Loss And Gain (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Virtue runs before the muse And defies her skill, She is rapt, and doth refuse To wait a painter's will. ...
Virtue runs before the muse And defies her skill, She is rapt, and doth refuse To wait a painter's will. ...
Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the muse; Nothing refuse. ...
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma ...
Bells in the town alight with spring converse, with a concordance of new airs make clear the fresh and ancient ...
This salt-stain spot marks the place where men lay down their heads, back to the bench, and hoist nothing that ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
It pleased the Lord of Angels (praise His name!) To hear, one day, report from those who came With pitying ...
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents ...
Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side, Buffet, and scoff, scourge, and crucify me, For I have ...
The Rat is the concisest Tenant. He pays no Rent. Repudiates the Obligation -- On Schemes intent Balking our Wit ...
How soft a Caterpillar steps -- I fond one on my Hand From such a velvet world it comes Such ...
A poor -- torn heart -- a tattered heart -- That sat it down to rest -- Nor noticed that ...
It is a pristine page, clean on the blue screen where I compose, I don't expect it to stay that ...
The hunt begins at a languid pace belying hysteria building in place, biding its time to menace the peace in ...
You could see the signs which said that possums came at night and fed upon this tree, they left their ...
I never said I would, I only said I could do what you wished, the subtle difference should have raised ...
For more than 40 years we've been good friends, since 1963 in fact, from college where we met (and managed ...
The biker was a menace on the farm, a madman bent on speed, intent on leaving all for dead (it ...
I awoke with two poets in my bed, books I chose from the library, possibly intent on a swift read ...
Congratulations, you've succeeded, you've acknowledged 60% of you at least are the incredibly dense and mindless people needed to make ...
It's a ruling from the field of pain (devoid of antique nave, a judgement process aptly named 'benefit of doubt'); ...
Have you switched to Beta yet? It's an even bet that if you have you quite regret your impulse to ...
And you will claim we need more births to keep our population mix in check while nature's truths suggest there ...
I have almost been reduced to a homeless pauper. This fatal city, Antioch, has consumed all my money; this fatal ...
CHORUS Come we shepherds whose blest sight Hath met love's noon in nature's night; Come lift we up our loftier ...
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
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