 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
 | Clara Bancroft Beatley - English poetry - 1903 - 226 pages
...WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. THE EHODORA. In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Ehodora 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 earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that... | |
 | Clara Bancroft Beatley - English poetry - 1903 - 224 pages
...WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. THE EHODOEA. In May, when sea- winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Ehodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp...cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Ehodora ! if the sages ask thee why Tids charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that... | |
 | Sister Mary Lambertine - American literature - 1903 - 318 pages
...verse and prose an exquisite sense of beauty, which renders his works most enticing and most dangerous. 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... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - Readers - 1903 - 504 pages
...solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, 10 To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple...cool And court the flower that cheapens his array. is Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear,... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 520 pages
...true beauty of the little flower, he adds also the noble thought that came at the same time to mind. 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 - 1904 - 602 pages
...avarice cooled Like lust in the chill of the grave. 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 - American essays - 1904 - 566 pages
...avarice cooled Like lust in the chill of the grave. 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... | |
 | American literature - 1904 - 496 pages
...felicities not only unteachable, but undescribable. 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, 10 Tell them, dear,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 306 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... | |
 | Richard Burton - American literature - 1904 - 340 pages
...of childlike trust : — 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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