 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...  Elson Grammar School Readers - Seite 318von William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1910Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1886 - 588 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Essex Institute - 1860 - 368 Seiten
...slaggUh brouk. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Make 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." In Concoa-nut Hollow the Blood-root (Sanyuinaria canadcntis) blossoms in abundance. Concoa-nut Hollow,... | |
 | Essex Institute - 1860 - 364 Seiten
...gather the beautiful Rhodora Canadcnsis. "Spreading its leafless Ыоошз in a damp nook, VOL. II. 2 To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in tho pool, Make thu black water with their beauty gay; Hero might the red-bird come his plumes to cool,... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - 1860 - 436 Seiten
...Massachusetts, is also remarkably good as a dried fruit. Nor must we fail to glance, in passing, at the rhodora, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook To please the desert; still, as when Bigelow wrote, beautiful in the Notch, in June, and on the mountains, later ; at the... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 540 Seiten
...LORD THURLOW. THE RHODORA. IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp...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... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1863 - 552 Seiten
...PHYSIOLOGY, OR BOTANY. 9. "In May, when sea-winds pierced oar solitude*. I found the fresh rhodcra in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please tile desert and the sluggish brook ; . " The purple putals, fallen in the pool, Made the black waters... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 Seiten
...Rhodora commences thus : — In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp...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... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 Seiten
...ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER ? In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp...sluggish brook ; The purple petals, fallen in the pool, 5 Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And... | |
 | 1870 - 464 Seiten
...ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER? In May, when sea- winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp...sluggish brook ; The purple petals, fallen in the pool, 5 Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 Seiten
...a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook ; The purple petals, fallen in the pool, 5 Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here...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, 10 Dear, tell them that... | |
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