 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! I never thought to ask, I never knew;...  The Jones Fifth Reader - Side 79av Lewis Henry Jones - 1903 - 496 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 sider
...gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to 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, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being : Why... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 sider
...way. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky. Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing, 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 suppose [you.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 sider
...gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is...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, suppose The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 sider
...gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is...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 suppose The... | |
 | 1857 - 376 sider
...gay : Here might the red bird come his plume to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array, Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is...for being. Why thou wert there, 0 rival of the rose, I never thought to ask — I never knew ; But in my simple ignorance suppose The self-same Power that... | |
 | 1850 - 550 sider
...discover. " Rhodona ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasicd on the marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing, 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 suppose, The... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1852 - 356 sider
...plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why Thy charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear,...beauty is its own excuse for being. Why thou wert here, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask — I never knew ; But, in my simple ignorance,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 sider
...Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, (hat if eyes were made for seeing, 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 suppose [youThe... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 350 sider
...way. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing Then beauty is its...being. Why, thou wert there, 0, rival of the rose .' I never thought to ask, I never knew, But in my simple ignorance suppose The selfsame 1'owcr that... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1886 - 588 sider
...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 if eyes were made for...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 suppose... | |
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