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" 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... "
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...RHODORA: ON BEING ASKED " WHENCE IS THE FLOWER ? " IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless...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...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical Introduction

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...FLOWER? Is May, when sea-winds piereed our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreadmg its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the...The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gsy ; Young RAPHAEL might covet such a school; The lively show beguiled me...
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The Poets and Poetry of America

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 558 pages
...LINES ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWEB? Iir May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless...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...
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The Poets and Poetry of America

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 538 pages
...RHODORA. LINES ON DEINO ASEED. WHENCE U THE FLOWER? IK May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless...the sluggish brook ; The purple petals fallen in the IEKi! Made the black waters with their beauty gay ; Young RAPHAEL might covet such a school ; The lively...
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...RHODORA, ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER. IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless...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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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...RHODORA: ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER? IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless...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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The Ladies' Companion

1857 - 376 pages
...May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafy blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the...black water with their beauty gay : Here might the red bird come his plume to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array, Rhodora ! if the sages...
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Garden Walks with the Poets

Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1852 - 356 pages
...Oh come, and grace my Anna's breast. Emerson| N May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods ; Spreading its leafless...black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-breast come, his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: To the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...LINES ON BEING ASKED. WHENCE IS TEE FL' r.rFR > IN May, when sea- winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless...The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gay ; Toung KA rn AF.L might covet such a school ; The lively show beguiled...
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Gift of Flowers: Love's Wreath for 1854

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 350 pages
...THE FLOWEB f V n. 'S ' BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON. IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless...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...
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