 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
 | Edward Everett Hale - Artists - 1887 - 632 pages
...first published in the Western Messenger in 183O. THE RHODORA : ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER? In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay; Hero might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Authors, American - 1888 - 230 pages
...entirely in the Emersonian style. Such a piece is the " Rhodora," worthy of the Greek Anthology : " 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... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...expression of the final cause of Nature. 1836. THE RHODORA: ON BEIXG ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER ? 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... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER ? TN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes -*- I found the fresh Khodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp...red-bird come his plumes to 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,... | |
 | American literature - 1889 - 92 pages
...humiliation, and a shaming, yet rousing, example of faith and fidelity. s. T. COLERIDGE. THE RHODORA. 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... | |
 | Poetry - 1890 - 168 pages
...come hither! Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. SHAKSPERE (As Ton Like It). 71 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... | |
 | Charles Rufus Skinner - Arbor Day - 1890 - 528 pages
...very happy to stay to tea." CLARA DOTY BATES. I THE RHODORA. ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER? N 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... | |
 | 1891 - 438 pages
...nor toil, nor hope shall mar Its immortal unity. 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... | |
 | Poetry - 1891 - 168 pages
...come hither! Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. SHAKSPERE (As You Like It). 71 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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - Literary Collections - 1891 - 296 pages
...hereby apprised, that whilst the world is a spectacle, something in himself is stable. THE RHODOEA.' IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And c*urt the flower that cheapens liis array. Rhodora 1 if the sages ask thee why This cliarm is wasted... | |
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