Threnody (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead ...
The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead ...
Higher far, Upward, into the pure realm, Over sun or star, Over the flickering Dæmon film, Thou must mount for ...
Who gave thee, O Beauty! The keys of this breast, Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say when in ...
Doth then the world go thus? doth all thus move? Is this the justice which on earth we find? Is ...
What is Love? Is it a folly, Is it mirth, or melancholy? Joys above, Are there many, or not any? ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
Over and back, the long waves crawl and track the sand with foam; night darkens, and the sea takes on ...
Now thou hast loved me one whole day, Tomorrow when thou leav'st, what wilt thou say? Wilt thou then antedate ...
I can love both fair and brown, Her whom abundance melts, and her whom want betrays, Her who loves loneness ...
To interrupt His Yellow Plan The Sun does not allow Caprices of the Atmosphere -- And even when the Snow ...
No Rack can torture me -- My Soul -- at Liberty -- Behind this mortal Bone There knits a bolder ...
I watched the Moon around the House Until upon a Pane -- She stopped -- a Traveller's privilege -- for ...
Bind me -- I still can sing -- Banish -- my mandolin Strikes true within -- Slay -- and my ...
The Wind -- tapped like a tired Man -- And like a Host -- "Come in" I boldly answered -- ...
They came in masted wooden ships across an unindentured sea and cast their lot in ocean swells to chance at ...
THINK not, 'cause men flattering say You're fresh as April, sweet as May, Bright as is the morning star, That ...
'Tis true, dear Ben, thy just chastising hand Hath fix'd upon the sotted age a brand To their swoll'n pride ...
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and ...
How delicious is the winning Of a kiss at love's beginning, When two mutual hearts are sighing For the knot ...
'Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires th' horizon: while the clouds, That crowd away before the ...
--And yet this great wink of eternity, Of rimless floods, unfettered leewardings, Samite sheeted and processioned where Her undinal vast ...
You who desired so much--in vain to ask-- Yet fed you hunger like an endless task, Dared dignify the labor, ...
Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone. They were waiting for me when I thought that ...
So great my debt to thee, I know my life Is all too short to pay the least I owe, ...
Ho, ye lovers, list to me; Warning words have I for thee: Give ye heed, hefore ye wed, To this ...
A full-fledged gun cannot endure The trifling of an amateur; Poor marksmanship its temper spoils And this is why the ...
In a vision of the night I saw them, In the battles of the night. 'Mid the roar and the ...
In the dungeon-crypts, idly did I stray, Reckless of the lives wasting there away; "Draw the ponderous bars! open, Warder ...
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