0, rival of the rose .' I never thought to ask, I never knew, But in my simple ignorance... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1886 - Liczba stron: 588
...flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for...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... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - Liczba stron: 540
...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 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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - Liczba stron: 340
...page 8. For the idea of this line, I am indebted to Emerson, in bis inimitable sonnet to the Ehodora : "If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.'' NOTE 2, page 31. Among the earliest converts to the doctrines of Friends in Scotland, was Barclay of... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1862 - Liczba stron: 558
...10. Rhodora' ! If the sages ask tbee why This charm is wanted on the marsh and sky'. Dear, tell them that if eyes were made for seeing. Then beauty is its own excuse for being. Why thou wert there, oh rival of the roso' ! I never thought to ask, I never knew; But in my simple ignorance... | |
 | 1862 - Liczba stron: 588
...Mr. Emerson, in which he thus apostrophises it. "Rhodora ! if the aagee ask thee why This charm ¡a wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for »eeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. Why thou wert here, rival of the rose ! I never thought... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - Liczba stron: 412
...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 for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. * * * ROWLAND BROWN has published some beautiful effusions, in which he has exhibited much delicacy... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - Liczba stron: 432
...3. For the idea of this line, I am indebted to Emerson, in. nis inimitable sonnet to the Rhodora: " If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." NOTE 2, page 81. Among the earliest converts to the doctrines of Friends in Scotland, was Barclay of... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - Liczba stron: 458
...array. Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, 10 Dear, tell them 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,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - Liczba stron: 430
...3. Fot flie idea of this line, I am indebted to Emerson, ir nis inimitable sonnet to the Rhodora : u If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." NOTE 2, page 31. Among the earliest converts to the doctrines of Friends in Scotland, was Barclay of... | |
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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! 
