 IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black water with their beauty...  American Literature - Page 292edited by - 1926 - 604 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...torture us, Thy sleep makes ridiculous. THE RHODORA. LINES ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWEB? Iir May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gay ; Young RAPHAEL might covet such a school ; The lively show beguiled me... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1847 - 244 pages
...conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet. THE RHODORA, ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER. IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet? THE RHODORA: ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER? IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...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... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1852 - 356 pages
...your breast, And drawn your balmiest sweets away ; Oh come, and grace my Anna's breast. Emerson| N May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-breast come, his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Gift books - 1854 - 350 pages
...alone t THE RHODORA. LINES ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWEB f V n. 'S ' BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON. IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black waters with their beauty gay ; Young RAPHAEL might covet such a school ; The lively show beguiled me... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1886 - 588 pages
...Our American poet says : — "In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Bhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp...cool, And court the 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... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 540 pages
...our songs he thine, To whom our hearts incline : May, be thou blessed ! LORD THURLOW. THE RHODORA. IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black waters with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...stole — I yielded myself to the perfect whole. His admired poem on the Rhodora commences thus : — In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...Serene the ills of life. HENRY KIRKS WHITE. THE RHODORA. LINES ON BEING ASKXD, WHENCK IS THE FLOWER? r bosoms. bond from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced...where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like tji waters with their beauty gay, — Hera might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - American poetry - 1874 - 200 pages
...dances with the daffodils. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. THE RHODORA: ON BRING ASKRD) WHRNCR is THE FLOWBR? TN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, •*- I...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... | |
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