The Past (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
The debt is paid,The verdict said,The Furies laid,The plague is stayed,All fortunes made;Turn the key and bolt the door,Sweet is ...
The debt is paid,The verdict said,The Furies laid,The plague is stayed,All fortunes made;Turn the key and bolt the door,Sweet is ...
Grace, Beauty, and CapriceBuild this golden portal;Graceful women, chosen men,Dazzle every mortal.Their sweet and lofty countenanceHis enchanted food;He need not ...
Day! hast thou two faces,Making one place two places?One, by humble farmer seen,Chill and wet, unlighted, mean,Useful only, triste and ...
HENCEFORTH, please God, forever I foregoThe yoke of men's opinions. I will beLight-hearted as a bird, and live with God.I ...
AND when I am entomb(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The sun set, but set not his hope:Stars rose; his faith was earlier up:Fixed on the enormous galaxy,Deeper and older ...
Can rules or tutors educateThe semigod whom we await?He must be musical,Tremulous, impressional,Alive to gentle influenceOf landscape and of sky,And ...
How much, preventing God! how much I oweTo the defenses thou hast round me set:Example, custom, fear, occasional slow,These scorned ...
ALL day the waves assailed the rock, I heard no church-bell chime;The sea-beat scorns the minster clock And breaks the glass of ...
What care I, so they stand the same,- Things of the heavenly mind,- How long the power to give them ...
Set not thy foot on graves; Hear what wine and roses say; The mountain chase, the summer waves, The crowded ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs, Balance-loving nature Made all things in pairs. To every foot its ...
Because I was content with these poor fields, Low open meads, slender and sluggish streams, And found a home in ...
Thy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, Free, ...
The green grass is growing, The morning wind is in it, 'Tis a tune worth the knowing, Though it change ...
The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead ...
I serve you not, if you I follow, Shadow-like, o'er hill and hollow, And bend my fancy to your leading, ...
Long I followed happy guides,- I could never reach their sides. Their step is forth, and, ere the day, Breaks ...
The Sphynx is drowsy, Her wings are furled, Her ear is heavy, She broods on the world.? "Who'll tell me ...
When I was born, From all the seas of strength Fate filled a chalice, Saying, This be thy portion, child; ...
O Fair and stately maid, whose eye Was kindled in the upper sky At the same torch that lighted mine; ...
Though loth to grieve The evil time's sole patriot, I cannot leave My buried thought For the priest's cant, Or ...
I cannot spare water or wine, Tobacco-leaf, or poppy, or rose; From the earth-poles to the Line, All between that ...
What boots it, thy virtue, What profit thy parts, While one thing thou lackest, The art of all arts! The ...
Trees in groves, Kine in droves, In ocean sport the scaly herds, Wedge-like cleave the air the birds, To northern ...
The sinful painter drapes his goddess warm, Because she still is naked, being drest; The godlike sculptor will not so ...
The rain has spoiled the farmer's day; Shall sorrow put my books away? Thereby are two days lost: Nature shall ...
Himself it was who wrote His rank, and quartered his own coat. There is no king nor sovereign state That ...
IT fell in the ancient periods Which the brooding soul surveys, Or ever the wild Time coin'd itself Into calendar ...
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