Forbearance (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun; Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk; At rich ...
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun; Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk; At rich ...
The Sphinx is drowsy, Her wings are furled: Her ear is heavy, She broods on the world. "Who'll tell me ...
Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape, Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, ...
Give me truths, For I am weary of the surfaces, And die of inanition. If I knew Only the herbs ...
The sense of the world is short, Long and various the report,- To love and be beloved; Men and gods ...
Man was made of social earth, Child and brother from his birth; Tethered by a liquid cord Of blood through ...
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
Think me not unkind and rude, That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of ...
Good-by, proud world, I'm going home, Thou'rt not my friend, and I'm not thine; Long through thy weary crowds I ...
Higher far, Upward, into the pure realm, Over sun or star, Over the flickering Dæmon film, Thou must mount for ...
Thy summer voice, Musketaquit, Repeats the music of the rain; But sweeter rivers pulsing flit Through thee, as thou through ...
Who gave thee, O Beauty! The keys of this breast, Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say when in ...
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