 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
 | Henry Augustin Beers - American literature - 1891 - 288 pages
...hereby apprised, that whilst the world is a spectacle, something in himself is stable. THE RHODORA.' IK May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red bird cqrne his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages... | |
 | Albert H. Smyth - American literature - 1889 - 324 pages
...their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. RHODORA. IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here'might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora... | |
 | Jenny H. Stickney - Readers - 1892 - 416 pages
...and camels grazing upon the sides of it. JOSEPH ADDISON. LI I.— LESSONS IN FLOWERS. I. 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 Dear, tell them that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is... | |
 | Frank Walters - 1893 - 212 pages
...sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless hlooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish...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 - American literature - 1895 - 320 pages
...hereby apprised, that whilst the world is a spectacle, something in himself is stable. THE RHODORA.® IN MAY, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found...cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora I if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 352 pages
...ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER? IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh llhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp...cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if tin; sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that... | |
 | William Garrett Horder - American poetry - 1896 - 408 pages
...the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost. 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 marsh and sky, Dear, tell them that... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...left By some remote dynasty of dead gods. 6. EB BROWNING — Aurora Leigh. Bk. VII. Rhodora. Rhodora. eagle, n. TENNYSON— Rhodora! if the sages ask thce why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that... | |
 | Robert Comfort Metcalf, Orville T. Bright - English language - 1896 - 268 pages
...EXERCISE. Commit to memory and recite the following stanzas: — THE RHODORA. In May, when sea winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in...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 Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 482 pages
...myself to the perfect whole. THE RHODORA ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE Is THE FLOWER ? IN MAY, when sea- winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in...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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