 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
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 Seiten
...winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless bloomsin a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish...The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gay ; Young RAPHAEL might covet such a school ; The lively show beguiled me... | |
 | 1923 - 748 Seiten
...the rhodora, or rhododendron. In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp...cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora! Let the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky ... Why thou wert there,... | |
 | Ronald E. Martin - 1991 - 428 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...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... | |
 | Elisa New - 1993 - 294 Seiten
...human figure who finds because he looks. By the next line, though, the poem commences to sap itself. "Spreading" its "leafless blooms in a damp nook / To please the desert and the sluggish brook," the Rhodora loses its singularity: The very intimacy of its revelation is lost to the ubiquity of suitors.... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 Seiten
...FLOWER? Ralph Waldo Emerson In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora 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... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 580 Seiten
...to celebrate. "The Rhodora" describes the sudden meeting of poet and wildflower in a damp nook where "The purple petals, fallen in the pool, / Made the black water with their beauty gay." If the rhodora should be asked to explain why she wastes her beauty on a spot where few can see it,... | |
 | Frank Mehring - 2001 - 194 Seiten
...Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) 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. Rohdora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 Seiten
...is often striking, and he had a gift of vivid, economical specification, which he too seldom used: The purple petals fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay. Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces and parks, And told... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 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...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... | |
 | Kris Fresonke - 2003 - 220 Seiten
...blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook, The purple petals, fallen in their pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay;...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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