 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1886 - Liczba stron: 204
...cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that...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,... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1886 - Liczba stron: 268
...Jloicer that cheapens his array. Iihodora! 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, 0 rival of the rose! I never thought to ask — I never knew — ; But in my simple ignorance... | |
 | Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - 1886 - Liczba stron: 374
...which must criticized their utility the words the poet puts into the mouth of the retired Rhodora : — "Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." Of course, it is bad for any human beings to be exclusively dancers. " There is a time to dance," and... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). Dept. of Parks - 1886 - Liczba stron: 130
...means than can be found in any public ground could be easily and cheaply adopted for the purpose. ' Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." PART SECOND. PAKT SECOND. THE PLAN OF FRANKLIN PARK. I. OF CERTAIN CONDITIONS OP THE SITE OF FRANKLIN... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - Liczba stron: 568
...possibility and a high obligation ; nature was the mirror of deity ; and beauty— " Tell, them, dear, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." Emerson had now fairly entered upon his literary career. He was lecturing in Boston every winter, on... | |
 | Charles Goodrich Whiting - 1886 - Liczba stron: 326
...nestlings stol'n away? Sure only this could weigh thy note With such repairless agony ? EYES FOR SEEING. " If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." jjMERSON'S explanation of the rhodora's wasted bloom beside the wild-wood pool has become a proverb,... | |
 | 1887 - Liczba stron: 168
...cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that...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,... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - Liczba stron: 572
...possibility and a high obligation ; nature was the mirror of deity ; and beauty — " Tell, them, dear, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." Emerson had now fairly entered upon his literary career. He was lecturing in Boston every winter, on... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1888 - Liczba stron: 230
...cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that...Then Beauty is its own excuse for being : Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose 1 I never thought to ask, I never knew, But in my simple ignorance,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - Liczba stron: 600
...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, Tell them, dear, that...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,... | |
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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! 
