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\chapter{Brief Introduction: Ralph Waldo Emerson}


Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 25, 1803 and he was the son of Ruth Haskins and the Rev. William Emerson, a Unitarian minister. He was the second of five sons who survived into adulthood and his father died from stomach cancer on May 12, 1811, less than two weeks before the poet’s eighth birthday. Raised by his mother, with the help of several other women in the family, Emerson was particularly inspired by his aunt Mary Moody Emerson, who lived with the family off and on, maintaining a constant correspondence with Emerson until her death in 1863. He later referred to his Aunt Mary as his “earliest and best teacher,” and a “spirited and original genius in her own right”.


Emerson’s formal schooling began at the Boston Latin School in 1812 when he was nine and in October 1817, aged 14, Emerson went to Harvard College and was appointed freshman messenger for the president — a position that meant he had to fetch misbehaving students and send messages to faculty. Midway through his junior year, Emerson began keeping a list of books he had read and started a journal in a series of notebooks that would be later called Wide World. During this uncertain time, he took various outside jobs to cover his school expenses, including working as a waiter for the Junior Commons and as an occasional teacher with his uncle Samuel in Waltham, Massachusetts. Serving as Class Poet, he presented an original poem on Harvard’s Class Day, a month before his official graduation on August 29, 1821, when he was 18 years old. Emerson was not conspicuous as a student and graduated in the exact middle of his class of 59 peers.


In 1826, suffering from poor health, Emerson decided to seek out warmer climates. He travelled to St. Augustine, Florida, where he took long walks on the beach and began writing poetry in earnest for the first time. While in St. Augustine, he made the acquaintance of Prince Achille Murat, who was the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte. Only two years Emerson’s senior, they became close friends and enjoyed sharing one another’s company, engaging in enlightening discussions on religion, society, philosophy, and government; Emerson considered Murat an important influence in his intellectual education.


After completing his education at Harvard, Emerson assisted his brother William in a school for young women that was established in their mother’s house, after he had successfully created his own school in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. When William went to Göttingen to study divinity, Emerson took charge of the school all by himself. Over the next several years, he made his living as a schoolmaster, before deciding to study at Harvard Divinity School.


Emerson met his first wife, Ellen Louisa Tucker, in Concord, New Hampshire on Christmas Day, 1827, and married her when she was 18. The couple moved to Boston, with Emerson’s mother Ruth moving with them to help take care of Ellen, who was already sick with tuberculosis. Less than two years later, she died at the age of 20 on February 8, 1831, after uttering her last words: “I have not forgotten the peace and joy.” Emerson was heavily affected by her loss, visiting her grave in Roxbury daily. In a journal entry dated March 29, 1832, he wrote, “I visited Ellen’s tomb \& opened the coffin.”


Having completed his divinity studies, Emerson was invited by Boston’s Second Church to serve as junior pastor and he was ordained on January 11, 1829. His initial salary was \$1,200 a year, increasing to \$1,400 in July, but with his church role he took on other responsibilities, including the role of chaplain to the Massachusetts legislature and being a member of the Boston school committee. During this period, following the death of his wife, he began to doubt his beliefs, disagreeing with the church’s methods. Writing in his journal in June 1832, he records: “I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.” His disagreements with church officials over the administration of the Communion service and misgivings about public prayer eventually led to his resignation in 1832. As he wrote, “This mode of commemorating Christ is not suitable to me. That is reason enough why I should abandon it.”


Emerson toured Europe in 1833 and later wrote of his travels in the 1856 book English Traits. He left aboard the brig Jasper on Christmas Day, 1832, sailing first to Malta. During his European trip, he spent several months in Italy, visiting Rome, Florence and Venice, among other cities. When in Rome, he met with John Stuart Mill, who gave him a letter of recommendation to meet Thomas Carlyle. He went to Switzerland, and had to be dragged by fellow passengers to visit Voltaire’s home in Ferney. Moving north to England, Emerson met William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Thomas Carlyle. The latter in particular was a strong influence on Emerson, who would later serve as an unofficial literary agent in the United States for Carlyle and in March 1835, Emerson tried to convince Carlyle to come to America to lecture. The two writers would maintain a close correspondence until Carlyle’s death in 1881.


Emerson returned to the United States on October 9, 1833, and lived with his mother in Newton, Massachusetts, until October, 1834, when he moved to Concord, Massachusetts, to live with his step-grandfather Dr. Ezra Ripley at what was later named The Old Manse. At this time he closely monitored the budding Lyceum movement, which provided lectures on many topics. The lyceums, mechanics’ institutes, and agriculture organisations flourished in the United States before and after the Civil War. They were important in the development of adult education in America. During this period hundreds of informal associations were established for the purpose of improving the social, intellectual, and moral fabric of society. The lyceum movement — with its lectures, dramatic performances, class instructions, and debates — contributed significantly to the education of the adult American in the 19th century. Noted lecturers, entertainers and readers would travel the “lyceum circuit,” going from town to town or state to state to entertain, speak, or debate at a variety of locations. Emerson saw for himself a possible career as a lecturer and on November 5, 1833, he made the first of what would eventually be approximately 1,500 lectures, discussing The Uses of Natural History in Boston. This was an expanded account of his experience in Paris. In this lecture, he set out some of his important beliefs and the ideas he would later develop in his first published essay Nature, which is now regarded as a founding Transcendentalist text.


At this time Emerson had met Lydia Jackson, a devout Christian, who was a gifted debater that shared his Transcendentalist beliefs. On January 24, 1835, Emerson wrote a letter to Lydia proposing marriage and she accepted. In July 1835, he bought a house on the Cambridge and Concord Turnpike in Concord, Massachusetts that he named “Bush”; which is now open to the public as the Ralph Waldo Emerson House. Emerson quickly became one of the leading citizens in the town, where he gave a lecture to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the town of Concord on September 12, 1835. Two days later, he married Lydia Jackson in her home town of Plymouth, Massachusetts and moved to the new home in Concord together with Emerson’s mother on September 15.


On September 8, 1836, the day before the publication of his groundbreaking work Nature, Emerson met with Frederic Henry Hedge, George Putnam and George Ripley to plan periodic gatherings of other like-minded intellectuals. This was the beginning of the Transcendental Club, which served as a centre for the movement. Its first official meeting was held on September 19, 1836 and on September 1, 1837, women attended a meeting of the Transcendental Club for the first time. Emerson invited Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Hoar and Sarah Ripley for dinner at his home before the meeting to ensure that they would be present for the evening get-together. Fuller would later prove to be an important figure in Transcendentalism.


In 1837, Emerson befriended Henry David Thoreau and encouraged the young writer to begin keeping a journal, which Emerson himself religiously adhered to throughout his life. In March 1837, Emerson gave a series of lectures on The Philosophy of History at Boston’s Masonic Temple, which was the first time he managed a lecture series on his own, marking the beginning of a dedicated career as a lecturer. The profits from this series of lectures were much larger than when he was paid by an organisation to talk and Emerson continued to manage his own lectures often throughout his lifetime. He would eventually give as many as eighty lectures a year, travelling across the northern part of the United States, and as far as St. Louis, Des Moines, Minneapolis and California.


It was in 1841 that Emerson published Essays, his second book, which included the famous essay, “Self-Reliance”, receiving favourable reviews in London and Paris. This book laid the foundations for Emerson’s international fame. From 1847 to 1848, the author toured England, Scotland, and Ireland, and he also found time to visit Paris between the February Revolution and the bloody June Days. When he arrived, he saw the stumps where trees had been cut down to form barricades in the February riots. On May 21 he stood on the Champ de Mars in the midst of mass celebrations for concord, peace and labour. He wrote in his journal: “At the end of the year we shall take account, \& see if the Revolution was worth the trees.” The trip left an important imprint on Emerson’s later work. Emerson later came to see the American Civil War as a ‘revolution’ that shared common ground with the European revolutions of 1848.


Emerson was staunchly anti-slavery and gave a number of lectures during the pre-Civil War years, beginning as early as November, 1837. From 1844 he took a more active role in opposing slavery, giving a number of speeches and lectures, and he notably welcomed John Brown to his home during Brown’s visits to Concord. Once the American Civil War broke out, Emerson made it clear that he advocated the immediate emancipation of the slaves.


Emerson visited Washington, D.C, at the end of January 1862, where he gave a public lecture at the Smithsonian on January 31, 1862. In this lecture he famously declared: “The South calls slavery an institution\dots{} I call it destitution\dots{} Emancipation is the demand of civilization”. The next day, Emerson’s friend Charles Sumner took him to meet Lincoln at the White House. The President was familiar with the author’s work, having previously seen him lecture. In 1865, Emerson spoke at a memorial service held for Lincoln in Concord: “Old as history is, and manifold as are its tragedies, I doubt if any death has caused so much pain as this has caused, or will have caused, on its announcement.”


On May 6, 1862, Emerson’s protégé Henry David Thoreau died of tuberculosis at the age of 44 and Emerson delivered his eulogy. For the rest of his life, Emerson often referred to Thoreau as his best friend, in spite of a falling out that began in 1849 after Thoreau published A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.


In 1867, Emerson’s health was declining, as demonstrated by his writing less in his journals, and he also started having memory problems, suffering from aphasia. By the end of the decade, he forgot his own name at times and, when anyone asked how he felt, he responded, “Quite well; I have lost my mental faculties, but am perfectly well”.


The author’s Concord home caught fire on July 24, 1872 and Emerson called for help from his neighbours. The flames were too dangerous to tackle and they had to give up putting the fire out, concentrating instead on saving as many objects as possible. Donations were collected by friends to help the Emersons rebuild, including \$5,000 gathered by Francis Cabot Lowell, another \$10,000 collected by LeBaron Russell Briggs, and a personal donation of \$1,000 from George Bancroft. Support for shelter was offered as well; though the Emersons ended up staying with family at the Old Manse, invitations came from Anne Lynch Botta, James Elliot Cabot, James Thomas Fields and Annie Adams Fields. The fire marked an end to Emerson’s serious lecturing career; from then on, he would lecture only on special occasions and only in front of familiar audiences.


While the house was being rebuilt, Emerson embarked on a final trip abroad, visiting England, continental Europe and, of all places, Egypt. He left on October 23, 1872, along with his daughter Ellen while his wife spent time at the Old Manse and with friends. Emerson and his daughter Ellen returned to the United States on the ship Olympus along with their good friend Charles Eliot Norton on April 15, 1873. Their return to Concord was celebrated by the town and school was cancelled for that day.


Sadly, the problems with his memory had become embarrassing to Emerson and he ceased his public appearances by 1879. In April 1882, he was found to be suffering from pneumonia and Emerson passed away on April 27, 1882.


As a lecturer and orator, Emerson gradually became the leading voice of intellectual culture in the United States, establishing himself as one of the pioneers of the lecturing system. He was well-respected by his fellow writers and lecturers, who easily acknowledged his ability to influence and inspire others. Emerson’s poetry and other writings not only influenced his contemporaries, such as Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau, but would continue to influence thinkers and writers in the United States and around the world down to the present. Notable thinkers who recognise Emerson’s influence include Nietzsche and William James, Emerson’s godson.



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\part{The Complete Poems}

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\chapter{Poems of Youth and Early Manhood}

\section{The Bell}


I love thy music, mellow bell,
\forcelinebreak I love thine iron chime,
\forcelinebreak To life or death, to heaven or hell,
\forcelinebreak Which calls the sons of Time.


Thy voice upon the deep
\forcelinebreak The home-bound sea-boy hails,
\forcelinebreak It charms his cares to sleep,
\forcelinebreak It cheers him as he sails.


To house of God and heavenly joys
\forcelinebreak Thy summons called our sires,
\forcelinebreak And good men thought thy sacred voice
\forcelinebreak Disarmed the thunder’s fires.


And soon thy music, sad death-bell,
\forcelinebreak Shall lift its notes once more,
\forcelinebreak And mix my requiem with the wind
\forcelinebreak That sweeps my native shore.


1823.


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\section{Thought}


I am not poor, but I am proud,
\forcelinebreak Of one inalienable right,
\forcelinebreak Above the envy of the crowd, —
\forcelinebreak Thought’s holy light.


Better it is than gems or gold,
\forcelinebreak And oh! it cannot die,
\forcelinebreak But thought will glow when the sun grows cold,
\forcelinebreak And mix with Deity.


BOSTON, 1823.


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\section{Prayer}


When success exalts thy lot,
\forcelinebreak God for thy virtue lays a plot:
\forcelinebreak And all thy life is for thy own,
\forcelinebreak Then for mankind’s instruction shown;
\forcelinebreak And though thy knees were never bent,
\forcelinebreak To Heaven thy hourly prayers are sent,
\forcelinebreak And whether formed for good or ill,
\forcelinebreak Are registered and answered still.


1826 [?].


I bear in youth the sad infirmities
\forcelinebreak That use to undo the limb and sense of age;
\forcelinebreak It hath pleased Heaven to break the dream of bliss
\forcelinebreak Which lit my onward way with bright presage,
\forcelinebreak And my unserviceable limbs forego.
\forcelinebreak The sweet delight I found in fields and farms,
\forcelinebreak On windy hills, whose tops with morning glow,
\forcelinebreak And lakes, smooth mirrors of Aurora’s charms.
\forcelinebreak Yet I think on them in the silent night,
\forcelinebreak Still breaks that morn, though dim, to Memory’s eye,
\forcelinebreak And the firm soul does the pale train defy
\forcelinebreak Of grim Disease, that would her peace affright.
\forcelinebreak Please God, I’ll wrap me in mine innocence,
\forcelinebreak And bid each awful Muse drive the damned harpies hence.


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\section{Cambridge, 1827.}


Be of good cheer, brave spirit; steadfastly
\forcelinebreak Serve that low whisper thou hast served; for know,
\forcelinebreak God hath a select family of sons
\forcelinebreak Now scattered wide thro’ earth, and each alone,
\forcelinebreak Who are thy spiritual kindred, and each one
\forcelinebreak By constant service to, that inward law,
\forcelinebreak Is weaving the sublime proportions
\forcelinebreak Of a true monarch’s soul. Beauty and strength,
\forcelinebreak The riches of a spotless memory,
\forcelinebreak The eloquence of truth, the wisdom got
\forcelinebreak By searching of a clear and loving eye
\forcelinebreak That seeth as God seeth. These are their gifts,
\forcelinebreak And Time, who keeps God’s word, brings on the day
\forcelinebreak To seal the marriage of these minds with thine,
\forcelinebreak Thine everlasting lovers. Ye shall be
\forcelinebreak The salt of all the elements, world of the world.


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\section{To-day}


I rake no coffined clay, nor publish wide
\forcelinebreak The resurrection of departed pride.
\forcelinebreak Safe in their ancient crannies, dark and deep,
\forcelinebreak Let kings and conquerors, saints and soldiers sleep —
\forcelinebreak Late in the world, — too late perchance for fame,
\forcelinebreak Just late enough to reap abundant blame, —
\forcelinebreak I choose a novel theme, a bold abuse
\forcelinebreak Of critic charters, an unlaurelled Muse.


Old mouldy men and books and names and lands
\forcelinebreak Disgust my reason and defile my hands.
\forcelinebreak I had as lief respect an ancient shoe,
\forcelinebreak As love old things for age, and hate the new.
\forcelinebreak I spurn the Past, my mind disdains its nod,
\forcelinebreak Nor kneels in homage to so mean a God.
\forcelinebreak I laugh at those who, while they gape and gaze,
\forcelinebreak The bald antiquity of China praise.
\forcelinebreak Youth is (whatever cynic tubs pretend)
\forcelinebreak The fault that boys and nations soonest mend.


1824.


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\section{Fame}


Ah Fate, cannot a man
\forcelinebreak Be wise without a beard?
\forcelinebreak East, West, from Beer to Dan,
\forcelinebreak Say, was it never heard
\forcelinebreak That wisdom might in youth be gotten,
\forcelinebreak Or wit be ripe before ‘t was rotten?


He pays too high a price
\forcelinebreak For knowledge and for fame
\forcelinebreak Who sells his sinews to be wise,
\forcelinebreak His teeth and bones to buy a name,
\forcelinebreak And crawls through life a paralytic
\forcelinebreak To earn the praise of bard and critic.


Were it not better done,
\forcelinebreak To dine and sleep through forty years;
\forcelinebreak Be loved by few; be feared by none;
\forcelinebreak Laugh life away; have wine for tears;
\forcelinebreak And take the mortal leap undaunted,
\forcelinebreak Content that all we asked was granted?


But Fate will not permit
\forcelinebreak The seed of gods to die,
\forcelinebreak Nor suffer sense to win from wit
\forcelinebreak Its guerdon in the sky,
\forcelinebreak Nor let us hide, whate’er our pleasure,
\forcelinebreak The world’s light underneath a measure.


Go then, sad youth, and shine;
\forcelinebreak Go, sacrifice to Fame;
\forcelinebreak Put youth, joy, health upon the shrine,
\forcelinebreak And life to fan the flame;
\forcelinebreak Being for Seeming bravely barter
\forcelinebreak And die to Fame a happy martyr.


1824.


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\section{The Summons}


A sterner errand to the silken troop
\forcelinebreak Has quenched the uneasy blush that warmed my cheek;
\forcelinebreak I am commissioned in my day of joy
\forcelinebreak To leave my woods and streams and the sweet sloth
\forcelinebreak Of prayer and song that were my dear delight,
\forcelinebreak To leave the rudeness of my woodland life,
\forcelinebreak Sweet twilight walks and midnight solitude
\forcelinebreak And kind acquaintance with the morning stars
\forcelinebreak And the glad hey-day of my household hours,
\forcelinebreak The innocent mirth which sweetens daily bread,
\forcelinebreak Railing in love to those who rail again,
\forcelinebreak By mind’s industry sharpening the love of life —
\forcelinebreak Books, Muses, Study, fireside, friends and love,
\forcelinebreak I loved ye with true love, so fare ye well!


I was a boy; boyhood slid gayly by
\forcelinebreak And the impatient years that trod on it
\forcelinebreak Taught me new lessons in the lore of life.
\forcelinebreak I’ve learned the sum of that sad history
\forcelinebreak All woman-born do know, that hoped-for days,
\forcelinebreak Days that come dancing on fraught with delights,
\forcelinebreak Dash our blown hopes as they limp heavily by.
\forcelinebreak But I, the bantling of a country Muse,
\forcelinebreak Abandon all those toys with speed to obey
\forcelinebreak The King whose meek ambassador I go.


1826.


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\section{The River}


And I behold once more
\forcelinebreak My old familiar haunts; here the blue river,
\forcelinebreak The same blue wonder that my infant eye
\forcelinebreak Admired, sage doubting whence the traveller came, —
\forcelinebreak Whence brought his sunny bubbles ere he washed
\forcelinebreak The fragrant flag-roots in my father’s fields,
\forcelinebreak And where thereafter in the world he went.
\forcelinebreak Look, here he is, unaltered, save that now
\forcelinebreak He hath broke his banks and flooded all the vales
\forcelinebreak With his redundant waves.
\forcelinebreak Here is the rock where, yet a simple child,
\forcelinebreak I caught with bended pin my earliest fish,
\forcelinebreak Much triumphing, — and these the fields
\forcelinebreak Over whose flowers I chased the butterfly
\forcelinebreak A blooming hunter of a fairy fine.
\forcelinebreak And hark! where overhead the ancient crows
\forcelinebreak Hold their sour conversation in the sky: —
\forcelinebreak These are the same, but I am not the same,
\forcelinebreak But wiser than I was, and wise enough
\forcelinebreak Not to regret the changes, tho’ they cost
\forcelinebreak Me many a sigh. Oh, call not Nature dumb;
\forcelinebreak These trees and stones are audible to me,
\forcelinebreak These idle flowers, that tremble in the wind,
\forcelinebreak I understand their faery syllables,
\forcelinebreak And all their sad significance. The wind,
\forcelinebreak That rustles down the well-known forest road —
\forcelinebreak It hath a sound more eloquent than speech.
\forcelinebreak The stream, the trees, the grass, the sighing wind,
\forcelinebreak All of them utter sounds of ‘monishment
\forcelinebreak And grave parental love.
\forcelinebreak They are not of our race, they seem to say,
\forcelinebreak And yet have knowledge of our moral race,
\forcelinebreak And somewhat of majestic sympathy,
\forcelinebreak Something of pity for the puny clay,
\forcelinebreak That holds and boasts the immeasurable mind.
\forcelinebreak I feel as I were welcome to these trees
\forcelinebreak After long months of weary wandering,
\forcelinebreak Acknowledged by their hospitable boughs;
\forcelinebreak They know me as their son, for side by side,
\forcelinebreak They were coeval with my ancestors,
\forcelinebreak Adorned with them my country’s primitive times,
\forcelinebreak And soon may give my dust their funeral shade.


CONCORD, June, 1827.


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\section{Good Hope}


The cup of life is not so shallow
\forcelinebreak That we have drained the best,
\forcelinebreak That all the wine at once we swallow
\forcelinebreak And lees make all the rest.


Maids of as soft a bloom shall marry
\forcelinebreak As Hymen yet hath blessed,
\forcelinebreak And fairer forms are in the quarry
\forcelinebreak Than Phidias released.


1827.


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\section{Lines to Ellen}


Tell me, maiden, dost thou use
\forcelinebreak Thyself thro’ Nature to diffuse?
\forcelinebreak All the angles of the coast
\forcelinebreak Were tenanted by thy sweet ghost,
\forcelinebreak Bore thy colors every flower,
\forcelinebreak Thine each leaf and berry bore;
\forcelinebreak All wore thy badges and thy favors
\forcelinebreak In their scent or in their savors,
\forcelinebreak Every moth with painted wing,
\forcelinebreak Every bird in carolling,
\forcelinebreak The wood-boughs with thy manners waved,
\forcelinebreak The rocks uphold thy name engraved,
\forcelinebreak The sod throbbed friendly to my feet,
\forcelinebreak And the sweet air with thee was sweet.
\forcelinebreak The saffron cloud that floated warm
\forcelinebreak Studied thy motion, took thy form,
\forcelinebreak And in his airy road benign
\forcelinebreak Recalled thy skill in bold design,
\forcelinebreak Or seemed to use his privilege
\forcelinebreak To gaze o’er the horizon’s edge,
\forcelinebreak To search where now thy beauty glowed,
\forcelinebreak Or made what other purlieus proud.


1829.


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\section{Security}


Though her eye seek other forms
\forcelinebreak And a glad delight below,
\forcelinebreak Yet the love the world that warms
\forcelinebreak Bids for me her bosom glow.


She must love me till she find
\forcelinebreak Another heart as large and true.
\forcelinebreak Her soul is frank as the ocean wind,
\forcelinebreak And the world has only two.


If Nature hold another heart
\forcelinebreak That knows a purer flame than me,
\forcelinebreak I too therein could challenge part
\forcelinebreak And learn of love a new degree.


1829.


A dull uncertain brain,
\forcelinebreak But gifted yet to know
\forcelinebreak That God has cherubim who go
\forcelinebreak Singing an immortal strain,
\forcelinebreak Immortal here below.
\forcelinebreak I know the mighty bards,
\forcelinebreak I listen when they sing,
\forcelinebreak And now I know
\forcelinebreak The secret store
\forcelinebreak Which these explore
\forcelinebreak When they with torch of genius pierce
\forcelinebreak The tenfold clouds that cover
\forcelinebreak The riches of the universe
\forcelinebreak From God’s adoring lover.
\forcelinebreak And if to me it is not given
\forcelinebreak To fetch one ingot thence
\forcelinebreak Of the unfading gold of Heaven
\forcelinebreak His merchants may dispense,
\forcelinebreak Yet well I know the royal mine,
\forcelinebreak And know the sparkle of its ore,
\forcelinebreak Know Heaven’s truth from lies that shine —
\forcelinebreak Explored they teach us to explore.


1831.


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\section{A Mountain Grave}


Why fear to die
\forcelinebreak And let thy body lie
\forcelinebreak Under the flowers of June,
\forcelinebreak Thy body food
\forcelinebreak For the ground-worms’ brood
\forcelinebreak And thy grave smiled on by the visiting moon.


Amid great Nature’s halls
\forcelinebreak Girt in by mountain walls
\forcelinebreak And washed with waterfalls
\forcelinebreak It would please me to die,
\forcelinebreak Where every wind that swept my tomb
\forcelinebreak Goes loaded with a free perfume
\forcelinebreak Dealt out with a God’s charity.


I should like to die in sweets,
\forcelinebreak A hill’s leaves for winding-sheets,
\forcelinebreak And the searching sun to see
\forcelinebreak That I am laid with decency.
\forcelinebreak And the commissioned wind to sing
\forcelinebreak His mighty psalm from fall to spring
\forcelinebreak And annual tunes commemorate
\forcelinebreak Of Nature’s child the common fate.


WILLIAMSTOWN, VERMONT, 1 June, 1831.


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\section{A Letter}


Dear brother, would you know the life,
\forcelinebreak Please God, that I would lead?
\forcelinebreak On the first wheels that quit this weary town
\forcelinebreak Over yon western bridges I would ride
\forcelinebreak And with a cheerful benison forsake
\forcelinebreak Each street and spire and roof, incontinent.
\forcelinebreak Then would I seek where God might guide my steps,
\forcelinebreak Deep in a woodland tract, a sunny farm,
\forcelinebreak Amid the mountain counties, Hants, Franklin, Berks,
\forcelinebreak Where down the rock ravine a river roars,
\forcelinebreak Even from a brook, and where old woods
\forcelinebreak Not tamed and cleared cumber the ground
\forcelinebreak With their centennial wrecks.
\forcelinebreak Find me a slope where I can feel the sun
\forcelinebreak And mark the rising of the early stars.
\forcelinebreak There will I bring my books, — my household gods,
\forcelinebreak The reliquaries of my dead saint, and dwell
\forcelinebreak In the sweet odor of her memory.
\forcelinebreak Then in the uncouth solitude unlock
\forcelinebreak My stock of art, plant dials in the grass,
\forcelinebreak Hang in the air a bright thermometer
\forcelinebreak And aim a telescope at the inviolate sun.


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\section{Chardon St., Boston, 1831.}


Day by day returns
\forcelinebreak The everlasting sun,
\forcelinebreak Replenishing material urns
\forcelinebreak With God’s unspared donation;
\forcelinebreak But the day of day,
\forcelinebreak The orb within the mind,
\forcelinebreak Creating fair and good alway,
\forcelinebreak Shines not as once it shined.


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Vast the realm of Being is,
\forcelinebreak In the waste one nook is his;
\forcelinebreak Whatsoever hap befalls
\forcelinebreak In his vision’s narrow walls
\forcelinebreak He is here to testify.


1831.


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\section{Hymn}


There is in all the sons of men
\forcelinebreak A love that in the spirit dwells,
\forcelinebreak That panteth after things unseen,
\forcelinebreak And tidings of the future tells.


And God hath built his altar here
\forcelinebreak To keep this fire of faith alive,
\forcelinebreak And sent his priests in holy fear
\forcelinebreak To speak the truth — for truth to strive.


And hither come the pensive train
\forcelinebreak Of rich and poor, of young and old,
\forcelinebreak Of ardent youth untouched by pain,
\forcelinebreak Of thoughtful maids and manhood bold.


They seek a friend to speak the word
\forcelinebreak Already trembling on their tongue,
\forcelinebreak To touch with prophet’s hand the chord
\forcelinebreak Which God in human hearts hath strung.


To speak the plain reproof of sin
\forcelinebreak That sounded in the soul before,
\forcelinebreak And bid you let the angels in
\forcelinebreak That knock at meek contrition’s door.


A friend to lift the curtain up
\forcelinebreak That hides from man the mortal goal,
\forcelinebreak And with glad thoughts of faith and hope
\forcelinebreak Surprise the exulting soul.


Sole source of light and hope assured,
\forcelinebreak O touch thy servant’s lips with power,
\forcelinebreak So shall he speak to us the word
\forcelinebreak Thyself dost give forever more.


June, 1831.


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\section{Self-reliance}


Henceforth, please God, forever I forego
\forcelinebreak The yoke of men’s opinions. I will be
\forcelinebreak Light-hearted as a bird, and live with God.
\forcelinebreak I find him in the bottom of my heart,
\forcelinebreak I hear continually his voice therein.


 * * *


The little needle always knows the North,
\forcelinebreak The little bird remembereth his note,
\forcelinebreak And this wise Seer within me never errs.
\forcelinebreak I never taught it what it teaches me;
\forcelinebreak I only follow, when I act aright.


October 9, 1832.


And when I am entombed in my place,
\forcelinebreak Be it remembered of a single man,
\forcelinebreak He never, though he dearly loved his race,
\forcelinebreak For fear of human eyes swerved from his plan.


Oh what is Heaven but the fellowship
\forcelinebreak Of minds that each can stand against the world
\forcelinebreak By its own meek and incorruptible will?


The days pass over me
\forcelinebreak And I am still the same;
\forcelinebreak The aroma of my life is gone
\forcelinebreak With the flower with which it came.


1833.


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\section{Written in Naples}


We are what we are made; each following day
\forcelinebreak Is the Creator of our human mould
\forcelinebreak Not less than was the first; the all-wise God
\forcelinebreak Gilds a few points in every several life,
\forcelinebreak And as each flower upon the fresh hillside,
\forcelinebreak And every colored petal of each flower,
\forcelinebreak Is sketched and dyed, each with a new design,
\forcelinebreak Its spot of purple, and its streak of brown,
\forcelinebreak So each man’s life shall have its proper lights,
\forcelinebreak And a few joys, a few peculiar charms,
\forcelinebreak For him round in the melancholy hours
\forcelinebreak And reconcile him to the common days.
\forcelinebreak Not many men see beauty in the fogs
\forcelinebreak Of close low pine-woods in a river town;
\forcelinebreak Yet unto me not morn’s magnificence,
\forcelinebreak Nor the red rainbow of a summer eve,
\forcelinebreak Nor Rome, nor joyful Paris, nor the halls
\forcelinebreak Of rich men blazing hospitable light,
\forcelinebreak Nor wit, nor eloquence, — no, nor even the song
\forcelinebreak Of any woman that is now alive, —
\forcelinebreak Hath such a soul, such divine influence,
\forcelinebreak Such resurrection of the happy past,
\forcelinebreak As is to me when I behold the morn
\forcelinebreak Ope in such law moist roadside, and beneath
\forcelinebreak Peep the blue violets out of the black loam,
\forcelinebreak Pathetic silent poets that sing to me
\forcelinebreak Thine elegy, sweet singer, sainted wife.


March, 1833.


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\section{Written at Rome}


Alone in Rome. Why, Rome is lonely too; —
\forcelinebreak Besides, you need not be alone; the soul
\forcelinebreak Shall have society of its own rank.
\forcelinebreak Be great, be true, and all the Scipios,
\forcelinebreak The Catos, the wise patriots of Rome,
\forcelinebreak Shall flock to you and tarry by your side,
\forcelinebreak And comfort you with their high company.
\forcelinebreak Virtue alone is sweet society,
\forcelinebreak It keeps the key to all heroic hearts,
\forcelinebreak And opens you a welcome in them all.
\forcelinebreak You must be like them if you desire them,
\forcelinebreak Scorn trifles and embrace a better aim
\forcelinebreak Than wine or sleep or praise;
\forcelinebreak Hunt knowledge as the lover wooes a maid,
\forcelinebreak And ever in the strife of your own thoughts
\forcelinebreak Obey the nobler impulse; that is Rome:
\forcelinebreak That shall command a senate to your side;
\forcelinebreak For there is no might in the universe
\forcelinebreak That can contend with love. It reigns forever.
\forcelinebreak Wait then, sad friend, wait in majestic peace
\forcelinebreak The hour of heaven. Generously trust
\forcelinebreak Thy fortune’s web to the beneficent hand
\forcelinebreak That until now has put his world in fee
\forcelinebreak To thee. He watches for thee still. His love
\forcelinebreak Broods over thee, and as God lives in heaven,
\forcelinebreak However long thou walkest solitary,
\forcelinebreak The hour of heaven shall come, the man appear.


1833.


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\section{Webster}


1831


Let Webster’s lofty face
\forcelinebreak Ever on thousands shine,
\forcelinebreak A beacon set that Freedom’s race
\forcelinebreak Might gather omens from that radiant sign.


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\section{From the Phi Beta Kappa Poem}


1834


Ill fits the abstemious Muse a crown to weave
\forcelinebreak For living brows; ill fits them to receive:
\forcelinebreak And yet, if virtue abrogate the law,
\forcelinebreak One portrait — fact or fancy — we may draw;
\forcelinebreak A form which Nature cast in the heroic mould
\forcelinebreak Of them who rescued liberty of old;
\forcelinebreak He, when the rising storm of party roared,
\forcelinebreak Brought his great forehead to the council board,
\forcelinebreak There, while hot heads perplexed with fears the state,
\forcelinebreak Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate;
\forcelinebreak Seemed, when at last his clarion accents broke,
\forcelinebreak As if the conscience of the country spoke.
\forcelinebreak Not on its base Monadnoc surer stood,
\forcelinebreak Than he to common sense and common good:
\forcelinebreak No mimic; from his breast his counsel drew,
\forcelinebreak Believed the eloquent was aye the true;
\forcelinebreak He bridged the gulf from th’ alway good and wise
\forcelinebreak To that within the vision of small eyes.
\forcelinebreak Self-centred; when he launched the genuine word
\forcelinebreak It shook or captivated all who heard,
\forcelinebreak Ran from his mouth to mountains and the sea,
\forcelinebreak And burned in noble hearts proverb and prophecy.


1854


Why did all manly gifts in Webster fail?
\forcelinebreak He wrote on Nature’s grandest brow, For Sale.


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\section{Good-bye}


Good-bye, proud world! I’m going home:
\forcelinebreak Thou art not my friend, and I’m not thine.
\forcelinebreak Long through thy weary crowds I roam;
\forcelinebreak A river-ark on the ocean brine,
\forcelinebreak Long I’ve been tossed like the driven foam:
\forcelinebreak But now, proud world! I’m going home.


Good-bye to Flattery’s fawning face;
\forcelinebreak To Grandeur with his wise grimace;
\forcelinebreak To upstart Wealth’s averted eye;
\forcelinebreak To supple Office, low and high;
\forcelinebreak To crowded halls, to court and street;
\forcelinebreak To frozen hearts and hasting feet;
\forcelinebreak To those who go, and those who come;
\forcelinebreak Good-bye, proud world! I’m going home.


I am going to my own hearth-stone,
\forcelinebreak Bosomed in yon green hills alone, —
\forcelinebreak secret nook in a pleasant land,
\forcelinebreak Whose groves the frolic fairies planned;
\forcelinebreak Where arches green, the livelong day,
\forcelinebreak Echo the blackbird’s roundelay,
\forcelinebreak And vulgar feet have never trod
\forcelinebreak A spot that is sacred to thought and God.


O, when I am safe in my sylvan home,
\forcelinebreak I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome;
\forcelinebreak And when I am stretched beneath the pines,
\forcelinebreak Where the evening star so holy shines,
\forcelinebreak I laugh at the lore and the pride of man,
\forcelinebreak At the sophist schools and the learned clan;
\forcelinebreak For what are they all, in their high conceit,
\forcelinebreak When man in the bush with God may meet?


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\section{Each and All}


Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown
\forcelinebreak Of thee from the hill-top looking down;
\forcelinebreak The heifer that lows in the upland farm,
\forcelinebreak Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm;
\forcelinebreak The sexton, tolling his bell at noon,
\forcelinebreak Deems not that great Napoleon
\forcelinebreak Stops his horse, and lists with delight,
\forcelinebreak Whilst his files sweep round yon Alpine height;
\forcelinebreak Nor knowest thou what argument
\forcelinebreak Thy life to thy neighbor’s creed has lent.
\forcelinebreak All are needed by each one;
\forcelinebreak Nothing is fair or good alone.
\forcelinebreak I thought the sparrow’s note from heaven,
\forcelinebreak Singing at dawn on the alder bough;
\forcelinebreak I brought him home, in his nest, at even;
\forcelinebreak He sings the song, but it cheers not now,
\forcelinebreak For I did not bring home the river and sky; —
\forcelinebreak He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye.
\forcelinebreak The delicate shells lay on the shore;
\forcelinebreak The bubbles of the latest wave
\forcelinebreak Fresh pearls to their enamel gave,
\forcelinebreak And the bellowing of the savage sea
\forcelinebreak Greeted their safe escape to me.
\forcelinebreak I wiped away the weeds and foam,
\forcelinebreak I fetched my sea-born treasures home;
\forcelinebreak But the poor, unsightly, noisome things
\forcelinebreak Had left their beauty on the shore
\forcelinebreak With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
\forcelinebreak The lover watched his graceful maid,
\forcelinebreak As ‘mid the virgin train she strayed,
\forcelinebreak Nor knew her beauty’s best attire
\forcelinebreak Was woven still by the snow-white choir.
\forcelinebreak At last she came to his hermitage,
\forcelinebreak Like the bird from the woodlands to the cage; —
\forcelinebreak The gay enchantment was undone,
\forcelinebreak A gentle wife, but fairy none.
\forcelinebreak Then I said, ‘I covet truth;
\forcelinebreak Beauty is unripe childhood’s cheat;
\forcelinebreak I leave it behind with the games of youth:’ —
\forcelinebreak As I spoke, beneath my feet
\forcelinebreak The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath,
\forcelinebreak Running over the club-moss burrs;
\forcelinebreak I inhaled the violet’s breath;
\forcelinebreak Around me stood the oaks and firs;
\forcelinebreak Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground;
\forcelinebreak Over me soared the eternal sky.
\forcelinebreak Full of light and of deity;
\forcelinebreak Again I saw, again I heard,
\forcelinebreak The rolling river, the morning bird; —
\forcelinebreak Beauty through my senses stole;
\forcelinebreak I yielded myself to the perfect whole.


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\section{The Problem}


I like a church; I like a cowl;
\forcelinebreak I love a prophet of the soul;
\forcelinebreak And on my heart monastic aisles
\forcelinebreak Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles
\forcelinebreak Yet not for all his faith can see
\forcelinebreak Would I that cowlèd churchman be.


Why should the vest on him allure,
\forcelinebreak Which I could not on me endure?


Not from a vain or shallow thought
\forcelinebreak His awful Jove young Phidias brought;
\forcelinebreak Never from lips of cunning fell
\forcelinebreak The thrilling Delphic oracle;
\forcelinebreak Out from the heart of nature rolled
\forcelinebreak The burdens of the Bible old;
\forcelinebreak The litanies of nations came,
\forcelinebreak Like the volcano’s tongue of flame,
\forcelinebreak Up from the burning core below, —
\forcelinebreak The canticles of love and woe:
\forcelinebreak The hand that rounded Peter’s dome
\forcelinebreak And groined the aisles of Christian Rome
\forcelinebreak Wrought in a sad sincerity;
\forcelinebreak Himself from God he could not free;
\forcelinebreak He builded better than he knew; —
\forcelinebreak The conscious stone to beauty grew.


Know’st thou what wove yon woodbird’s nest
\forcelinebreak Of leaves, and feathers from her breast?
\forcelinebreak Or how the fish outbuilt her shell,
\forcelinebreak Painting with morn each annual cell?
\forcelinebreak Or how the sacred pine-tree adds
\forcelinebreak To her old leaves new myriads?
\forcelinebreak Such and so grew these holy piles,
\forcelinebreak Whilst love and terror laid the tiles.
\forcelinebreak Earth proudly wears the Parthenon,
\forcelinebreak As the best gem upon her zone,
\forcelinebreak And Morning opes with haste her lids
\forcelinebreak To gaze upon the Pyramids;
\forcelinebreak O’er England’s abbeys bends the sky,
\forcelinebreak As on its friends, with kindred eye;
\forcelinebreak For out of Thought’s interior sphere
\forcelinebreak These wonders rose to upper air;
\forcelinebreak And Nature gladly gave them place,
\forcelinebreak Adopted them into her race,
\forcelinebreak And granted them an equal date
\forcelinebreak With Andes and with Ararat.


These temples grew as grows the grass;
\forcelinebreak Art might obey, but not surpass.
\forcelinebreak The passive Master lent his hand
\forcelinebreak To the vast soul that o’er him planned;
\forcelinebreak And the same power that reared the shrine
\forcelinebreak Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.
\forcelinebreak Ever the fiery Pentecost
\forcelinebreak Girds with one flame the countless host,
\forcelinebreak Trances the heart through chanting choirs,
\forcelinebreak And through the priest the mind inspires.
\forcelinebreak The word unto the prophet spoken
\forcelinebreak Was writ on tables yet unbroken;
\forcelinebreak The word by seers or sibyls told,
\forcelinebreak In groves of oak, or fanes of gold,
\forcelinebreak Still floats upon the morning wind,
\forcelinebreak Still whispers to the willing mind.
\forcelinebreak One accent of the Holy Ghost
\forcelinebreak The heedless world hath never lost.
\forcelinebreak I know what say the fathers wise, —
\forcelinebreak The Book itself before me lies,
\forcelinebreak Old Chrysostom, best Augustine,
\forcelinebreak And he who blent both in his line,
\forcelinebreak The younger Golden Lips or mines,
\forcelinebreak Taylor, the Shakspeare of divines.
\forcelinebreak His words are music in my ear,
\forcelinebreak I see his cowlèd portrait dear;
\forcelinebreak And yet, for all his faith could see,
\forcelinebreak I would not the good bishop be.


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\section{To Rhea}


Thee, dear friend, a brother soothes,
\forcelinebreak Not with flatteries, but truths,
\forcelinebreak Which tarnish not, but purify
\forcelinebreak To light which dims the morning’s eye.
\forcelinebreak I have come from the spring-woods,
\forcelinebreak From the fragrant solitudes; —
\forcelinebreak Listen what the poplar-tree
\forcelinebreak And murmuring waters counselled me.


If with love thy heart has burned;
\forcelinebreak If thy love is unreturned;
\forcelinebreak Hide thy grief within thy breast,
\forcelinebreak Though it tear thee unexpressed;
\forcelinebreak For when love has once departed
\forcelinebreak From the eyes of the false-hearted,
\forcelinebreak And one by one has torn off quite
\forcelinebreak The bandages of purple light;
\forcelinebreak Though thou wert the loveliest
\forcelinebreak Form the soul had ever dressed,
\forcelinebreak Thou shalt seem, in each reply,
\forcelinebreak A vixen to his altered eye;
\forcelinebreak Thy softest pleadings seem too bold,
\forcelinebreak Thy praying lute will seem to scold;
\forcelinebreak Though thou kept the straightest road,
\forcelinebreak Yet thou errest far and broad.


But thou shalt do as do the gods
\forcelinebreak In their cloudless periods;
\forcelinebreak For of this lore be thou sure, —
\forcelinebreak Though thou forget, the gods, secure,
\forcelinebreak Forget never their command,
\forcelinebreak But make the statute of this land.
\forcelinebreak As they lead, so follow all,
\forcelinebreak Ever have done, ever shall.
\forcelinebreak Warning to the blind and deaf,
\forcelinebreak ‘T is written on the iron leaf,
\forcelinebreak Who drinks of Cupid’s nectar cup
\forcelinebreak Loveth downward, and not up;
\forcelinebreak He who loves, of gods or men,
\forcelinebreak Shall not by the same be loved again;
\forcelinebreak His sweetheart’s idolatry
\forcelinebreak Falls, in turn, a new degree.
\forcelinebreak When a god is once beguiled
\forcelinebreak By beauty of a mortal child
\forcelinebreak And by her radiant youth delighted,
\forcelinebreak He is not fooled, but warily knoweth
\forcelinebreak His love shall never be requited.
\forcelinebreak And thus the wise Immortal doeth, —
\forcelinebreak ‘T is his study and delight
\forcelinebreak To bless that creature day and night;
\forcelinebreak From all evils to defend her;
\forcelinebreak In her lap to pour all splendor;
\forcelinebreak To ransack earth for riches rare,
\forcelinebreak And fetch her stars to deck her hair:
\forcelinebreak He mixes music with her thoughts,
\forcelinebreak And saddens her with heavenly doubts:
\forcelinebreak All grace, all good his great heart knows,
\forcelinebreak Profuse in love, the king bestows,
\forcelinebreak Saying, ‘Hearken! Earth, Sea, Air!
\forcelinebreak This monument of my despair
\forcelinebreak Build I to the All-Good, All-Fair.
\forcelinebreak Not for a private good,
\forcelinebreak But I, from my beatitude,
\forcelinebreak Albeit scorned as none was scorned,
\forcelinebreak Adorn her as was none adorned.
\forcelinebreak I make this maiden an ensample
\forcelinebreak To Nature, through her kingdoms ample,
\forcelinebreak Whereby to model newer races,
\forcelinebreak Statelier forms and fairer faces;
\forcelinebreak To carry man to new degrees
\forcelinebreak Of power and of comeliness.
\forcelinebreak These presents be the hostages
\forcelinebreak Which I pawn for my release.
\forcelinebreak See to thyself, O Universe!
\forcelinebreak Thou art better, and not worse.’ —
\forcelinebreak And the god, having given all,
\forcelinebreak Is freed forever from his thrall.


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\section{The Visit}


Askest, ‘How long thou shalt stay?’
\forcelinebreak Devastator of the day!
\forcelinebreak Know, each substance and relation,
\forcelinebreak Thorough nature’s operation,
\forcelinebreak Hath its unit, bound and metre;
\forcelinebreak And every new compound
\forcelinebreak Is some product and repeater, —
\forcelinebreak Product of the earlier found.
\forcelinebreak But the unit of the visit,
\forcelinebreak The encounter of the wise, —
\forcelinebreak Say, what other metre is it
\forcelinebreak Than the meeting of the eyes?
\forcelinebreak Nature poureth into nature
\forcelinebreak Through the channels of that feature,
\forcelinebreak Riding on the ray of sight,
\forcelinebreak Fleeter far than whirlwinds go,
\forcelinebreak Or for service, or delight,
\forcelinebreak Hearts to hearts their meaning show,
\forcelinebreak Sum their long experience,
\forcelinebreak And import intelligence.
\forcelinebreak Single look has drained the breast;
\forcelinebreak Single moment years confessed.
\forcelinebreak The duration of a glance
\forcelinebreak Is the term of convenance,
\forcelinebreak And, though thy rede be church or state,
\forcelinebreak Frugal multiples of that.
\forcelinebreak Speeding Saturn cannot halt;
\forcelinebreak Linger, — thou shalt rue the fault:
\forcelinebreak If Love his moment overstay,
\forcelinebreak Hatred’s swift repulsions play.


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\section{Uriel}


It fell in the ancient periods
\forcelinebreak Which the brooding soul surveys,
\forcelinebreak Or ever the wild Time coined itself
\forcelinebreak Into calendar months and days.


This was the lapse of Uriel,
\forcelinebreak Which in Paradise befell.
\forcelinebreak Once, among the Pleiads walking,
\forcelinebreak Seyd overheard the young gods talking;
\forcelinebreak And the treason, too long pent,
\forcelinebreak To his ears was evident.
\forcelinebreak The young deities discussed
\forcelinebreak Laws of form, and metre just,
\forcelinebreak Orb, quintessence, and sunbeams,
\forcelinebreak What subsisteth, and what seems.
\forcelinebreak One, with low tones that decide,
\forcelinebreak And doubt and reverend use defied,
\forcelinebreak With a look that solved the sphere,
\forcelinebreak And stirred the devils everywhere,
\forcelinebreak Gave his sentiment divine
\forcelinebreak Against the being of a line.
\forcelinebreak ‘Line in nature is not found;
\forcelinebreak Unit and universe are round;
\forcelinebreak In vain produced, all rays return;
\forcelinebreak Evil will bless, and ice will burn.’
\forcelinebreak As Uriel spoke with piercing eye,
\forcelinebreak A shudder ran around the sky;
\forcelinebreak The stern old war-gods shook their heads,
\forcelinebreak The seraphs frowned from myrtle-beds;
\forcelinebreak Seemed to the holy festival
\forcelinebreak The rash word boded ill to all;
\forcelinebreak The balance-beam of Fate was bent;
\forcelinebreak The bounds of good and ill were rent;
\forcelinebreak Strong Hades could not keep his own,
\forcelinebreak But all slid to confusion.


A sad self-knowledge, withering, fell
\forcelinebreak On the beauty of Uriel;
\forcelinebreak In heaven once eminent, the god
\forcelinebreak Withdrew, that hour, into his cloud;
\forcelinebreak Whether doomed to long gyration
\forcelinebreak In the sea of generation,
\forcelinebreak Or by knowledge grown too bright
\forcelinebreak To hit the nerve of feebler sight.
\forcelinebreak Straightway, a forgetting wind
\forcelinebreak Stole over the celestial kind,
\forcelinebreak And their lips the secret kept,
\forcelinebreak If in ashes the fire-seed slept.
\forcelinebreak But now and then, truth-speaking things
\forcelinebreak Shamed the angels’ veiling wings;
\forcelinebreak And, shrilling from the solar course,
\forcelinebreak Or from fruit of chemic force,
\forcelinebreak Procession of a soul in matter,
\forcelinebreak Or the speeding change of water,
\forcelinebreak Or out of the good of evil born,
\forcelinebreak Came Uriel’s voice of cherub scorn,
\forcelinebreak And a blush tinged the upper sky,
\forcelinebreak And the gods shook, they knew not why.


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\section{The World-soul}


Thanks to the morning light,
\forcelinebreak Thanks to the foaming sea,
\forcelinebreak To the uplands of New Hampshire,
\forcelinebreak To the green-haired forest free;
\forcelinebreak Thanks to each man of courage,
\forcelinebreak To the maids of holy mind,
\forcelinebreak To the boy with his games undaunted
\forcelinebreak Who never looks behind.


Cities of proud hotels,
\forcelinebreak Houses of rich and great,
\forcelinebreak Vice nestles in your chambers,
\forcelinebreak Beneath your roofs of slate.
\forcelinebreak It cannot conquer folly, —
\forcelinebreak Time-and-space-conquering steam, —
\forcelinebreak And the light-outspeeding telegraph
\forcelinebreak Bears nothing on its beam.


The politics are base;
\forcelinebreak The letters do not cheer;
\forcelinebreak And ’tis far in the deeps of history,
\forcelinebreak The voice that speaketh clear.
\forcelinebreak Trade and the streets ensnare us,
\forcelinebreak Our bodies are weak and worn;
\forcelinebreak We plot and corrupt each other,
\forcelinebreak And we despoil the unborn.


Yet there in the parlor sits
\forcelinebreak Some figure of noble guise, —
\forcelinebreak Our angel, in a stranger’s form,
\forcelinebreak Or woman’s pleading eyes;
\forcelinebreak Or only a flashing sunbeam
\forcelinebreak In at the window-pane;
\forcelinebreak Or Music pours on mortals
\forcelinebreak Its beautiful disdain.


The inevitable morning
\forcelinebreak Finds them who in cellars be;
\forcelinebreak And be sure the all-loving Nature
\forcelinebreak Will smile in a factory.
\forcelinebreak Yon ridge of purple landscape,
\forcelinebreak Yon sky between the walls,
\forcelinebreak Hold all the hidden wonders
\forcelinebreak In scanty intervals.


Alas! the Sprite that haunts us
\forcelinebreak Deceives our rash desire;
\forcelinebreak It whispers of the glorious gods,
\forcelinebreak And leaves us in the mire.
\forcelinebreak We cannot learn the cipher
\forcelinebreak That’s writ upon our cell;
\forcelinebreak Stars taunt us by a mystery
\forcelinebreak Which we could never spell.


If but one hero knew it,
\forcelinebreak The world would blush in flame;
\forcelinebreak The sage, till he hit the secret,
\forcelinebreak Would hang his head for shame.
\forcelinebreak Our brothers have not read it,
\forcelinebreak Not one has found the key;
\forcelinebreak And henceforth we are comforted, —
\forcelinebreak We are but such as they.


Still, still the secret presses;
\forcelinebreak The nearing clouds draw down;
\forcelinebreak The crimson morning flames into
\forcelinebreak The fopperies of the town.
\forcelinebreak Within, without the idle earth,
\forcelinebreak Stars weave eternal rings;
\forcelinebreak The sun himself shines heartily,
\forcelinebreak And shares the joy he brings.


And what if Trade sow cities
\forcelinebreak Like shells along the shore,
\forcelinebreak And thatch with towns the prairie broad
\forcelinebreak With railways ironed o’er? —
\forcelinebreak They are but sailing foam-bells
\forcelinebreak Along Thought’s causing stream,
\forcelinebreak And take their shape and sun-color
\forcelinebreak From him that sends the dream.


For Destiny never swerves
\forcelinebreak Nor yields to men the helm;
\forcelinebreak He shoots his thought, by hidden nerves,
\forcelinebreak Throughout the solid realm.
\forcelinebreak The patient Daemon sits,
\forcelinebreak With roses and a shroud;
\forcelinebreak He has his way, and deals his gifts, —
\forcelinebreak But ours is not allowed.


He is no churl nor trifler,
\forcelinebreak And his viceroy is none, —
\forcelinebreak Love-without-weakness, —
\forcelinebreak Of Genius sire and son.
\forcelinebreak And his will is not thwarted;
\forcelinebreak The seeds of land and sea
\forcelinebreak Are the atoms of his body bright,
\forcelinebreak And his behest obey.


He serveth the servant,
\forcelinebreak The brave he loves amain;
\forcelinebreak He kills the cripple and the sick,
\forcelinebreak And straight begins again;
\forcelinebreak For gods delight in gods,
\forcelinebreak And thrust the weak aside;
\forcelinebreak To him who scorns their charities
\forcelinebreak Their arms fly open wide.


When the old world is sterile
\forcelinebreak And the ages are effete,
\forcelinebreak He will from wrecks and sediment
\forcelinebreak The fairer world complete.
\forcelinebreak He forbids to despair;
\forcelinebreak His cheeks mantle with mirth;
\forcelinebreak And the unimagined good of men
\forcelinebreak Is yeaning at the birth.


Spring still makes spring in the mind
\forcelinebreak When sixty years are told;
\forcelinebreak Love wakes anew this throbbing heart,
\forcelinebreak And we are never old;
\forcelinebreak Over the winter glaciers
\forcelinebreak I see the summer glow,
\forcelinebreak And through the wild-piled snow-drift
\forcelinebreak The warm rosebuds below.


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\section{The Sphinx}


The Sphinx is drowsy,
\forcelinebreak Her wings are furled:
\forcelinebreak Her ear is heavy,
\forcelinebreak She broods on the world.
\forcelinebreak “Who’ll tell me my secret,
\forcelinebreak The ages have kept? —
\forcelinebreak I awaited the seer
\forcelinebreak While they slumbered and slept: —


“The fate of the man-child,
\forcelinebreak The meaning of man;
\forcelinebreak Known fruit of the unknown;
\forcelinebreak Daedalian plan;
\forcelinebreak Out of sleeping a waking,
\forcelinebreak Out of waking a sleep;
\forcelinebreak Life death overtaking;
\forcelinebreak Deep underneath deep?


“Erect as a sunbeam,
\forcelinebreak Upspringeth the palm;
\forcelinebreak The elephant browses,
\forcelinebreak Undaunted and calm;
\forcelinebreak In beautiful motion
\forcelinebreak The thrush plies his wings;
\forcelinebreak Kind leaves of his covert,
\forcelinebreak Your silence he sings.


“The waves, unashamèd,
\forcelinebreak In difference sweet,
\forcelinebreak Play glad with the breezes,
\forcelinebreak Old playfellows meet;
\forcelinebreak The journeying atoms,
\forcelinebreak Primordial wholes,
\forcelinebreak Firmly draw, firmly drive,
\forcelinebreak By their animate poles.


“Sea, earth, air, sound, silence.
\forcelinebreak Plant, quadruped, bird,
\forcelinebreak By one music enchanted,
\forcelinebreak One deity stirred, —
\forcelinebreak Each the other adorning,
\forcelinebreak Accompany still;
\forcelinebreak Night veileth the morning,
\forcelinebreak The vapor the hill.


“The babe by its mother
\forcelinebreak Lies bathèd in joy;
\forcelinebreak Glide its hours uncounted, —
\forcelinebreak The sun is its toy;
\forcelinebreak Shines the peace of all being,
\forcelinebreak Without cloud, in its eyes;
\forcelinebreak And the sum of the world
\forcelinebreak In soft miniature lies.


“But man crouches and blushes,
\forcelinebreak Absconds and conceals;
\forcelinebreak He creepeth and peepeth,
\forcelinebreak He palters and steals;
\forcelinebreak Infirm, melancholy,
\forcelinebreak Jealous glancing around,
\forcelinebreak An oaf, an accomplice,
\forcelinebreak He poisons the ground.


“Out spoke the great mother,
\forcelinebreak Beholding his fear; —
\forcelinebreak At the sound of her accents
\forcelinebreak Cold shuddered the sphere: —
\forcelinebreak ‘Who has drugged my boy’s cup?
\forcelinebreak Who has mixed my boy’s bread?
\forcelinebreak Who, with sadness and madness,
\forcelinebreak Has turned my child’s head?’”


I heard a poet answer
\forcelinebreak Aloud and cheerfully,
\forcelinebreak ‘Say on, sweet Sphinx! thy dirges
\forcelinebreak Are pleasant songs to me.
\forcelinebreak Deep love lieth under
\forcelinebreak These pictures of time;
\forcelinebreak They fade in the light of
\forcelinebreak Their meaning sublime.


“The fiend that man harries
\forcelinebreak Is love of the Best;
\forcelinebreak Yawns the pit of the Dragon,
\forcelinebreak Lit by rays from the Blest.
\forcelinebreak The Lethe of Nature
\forcelinebreak Can’t trance him again,
\forcelinebreak Whose soul sees the perfect,
\forcelinebreak Which his eyes seek in vain.


“To vision profounder,
\forcelinebreak Man’s spirit must dive;
\forcelinebreak His aye-rolling orb
\forcelinebreak At no goal will arrive;
\forcelinebreak The heavens that now draw him
\forcelinebreak With sweetness untold,
\forcelinebreak Once found, — for new heavens
\forcelinebreak He spurneth the old.


“Pride ruined the angels,
\forcelinebreak Their shame them restores;
\forcelinebreak Lurks the joy that is sweetest
\forcelinebreak In stings of remorse.
\forcelinebreak Have I a lover
\forcelinebreak Who is noble and free? —
\forcelinebreak I would he were nobler
\forcelinebreak Than to love me.


“Eterne alternation
\forcelinebreak Now follows, now flies;
\forcelinebreak And under pain, pleasure, —
\forcelinebreak Under pleasure, pain lies.
\forcelinebreak Love works at the centre,
\forcelinebreak Heart-heaving alway;
\forcelinebreak Forth speed the strong pulses
\forcelinebreak To the borders of day.


“Dull Sphinx, Jove keep thy five wits;
\forcelinebreak Thy sight is growing blear;
\forcelinebreak Rue, myrrh and cummin for the Sphinx,
\forcelinebreak Her muddy eyes to clear!”
\forcelinebreak The old Sphinx bit her thick lip, —
\forcelinebreak Said, “Who taught thee me to name?
\forcelinebreak I am thy spirit, yoke-fellow;
\forcelinebreak Of thine eye I am eyebeam.


“Thou art the unanswered question;
\forcelinebreak Couldst see thy proper eye,
\forcelinebreak Alway it asketh, asketh;
\forcelinebreak And each answer is a lie.
\forcelinebreak So take thy quest through nature,
\forcelinebreak It through thousand natures ply;
\forcelinebreak Ask on, thou clothed eternity;
\forcelinebreak Time is the false reply.”


Uprose the merry Sphinx,
\forcelinebreak And crouched no more in stone;
\forcelinebreak She melted into purple cloud,
\forcelinebreak She silvered in the moon;
\forcelinebreak She spired into a yellow flame;
\forcelinebreak She flowered in blossoms red;
\forcelinebreak She flowed into a foaming wave:
\forcelinebreak She stood Monadnoc’s head.


Thorough a thousand voices
\forcelinebreak Spoke the universal dame;
\forcelinebreak “Who telleth one of my meanings
\forcelinebreak Is master of all I am.”


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\section{Alphonso of Castile}


I, Alphonso, live and learn,
\forcelinebreak Seeing Nature go astern.
\forcelinebreak Things deteriorate in kind;
\forcelinebreak Lemons run to leaves and rind;
\forcelinebreak Meagre crop of figs and limes;
\forcelinebreak Shorter days and harder times.
\forcelinebreak Flowering April cools and dies
\forcelinebreak In the insufficient skies.
\forcelinebreak Imps, at high midsummer, blot
\forcelinebreak Half the sun’s disk with a spot;
\forcelinebreak ‘Twill not now avail to tan
\forcelinebreak Orange cheek or skin of man.
\forcelinebreak Roses bleach, the goats are dry,
\forcelinebreak Lisbon quakes, the people cry.
\forcelinebreak Yon pale, scrawny fisher fools,
\forcelinebreak Gaunt as bitterns in the pools,
\forcelinebreak Are no brothers of my blood; —
\forcelinebreak They discredit Adamhood.
\forcelinebreak Eyes of gods! ye must have seen,
\forcelinebreak O’er your ramparts as ye lean,
\forcelinebreak The general debility;
\forcelinebreak Of genius the sterility;
\forcelinebreak Mighty projects countermanded;
\forcelinebreak Rash ambition, brokenhanded;
\forcelinebreak Puny man and scentless rose
\forcelinebreak Tormenting Pan to double the dose.
\forcelinebreak Rebuild or ruin: either fill
\forcelinebreak Of vital force the wasted rill,
\forcelinebreak Or tumble all again in heap
\forcelinebreak To weltering Chaos and to sleep.


Say, Seigniors, are the old Niles dry,
\forcelinebreak Which fed the veins of earth and sky,
\forcelinebreak That mortals miss the loyal heats,
\forcelinebreak Which drove them erst to social feats;
\forcelinebreak Now, to a savage selfness grown,
\forcelinebreak Think nature barely serves for one;
\forcelinebreak With science poorly mask their hurt;
\forcelinebreak And vex the gods with question pert,
\forcelinebreak Immensely curious whether you
\forcelinebreak Still are rulers, or Mildew?


Masters, I’m in pain with you;
\forcelinebreak Masters, I’ll be plain with you;
\forcelinebreak In my palace of Castile,
\forcelinebreak I, a king, for kings can feel.
\forcelinebreak There my thoughts the matter roll,
\forcelinebreak And solve and oft resolve the whole.
\forcelinebreak And, for I’m styled Alphonse the Wise,
\forcelinebreak Ye shall not fail for sound advice.
\forcelinebreak Before ye want a drop of rain,
\forcelinebreak Hear the sentiment of Spain.


You have tried famine: no more try it;
\forcelinebreak Ply us now with a full diet;
\forcelinebreak Teach your pupils now with plenty,
\forcelinebreak For one sun supply us twenty.
\forcelinebreak I have thought it thoroughly over, —
\forcelinebreak State of hermit, state of lover;
\forcelinebreak We must have society,
\forcelinebreak We cannot spare variety.
\forcelinebreak Hear you, then, celestial fellows!
\forcelinebreak Fits not to be overzealous;
\forcelinebreak Steads not to work on the clean jump,
\forcelinebreak Nor wine nor brains perpetual pump.
\forcelinebreak Men and gods are too extense;
\forcelinebreak Could you slacken and condense?
\forcelinebreak Your rank overgrowths reduce
\forcelinebreak Till your kinds abound with juice?
\forcelinebreak Earth, crowded, cries, ‘Too many men!’
\forcelinebreak My counsel is, kill nine in ten,
\forcelinebreak And bestow the shares of all
\forcelinebreak On the remnant decimal.
\forcelinebreak Add their nine lives to this cat;
\forcelinebreak Stuff their nine brains in one hat;
\forcelinebreak Make his frame and forces square
\forcelinebreak With the labors he must dare;
\forcelinebreak Thatch his flesh, and even his years
\forcelinebreak With the marble which he rears.
\forcelinebreak There, growing slowly old at ease
\forcelinebreak No faster than his planted trees,
\forcelinebreak He may, by warrant of his age,
\forcelinebreak In schemes of broader scope engage.
\forcelinebreak So shall ye have a man of the sphere
\forcelinebreak Fit to grace the solar year.


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\section{Mithridates}


I cannot spare water or wine,
\forcelinebreak Tobacco-leaf, or poppy, or rose;
\forcelinebreak From the earth-poles to the Line,
\forcelinebreak All between that works or grows,
\forcelinebreak Every thing is kin of mine.


Give me agates for my meat;
\forcelinebreak Give me cantharids to eat;
\forcelinebreak From air and ocean bring me foods,
\forcelinebreak From all zones and altitudes; —


From all natures, sharp and slimy,
\forcelinebreak Salt and basalt, wild and tame:
\forcelinebreak Tree and lichen, ape, sea-lion,
\forcelinebreak Bird, and reptile, be my game.


Ivy for my fillet band;
\forcelinebreak Blinding dog-wood in my hand;
\forcelinebreak Hemlock for my sherbet cull me,
\forcelinebreak And the prussic juice to lull me;
\forcelinebreak Swing me in the upas boughs,
\forcelinebreak Vampyre-fanned, when I carouse.


Too long shut in strait and few,
\forcelinebreak Thinly dieted on dew,
\forcelinebreak I will use the world, and sift it,
\forcelinebreak To a thousand humors shift it,
\forcelinebreak As you spin a cherry.
\forcelinebreak O doleful ghosts, and goblins merry!
\forcelinebreak O all you virtues, methods, mights,
\forcelinebreak Means, appliances, delights,
\forcelinebreak Reputed wrongs and braggart rights,
\forcelinebreak Smug routine, and things allowed,
\forcelinebreak Minorities, things under cloud!
\forcelinebreak Hither! take me, use me, fill me,
\forcelinebreak Vein and artery, though ye kill me!


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\section{To J.W.}


Set not thy foot on graves;
\forcelinebreak Hear what wine and roses say;
\forcelinebreak The mountain chase, the summer waves,
\forcelinebreak The crowded town, thy feet may well delay.


Set not thy foot on graves;
\forcelinebreak Nor seek to unwind the shroud
\forcelinebreak Which charitable Time
\forcelinebreak And Nature have allowed
\forcelinebreak To wrap the errors of a sage sublime.


Set not thy foot on graves;
\forcelinebreak Care not to strip the dead
\forcelinebreak Of his sad ornament,
\forcelinebreak His myrrh, and wine, and rings,


His sheet of lead,
\forcelinebreak And trophies buried:
\forcelinebreak Go, get them where he earned them when alive;
\forcelinebreak As resolutely dig or dive.


Life is too short to waste
\forcelinebreak In critic peep or cynic bark,
\forcelinebreak Quarrel or reprimand:
\forcelinebreak ‘T will soon be dark;
\forcelinebreak Up! mind thine own aim, and
\forcelinebreak God speed the mark!


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\section{Destiny}


That you are fair or wise is vain,
\forcelinebreak Or strong, or rich, or generous;
\forcelinebreak You must add the untaught strain
\forcelinebreak That sheds beauty on the rose.
\forcelinebreak There’s a melody born of melody,
\forcelinebreak Which melts the world into a sea.
\forcelinebreak Toil could never compass it;
\forcelinebreak Art its height could never hit;
\forcelinebreak It came never out of wit;
\forcelinebreak But a music music-born
\forcelinebreak Well may Jove and Juno scorn.
\forcelinebreak Thy beauty, if it lack the fire
\forcelinebreak Which drives me mad with sweet desire,
\forcelinebreak What boots it? What the soldier’s mail,
\forcelinebreak Unless he conquer and prevail?
\forcelinebreak What all the goods thy pride which lift,
\forcelinebreak If thou pine for another’s gift?
\forcelinebreak Alas! that one is born in blight,
\forcelinebreak Victim of perpetual slight:
\forcelinebreak When thou lookest on his face,
\forcelinebreak Thy heart saith, ‘Brother, go thy ways!
\forcelinebreak None shall ask thee what thou doest,
\forcelinebreak Or care a rush for what thou knowest,
\forcelinebreak Or listen when thou repliest,
\forcelinebreak Or remember where thou liest,
\forcelinebreak Or how thy supper is sodden;’
\forcelinebreak And another is born
\forcelinebreak To make the sun forgotten.
\forcelinebreak Surely he carries a talisman
\forcelinebreak Under his tongue;
\forcelinebreak Broad his shoulders are and strong;
\forcelinebreak And his eye is scornful,
\forcelinebreak Threatening and young.
\forcelinebreak I hold it of little matter
\forcelinebreak Whether your jewel be of pure water,
\forcelinebreak A rose diamond or a white,
\forcelinebreak But whether it dazzle me with light.
\forcelinebreak I care not how you are dressed,
\forcelinebreak In coarsest weeds or in the best;
\forcelinebreak Nor whether your name is base or brave:
\forcelinebreak Nor for the fashion of your behavior;
\forcelinebreak But whether you charm me,
\forcelinebreak Bid my bread feed and my fire warm me
\forcelinebreak And dress up Nature in your favor.
\forcelinebreak One thing is forever good;
\forcelinebreak That one thing is Success, —
\forcelinebreak Dear to the Eumenides,
\forcelinebreak And to all the heavenly brood.
\forcelinebreak Who bides at home, nor looks abroad,
\forcelinebreak Carries the eagles, and masters the sword.


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\section{Guy}


Mortal mixed of middle clay,
\forcelinebreak Attempered to the night and day,
\forcelinebreak Interchangeable with things,
\forcelinebreak Needs no amulets nor rings.
\forcelinebreak Guy possessed the talisman
\forcelinebreak That all things from him began;
\forcelinebreak And as, of old, Polycrates
\forcelinebreak Chained the sunshine and the breeze,
\forcelinebreak So did Guy betimes discover
\forcelinebreak Fortune was his guard and lover;
\forcelinebreak In strange junctures, felt, with awe,
\forcelinebreak His own symmetry with law;
\forcelinebreak That no mixture could withstand
\forcelinebreak The virtue of his lucky hand.
\forcelinebreak He gold or jewel could not lose,
\forcelinebreak Nor not receive his ample dues.
\forcelinebreak Fearless Guy had never foes,
\forcelinebreak He did their weapons decompose.
\forcelinebreak Aimed at him, the blushing blade
\forcelinebreak Healed as fast the wounds it made.
\forcelinebreak If on the foeman fell his gaze,
\forcelinebreak Him it would straightway blind or craze,
\forcelinebreak In the street, if he turned round,
\forcelinebreak His eye the eye ‘t was seeking found.


It seemed his Genius discreet
\forcelinebreak Worked on the Maker’s own receipt,
\forcelinebreak And made each tide and element
\forcelinebreak Stewards of stipend and of rent;
\forcelinebreak So that the common waters fell
\forcelinebreak As costly wine into his well.
\forcelinebreak He had so sped his wise affairs
\forcelinebreak That he caught Nature in his snares.
\forcelinebreak Early or late, the falling rain
\forcelinebreak Arrived in time to swell his grain;
\forcelinebreak Stream could not so perversely wind
\forcelinebreak But corn of Guy’s was there to grind:
\forcelinebreak The siroc found it on its way,
\forcelinebreak To speed his sails, to dry his hay;
\forcelinebreak And the world’s sun seemed to rise
\forcelinebreak To drudge all day for Guy the wise.
\forcelinebreak In his rich nurseries, timely skill
\forcelinebreak Strong crab with nobler blood did fill;
\forcelinebreak The zephyr in his garden rolled
\forcelinebreak From plum-trees vegetable gold;
\forcelinebreak And all the hours of the year
\forcelinebreak With their own harvest honored were.
\forcelinebreak There was no frost but welcome came,
\forcelinebreak Nor freshet, nor midsummer flame.
\forcelinebreak Belonged to wind and world the toil
\forcelinebreak And venture, and to Guy the oil.


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\section{Hamatreya}


Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Meriam, Flint,
\forcelinebreak Possessed the land which rendered to their toil
\forcelinebreak Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood.
\forcelinebreak Each of these landlords walked amidst his farm,
\forcelinebreak Saying, ‘’Tis mine, my children’s and my name’s.
\forcelinebreak How sweet the west wind sounds in my own trees!
\forcelinebreak How graceful climb those shadows on my hill!
\forcelinebreak I fancy these pure waters and the flags
\forcelinebreak Know me, as does my dog: we sympathize;
\forcelinebreak And, I affirm, my actions smack of the soil.’


Where are these men? Asleep beneath their grounds:
\forcelinebreak And strangers, fond as they, their furrows plough.
\forcelinebreak Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys
\forcelinebreak Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs;
\forcelinebreak Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet
\forcelinebreak Clear of the grave.
\forcelinebreak They added ridge to valley, brook to pond,
\forcelinebreak And sighed for all that bounded their domain;
\forcelinebreak ‘This suits me for a pasture; that’s my park;
\forcelinebreak We must have clay, lime, gravel, granite-ledge,
\forcelinebreak And misty lowland, where to go for peat.
\forcelinebreak The land is well, — lies fairly to the south.
\forcelinebreak ’Tis good, when you have crossed the sea and back,
\forcelinebreak To find the sitfast acres where you left them.’
\forcelinebreak Ah! the hot owner sees not Death, who adds
\forcelinebreak Him to his land, a lump of mould the more.
\forcelinebreak Hear what the Earth says: —


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\section{Earth-song}


‘Mine and yours;
\forcelinebreak Mine, not yours.
\forcelinebreak Earth endures;
\forcelinebreak Stars abide —
\forcelinebreak Shine down in the old sea;
\forcelinebreak Old are the shores;
\forcelinebreak But where are old men?
\forcelinebreak I who have seen much,
\forcelinebreak Such have I never seen.


‘The lawyer’s deed
\forcelinebreak Ran sure,
\forcelinebreak In tail,
\forcelinebreak To them, and to their heirs
\forcelinebreak Who shall succeed,
\forcelinebreak Without fail,
\forcelinebreak Forevermore.


‘Here is the land,
\forcelinebreak Shaggy with wood,
\forcelinebreak With its old valley,
\forcelinebreak Mound and flood.
\forcelinebreak But the heritors? —


Fled like the flood’s foam.
\forcelinebreak The lawyer, and the laws,
\forcelinebreak And the kingdom,
\forcelinebreak Clean swept herefrom.


‘They called me theirs,
\forcelinebreak Who so controlled me;
\forcelinebreak Yet every one
\forcelinebreak Wished to stay, and is gone,
\forcelinebreak How am I theirs,
\forcelinebreak If they cannot hold me,
\forcelinebreak But I hold them?’


When I heard the Earth-song
\forcelinebreak I was no longer brave;
\forcelinebreak My avarice cooled
\forcelinebreak Like lust in the chill of the grave.


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\section{The Rhodora: on Being Asked, Whence is the Flower?}


In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes,
\forcelinebreak I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods,
\forcelinebreak Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook,
\forcelinebreak To please the desert and the sluggish brook.
\forcelinebreak The purple petals, fallen in the pool,
\forcelinebreak Made the black water with their beauty gay;
\forcelinebreak Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool.
\forcelinebreak And court the flower that cheapens his array.
\forcelinebreak Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why
\forcelinebreak This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,
\forcelinebreak Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
\forcelinebreak Then Beauty is its own excuse for being:
\forcelinebreak Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
\forcelinebreak I never thought to ask, I never knew:
\forcelinebreak But, in my simple ignorance, suppose
\forcelinebreak The self-same Power that brought me there brought you.


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\section{The Humble-bee}


Burly, dozing humble-bee,
\forcelinebreak Where thou art is clime for me.
\forcelinebreak Let them sail for Porto Rique,
\forcelinebreak Far-off heats through seas to seek;
\forcelinebreak I will follow thee alone,
\forcelinebreak Thou animated torrid-zone!
\forcelinebreak Zigzag steerer, desert cheerer,
\forcelinebreak Let me chase thy waving lines;
\forcelinebreak Keep me nearer, me thy hearer,
\forcelinebreak Singing over shrubs and vines.


Insect lover of the sun,
\forcelinebreak Joy of thy dominion!
\forcelinebreak Sailor of the atmosphere;
\forcelinebreak Swimmer through the waves of air;
\forcelinebreak Voyager of light and noon;
\forcelinebreak Epicurean of June;
\forcelinebreak Wait, I prithee, till I come
\forcelinebreak Within earshot of thy hum, —
\forcelinebreak All without is martyrdom.


When the south wind, in May days,
\forcelinebreak With a net of shining haze
\forcelinebreak Silvers the horizon wall,
\forcelinebreak And with softness touching all,
\forcelinebreak Tints the human countenance
\forcelinebreak With a color of romance,
\forcelinebreak And infusing subtle heats,
\forcelinebreak Turns the sod to violets,
\forcelinebreak Thou, in sunny solitudes,
\forcelinebreak Rover of the underwoods,
\forcelinebreak The green silence dost displace
\forcelinebreak With thy mellow, breezy bass.


Hot midsummer’s petted crone,
\forcelinebreak Sweet to me thy drowsy tone
\forcelinebreak Tells of countless sunny hours,
\forcelinebreak Long days, and solid banks of flowers;
\forcelinebreak Of gulfs of sweetness without bound
\forcelinebreak In Indian wildernesses found;
\forcelinebreak Of Syrian peace, immortal leisure,
\forcelinebreak Firmest cheer, and bird-like pleasure.


Aught unsavory or unclean
\forcelinebreak Hath my insect never seen;
\forcelinebreak But violets and bilberry bells,
\forcelinebreak Maple-sap and daffodels,
\forcelinebreak Grass with green flag half-mast high,
\forcelinebreak Succory to match the sky,
\forcelinebreak Columbine with horn of honey,
\forcelinebreak Scented fern, and agrimony,
\forcelinebreak Clover, catchfly, adder’s-tongue
\forcelinebreak And brier-roses, dwelt among;
\forcelinebreak All beside was unknown waste,
\forcelinebreak All was picture as he passed.


Wiser far than human seer,
\forcelinebreak Yellow-breeched philosopher!
\forcelinebreak Seeing only what is fair,
\forcelinebreak Sipping only what is sweet,
\forcelinebreak Thou dost mock at fate and care,
\forcelinebreak Leave the chaff, and take the wheat.
\forcelinebreak When the fierce northwestern blast
\forcelinebreak Cools sea and land so far and fast,
\forcelinebreak Thou already slumberest deep;
\forcelinebreak Woe and want thou canst outsleep;
\forcelinebreak Want and woe, which torture us,
\forcelinebreak Thy sleep makes ridiculous.


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\section{Berrying}


‘May be true what I had heard, —
\forcelinebreak Earth’s a howling wilderness,
\forcelinebreak Truculent with fraud and force,’
\forcelinebreak Said I, strolling through the pastures,
\forcelinebreak And along the river-side.
\forcelinebreak Caught among the blackberry vines,
\forcelinebreak Feeding on the Ethiops sweet,
\forcelinebreak Pleasant fancies overtook me.
\forcelinebreak I said, ‘What influence me preferred,
\forcelinebreak Elect, to dreams thus beautiful?’
\forcelinebreak The vines replied, ‘And didst thou deem
\forcelinebreak No wisdom from our berries went?’


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\section{The Snow-storm}


Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
\forcelinebreak Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields,
\forcelinebreak Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air
\forcelinebreak Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,
\forcelinebreak And veils the farm-house at the garden’s end.
\forcelinebreak The sled and traveller stopped, the courier’s feet
\forcelinebreak Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit
\forcelinebreak Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed
\forcelinebreak In a tumultuous privacy of storm.


Come see the north wind’s masonry.
\forcelinebreak Out of an unseen quarry
\forcelinebreak Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer
\forcelinebreak Curves his white bastions with projected roof
\forcelinebreak Round every windward stake, or tree, or door.
\forcelinebreak Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work
\forcelinebreak So fanciful, so savage, nought cares he
\forcelinebreak For number or proportion. Mockingly,
\forcelinebreak On coop or kennel he hangs Parian wreaths;
\forcelinebreak A swan-like form invests the hidden thorn;
\forcelinebreak Fills up the farmer’s lane from wall to wall,
\forcelinebreak Maugre the farmer’s sighs; and at the gate
\forcelinebreak A tapering turret overtops the work.
\forcelinebreak And when his hours are numbered, and the world
\forcelinebreak Is all his own, retiring, as he were not,
\forcelinebreak Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art
\forcelinebreak To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone,
\forcelinebreak Built in an age, the mad wind’s night-work,
\forcelinebreak The frolic architecture of the snow.


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\section{Woodnotes I}


1


When the pine tosses its cones
\forcelinebreak To the song of its waterfall tones,
\forcelinebreak Who speeds to the woodland walks?
\forcelinebreak To birds and trees who talks?
\forcelinebreak Caesar of his leafy Rome,
\forcelinebreak There the poet is at home.
\forcelinebreak He goes to the river-side, —
\forcelinebreak Not hook nor line hath he;
\forcelinebreak He stands in the meadows wide, —
\forcelinebreak Nor gun nor scythe to see.
\forcelinebreak Sure some god his eye enchants:
\forcelinebreak What he knows nobody wants.
\forcelinebreak In the wood he travels glad,
\forcelinebreak Without better fortune had,
\forcelinebreak Melancholy without bad.
\forcelinebreak Knowledge this man prizes best
\forcelinebreak Seems fantastic to the rest:
\forcelinebreak Pondering shadows, colors, clouds,
\forcelinebreak Grass-buds and caterpillar-shrouds,
\forcelinebreak Boughs on which the wild bees settle,
\forcelinebreak Tints that spot the violet’s petal,
\forcelinebreak Why Nature loves the number five,
\forcelinebreak And why the star-form she repeats:
\forcelinebreak Lover of all things alive,
\forcelinebreak Wonderer at all he meets,
\forcelinebreak Wonderer chiefly at himself,
\forcelinebreak Who can tell him what he is?
\forcelinebreak Or how meet in human elf
\forcelinebreak Coming and past eternities?


2


And such I knew, a forest seer,
\forcelinebreak A minstrel of the natural year,
\forcelinebreak Foreteller of the vernal ides,
\forcelinebreak Wise harbinger of spheres and tides,
\forcelinebreak A lover true, who knew by heart
\forcelinebreak Each joy the mountain dales impart;
\forcelinebreak It seemed that Nature could not raise
\forcelinebreak A plant in any secret place,
\forcelinebreak In quaking bog, on snowy hill,
\forcelinebreak Beneath the grass that shades the rill,
\forcelinebreak Under the snow, between the rocks,
\forcelinebreak In damp fields known to bird and fox.
\forcelinebreak But he would come in the very hour
\forcelinebreak It opened in its virgin bower,
\forcelinebreak As if a sunbeam showed the place,
\forcelinebreak And tell its long-descended race.
\forcelinebreak It seemed as if the breezes brought him,
\forcelinebreak It seemed as if the sparrows taught him;
\forcelinebreak As if by secret sight he knew
\forcelinebreak Where, in far fields, the orchis grew.
\forcelinebreak Many haps fall in the field
\forcelinebreak Seldom seen by wishful eyes,
\forcelinebreak But all her shows did Nature yield,
\forcelinebreak To please and win this pilgrim wise.
\forcelinebreak He saw the partridge drum in the woods;
\forcelinebreak He heard the woodcock’s evening hymn;
\forcelinebreak He found the tawny thrushes’ broods;
\forcelinebreak And the shy hawk did wait for him;
\forcelinebreak What others did at distance hear,
\forcelinebreak And guessed within the thicket’s gloom,
\forcelinebreak Was shown to this philosopher,
\forcelinebreak And at his bidding seemed to come.


3


In unploughed Maine he sought the lumberers’ gang
\forcelinebreak Where from a hundred lakes young rivers sprang;
\forcelinebreak He trode the unplanted forest floor, whereon
\forcelinebreak The all-seeing sun for ages hath not shone;
\forcelinebreak Where feeds the moose, and walks the surly bear,
\forcelinebreak And up the tall mast runs the woodpecker.
\forcelinebreak He saw beneath dim aisles, in odorous beds,
\forcelinebreak The slight Linnaea hang its twin-born heads,
\forcelinebreak And blessed the monument of the man of flowers,
\forcelinebreak Which breathes his sweet fame through the northern bowers.
\forcelinebreak He heard, when in the grove, at intervals,
\forcelinebreak With sudden roar the aged pine-tree falls, —
\forcelinebreak One crash, the death-hymn of the perfect tree,
\forcelinebreak Declares the close of its green century.
\forcelinebreak Low lies the plant to whose creation went
\forcelinebreak Sweet influence from every element;
\forcelinebreak Whose living towers the years conspired to build,
\forcelinebreak Whose giddy top the morning loved to gild.
\forcelinebreak Through these green tents, by eldest Nature dressed,
\forcelinebreak He roamed, content alike with man and beast.
\forcelinebreak Where darkness found him he lay glad at night;
\forcelinebreak There the red morning touched him with its light.
\forcelinebreak Three moons his great heart him a hermit made,
\forcelinebreak So long he roved at will the boundless shade.
\forcelinebreak The timid it concerns to ask their way,
\forcelinebreak And fear what foe in caves and swamps can stray,
\forcelinebreak To make no step until the event is known,
\forcelinebreak And ills to come as evils past bemoan.
\forcelinebreak Not so the wise; no coward watch he keeps
\forcelinebreak To spy what danger on his pathway creeps;
\forcelinebreak Go where he will, the wise man is at home,
\forcelinebreak His hearth the earth, — his hall the azure dome;
\forcelinebreak Where his clear spirit leads him, there’s his road
\forcelinebreak By God’s own light illumined and foreshowed.


4


‘T was one of the charmèd days
\forcelinebreak When the genius of God doth flow;
\forcelinebreak The wind may alter twenty ways,
\forcelinebreak A tempest cannot blow;
\forcelinebreak It may blow north, it still is warm;
\forcelinebreak Or south, it still is clear;
\forcelinebreak Or east, it smells like a clover-farm;
\forcelinebreak Or west, no thunder fear.
\forcelinebreak The musing peasant, lowly great,
\forcelinebreak Beside the forest water sate;
\forcelinebreak The rope-like pine-roots crosswise grown
\forcelinebreak Composed the network of his throne;
\forcelinebreak The wide lake, edged with sand and grass,
\forcelinebreak Was burnished to a floor of glass,
\forcelinebreak Painted with shadows green and proud
\forcelinebreak Of the tree and of the cloud.
\forcelinebreak He was the heart of all the scene;
\forcelinebreak On him the sun looked more serene;
\forcelinebreak To hill and cloud his face was known, —
\forcelinebreak It seemed the likeness of their own;
\forcelinebreak They knew by secret sympathy
\forcelinebreak The public child of earth and sky.
\forcelinebreak ‘You ask,’ he said, ‘what guide
\forcelinebreak Me through trackless thickets led,
\forcelinebreak Through thick-stemmed woodlands rough and wide.
\forcelinebreak I found the water’s bed.
\forcelinebreak The watercourses were my guide;
\forcelinebreak I travelled grateful by their side,
\forcelinebreak Or through their channel dry;
\forcelinebreak They led me through the thicket damp,
\forcelinebreak Through brake and fern, the beavers’ camp,
\forcelinebreak Through beds of granite cut my road,
\forcelinebreak And their resistless friendship showed.
\forcelinebreak The falling waters led me,
\forcelinebreak The foodful waters fed me,
\forcelinebreak And brought me to the lowest land,
\forcelinebreak Unerring to the ocean sand.
\forcelinebreak The moss upon the forest bark
\forcelinebreak Was pole-star when the night was dark;
\forcelinebreak The purple berries in the wood
\forcelinebreak Supplied me necessary food;
\forcelinebreak For Nature ever faithful is
\forcelinebreak To such as trust her faithfulness.
\forcelinebreak When the forest shall mislead me,
\forcelinebreak When the night and morning lie,
\forcelinebreak When sea and land refuse to feed me,
\forcelinebreak ‘T will be time enough to die;
\forcelinebreak Then will yet my mother yield
\forcelinebreak A pillow in her greenest field,
\forcelinebreak Nor the June flowers scorn to cover
\forcelinebreak The clay of their departed lover.’


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\section{Woodnotes II}


As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.


‘Whether is better, the gift or the donor?
\forcelinebreak Come to me,’
\forcelinebreak Quoth the pine-tree,
\forcelinebreak ‘I am the giver of honor.
\forcelinebreak My garden is the cloven rock,
\forcelinebreak And my manure the snow;
\forcelinebreak And drifting sand-heaps feed my stock,
\forcelinebreak In summer’s scorching glow.
\forcelinebreak He is great who can live by me:
\forcelinebreak The rough and bearded forester
\forcelinebreak Is better than the lord;
\forcelinebreak God fills the script and canister,
\forcelinebreak Sin piles the loaded board.
\forcelinebreak The lord is the peasant that was,
\forcelinebreak The peasant the lord that shall be;
\forcelinebreak The lord is hay, the peasant grass,
\forcelinebreak One dry, and one the living tree.
\forcelinebreak Who liveth by the ragged pine
\forcelinebreak Foundeth a heroic line;
\forcelinebreak Who liveth in the palace hall
\forcelinebreak Waneth fast and spendeth all.
\forcelinebreak He goes to my savage haunts,
\forcelinebreak With his chariot and his care;
\forcelinebreak My twilight realm he disenchants,
\forcelinebreak And finds his prison there.


‘What prizes the town and the tower?
\forcelinebreak Only what the pine-tree yields;
\forcelinebreak Sinew that subdued the fields;
\forcelinebreak The wild-eyed boy, who in the woods
\forcelinebreak Chants his hymn to hills and floods,
\forcelinebreak Whom the city’s poisoning spleen
\forcelinebreak Made not pale, or fat, or lean;
\forcelinebreak Whom the rain and the wind purgeth,
\forcelinebreak Whom the dawn and the day-star urgeth,
\forcelinebreak In whose cheek the rose-leaf blusheth,
\forcelinebreak In whose feet the lion rusheth,
\forcelinebreak Iron arms, and iron mould,
\forcelinebreak That know not fear, fatigue, or cold.
\forcelinebreak I give my rafters to his boat,
\forcelinebreak My billets to his boiler’s throat,
\forcelinebreak And I will swim the ancient sea
\forcelinebreak To float my child to victory,
\forcelinebreak And grant to dwellers with the pine
\forcelinebreak Dominion o’er the palm and vine.
\forcelinebreak Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend,
\forcelinebreak Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
\forcelinebreak Cut a bough from my parent stem,
\forcelinebreak And dip it in thy porcelain vase;
\forcelinebreak A little while each russet gem
\forcelinebreak Will swell and rise with wonted grace;
\forcelinebreak But when it seeks enlarged supplies,
\forcelinebreak The orphan of the forest dies.
\forcelinebreak Whoso walks in solitude
\forcelinebreak And inhabiteth the wood,
\forcelinebreak Choosing light, wave, rock and bird,
\forcelinebreak Before the money-loving herd,
\forcelinebreak Into that forester shall pass,
\forcelinebreak From these companions, power and grace.
\forcelinebreak Clean shall he be, without, within,
\forcelinebreak From the old adhering sin,
\forcelinebreak All ill dissolving in the light
\forcelinebreak Of his triumphant piercing sight:
\forcelinebreak Not vain, sour, nor frivolous;
\forcelinebreak Not mad, athirst, nor garrulous;
\forcelinebreak Grave, chaste, contented, though retired,
\forcelinebreak And of all other men desired.
\forcelinebreak On him the light of star and moon
\forcelinebreak Shall fall with purer radiance down;
\forcelinebreak All constellations of the sky
\forcelinebreak Shed their virtue through his eye.
\forcelinebreak Him Nature giveth for defence
\forcelinebreak His formidable innocence;
\forcelinebreak The mounting sap, the shells, the sea,
\forcelinebreak All spheres, all stones, his helpers be;
\forcelinebreak He shall meet the speeding year,
\forcelinebreak Without wailing, without fear;
\forcelinebreak He shall be happy in his love,
\forcelinebreak Like to like shall joyful prove;
\forcelinebreak He shall be happy whilst he wooes,
\forcelinebreak Muse-born, a daughter of the Muse.
\forcelinebreak But if with gold she bind her hair,
\forcelinebreak And deck her breast with diamond,
\forcelinebreak Take off thine eyes, thy heart forbear,
\forcelinebreak Though thou lie alone on the ground.


‘Heed the old oracles,
\forcelinebreak Ponder my spells;
\forcelinebreak Song wakes in my pinnacles
\forcelinebreak When the wind swells.
\forcelinebreak Soundeth the prophetic wind,
\forcelinebreak The shadows shake on the rock behind,
\forcelinebreak And the countless leaves of the pine are strings
\forcelinebreak Tuned to the lay the wood-god sings.
\forcelinebreak Hearken! Hearken!
\forcelinebreak If thou wouldst know the mystic song
\forcelinebreak Chanted when the sphere was young.
\forcelinebreak Aloft, abroad, the paean swells;
\forcelinebreak O wise man! hear’st thou half it tells?
\forcelinebreak O wise man! hear’st thou the least part?
\forcelinebreak ’Tis the chronicle of art.
\forcelinebreak To the open ear it sings
\forcelinebreak Sweet the genesis of things,
\forcelinebreak Of tendency through endless ages,
\forcelinebreak Of star-dust, and star-pilgrimages,
\forcelinebreak Of rounded worlds, of space and time,
\forcelinebreak Of the old flood’s subsiding slime,
\forcelinebreak Of chemic matter, force and form,
\forcelinebreak Of poles and powers, cold, wet, and warm:
\forcelinebreak The rushing metamorphosis
\forcelinebreak Dissolving all that fixture is,
\forcelinebreak Melts things that be to things that seem,
\forcelinebreak And solid nature to a dream.
\forcelinebreak O, listen to the undersong,
\forcelinebreak The ever old, the ever young;
\forcelinebreak And, far within those cadent pauses,
\forcelinebreak The chorus of the ancient Causes!
\forcelinebreak Delights the dreadful Destiny
\forcelinebreak To fling his voice into the tree,
\forcelinebreak And shock thy weak ear with a note
\forcelinebreak Breathed from the everlasting throat.
\forcelinebreak In music he repeats the pang
\forcelinebreak Whence the fair flock of Nature sprang.
\forcelinebreak O mortal! thy ears are stones;
\forcelinebreak These echoes are laden with tones
\forcelinebreak Which only the pure can hear;
\forcelinebreak Thou canst not catch what they recite
\forcelinebreak Of Fate and Will, of Want and Right,
\forcelinebreak Of man to come, of human life,
\forcelinebreak Of Death and Fortune, Growth and Strife.’


Once again the pine-tree sung: —
\forcelinebreak ‘Speak not thy speech my boughs among:
\forcelinebreak Put off thy years, wash in the breeze;
\forcelinebreak My hours are peaceful centuries.
\forcelinebreak Talk no more with feeble tongue;
\forcelinebreak No more the fool of space and time,
\forcelinebreak Come weave with mine a nobler rhyme.
\forcelinebreak Only thy Americans
\forcelinebreak Can read thy line, can meet thy glance,
\forcelinebreak But the runes that I rehearse
\forcelinebreak Understands the universe;
\forcelinebreak The least breath my boughs which tossed
\forcelinebreak Brings again the Pentecost;
\forcelinebreak To every soul resounding clear
\forcelinebreak In a voice of solemn cheer, —
\forcelinebreak “Am I not thine? Are not these thine?”
\forcelinebreak And they reply, “Forever mine!”
\forcelinebreak My branches speak Italian,
\forcelinebreak English, German, Basque, Castilian,
\forcelinebreak Mountain speech to Highlanders,
\forcelinebreak Ocean tongues to islanders,
\forcelinebreak To Fin and Lap and swart Malay,
\forcelinebreak To each his bosom-secret say.


‘Come learn with me the fatal song
\forcelinebreak Which knits the world in music strong,
\forcelinebreak Come lift thine eyes to lofty rhymes,
\forcelinebreak Of things with things, of times with times,
\forcelinebreak Primal chimes of sun and shade,
\forcelinebreak Of sound and echo, man and maid,
\forcelinebreak The land reflected in the flood,
\forcelinebreak Body with shadow still pursued.
\forcelinebreak For Nature beats in perfect tune,
\forcelinebreak And rounds with rhyme her every rune,
\forcelinebreak Whether she work in land or sea,
\forcelinebreak Or hide underground her alchemy.
\forcelinebreak Thou canst not wave thy staff in air,
\forcelinebreak Or dip thy paddle in the lake,
\forcelinebreak But it carves the bow of beauty there,
\forcelinebreak And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake.
\forcelinebreak The wood is wiser far than thou;
\forcelinebreak The wood and wave each other know
\forcelinebreak Not unrelated, unaffied,
\forcelinebreak But to each thought and thing allied,
\forcelinebreak Is perfect Nature’s every part,
\forcelinebreak Rooted in the mighty Heart,
\forcelinebreak But thou, poor child! unbound, unrhymed,
\forcelinebreak Whence camest thou, misplaced, mistimed,
\forcelinebreak Whence, O thou orphan and defrauded?
\forcelinebreak Is thy land peeled, thy realm marauded?
\forcelinebreak Who thee divorced, deceived and left?
\forcelinebreak Thee of thy faith who hath bereft,
\forcelinebreak And torn the ensigns from thy brow,
\forcelinebreak And sunk the immortal eye so low?
\forcelinebreak Thy cheek too white, thy form too slender,
\forcelinebreak Thy gait too slow, thy habits tender
\forcelinebreak For royal man; — they thee confess
\forcelinebreak An exile from the wilderness, —
\forcelinebreak The hills where health with health agrees,
\forcelinebreak And the wise soul expels disease.
\forcelinebreak Hark! in thy ear I will tell the sign
\forcelinebreak By which thy hurt thou may’st divine.
\forcelinebreak When thou shalt climb the mountain cliff,
\forcelinebreak Or see the wide shore from thy skiff,
\forcelinebreak To thee the horizon shall express
\forcelinebreak But emptiness on emptiness;
\forcelinebreak There lives no man of Nature’s worth
\forcelinebreak In the circle of the earth;
\forcelinebreak And to thine eye the vast skies fall,
\forcelinebreak Dire and satirical,
\forcelinebreak On clucking hens and prating fools,
\forcelinebreak On thieves, on drudges and on dolls.
\forcelinebreak And thou shalt say to the Most High,
\forcelinebreak “Godhead! all this astronomy,
\forcelinebreak And fate and practice and invention,
\forcelinebreak Strong art and beautiful pretension,
\forcelinebreak This radiant pomp of sun and star,
\forcelinebreak Throes that were, and worlds that are,
\forcelinebreak Behold! were in vain and in vain; —
\forcelinebreak It cannot be, — I will look again.
\forcelinebreak Surely now will the curtain rise,
\forcelinebreak And earth’s fit tenant me surprise; —
\forcelinebreak But the curtain doth not rise,
\forcelinebreak And Nature has miscarried wholly
\forcelinebreak Into failure, into folly.”


‘Alas! thine is the bankruptcy,
\forcelinebreak Blessed Nature so to see.
\forcelinebreak Come, lay thee in my soothing shade,
\forcelinebreak And heal the hurts which sin has made.
\forcelinebreak I see thee in the crowd alone;
\forcelinebreak I will be thy companion.
\forcelinebreak Quit thy friends as the dead in doom,
\forcelinebreak And build to them a final tomb;
\forcelinebreak Let the starred shade that nightly falls
\forcelinebreak Still celebrate their funerals,
\forcelinebreak And the bell of beetle and of bee
\forcelinebreak Knell their melodious memory.
\forcelinebreak Behind thee leave thy merchandise,
\forcelinebreak Thy churches and thy charities;
\forcelinebreak And leave thy peacock wit behind;
\forcelinebreak Enough for thee the primal mind
\forcelinebreak That flows in streams, that breathes in wind:
\forcelinebreak Leave all thy pedant lore apart;
\forcelinebreak God hid the whole world in thy heart.
\forcelinebreak Love shuns the sage, the child it crowns,
\forcelinebreak Gives all to them who all renounce.
\forcelinebreak The rain comes when the wind calls;
\forcelinebreak The river knows the way to the sea;
\forcelinebreak Without a pilot it runs and falls,
\forcelinebreak Blessing all lands with its charity;
\forcelinebreak The sea tosses and foams to find
\forcelinebreak Its way up to the cloud and wind;
\forcelinebreak The shadow sits close to the flying ball;
\forcelinebreak The date fails not on the palm-tree tall;
\forcelinebreak And thou, — go burn thy wormy pages, —
\forcelinebreak Shalt outsee seers, and outwit sages.
\forcelinebreak Oft didst thou thread the woods in vain
\forcelinebreak To find what bird had piped the strain: —
\forcelinebreak Seek not, and the little eremite
\forcelinebreak Flies gayly forth and sings in sight.


‘Hearken once more!
\forcelinebreak I will tell thee the mundane lore.
\forcelinebreak Older am I than thy numbers wot,
\forcelinebreak Change I may, but I pass not.
\forcelinebreak Hitherto all things fast abide,
\forcelinebreak And anchored in the tempest ride.
\forcelinebreak Trenchant time behoves to hurry
\forcelinebreak All to yean and all to bury:
\forcelinebreak All the forms are fugitive,
\forcelinebreak But the substances survive.
\forcelinebreak Ever fresh the broad creation,
\forcelinebreak A divine improvisation,
\forcelinebreak From the heart of God proceeds,
\forcelinebreak A single will, a million deeds.
\forcelinebreak Once slept the world an egg of stone,
\forcelinebreak And pulse, and sound, and light was none;
\forcelinebreak And God said, “Throb!” and there was motion
\forcelinebreak And the vast mass became vast ocean.
\forcelinebreak Onward and on, the eternal Pan,
\forcelinebreak Who layeth the world’s incessant plan,
\forcelinebreak Halteth never in one shape,
\forcelinebreak But forever doth escape,
\forcelinebreak Like wave or flame, into new forms
\forcelinebreak Of gem, and air, of plants, and worms.
\forcelinebreak I, that to-day am a pine,
\forcelinebreak Yesterday was a bundle of grass.
\forcelinebreak He is free and libertine,
\forcelinebreak Pouring of his power the wine
\forcelinebreak To every age, to every race;
\forcelinebreak Unto every race and age
\forcelinebreak He emptieth the beverage;
\forcelinebreak Unto each, and unto all,
\forcelinebreak Maker and original.
\forcelinebreak The world is the ring of his spells,
\forcelinebreak And the play of his miracles.
\forcelinebreak As he giveth to all to drink,
\forcelinebreak Thus or thus they are and think.
\forcelinebreak With one drop sheds form and feature;
\forcelinebreak With the next a special nature;
\forcelinebreak The third adds heat’s indulgent spark;
\forcelinebreak The fourth gives light which eats the dark;
\forcelinebreak Into the fifth himself he flings,
\forcelinebreak And conscious Law is King of kings.
\forcelinebreak As the bee through the garden ranges,
\forcelinebreak From world to world the godhead changes;
\forcelinebreak As the sheep go feeding in the waste,
\forcelinebreak From form to form He maketh haste;
\forcelinebreak This vault which glows immense with light
\forcelinebreak Is the inn where he lodges for a night.
\forcelinebreak What recks such Traveller if the bowers
\forcelinebreak Which bloom and fade like meadow flowers
\forcelinebreak A bunch of fragrant lilies be,
\forcelinebreak Or the stars of eternity?
\forcelinebreak Alike to him the better, the worse, —
\forcelinebreak The glowing angel, the outcast corse.
\forcelinebreak Thou metest him by centuries,
\forcelinebreak And lo! he passes like the breeze;
\forcelinebreak Thou seek’st in globe and galaxy,
\forcelinebreak He hides in pure transparency;
\forcelinebreak Thou askest in fountains and in fires,
\forcelinebreak He is the essence that inquires.
\forcelinebreak He is the axis of the star;
\forcelinebreak He is the sparkle of the spar;
\forcelinebreak He is the heart of every creature;
\forcelinebreak He is the meaning of each feature;
\forcelinebreak And his mind is the sky.
\forcelinebreak Than all it holds more deep, more high.’


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\section{Monadnoc}


Thousand minstrels woke within me,
\forcelinebreak ‘Our music’s in the hills;’ —
\forcelinebreak Gayest pictures rose to win me,
\forcelinebreak Leopard-colored rills.
\forcelinebreak ‘Up! — If thou knew’st who calls
\forcelinebreak To twilight parks of beech and pine,
\forcelinebreak High over the river intervals,
\forcelinebreak Above the ploughman’s highest line,
\forcelinebreak Over the owner’s farthest walls!
\forcelinebreak Up! where the airy citadel
\forcelinebreak O’erlooks the surging landscape’s swell!
\forcelinebreak Let not unto the stones the Day
\forcelinebreak Her lily and rose, her sea and land display.
\forcelinebreak Read the celestial sign!
\forcelinebreak Lo! the south answers to the north;
\forcelinebreak Bookworm, break this sloth urbane;
\forcelinebreak A greater spirit bids thee forth
\forcelinebreak Than the gray dreams which thee detain.
\forcelinebreak Mark how the climbing Oreads
\forcelinebreak Beckon thee to their arcades;
\forcelinebreak Youth, for a moment free as they,
\forcelinebreak Teach thy feet to feel the ground,
\forcelinebreak Ere yet arrives the wintry day
\forcelinebreak When Time thy feet has bound.
\forcelinebreak Take the bounty of thy birth,
\forcelinebreak Taste the lordship of the earth.’


I heard, and I obeyed, —
\forcelinebreak Assured that he who made the claim,
\forcelinebreak Well known, but loving not a name,
\forcelinebreak Was not to be gainsaid.
\forcelinebreak Ere yet the summoning voice was still,
\forcelinebreak I turned to Cheshire’s haughty hill.
\forcelinebreak From the fixed cone the cloud-rack flowed
\forcelinebreak Like ample banner flung abroad
\forcelinebreak To all the dwellers in the plains
\forcelinebreak Round about, a hundred miles,
\forcelinebreak With salutation to the sea and to the bordering isles.
\forcelinebreak In his own loom’s garment dressed,
\forcelinebreak By his proper bounty blessed,
\forcelinebreak Fast abides this constant giver,
\forcelinebreak Pouring many a cheerful river;
\forcelinebreak To far eyes, an aerial isle
\forcelinebreak Unploughed, which finer spirits pile,
\forcelinebreak Which morn and crimson evening paint
\forcelinebreak For bard, for lover and for saint;
\forcelinebreak An eyemark and the country’s core,
\forcelinebreak Inspirer, prophet evermore;
\forcelinebreak Pillar which God aloft had set
\forcelinebreak So that men might it not forget;
\forcelinebreak It should be their life’s ornament,
\forcelinebreak And mix itself with each event;
\forcelinebreak Gauge and calendar and dial,
\forcelinebreak Weatherglass and chemic phial,
\forcelinebreak Garden of berries, perch of birds,
\forcelinebreak Pasture of pool-haunting herds,
\forcelinebreak Graced by each change of sum untold,
\forcelinebreak Earth-baking heat, stone-cleaving cold.


The Titan heeds his sky-affairs,
\forcelinebreak Rich rents and wide alliance shares;
\forcelinebreak Mysteries of color daily laid
\forcelinebreak By morn and eve in light and shade;
\forcelinebreak And sweet varieties of chance,
\forcelinebreak And the mystic seasons’ dance;
\forcelinebreak And thief-like step of liberal hours
\forcelinebreak Thawing snow-drift into flowers.
\forcelinebreak O, wondrous craft of plant and stone
\forcelinebreak By eldest science wrought and shown!


‘Happy,’ I said, ‘whose home is here!
\forcelinebreak Fair fortunes to the mountaineer!
\forcelinebreak Boon Nature to his poorest shed
\forcelinebreak Has royal pleasure-grounds outspread.’
\forcelinebreak Intent, I searched the region round,
\forcelinebreak And in low hut the dweller found:
\forcelinebreak Woe is me for my hope’s downfall!
\forcelinebreak Is yonder squalid peasant all
\forcelinebreak That this proud nursery could breed
\forcelinebreak For God’s vicegerency and stead?
\forcelinebreak Time out of mind, this forge of ores;
\forcelinebreak Quarry of spars in mountain pores;
\forcelinebreak Old cradle, hunting-ground and bier
\forcelinebreak Of wolf and otter, bear and deer;
\forcelinebreak Well-built abode of many a race;
\forcelinebreak Tower of observance searching space;
\forcelinebreak Factory of river and of rain;
\forcelinebreak Link in the Alps’ globe-girding chain;
\forcelinebreak By million changes skilled to tell
\forcelinebreak What in the Eternal standeth well,
\forcelinebreak And what obedient Nature can; —
\forcelinebreak Is this colossal talisman
\forcelinebreak Kindly to plant and blood and kind,
\forcelinebreak But speechless to the master’s mind?
\forcelinebreak I thought to find the patriots
\forcelinebreak In whom the stock of freedom roots;
\forcelinebreak To myself I oft recount
\forcelinebreak Tales of many a famous mount, —
\forcelinebreak Wales, Scotland, Uri, Hungary’s dells:
\forcelinebreak Bards, Roys, Scanderbegs and Tells;
\forcelinebreak And think how Nature in these towers
\forcelinebreak Uplifted shall condense her powers,
\forcelinebreak And lifting man to the blue deep
\forcelinebreak Where stars their perfect courses keep,
\forcelinebreak Like wise preceptor, lure his eye
\forcelinebreak To sound the science of the sky,
\forcelinebreak And carry learning to its height
\forcelinebreak Of untried power and sane delight:
\forcelinebreak The Indian cheer, the frosty skies,
\forcelinebreak Rear purer wits, inventive eyes, —
\forcelinebreak Eyes that frame cities where none be,
\forcelinebreak And hands that stablish what these see:
\forcelinebreak And by the moral of his place
\forcelinebreak Hint summits of heroic grace;
\forcelinebreak Man in these crags a fastness find
\forcelinebreak To fight pollution of the mind;
\forcelinebreak In the wide thaw and ooze of wrong,
\forcelinebreak Adhere like this foundation strong,
\forcelinebreak The insanity of towns to stem
\forcelinebreak With simpleness for stratagem.
\forcelinebreak But if the brave old mould is broke,
\forcelinebreak And end in churls the mountain folk
\forcelinebreak In tavern cheer and tavern joke,
\forcelinebreak Sink, O mountain, in the swamp!
\forcelinebreak Hide in thy skies, O sovereign lamp!
\forcelinebreak Perish like leaves, the highland breed
\forcelinebreak No sire survive, no son succeed!


Soft! let not the offended muse
\forcelinebreak Toil’s hard hap with scorn accuse.
\forcelinebreak Many hamlets sought I then,
\forcelinebreak Many farms of mountain men.
\forcelinebreak Rallying round a parish steeple
\forcelinebreak Nestle warm the highland people,
\forcelinebreak Coarse and boisterous, yet mild,
\forcelinebreak Strong as giant, slow as child.
\forcelinebreak Sweat and season are their arts,
\forcelinebreak Their talismans are ploughs and carts;
\forcelinebreak And well the youngest can command
\forcelinebreak Honey from the frozen land;
\forcelinebreak With cloverheads the swamp adorn,
\forcelinebreak Change the running sand to corn;
\forcelinebreak For wolf and fox, bring lowing herds,
\forcelinebreak And for cold mosses, cream and curds:
\forcelinebreak Weave wood to canisters and mats;
\forcelinebreak Drain sweet maple juice in vats.
\forcelinebreak No bird is safe that cuts the air
\forcelinebreak From their rifle or their snare;
\forcelinebreak No fish, in river or in lake,
\forcelinebreak But their long hands it thence will take;
\forcelinebreak Whilst the country’s flinty face,
\forcelinebreak Like wax, their fashioning skill betrays,
\forcelinebreak To fill the hollows, sink the hills,
\forcelinebreak Bridge gulfs, drain swamps, build dams and mills,
\forcelinebreak And fit the bleak and howling waste
\forcelinebreak For homes of virtue, sense and taste.
\forcelinebreak The World-soul knows his own affair,
\forcelinebreak Forelooking, when he would prepare
\forcelinebreak For the next ages, men of mould
\forcelinebreak Well embodied, well ensouled,
\forcelinebreak He cools the present’s fiery glow,
\forcelinebreak Sets the life-pulse strong but slow:
\forcelinebreak Bitter winds and fasts austere
\forcelinebreak His quarantines and grottoes, where
\forcelinebreak He slowly cures decrepit flesh,
\forcelinebreak And brings it infantile and fresh.
\forcelinebreak Toil and tempest are the toys
\forcelinebreak And games to breathe his stalwart boys:
\forcelinebreak They bide their time, and well can prove,
\forcelinebreak If need were, their line from Jove;
\forcelinebreak Of the same stuff, and so allayed,
\forcelinebreak As that whereof the sun is made,
\forcelinebreak And of the fibre, quick and strong,
\forcelinebreak Whose throbs are love, whose thrills are song.


Now in sordid weeds they sleep,
\forcelinebreak In dulness now their secret keep;
\forcelinebreak Yet, will you learn our ancient speech,
\forcelinebreak These the masters who can teach.
\forcelinebreak Fourscore or a hundred words
\forcelinebreak All their vocal muse affords;
\forcelinebreak But they turn them in a fashion
\forcelinebreak Past clerks’ or statesmen’s art or passion.
\forcelinebreak I can spare the college bell,
\forcelinebreak And the learned lecture, well;
\forcelinebreak Spare the clergy and libraries,
\forcelinebreak Institutes and dictionaries,
\forcelinebreak For that hardy English root
\forcelinebreak Thrives here, unvalued, underfoot.
\forcelinebreak Rude poets of the tavern hearth,
\forcelinebreak Squandering your unquoted mirth,
\forcelinebreak Which keeps the ground and never soars,
\forcelinebreak While Jake retorts and Reuben roars;
\forcelinebreak Scoff of yeoman strong and stark,
\forcelinebreak Goes like bullet to its mark;
\forcelinebreak While the solid curse and jeer
\forcelinebreak Never balk the waiting ear.


On the summit as I stood,
\forcelinebreak O’er the floor of plain and flood
\forcelinebreak Seemed to me, the towering hill
\forcelinebreak Was not altogether still,
\forcelinebreak But a quiet sense conveyed:
\forcelinebreak If I err not, thus it said: —


‘Many feet in summer seek,
\forcelinebreak Oft, my far-appearing peak;
\forcelinebreak In the dreaded winter time,
\forcelinebreak None save dappling shadows climb,
\forcelinebreak Under clouds, my lonely head,
\forcelinebreak Old as the sun, old almost as the shade;
\forcelinebreak And comest thou
\forcelinebreak To see strange forests and new snow,
\forcelinebreak And tread uplifted land?
\forcelinebreak And leavest thou thy lowland race,
\forcelinebreak Here amid clouds to stand?
\forcelinebreak And wouldst be my companion
\forcelinebreak Where I gaze, and still shall gaze,
\forcelinebreak Through tempering nights and flashing days,
\forcelinebreak When forests fall, and man is gone,
\forcelinebreak Over tribes and over times,
\forcelinebreak At the burning Lyre,
\forcelinebreak Nearing me,
\forcelinebreak With its stars of northern fire,
\forcelinebreak In many a thousand years?


‘Gentle pilgrim, if thou know
\forcelinebreak The gamut old of Pan,
\forcelinebreak And how the hills began,
\forcelinebreak The frank blessings of the hill
\forcelinebreak Fall on thee, as fall they will.


‘Let him heed who can and will;
\forcelinebreak Enchantment fixed me here
\forcelinebreak To stand the hurts of time, until
\forcelinebreak In mightier chant I disappear.
\forcelinebreak If thou trowest
\forcelinebreak How the chemic eddies play,
\forcelinebreak Pole to pole, and what they say;
\forcelinebreak And that these gray crags
\forcelinebreak Not on crags are hung,
\forcelinebreak But beads are of a rosary
\forcelinebreak On prayer and music strung;
\forcelinebreak And, credulous, through the granite seeming,
\forcelinebreak Seest the smile of Reason beaming; —
\forcelinebreak Can thy style-discerning eye
\forcelinebreak The hidden-working Builder spy,
\forcelinebreak Who builds, yet makes no chips, no din,
\forcelinebreak With hammer soft as snowflake’s flight; —
\forcelinebreak Knowest thou this?
\forcelinebreak O pilgrim, wandering not amiss!
\forcelinebreak Already my rocks lie light,
\forcelinebreak And soon my cone will spin.


‘For the world was built in order,
\forcelinebreak And the atoms march in tune;
\forcelinebreak Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder,
\forcelinebreak The sun obeys them and the moon.
\forcelinebreak Orb and atom forth they prance,
\forcelinebreak When they hear from far the rune;
\forcelinebreak None so backward in the troop,
\forcelinebreak When the music and the dance
\forcelinebreak Reach his place and circumstance,
\forcelinebreak But knows the sun-creating sound,
\forcelinebreak And, though a pyramid, will bound.


‘Monadnoc is a mountain strong,
\forcelinebreak Tall and good my kind among;
\forcelinebreak But well I know, no mountain can,
\forcelinebreak Zion or Meru, measure with man.
\forcelinebreak For it is on zodiacs writ,
\forcelinebreak Adamant is soft to wit:
\forcelinebreak And when the greater comes again
\forcelinebreak With my secret in his brain,
\forcelinebreak I shall pass, as glides my shadow
\forcelinebreak Daily over hill and meadow.


‘Through all time, in light, in gloom
\forcelinebreak Well I hear the approaching feet
\forcelinebreak On the flinty pathway beat
\forcelinebreak Of him that cometh, and shall come;
\forcelinebreak Of him who shall as lightly bear
\forcelinebreak My daily load of woods and streams,
\forcelinebreak As doth this round sky-cleaving boat
\forcelinebreak Which never strains its rocky beams;
\forcelinebreak Whose timbers, as they silent float,
\forcelinebreak Alps and Caucasus uprear,
\forcelinebreak And the long Alleghanies here,
\forcelinebreak And all town-sprinkled lands that be,
\forcelinebreak Sailing through stars with all their history.


‘Every morn I lift my head,
\forcelinebreak See New England underspread,
\forcelinebreak South from Saint Lawrence to the Sound,
\forcelinebreak From Katskill east to the sea-bound.
\forcelinebreak Anchored fast for many an age,
\forcelinebreak I await the bard and sage,
\forcelinebreak Who, in large thoughts, like fair pearl-seed,
\forcelinebreak Shall string Monadnoc like a bead.
\forcelinebreak Comes that cheerful troubadour,
\forcelinebreak This mound shall throb his face before,
\forcelinebreak As when, with inward fires and pain,
\forcelinebreak It rose a bubble from the plain.
\forcelinebreak When he cometh, I shall shed,
\forcelinebreak From this wellspring in my head,
\forcelinebreak Fountain-drop of spicier worth
\forcelinebreak Than all vintage of the earth.
\forcelinebreak There’s fruit upon my barren soil
\forcelinebreak Costlier far than wine or oil.
\forcelinebreak There’s a berry blue and gold, —
\forcelinebreak Autumn-ripe, its juices hold
\forcelinebreak Sparta’s stoutness, Bethlehem’s heart,
\forcelinebreak Asia’s rancor, Athens’ art,
\forcelinebreak Slowsure Britain’s secular might,
\forcelinebreak And the German’s inward sight.
\forcelinebreak I will give my son to eat
\forcelinebreak Best of Pan’s immortal meat,
\forcelinebreak Bread to eat, and juice to drain;
\forcelinebreak So the coinage of his brain
\forcelinebreak Shall not be forms of stars, but stars,
\forcelinebreak Nor pictures pale, but Jove and Mars,
\forcelinebreak He comes, but not of that race bred
\forcelinebreak Who daily climb my specular head.
\forcelinebreak Oft as morning wreathes my scarf,
\forcelinebreak Fled the last plumule of the Dark,
\forcelinebreak Pants up hither the spruce clerk
\forcelinebreak From South Cove and City Wharf.
\forcelinebreak I take him up my rugged sides,
\forcelinebreak Half-repentant, scant of breath, —
\forcelinebreak Bead-eyes my granite chaos show,
\forcelinebreak And my midsummer snow:
\forcelinebreak Open the daunting map beneath, —
\forcelinebreak All his county, sea and land,
\forcelinebreak Dwarfed to measure of his hand;
\forcelinebreak His day’s ride is a furlong space,
\forcelinebreak His city-tops a glimmering haze.
\forcelinebreak I plant his eyes on the sky-hoop bounding;
\forcelinebreak “See there the grim gray rounding
\forcelinebreak Of the bullet of the earth
\forcelinebreak Whereon ye sail,
\forcelinebreak Tumbling steep
\forcelinebreak In the uncontinented deep.”
\forcelinebreak He looks on that, and he turns pale.
\forcelinebreak ‘T is even so, this treacherous kite,
\forcelinebreak Farm-furrowed, town-incrusted sphere,
\forcelinebreak Thoughtless of its anxious freight,
\forcelinebreak Plunges eyeless on forever;
\forcelinebreak And he, poor parasite,
\forcelinebreak Cooped in a ship he cannot steer, —
\forcelinebreak Who is the captain he knows not,
\forcelinebreak Port or pilot trows not, —
\forcelinebreak Risk or ruin he must share.
\forcelinebreak I scowl on him with my cloud,
\forcelinebreak With my north wind chill his blood;
\forcelinebreak I lame him, clattering down the rocks;
\forcelinebreak And to live he is in fear.
\forcelinebreak Then, at last, I let him down
\forcelinebreak Once more into his dapper town,
\forcelinebreak To chatter, frightened, to his clan
\forcelinebreak And forget me if he can.’


As in the old poetic fame
\forcelinebreak The gods are blind and lame,
\forcelinebreak And the simular despite
\forcelinebreak Betrays the more abounding might,
\forcelinebreak So call not waste that barren cone
\forcelinebreak Above the floral zone,
\forcelinebreak Where forests starve:
\forcelinebreak It is pure use; —
\forcelinebreak What sheaves like those which here we glean and bind
\forcelinebreak Of a celestial Ceres and the Muse?


Ages are thy days,
\forcelinebreak Thou grand affirmer of the present tense,
\forcelinebreak And type of permanence!
\forcelinebreak Firm ensign of the fatal Being,
\forcelinebreak Amid these coward shapes of joy and grief,
\forcelinebreak That will not bide the seeing!


Hither we bring
\forcelinebreak Our insect miseries to thy rocks;
\forcelinebreak And the whole flight, with folded wing,
\forcelinebreak Vanish, and end their murmuring, —
\forcelinebreak Vanish beside these dedicated blocks,
\forcelinebreak Which who can tell what mason laid?
\forcelinebreak Spoils of a front none need restore,
\forcelinebreak Replacing frieze and architrave; —
\forcelinebreak Where flowers each stone rosette and metope brave;
\forcelinebreak Still is the haughty pile erect
\forcelinebreak Of the old building Intellect.


Complement of human kind,
\forcelinebreak Holding us at vantage still,
\forcelinebreak Our sumptuous indigence,
\forcelinebreak O barren mound, thy plenties fill!
\forcelinebreak We fool and prate;
\forcelinebreak Thou art silent and sedate.
\forcelinebreak To myriad kinds and times one sense
\forcelinebreak The constant mountain doth dispense;
\forcelinebreak Shedding on all its snows and leaves,
\forcelinebreak One joy it joys, one grief it grieves.
\forcelinebreak Thou seest, O watchman tall,
\forcelinebreak Our towns and races grow and fall,
\forcelinebreak And imagest the stable good
\forcelinebreak For which we all our lifetime grope,
\forcelinebreak In shifting form the formless mind,
\forcelinebreak And though the substance us elude,
\forcelinebreak We in thee the shadow find.
\forcelinebreak Thou, in our astronomy
\forcelinebreak An opaker star,
\forcelinebreak Seen haply from afar,
\forcelinebreak Above the horizon’s hoop,
\forcelinebreak A moment, by the railway troop,
\forcelinebreak As o’er some bolder height they speed, —
\forcelinebreak By circumspect ambition,
\forcelinebreak By errant gain,
\forcelinebreak By feasters and the frivolous, —
\forcelinebreak Recallest us,
\forcelinebreak And makest sane.
\forcelinebreak Mute orator! well skilled to plead,
\forcelinebreak And send conviction without phrase,
\forcelinebreak Thou dost succor and remede
\forcelinebreak The shortness of our days,
\forcelinebreak And promise, on thy Founder’s truth,
\forcelinebreak Long morrow to this mortal youth.


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\section{Fable}


The mountain and the squirrel
\forcelinebreak Had a quarrel,
\forcelinebreak And the former called the latter ‘Little Prig;
\forcelinebreak Bun replied,
\forcelinebreak ‘You are doubtless very big;
\forcelinebreak But all sorts of things and weather
\forcelinebreak Must be taken in together,
\forcelinebreak To make up a year
\forcelinebreak And a sphere.
\forcelinebreak And I think it no disgrace
\forcelinebreak To occupy my place.
\forcelinebreak If I’m not so large as you,
\forcelinebreak You are not so small as I,
\forcelinebreak And not half so spry.
\forcelinebreak I’ll not deny you make
\forcelinebreak A very pretty squirrel track;
\forcelinebreak Talents differ; all is well and wisely put;
\forcelinebreak If I cannot carry forests on my back,
\forcelinebreak Neither can you crack a nut.’


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\section{Ode Inscribed to W.H. Channing}


Though loath to grieve
\forcelinebreak The evil time’s sole patriot,
\forcelinebreak I cannot leave
\forcelinebreak My honied thought
\forcelinebreak For the priest’s cant,
\forcelinebreak Or statesman’s rant.


If I refuse
\forcelinebreak My study for their politique,
\forcelinebreak Which at the best is trick,
\forcelinebreak The angry Muse
\forcelinebreak Puts confusion in my brain.


But who is he that prates
\forcelinebreak Of the culture of mankind,
\forcelinebreak Of better arts and life?
\forcelinebreak Go, blindworm, go,
\forcelinebreak Behold the famous States
\forcelinebreak Harrying Mexico
\forcelinebreak With rifle and with knife!


Or who, with accent bolder,
\forcelinebreak Dare praise the freedom-loving mountaineer?
\forcelinebreak I found by thee, O rushing Contoocook!
\forcelinebreak And in thy valleys, Agiochook!
\forcelinebreak The jackals of the negro-holder.


The God who made New Hampshire
\forcelinebreak Taunted the lofty land
\forcelinebreak With little men; —
\forcelinebreak Small bat and wren
\forcelinebreak House in the oak: —
\forcelinebreak If earth-fire cleave
\forcelinebreak The upheaved land, and bury the folk,
\forcelinebreak The southern crocodile would grieve.
\forcelinebreak Virtue palters; Right is hence;
\forcelinebreak Freedom praised, but hid;
\forcelinebreak Funeral eloquence
\forcelinebreak Rattles the coffin-lid.


What boots thy zeal,
\forcelinebreak O glowing friend,
\forcelinebreak That would indignant rend
\forcelinebreak The northland from the south?
\forcelinebreak Wherefore? to what good end?
\forcelinebreak Boston Bay and Bunker Hill
\forcelinebreak Would serve things still; —
\forcelinebreak Things are of the snake.


The horseman serves the horse,
\forcelinebreak The neatherd serves the neat,
\forcelinebreak The merchant serves the purse,
\forcelinebreak The eater serves his meat;
\forcelinebreak ‘T is the day of the chattel,
\forcelinebreak Web to weave, and corn to grind;
\forcelinebreak Things are in the saddle,
\forcelinebreak And ride mankind.


There are two laws discrete,
\forcelinebreak Not reconciled, —
\forcelinebreak Law for man, and law for thing;
\forcelinebreak The last builds town and fleet,
\forcelinebreak But it runs wild,
\forcelinebreak And doth the man unking.


‘T is fit the forest fall,
\forcelinebreak The steep be graded,
\forcelinebreak The mountain tunnelled,
\forcelinebreak The sand shaded,
\forcelinebreak The orchard planted,
\forcelinebreak The glebe tilled,
\forcelinebreak The prairie granted,
\forcelinebreak The steamer built.


Let man serve law for man;
\forcelinebreak Live for friendship, live for love,
\forcelinebreak For truth’s and harmony’s behoof;
\forcelinebreak The state may follow how it can,
\forcelinebreak As Olympus follows Jove.


Yet do not I implore
\forcelinebreak The wrinkled shopman to my sounding woods,
\forcelinebreak Nor bid the unwilling senator
\forcelinebreak Ask votes of thrushes in the solitudes.
\forcelinebreak Every one to his chosen work; —
\forcelinebreak Foolish hands may mix and mar;
\forcelinebreak Wise and sure the issues are.
\forcelinebreak Round they roll till dark is light,
\forcelinebreak Sex to sex, and even to odd; —
\forcelinebreak The over-god
\forcelinebreak Who marries Right to Might,
\forcelinebreak Who peoples, unpeoples, —
\forcelinebreak He who exterminates
\forcelinebreak Races by stronger races,
\forcelinebreak Black by white faces, —
\forcelinebreak Knows to bring honey
\forcelinebreak Out of the lion;
\forcelinebreak Grafts gentlest scion
\forcelinebreak On pirate and Turk.


The Cossack eats Poland,
\forcelinebreak Like stolen fruit;
\forcelinebreak Her last noble is ruined,
\forcelinebreak Her last poet mute:
\forcelinebreak Straight, into double band
\forcelinebreak The victors divide;
\forcelinebreak Half for freedom strike and stand; —
\forcelinebreak The astonished Muse finds thousands at her side.


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\section{Astraea}


Each the herald is who wrote
\forcelinebreak His rank, and quartered his own coat.
\forcelinebreak There is no king nor sovereign state
\forcelinebreak That can fix a hero’s rate;
\forcelinebreak Each to all is venerable,
\forcelinebreak Cap-a-pie invulnerable,
\forcelinebreak Until he write, where all eyes rest,
\forcelinebreak Slave or master on his breast.
\forcelinebreak I saw men go up and down,
\forcelinebreak In the country and the town,
\forcelinebreak With this tablet on their neck,
\forcelinebreak ‘Judgment and a judge we seek.’
\forcelinebreak Not to monarchs they repair,
\forcelinebreak Nor to learned jurist’s chair;
\forcelinebreak But they hurry to their peers,
\forcelinebreak To their kinsfolk and their dears;
\forcelinebreak Louder than with speech they pray, —
\forcelinebreak ‘What am I? companion, say.’
\forcelinebreak And the friend not hesitates
\forcelinebreak To assign just place and mates;
\forcelinebreak Answers not in word or letter,
\forcelinebreak Yet is understood the better;
\forcelinebreak Each to each a looking-glass,
\forcelinebreak Reflects his figure that doth pass.
\forcelinebreak Every wayfarer he meets
\forcelinebreak What himself declared repeats,
\forcelinebreak What himself confessed records,
\forcelinebreak Sentences him in his words;
\forcelinebreak The form is his own corporal form,
\forcelinebreak And his thought the penal worm.
\forcelinebreak Yet shine forever virgin minds,
\forcelinebreak Loved by stars and purest winds,
\forcelinebreak Which, o’er passion throned sedate,
\forcelinebreak Have not hazarded their state;
\forcelinebreak Disconcert the searching spy,
\forcelinebreak Rendering to a curious eye
\forcelinebreak The durance of a granite ledge.
\forcelinebreak To those who gaze from the sea’s edge
\forcelinebreak It is there for benefit;
\forcelinebreak It is there for purging light;
\forcelinebreak There for purifying storms;
\forcelinebreak And its depths reflect all forms;
\forcelinebreak It cannot parley with the mean, —
\forcelinebreak Pure by impure is not seen.
\forcelinebreak For there’s no sequestered grot,
\forcelinebreak Lone mountain tarn, or isle forgot,
\forcelinebreak But Justice, journeying in the sphere,
\forcelinebreak Daily stoops to harbor there.


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\section{Étienne De La Boéce}


I serve you not, if you I follow,
\forcelinebreak Shadowlike, o’er hill and hollow;
\forcelinebreak And bend my fancy to your leading,
\forcelinebreak All too nimble for my treading.
\forcelinebreak When the pilgrimage is done,
\forcelinebreak And we’ve the landscape overrun,
\forcelinebreak I am bitter, vacant, thwarted,
\forcelinebreak And your heart is unsupported.
\forcelinebreak Vainly valiant, you have missed
\forcelinebreak The manhood that should yours resist, —
\forcelinebreak Its complement; but if I could,
\forcelinebreak In severe or cordial mood,
\forcelinebreak Lead you rightly to my altar,
\forcelinebreak Where the wisest Muses falter,
\forcelinebreak And worship that world-warming spark
\forcelinebreak Which dazzles me in midnight dark,
\forcelinebreak Equalizing small and large,
\forcelinebreak While the soul it doth surcharge,
\forcelinebreak Till the poor is wealthy grown,
\forcelinebreak And the hermit never alone, —
\forcelinebreak The traveller and the road seem one
\forcelinebreak With the errand to be done, —
\forcelinebreak That were a man’s and lover’s part,
\forcelinebreak That were Freedom’s whitest chart.


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\section{Compensation}


Why should I keep holiday
\forcelinebreak When other men have none?
\forcelinebreak Why but because, when these are gay,
\forcelinebreak I sit and mourn alone?


And why, when mirth unseals all tongues,
\forcelinebreak Should mine alone be dumb?
\forcelinebreak Ah! late I spoke to silent throngs,
\forcelinebreak And now their hour is come.


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\section{Forbearance}


Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
\forcelinebreak Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk?
\forcelinebreak At rich men’s tables eaten bread and pulse?
\forcelinebreak Unarmed, faced danger with a heart of trust?
\forcelinebreak And loved so well a high behavior,
\forcelinebreak In man or maid, that thou from speech refrained,
\forcelinebreak Nobility more nobly to repay?
\forcelinebreak O, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!


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\section{The Park}


The prosperous and beautiful
\forcelinebreak To me seem not to wear
\forcelinebreak The yoke of conscience masterful,
\forcelinebreak Which galls me everywhere.


I cannot shake off the god;
\forcelinebreak On my neck he makes his seat;
\forcelinebreak I look at my face in the glass, —
\forcelinebreak My eyes his eyeballs meet.


Enchanters! Enchantresses!
\forcelinebreak Your gold makes you seem wise;
\forcelinebreak The morning mist within your grounds
\forcelinebreak More proudly rolls, more softly lies.


Yet spake yon purple mountain,
\forcelinebreak Yet said yon ancient wood,
\forcelinebreak That Night or Day, that Love or Crime,
\forcelinebreak Leads all souls to the Good.


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\section{Forerunners}


Long I followed happy guides,
\forcelinebreak I could never reach their sides;
\forcelinebreak Their step is forth, and, ere the day
\forcelinebreak Breaks up their leaguer, and away.
\forcelinebreak Keen my sense, my heart was young,
\forcelinebreak Right good-will my sinews strung,
\forcelinebreak But no speed of mine avails
\forcelinebreak To hunt upon their shining trails.
\forcelinebreak On and away, their hasting feet
\forcelinebreak Make the morning proud and sweet;
\forcelinebreak Flowers they strew, — I catch the scent;
\forcelinebreak Or tone of silver instrument
\forcelinebreak Leaves on the wind melodious trace;
\forcelinebreak Yet I could never see their face.
\forcelinebreak On eastern hills I see their smokes,
\forcelinebreak Mixed with mist by distant lochs.
\forcelinebreak I met many travellers
\forcelinebreak Who the road had surely kept;
\forcelinebreak They saw not my fine revellers, —
\forcelinebreak These had crossed them while they slept.
\forcelinebreak Some had heard their fair report,
\forcelinebreak In the country or the court.
\forcelinebreak Fleetest couriers alive
\forcelinebreak Never yet could once arrive,
\forcelinebreak As they went or they returned,
\forcelinebreak At the house where these sojourned.
\forcelinebreak Sometimes their strong speed they slacken,
\forcelinebreak Though they are not overtaken;
\forcelinebreak In sleep their jubilant troop is near, —
\forcelinebreak I tuneful voices overhear;
\forcelinebreak It may be in wood or waste, —
\forcelinebreak At unawares ‘t is come and past.
\forcelinebreak Their near camp my spirit knows
\forcelinebreak By signs gracious as rainbows.
\forcelinebreak I thenceforward and long after
\forcelinebreak Listen for their harp-like laughter,
\forcelinebreak And carry in my heart, for days,
\forcelinebreak Peace that hallows rudest ways.


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\section{Sursum Corda}


Seek not the spirit, if it hide
\forcelinebreak Inexorable to thy zeal:
\forcelinebreak Trembler, do not whine and chide:
\forcelinebreak Art thou not also real?
\forcelinebreak Stoop not then to poor excuse;
\forcelinebreak Turn on the accuser roundly; say,
\forcelinebreak ‘Here am I, here will I abide
\forcelinebreak Forever to myself soothfast;
\forcelinebreak Go thou, sweet Heaven, or at thy pleasure stay!’
\forcelinebreak Already Heaven with thee its lot has cast,
\forcelinebreak For only it can absolutely deal.


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\section{Ode to Beauty}


Who gave thee, O Beauty,
\forcelinebreak The keys of this breast, —
\forcelinebreak Too credulous lover
\forcelinebreak Of blest and unblest?
\forcelinebreak Say, when in lapsed ages
\forcelinebreak Thee knew I of old?
\forcelinebreak Or what was the service
\forcelinebreak For which I was sold?
\forcelinebreak When first my eyes saw thee,
\forcelinebreak I found me thy thrall,
\forcelinebreak By magical drawings,
\forcelinebreak Sweet tyrant of all!
\forcelinebreak I drank at thy fountain
\forcelinebreak False waters of thirst;
\forcelinebreak Thou intimate stranger,
\forcelinebreak Thou latest and first!
\forcelinebreak Thy dangerous glances
\forcelinebreak Make women of men;
\forcelinebreak New-born, we are melting
\forcelinebreak Into nature again.


Lavish, lavish promiser,
\forcelinebreak Nigh persuading gods to err!
\forcelinebreak Guest of million painted forms,
\forcelinebreak Which in turn thy glory warms!
\forcelinebreak The frailest leaf, the mossy bark,
\forcelinebreak The acorn’s cup, the raindrop’s arc,
\forcelinebreak The swinging spider’s silver line,
\forcelinebreak The ruby of the drop of wine,
\forcelinebreak The shining pebble of the pond,
\forcelinebreak Thou inscribest with a bond,
\forcelinebreak In thy momentary play,
\forcelinebreak Would bankrupt nature to repay.


Ah, what avails it
\forcelinebreak To hide or to shun
\forcelinebreak Whom the Infinite One
\forcelinebreak Hath granted his throne?
\forcelinebreak The heaven high over
\forcelinebreak Is the deep’s lover;
\forcelinebreak The sun and sea,
\forcelinebreak Informed by thee,
\forcelinebreak Before me run
\forcelinebreak And draw me on,
\forcelinebreak Yet fly me still,
\forcelinebreak As Fate refuses
\forcelinebreak To me the heart Fate for me chooses.
\forcelinebreak Is it that my opulent soul
\forcelinebreak Was mingled from the generous whole;
\forcelinebreak Sea-valleys and the deep of skies
\forcelinebreak Furnished several supplies;
\forcelinebreak And the sands whereof I’m made
\forcelinebreak Draw me to them, self-betrayed?


I turn the proud portfolio
\forcelinebreak Which holds the grand designs
\forcelinebreak Of Salvator, of Guercino,
\forcelinebreak And Piranesi’s lines.
\forcelinebreak I hear the lofty paeans
\forcelinebreak Of the masters of the shell,
\forcelinebreak Who heard the starry music
\forcelinebreak And recount the numbers well;
\forcelinebreak Olympian bards who sung
\forcelinebreak Divine Ideas below,
\forcelinebreak Which always find us young
\forcelinebreak And always keep us so.
\forcelinebreak Oft, in streets or humblest places,
\forcelinebreak I detect far-wandered graces,
\forcelinebreak Which, from Eden wide astray,
\forcelinebreak In lowly homes have lost their way.


Thee gliding through the sea of form,
\forcelinebreak Like the lightning through the storm,
\forcelinebreak Somewhat not to be possessed,
\forcelinebreak Somewhat not to be caressed,
\forcelinebreak No feet so fleet could ever find,
\forcelinebreak No perfect form could ever bind.
\forcelinebreak Thou eternal fugitive,
\forcelinebreak Hovering over all that live,
\forcelinebreak Quick and skilful to inspire
\forcelinebreak Sweet, extravagant desire,
\forcelinebreak Starry space and lily-bell
\forcelinebreak Filling with thy roseate smell,
\forcelinebreak Wilt not give the lips to taste
\forcelinebreak Of the nectar which thou hast.


All that’s good and great with thee
\forcelinebreak Works in close conspiracy;
\forcelinebreak Thou hast bribed the dark and lonely
\forcelinebreak To report thy features only,
\forcelinebreak And the cold and purple morning
\forcelinebreak Itself with thoughts of thee adorning;
\forcelinebreak The leafy dell, the city mart,
\forcelinebreak Equal trophies of thine art;
\forcelinebreak E’en the flowing azure air
\forcelinebreak Thou hast touched for my despair;
\forcelinebreak And, if I languish into dreams,
\forcelinebreak Again I meet the ardent beams.
\forcelinebreak Queen of things! I dare not die
\forcelinebreak In Being’s deeps past ear and eye;
\forcelinebreak Lest there I find the same deceiver
\forcelinebreak And be the sport of Fate forever.
\forcelinebreak Dread Power, but dear! if God thou be,
\forcelinebreak Unmake me quite, or give thyself to me!


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\section{Give All to Love}


Give all to love;
\forcelinebreak Obey thy heart;
\forcelinebreak Friends, kindred, days,
\forcelinebreak Estate, good-fame,
\forcelinebreak Plans, credit and the Muse, —
\forcelinebreak Nothing refuse.


‘T is a brave master;
\forcelinebreak Let it have scope:
\forcelinebreak Follow it utterly,
\forcelinebreak Hope beyond hope:
\forcelinebreak High and more high
\forcelinebreak It dives into noon,
\forcelinebreak With wing unspent,
\forcelinebreak Untold intent;
\forcelinebreak But it is a god,
\forcelinebreak Knows its own path
\forcelinebreak And the outlets of the sky.


It was never for the mean;
\forcelinebreak It requireth courage stout.
\forcelinebreak Souls above doubt,
\forcelinebreak Valor unbending,
\forcelinebreak It will reward, —
\forcelinebreak They shall return
\forcelinebreak More than they were,
\forcelinebreak And ever ascending.


Leave all for love;
\forcelinebreak Yet, hear me, yet,
\forcelinebreak One word more thy heart behoved,
\forcelinebreak One pulse more of firm endeavor, —
\forcelinebreak Keep thee to-day,
\forcelinebreak To-morrow, forever,
\forcelinebreak Free as an Arab
\forcelinebreak Of thy beloved.


Cling with life to the maid;
\forcelinebreak But when the surprise,
\forcelinebreak First vague shadow of surmise
\forcelinebreak Flits across her bosom young,
\forcelinebreak Of a joy apart from thee,
\forcelinebreak Free be she, fancy-free;
\forcelinebreak Nor thou detain her vesture’s hem,
\forcelinebreak Nor the palest rose she flung
\forcelinebreak From her summer diadem.


Though thou loved her as thyself,
\forcelinebreak As a self of purer clay,
\forcelinebreak Though her parting dims the day,
\forcelinebreak Stealing grace from all alive;
\forcelinebreak Heartily know,
\forcelinebreak When half-gods go.
\forcelinebreak The gods arrive.


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\section{To Ellen at the South}


The green grass is bowing,
\forcelinebreak The morning wind is in it;
\forcelinebreak ‘T is a tune worth thy knowing,
\forcelinebreak Though it change every minute.


‘T is a tune of the Spring;
\forcelinebreak Every year plays it over
\forcelinebreak To the robin on the wing,
\forcelinebreak And to the pausing lover.


O’er ten thousand, thousand acres,
\forcelinebreak Goes light the nimble zephyr;
\forcelinebreak The Flowers — tiny sect of Shakers —
\forcelinebreak Worship him ever.


Hark to the winning sound!
\forcelinebreak They summon thee, dearest, —
\forcelinebreak Saying, ‘We have dressed for thee the ground,
\forcelinebreak Nor yet thou appearest.


‘O hasten;’ ‘t is our time,
\forcelinebreak Ere yet the red Summer
\forcelinebreak Scorch our delicate prime,
\forcelinebreak Loved of bee, — the tawny hummer.


‘O pride of thy race!
\forcelinebreak Sad, in sooth, it were to ours,
\forcelinebreak If our brief tribe miss thy face,
\forcelinebreak We poor New England flowers.


‘Fairest, choose the fairest members
\forcelinebreak Of our lithe society;
\forcelinebreak June’s glories and September’s
\forcelinebreak Show our love and piety.


‘Thou shalt command us all, —
\forcelinebreak April’s cowslip, summer’s clover,
\forcelinebreak To the gentian in the fall,
\forcelinebreak Blue-eyed pet of blue-eyed lover.


‘O come, then, quickly come!
\forcelinebreak We are budding, we are blowing;
\forcelinebreak And the wind that we perfume
\forcelinebreak Sings a tune that’s worth the knowing.’


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\section{To Ellen}


And Ellen, when the graybeard years
\forcelinebreak Have brought us to life’s evening hour,
\forcelinebreak And all the crowded Past appears
\forcelinebreak A tiny scene of sun and shower,


Then, if I read the page aright
\forcelinebreak Where Hope, the soothsayer, reads our lot,
\forcelinebreak Thyself shalt own the page was bright,
\forcelinebreak Well that we loved, woe had we not,


When Mirth is dumb and Flattery’s fled,
\forcelinebreak And mute thy music’s dearest tone,
\forcelinebreak When all but Love itself is dead
\forcelinebreak And all but deathless Reason gone.


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\section{To Eva}


O fair and stately maid, whose eyes
\forcelinebreak Were kindled in the upper skies
\forcelinebreak At the same torch that lighted mine;
\forcelinebreak For so I must interpret still
\forcelinebreak Thy sweet dominion o’er my will,
\forcelinebreak A sympathy divine.


Ah! let me blameless gaze upon
\forcelinebreak Features that seem at heart my own;
\forcelinebreak Nor fear those watchful sentinels,
\forcelinebreak Who charm the more their glance forbids,
\forcelinebreak Chaste-glowing, underneath their lids,
\forcelinebreak With fire that draws while it repels.


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\section{Lines written by Ellen Louisa Tucker shortly before her marriage to Mr. Emerson}


Love scatters oil
\forcelinebreak On Life’s dark sea,
\forcelinebreak Sweetens its toil —
\forcelinebreak Our helmsman he.


Around him hover
\forcelinebreak Odorous clouds;
\forcelinebreak Under this cover
\forcelinebreak His arrows he shrouds.


The cloud was around me,
\forcelinebreak I knew not why
\forcelinebreak Such sweetness crowned me.
\forcelinebreak While Time shot by.


No pain was within,
\forcelinebreak But calm delight,
\forcelinebreak Like a world without sin,
\forcelinebreak Or a day without night.


The shafts of the god
\forcelinebreak Were tipped with down,
\forcelinebreak For they drew no blood,
\forcelinebreak And they knit no frown.


I knew of them not
\forcelinebreak Until Cupid laughed loud,
\forcelinebreak And saying “You’re caught!”
\forcelinebreak Flew off in the cloud.


O then I awoke,
\forcelinebreak And I lived but to sigh,
\forcelinebreak Till a clear voice spoke, —
\forcelinebreak And my tears are dry.


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\section{The Violet}


BY ELLEN LOUISA TUCKER


Why lingerest thou, pale violet, to see the dying year;
\forcelinebreak Are Autumn’s blasts fit music for thee, fragile one, to hear;
\forcelinebreak Will thy clear blue eye, upward bent, still keep its chastened glow,
\forcelinebreak Still tearless lift its slender form above the wintry snow?


Why wilt thou live when none around reflects thy pensive ray?
\forcelinebreak Thou bloomest here a lonely thing in the clear autumn day.
\forcelinebreak The tall green trees, that shelter thee, their last gay dress put on;
\forcelinebreak There will be nought to shelter thee when their sweet leaves are gone.


O Violet, like thee, how blest could I lie down and die,
\forcelinebreak When summer light is fading, and autumn breezes sigh;
\forcelinebreak When Winter reigned I’d close my eye, but wake with bursting Spring,
\forcelinebreak And live with living nature, a pure rejoicing thing.


I had a sister once who seemed just like a violet;
\forcelinebreak Her morning sun shone bright and calmly purely set;
\forcelinebreak When the violets were in their shrouds, and Summer in its pride,
\forcelinebreak She laid her hopes at rest, and in the year’s rich beauty died.


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\section{The Amulet}


Your picture smiles as first it smiled;
\forcelinebreak The ring you gave is still the same;
\forcelinebreak Your letter tells, O changing child!
\forcelinebreak No tidings since it came.


Give me an amulet
\forcelinebreak That keeps intelligence with you, —
\forcelinebreak Red when you love, and rosier red,
\forcelinebreak And when you love not, pale and blue.


Alas! that neither bonds nor vows
\forcelinebreak Can certify possession;
\forcelinebreak Torments me still the fear that love
\forcelinebreak Died in its last expression.


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\section{Thine Eyes Still Shined}


Thine eyes still shined for me, though far
\forcelinebreak I lonely roved the land or sea:
\forcelinebreak As I behold yon evening star,
\forcelinebreak Which yet beholds not me.


This morn I climbed the misty hill
\forcelinebreak And roamed the pastures through;
\forcelinebreak How danced thy form before my path
\forcelinebreak Amidst the deep-eyed dew!


When the redbird spread his sable wing,
\forcelinebreak And showed his side of flame;
\forcelinebreak When the rosebud ripened to the rose,
\forcelinebreak In both I read thy name.


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\section{Eros}


The sense of the world is short, —
\forcelinebreak Long and various the report, —
\forcelinebreak To love and be beloved;
\forcelinebreak Men and gods have not outlearned it;
\forcelinebreak And, how oft soe’er they’ve turned it,
\forcelinebreak Not to be improved.


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\section{Hermione}


On a mound an Arab lay,
\forcelinebreak And sung his sweet regrets
\forcelinebreak And told his amulets:
\forcelinebreak The summer bird
\forcelinebreak His sorrow heard,
\forcelinebreak And, when he heaved a sigh profound,
\forcelinebreak The sympathetic swallow swept the ground.


‘If it be, as they said, she was not fair,
\forcelinebreak Beauty’s not beautiful to me,
\forcelinebreak But sceptred genius, aye inorbed,
\forcelinebreak Culminating in her sphere.
\forcelinebreak This Hermione absorbed
\forcelinebreak The lustre of the land and ocean,
\forcelinebreak Hills and islands, cloud and tree,
\forcelinebreak In her form and motion.


‘I ask no bauble miniature,
\forcelinebreak Nor ringlets dead
\forcelinebreak Shorn from her comely head,
\forcelinebreak Now that morning not disdains
\forcelinebreak Mountains and the misty plains
\forcelinebreak Her colossal portraiture;
\forcelinebreak They her heralds be,
\forcelinebreak Steeped in her quality,
\forcelinebreak And singers of her fame
\forcelinebreak Who is their Muse and dame.


‘Higher, dear swallows! mind not what I say.
\forcelinebreak Ah! heedless how the weak are strong,
\forcelinebreak Say, was it just,
\forcelinebreak In thee to frame, in me to trust,
\forcelinebreak Thou to the Syrian couldst belong?


‘I am of a lineage
\forcelinebreak That each for each doth fast engage;
\forcelinebreak In old Bassora’s schools, I seemed
\forcelinebreak Hermit vowed to books and gloom, —
\forcelinebreak Ill-bestead for gay bridegroom.
\forcelinebreak I was by thy touch redeemed;
\forcelinebreak When thy meteor glances came,
\forcelinebreak We talked at large of worldly fate,
\forcelinebreak And drew truly every trait.


‘Once I dwelt apart,
\forcelinebreak Now I live with all;
\forcelinebreak As shepherd’s lamp on far hill-side
\forcelinebreak Seems, by the traveller espied,
\forcelinebreak A door into the mountain heart,
\forcelinebreak So didst thou quarry and unlock
\forcelinebreak Highways for me through the rock.


‘Now, deceived, thou wanderest
\forcelinebreak In strange lands unblest;
\forcelinebreak And my kindred come to soothe me.
\forcelinebreak Southwind is my next of blood;
\forcelinebreak He is come through fragrant wood,
\forcelinebreak Drugged with spice from climates warm,
\forcelinebreak And in every twinkling glade,
\forcelinebreak And twilight nook,
\forcelinebreak Unveils thy form.
\forcelinebreak Out of the forest way
\forcelinebreak Forth paced it yesterday;
\forcelinebreak And when I sat by the watercourse,
\forcelinebreak Watching the daylight fade,
\forcelinebreak It throbbed up from the brook.


‘River and rose and crag and bird,
\forcelinebreak Frost and sun and eldest night,
\forcelinebreak To me their aid preferred,
\forcelinebreak To me their comfort plight; —
\forcelinebreak “Courage! we are thine allies,
\forcelinebreak And with this hint be wise, —
\forcelinebreak The chains of kind
\forcelinebreak The distant bind;
\forcelinebreak Deed thou doest she must do,
\forcelinebreak Above her will, be true;
\forcelinebreak And, in her strict resort
\forcelinebreak To winds and waterfalls
\forcelinebreak And autumn’s sunlit festivals,
\forcelinebreak To music, and to music’s thought,
\forcelinebreak Inextricably bound,
\forcelinebreak She shall find thee, and be found.
\forcelinebreak Follow not her flying feet;
\forcelinebreak Come to us herself to meet.”’


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\section{Initial, Daemonic and Celestial Love}


I. THE INITIAL LOVE


Venus, when her son was lost,
\forcelinebreak Cried him up and down the coast,
\forcelinebreak In hamlets, palaces and parks,
\forcelinebreak And told the truant by his marks, —
\forcelinebreak Golden curls, and quiver and bow.
\forcelinebreak This befell how long ago!
\forcelinebreak Time and tide are strangely changed,
\forcelinebreak Men and manners much deranged:
\forcelinebreak None will now find Cupid latent
\forcelinebreak By this foolish antique patent.
\forcelinebreak He came late along the waste,
\forcelinebreak Shod like a traveller for haste;
\forcelinebreak With malice dared me to proclaim him,
\forcelinebreak That the maids and boys might name him.


Boy no more, he wears all coats,
\forcelinebreak Frocks and blouses, capes, capotes;
\forcelinebreak He bears no bow, or quiver, or wand,
\forcelinebreak Nor chaplet on his head or hand.
\forcelinebreak Leave his weeds and heed his eyes, —
\forcelinebreak All the rest he can disguise.
\forcelinebreak In the pit of his eye’s a spark
\forcelinebreak Would bring back day if it were dark;
\forcelinebreak And, if I tell you all my thought,
\forcelinebreak Though I comprehend it not,
\forcelinebreak In those unfathomable orbs
\forcelinebreak Every function he absorbs;
\forcelinebreak Doth eat, and drink, and fish, and shoot,
\forcelinebreak And write, and reason, and compute,
\forcelinebreak And ride, and run, and have, and hold,
\forcelinebreak And whine, and flatter, and regret,
\forcelinebreak And kiss, and couple, and beget,
\forcelinebreak By those roving eyeballs bold.


Undaunted are their courages,
\forcelinebreak Right Cossacks in their forages;
\forcelinebreak Fleeter they than any creature, —
\forcelinebreak They are his steeds, and not his feature;
\forcelinebreak Inquisitive, and fierce, and fasting,
\forcelinebreak Restless, predatory, hasting;
\forcelinebreak And they pounce on other eyes
\forcelinebreak As lions on their prey;
\forcelinebreak And round their circles is writ,
\forcelinebreak Plainer than the day,
\forcelinebreak Underneath, within, above, —
\forcelinebreak Love — love — love — love.
\forcelinebreak He lives in his eyes;
\forcelinebreak There doth digest, and work, and spin,
\forcelinebreak And buy, and sell, and lose, and win;
\forcelinebreak He rolls them with delighted motion,
\forcelinebreak Joy-tides swell their mimic ocean.
\forcelinebreak Yet holds he them with tautest rein,
\forcelinebreak That they may seize and entertain
\forcelinebreak The glance that to their glance opposes,
\forcelinebreak Like fiery honey sucked from roses.
\forcelinebreak He palmistry can understand,
\forcelinebreak Imbibing virtue by his hand
\forcelinebreak As if it were a living root;
\forcelinebreak The pulse of hands will make him mute;
\forcelinebreak With all his force he gathers balms
\forcelinebreak Into those wise, thrilling palms.


Cupid is a casuist,
\forcelinebreak A mystic and a cabalist, —
\forcelinebreak Can your lurking thought surprise,
\forcelinebreak And interpret your device.
\forcelinebreak He is versed in occult science,
\forcelinebreak In magic and in clairvoyance,
\forcelinebreak Oft he keeps his fine ear strained,
\forcelinebreak And Reason on her tiptoe pained
\forcelinebreak For aëry intelligence,
\forcelinebreak And for strange coincidence.
\forcelinebreak But it touches his quick heart
\forcelinebreak When Fate by omens takes his part,
\forcelinebreak And chance-dropped hints from Nature’s sphere
\forcelinebreak Deeply soothe his anxious ear.


Heralds high before him run;
\forcelinebreak He has ushers many a one;
\forcelinebreak He spreads his welcome where he goes,
\forcelinebreak And touches all things with his rose.
\forcelinebreak All things wait for and divine him, —
\forcelinebreak How shall I dare to malign him,
\forcelinebreak Or accuse the god of sport?
\forcelinebreak I must end my true report,
\forcelinebreak Painting him from head to foot,
\forcelinebreak In as far as I took note,
\forcelinebreak Trusting well the matchless power
\forcelinebreak Of this young-eyed emperor
\forcelinebreak Will clear his fame from every cloud
\forcelinebreak With the bards and with the crowd.


He is wilful, mutable,
\forcelinebreak Shy, untamed, inscrutable,
\forcelinebreak Swifter-fashioned than the fairies.
\forcelinebreak Substance mixed of pure contraries;
\forcelinebreak His vice some elder virtue’s token,
\forcelinebreak And his good is evil-spoken.
\forcelinebreak Failing sometimes of his own,
\forcelinebreak He is headstrong and alone;
\forcelinebreak He affects the wood and wild,
\forcelinebreak Like a flower-hunting child;
\forcelinebreak Buries himself in summer waves,
\forcelinebreak In trees, with beasts, in mines and caves,
\forcelinebreak Loves nature like a hornèd cow,
\forcelinebreak Bird, or deer, or caribou.


Shun him, nymphs, on the fleet horses!
\forcelinebreak He has a total world of wit;
\forcelinebreak O how wise are his discourses!
\forcelinebreak But he is the arch-hypocrite,
\forcelinebreak And, through all science and all art,
\forcelinebreak Seeks alone his counterpart.
\forcelinebreak He is a Pundit of the East,
\forcelinebreak He is an augur and a priest,
\forcelinebreak And his soul will melt in prayer,
\forcelinebreak But word and wisdom is a snare;
\forcelinebreak Corrupted by the present toy
\forcelinebreak He follows joy, and only joy.
\forcelinebreak There is no mask but he will wear;
\forcelinebreak He invented oaths to swear;
\forcelinebreak He paints, he carves, he chants, he prays,
\forcelinebreak And holds all stars in his embrace.
\forcelinebreak He takes a sovran privilege
\forcelinebreak Not allowed to any liege;
\forcelinebreak For Cupid goes behind all law,
\forcelinebreak And right into himself does draw;
\forcelinebreak For he is sovereignly allied, —
\forcelinebreak Heaven’s oldest blood flows in his side, —
\forcelinebreak And interchangeably at one
\forcelinebreak With every king on every throne,
\forcelinebreak That no god dare say him nay,
\forcelinebreak Or see the fault, or seen betray;
\forcelinebreak He has the Muses by the heart,
\forcelinebreak And the stern Parcae on his part.


His many signs cannot be told;
\forcelinebreak He has not one mode, but manifold,
\forcelinebreak Many fashions and addresses,
\forcelinebreak Piques, reproaches, hurts, caresses.
\forcelinebreak He will preach like a friar,
\forcelinebreak And jump like Harlequin;
\forcelinebreak He will read like a crier,
\forcelinebreak And fight like a Paladin.
\forcelinebreak Boundless is his memory;
\forcelinebreak Plans immense his term prolong;
\forcelinebreak He is not of counted age,
\forcelinebreak Meaning always to be young.
\forcelinebreak And his wish is intimacy,
\forcelinebreak Intimater intimacy,
\forcelinebreak And a stricter privacy;
\forcelinebreak The impossible shall yet be done,
\forcelinebreak And, being two, shall still be one.
\forcelinebreak As the wave breaks to foam on shelves,
\forcelinebreak Then runs into a wave again,
\forcelinebreak So lovers melt their sundered selves,
\forcelinebreak Yet melted would be twain.


II. THE DAEMONIC LOVE


Man was made of social earth,
\forcelinebreak Child and brother from his birth,
\forcelinebreak Tethered by a liquid cord
\forcelinebreak Of blood through veins of kindred poured.
\forcelinebreak Next his heart the fireside band
\forcelinebreak Of mother, father, sister, stand;
\forcelinebreak Names from awful childhood heard
\forcelinebreak Throbs of a wild religion stirred; —
\forcelinebreak Virtue, to love, to hate them, vice;
\forcelinebreak Till dangerous Beauty came, at last,
\forcelinebreak Till Beauty came to snap all ties;
\forcelinebreak The maid, abolishing the past,
\forcelinebreak With lotus wine obliterates
\forcelinebreak Dear memory’s stone-incarved traits,
\forcelinebreak And, by herself, supplants alone
\forcelinebreak Friends year by year more inly known.
\forcelinebreak When her calm eyes opened bright,
\forcelinebreak All else grew foreign in their light.
\forcelinebreak It was ever the self-same tale,
\forcelinebreak The first experience will not fail;
\forcelinebreak Only two in the garden walked,
\forcelinebreak And with snake and seraph talked.


Close, close to men,
\forcelinebreak Like undulating layer of air,
\forcelinebreak Right above their heads,
\forcelinebreak The potent plain of Daemons spreads.
\forcelinebreak Stands to each human soul its own,
\forcelinebreak For watch and ward and furtherance,
\forcelinebreak In the snares of Nature’s dance;
\forcelinebreak And the lustre and the grace
\forcelinebreak To fascinate each youthful heart,
\forcelinebreak Beaming from its counterpart,
\forcelinebreak Translucent through the mortal covers,
\forcelinebreak Is the Daemon’s form and face.
\forcelinebreak To and fro the Genius hies, —
\forcelinebreak A gleam which plays and hovers
\forcelinebreak Over the maiden’s head,
\forcelinebreak And dips sometimes as low as to her eyes.
\forcelinebreak Unknown, albeit lying near,
\forcelinebreak To men, the path to the Daemon sphere;
\forcelinebreak And they that swiftly come and go
\forcelinebreak Leave no track on the heavenly snow.
\forcelinebreak Sometimes the airy synod bends,
\forcelinebreak And the mighty choir descends,
\forcelinebreak And the brains of men thenceforth,
\forcelinebreak In crowded and in still resorts,
\forcelinebreak Teem with unwonted thoughts:
\forcelinebreak As, when a shower of meteors
\forcelinebreak Cross the orbit of the earth,
\forcelinebreak And, lit by fringent air,
\forcelinebreak Blaze near and far,
\forcelinebreak Mortals deem the planets bright
\forcelinebreak Have slipped their sacred bars,
\forcelinebreak And the lone seaman all the night
\forcelinebreak Sails, astonished, amid stars.


Beauty of a richer vein,
\forcelinebreak Graces of a subtler strain,
\forcelinebreak Unto men these moonmen lend,
\forcelinebreak And our shrinking sky extend.
\forcelinebreak So is man’s narrow path
\forcelinebreak By strength and terror skirted;
\forcelinebreak Also (from the song the wrath
\forcelinebreak Of the Genii be averted!
\forcelinebreak The Muse the truth uncolored speaking)
\forcelinebreak The Daemons are self-seeking:
\forcelinebreak Their fierce and limitary will
\forcelinebreak Draws men to their likeness still.
\forcelinebreak The erring painter made Love blind, —
\forcelinebreak Highest Love who shines on all;
\forcelinebreak Him, radiant, sharpest-sighted god,
\forcelinebreak None can bewilder;
\forcelinebreak Whose eyes pierce
\forcelinebreak The universe,
\forcelinebreak Path-finder, road-builder,
\forcelinebreak Mediator, royal giver;
\forcelinebreak Rightly seeing, rightly seen,
\forcelinebreak Of joyful and transparent mien.
\forcelinebreak ‘T is a sparkle passing
\forcelinebreak From each to each, from thee to me,
\forcelinebreak To and fro perpetually;
\forcelinebreak Sharing all, daring all,
\forcelinebreak Levelling, displacing
\forcelinebreak Each obstruction, it unites
\forcelinebreak Equals remote, and seeming opposites.
\forcelinebreak And ever and forever Love
\forcelinebreak Delights to build a road:
\forcelinebreak Unheeded Danger near him strides,
\forcelinebreak Love laughs, and on a lion rides.
\forcelinebreak But Cupid wears another face,
\forcelinebreak Born into Daemons less divine:
\forcelinebreak His roses bleach apace,
\forcelinebreak His nectar smacks of wine.
\forcelinebreak The Daemon ever builds a wall,
\forcelinebreak Himself encloses and includes,
\forcelinebreak Solitude in solitudes:
\forcelinebreak In like sort his love doth fall.
\forcelinebreak He doth elect
\forcelinebreak The beautiful and fortunate,
\forcelinebreak And the sons of intellect,
\forcelinebreak And the souls of ample fate,
\forcelinebreak Who the Future’s gates unbar, —
\forcelinebreak Minions of the Morning Star.
\forcelinebreak In his prowess he exults,
\forcelinebreak And the multitude insults.
\forcelinebreak His impatient looks devour
\forcelinebreak Oft the humble and the poor;
\forcelinebreak And, seeing his eye glare,
\forcelinebreak They drop their few pale flowers,
\forcelinebreak Gathered with hope to please,
\forcelinebreak Along the mountain towers, —
\forcelinebreak Lose courage, and despair.
\forcelinebreak He will never be gainsaid, —
\forcelinebreak Pitiless, will not be stayed;
\forcelinebreak His hot tyranny
\forcelinebreak Burns up every other tie.
\forcelinebreak Therefore comes an hour from Jove
\forcelinebreak Which his ruthless will defies,
\forcelinebreak And the dogs of Fate unties.
\forcelinebreak Shiver the palaces of glass;
\forcelinebreak Shrivel the rainbow-colored walls,
\forcelinebreak Where in bright Art each god and sibyl dwelt
\forcelinebreak Secure as in the zodiac’s belt;
\forcelinebreak And the galleries and halls,
\forcelinebreak Wherein every siren sung,
\forcelinebreak Like a meteor pass.
\forcelinebreak For this fortune wanted root
\forcelinebreak In the core of God’s abysm, —
\forcelinebreak Was a weed of self and schism;
\forcelinebreak And ever the Daemonic Love
\forcelinebreak Is the ancestor of wars
\forcelinebreak And the parent of remorse.


III. THE CELESTIAL LOVE


But God said,
\forcelinebreak ‘I will have a purer gift;
\forcelinebreak There is smoke in the flame;
\forcelinebreak New flowerets bring, new prayers uplift,
\forcelinebreak And love without a name.
\forcelinebreak Fond children, ye desire
\forcelinebreak To please each other well;
\forcelinebreak Another round, a higher,
\forcelinebreak Ye shall climb on the heavenly stair,
\forcelinebreak And selfish preference forbear;
\forcelinebreak And in right deserving,
\forcelinebreak And without a swerving
\forcelinebreak Each from your proper state,
\forcelinebreak Weave roses for your mate.


‘Deep, deep are loving eyes,
\forcelinebreak Flowed with naphtha fiery sweet;
\forcelinebreak And the point is paradise,
\forcelinebreak Where their glances meet:
\forcelinebreak Their reach shall yet be more profound,
\forcelinebreak And a vision without bound:
\forcelinebreak The axis of those eyes sun-clear
\forcelinebreak Be the axis of the sphere:
\forcelinebreak So shall the lights ye pour amain
\forcelinebreak Go, without check or intervals,
\forcelinebreak Through from the empyrean walls
\forcelinebreak Unto the same again.’


Higher far into the pure realm,
\forcelinebreak Over sun and star,
\forcelinebreak Over the flickering Daemon film,
\forcelinebreak Thou must mount for love;
\forcelinebreak Into vision where all form
\forcelinebreak In one only form dissolves;
\forcelinebreak In a region where the wheel
\forcelinebreak On which all beings ride
\forcelinebreak Visibly revolves;
\forcelinebreak Where the starred, eternal worm
\forcelinebreak Girds the world with bound and term;
\forcelinebreak Where unlike things are like;
\forcelinebreak Where good and ill,
\forcelinebreak And joy and moan,
\forcelinebreak Melt into one.


There Past, Present, Future, shoot
\forcelinebreak Triple blossoms from one root;
\forcelinebreak Substances at base divided,
\forcelinebreak In their summits are united;
\forcelinebreak There the holy essence rolls,
\forcelinebreak One through separated souls;
\forcelinebreak And the sunny Aeon sleeps
\forcelinebreak Folding Nature in its deeps,
\forcelinebreak And every fair and every good,
\forcelinebreak Known in part, or known impure,
\forcelinebreak To men below,
\forcelinebreak In their archetypes endure.
\forcelinebreak The race of gods,
\forcelinebreak Or those we erring own,
\forcelinebreak Are shadows flitting up and down
\forcelinebreak In the still abodes.
\forcelinebreak The circles of that sea are laws
\forcelinebreak Which publish and which hide the cause.


Pray for a beam
\forcelinebreak Out of that sphere,
\forcelinebreak Thee to guide and to redeem.
\forcelinebreak O, what a load
\forcelinebreak Of care and toil,
\forcelinebreak By lying use bestowed,
\forcelinebreak From his shoulders falls who sees
\forcelinebreak The true astronomy,
\forcelinebreak The period of peace.
\forcelinebreak Counsel which the ages kept
\forcelinebreak Shall the well-born soul accept.
\forcelinebreak As the overhanging trees
\forcelinebreak Fill the lake with images, —
\forcelinebreak As garment draws the garment’s hem,
\forcelinebreak Men their fortunes bring with them.
\forcelinebreak By right or wrong,
\forcelinebreak Lands and goods go to the strong.
\forcelinebreak Property will brutely draw
\forcelinebreak Still to the proprietor;
\forcelinebreak Silver to silver creep and wind,
\forcelinebreak And kind to kind.


Nor less the eternal poles
\forcelinebreak Of tendency distribute souls.
\forcelinebreak There need no vows to bind
\forcelinebreak Whom not each other seek, but find.
\forcelinebreak They give and take no pledge or oath, —
\forcelinebreak Nature is the bond of both:
\forcelinebreak No prayer persuades, no flattery fawns, —
\forcelinebreak Their noble meanings are their pawns.
\forcelinebreak Plain and cold is their address,
\forcelinebreak Power have they for tenderness;
\forcelinebreak And, so thoroughly is known
\forcelinebreak Each other’s counsel by his own,
\forcelinebreak They can parley without meeting;
\forcelinebreak Need is none of forms of greeting;
\forcelinebreak They can well communicate
\forcelinebreak In their innermost estate;
\forcelinebreak When each the other shall avoid,
\forcelinebreak Shall each by each be most enjoyed.


Not with scarfs or perfumed gloves
\forcelinebreak Do these celebrate their loves:
\forcelinebreak Not by jewels, feasts and savors,
\forcelinebreak Not by ribbons or by favors,
\forcelinebreak But by the sun-spark on the sea,
\forcelinebreak And the cloud-shadow on the lea,
\forcelinebreak The soothing lapse of morn to mirk,
\forcelinebreak And the cheerful round of work.
\forcelinebreak Their cords of love so public are,
\forcelinebreak They intertwine the farthest star:
\forcelinebreak The throbbing sea, the quaking earth,
\forcelinebreak Yield sympathy and signs of mirth;
\forcelinebreak Is none so high, so mean is none,
\forcelinebreak But feels and seals this union;
\forcelinebreak Even the fell Furies are appeased,
\forcelinebreak The good applaud, the lost are eased.


Love’s hearts are faithful, but not fond,
\forcelinebreak Bound for the just, but not beyond;
\forcelinebreak Not glad, as the low-loving herd,
\forcelinebreak Of self in other still preferred,
\forcelinebreak But they have heartily designed
\forcelinebreak The benefit of broad mankind.
\forcelinebreak And they serve men austerely,
\forcelinebreak After their own genius, clearly,
\forcelinebreak Without a false humility;
\forcelinebreak For this is Love’s nobility, —
\forcelinebreak Not to scatter bread and gold,
\forcelinebreak Goods and raiment bought and sold;
\forcelinebreak But to hold fast his simple sense,
\forcelinebreak And speak the speech of innocence,
\forcelinebreak And with hand and body and blood,
\forcelinebreak To make his bosom-counsel good.
\forcelinebreak He that feeds men serveth few;
\forcelinebreak He serves all who dares be true.


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\section{The Apology}


Think me not unkind and rude
\forcelinebreak That I walk alone in grove and glen;
\forcelinebreak I go to the god of the wood
\forcelinebreak To fetch his word to men.


Tax not my sloth that I
\forcelinebreak Fold my arms beside the brook;
\forcelinebreak Each cloud that floated in the sky
\forcelinebreak Writes a letter in my book.


Chide me not, laborious band,
\forcelinebreak For the idle flowers I brought;
\forcelinebreak Every aster in my hand
\forcelinebreak Goes home loaded with a thought.


There was never mystery
\forcelinebreak But ’tis figured in the flowers;
\forcelinebreak Was never secret history
\forcelinebreak But birds tell it in the bowers.


One harvest from thy field
\forcelinebreak Homeward brought the oxen strong;
\forcelinebreak A second crop thine acres yield,
\forcelinebreak Which I gather in a song.


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\section{Merlin I}


Thy trivial harp will never please
\forcelinebreak Or fill my craving ear;
\forcelinebreak Its chords should ring as blows the breeze,
\forcelinebreak Free, peremptory, clear.
\forcelinebreak No jingling serenader’s art,
\forcelinebreak Nor tinkle of piano strings,
\forcelinebreak Can make the wild blood start
\forcelinebreak In its mystic springs.
\forcelinebreak The kingly bard
\forcelinebreak Must smite the chords rudely and hard,
\forcelinebreak As with hammer or with mace;
\forcelinebreak That they may render back
\forcelinebreak Artful thunder, which conveys
\forcelinebreak Secrets of the solar track,
\forcelinebreak Sparks of the supersolar blaze.
\forcelinebreak Merlin’s blows are strokes of fate,
\forcelinebreak Chiming with the forest tone,
\forcelinebreak When boughs buffet boughs in the wood;
\forcelinebreak Chiming with the gasp and moan
\forcelinebreak Of the ice-imprisoned flood;
\forcelinebreak With the pulse of manly hearts;
\forcelinebreak With the voice of orators;
\forcelinebreak With the din of city arts;
\forcelinebreak With the cannonade of wars;
\forcelinebreak With the marches of the brave;
\forcelinebreak And prayers of might from martyrs’ cave.


Great is the art,
\forcelinebreak Great be the manners, of the bard.
\forcelinebreak He shall not his brain encumber
\forcelinebreak With the coil of rhythm and number;
\forcelinebreak But, leaving rule and pale forethought,
\forcelinebreak He shall aye climb
\forcelinebreak For his rhyme.
\forcelinebreak ‘Pass in, pass in,’ the angels say,
\forcelinebreak ‘In to the upper doors,
\forcelinebreak Nor count compartments of the floors,
\forcelinebreak But mount to paradise
\forcelinebreak By the stairway of surprise.’


Blameless master of the games,
\forcelinebreak King of sport that never shames,
\forcelinebreak He shall daily joy dispense
\forcelinebreak Hid in song’s sweet influence.
\forcelinebreak Forms more cheerly live and go,
\forcelinebreak What time the subtle mind
\forcelinebreak Sings aloud the tune whereto
\forcelinebreak Their pulses beat,
\forcelinebreak And march their feet,
\forcelinebreak And their members are combined.


By Sybarites beguiled,
\forcelinebreak He shall no task decline;
\forcelinebreak Merlin’s mighty line
\forcelinebreak Extremes of nature reconciled, —
\forcelinebreak Bereaved a tyrant of his will,
\forcelinebreak And made the lion mild.
\forcelinebreak Songs can the tempest still,
\forcelinebreak Scattered on the stormy air,
\forcelinebreak Mould the year to fair increase,
\forcelinebreak And bring in poetic peace.


He shall not seek to weave,
\forcelinebreak In weak, unhappy times,
\forcelinebreak Efficacious rhymes;
\forcelinebreak Wait his returning strength.
\forcelinebreak Bird that from the nadir’s floor
\forcelinebreak To the zenith’s top can soar, —
\forcelinebreak The soaring orbit of the muse exceeds that journey’s length.
\forcelinebreak Nor profane affect to hit
\forcelinebreak Or compass that, by meddling wit,
\forcelinebreak Which only the propitious mind
\forcelinebreak Publishes when ‘t is inclined.
\forcelinebreak There are open hours
\forcelinebreak When the God’s will sallies free,
\forcelinebreak And the dull idiot might see
\forcelinebreak The flowing fortunes of a thousand years; —
\forcelinebreak Sudden, at unawares,
\forcelinebreak Self-moved, fly-to the doors.
\forcelinebreak Nor sword of angels could reveal
\forcelinebreak What they conceal.


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\section{Merlin II}


The rhyme of the poet
\forcelinebreak Modulates the king’s affairs;
\forcelinebreak Balance-loving Nature
\forcelinebreak Made all things in pairs.
\forcelinebreak To every foot its antipode;
\forcelinebreak Each color with its counter glowed;
\forcelinebreak To every tone beat answering tones,
\forcelinebreak Higher or graver;
\forcelinebreak Flavor gladly blends with flavor;
\forcelinebreak Leaf answers leaf upon the bough;
\forcelinebreak And match the paired cotyledons.
\forcelinebreak Hands to hands, and feet to feet,
\forcelinebreak In one body grooms and brides;
\forcelinebreak Eldest rite, two married sides
\forcelinebreak In every mortal meet.
\forcelinebreak Light’s far furnace shines,
\forcelinebreak Smelting balls and bars,
\forcelinebreak Forging double stars,
\forcelinebreak Glittering twins and trines.
\forcelinebreak The animals are sick with love,
\forcelinebreak Lovesick with rhyme;
\forcelinebreak Each with all propitious Time
\forcelinebreak Into chorus wove.


Like the dancers’ ordered band,
\forcelinebreak Thoughts come also hand in hand;
\forcelinebreak In equal couples mated,
\forcelinebreak Or else alternated;
\forcelinebreak Adding by their mutual gage,
\forcelinebreak One to other, health and age.
\forcelinebreak Solitary fancies go
\forcelinebreak Short-lived wandering to and fro,
\forcelinebreak Most like to bachelors,
\forcelinebreak Or an ungiven maid,
\forcelinebreak Not ancestors,
\forcelinebreak With no posterity to make the lie afraid,
\forcelinebreak Or keep truth undecayed.
\forcelinebreak Perfect-paired as eagle’s wings,
\forcelinebreak Justice is the rhyme of things;
\forcelinebreak Trade and counting use
\forcelinebreak The self-same tuneful muse;
\forcelinebreak And Nemesis,
\forcelinebreak Who with even matches odd,
\forcelinebreak Who athwart space redresses
\forcelinebreak The partial wrong,
\forcelinebreak Fills the just period,
\forcelinebreak And finishes the song.


Subtle rhymes, with ruin rife,
\forcelinebreak Murmur in the house of life,
\forcelinebreak Sung by the Sisters as they spin;
\forcelinebreak In perfect time and measure they
\forcelinebreak Build and unbuild our echoing clay.
\forcelinebreak As the two twilights of the day
\forcelinebreak Fold us music-drunken in.


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\section{Bacchus}


Bring me wine, but wine which never grew
\forcelinebreak In the belly of the grape,
\forcelinebreak Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, reaching through,
\forcelinebreak Under the Andes to the Cape,
\forcelinebreak Suffer no savor of the earth to scape.


Let its grapes the morn salute
\forcelinebreak From a nocturnal root,
\forcelinebreak Which feels the acrid juice
\forcelinebreak Of Styx and Erebus;
\forcelinebreak And turns the woe of Night,
\forcelinebreak By its own craft, to a more rich delight.


We buy ashes for bread;
\forcelinebreak We buy diluted wine;
\forcelinebreak Give me of the true, —
\forcelinebreak Whose ample leaves and tendrils curled
\forcelinebreak Among the silver hills of heaven
\forcelinebreak Draw everlasting dew;
\forcelinebreak Wine of wine,
\forcelinebreak Blood of the world,
\forcelinebreak Form of forms, and mould of statures,
\forcelinebreak That I intoxicated,
\forcelinebreak And by the draught assimilated,
\forcelinebreak May float at pleasure through all natures;
\forcelinebreak The bird-language rightly spell,
\forcelinebreak And that which roses say so well.


Wine that is shed
\forcelinebreak Like the torrents of the sun
\forcelinebreak Up the horizon walls,
\forcelinebreak Or like the Atlantic streams, which run
\forcelinebreak When the South Sea calls.


Water and bread,
\forcelinebreak Food which needs no transmuting,
\forcelinebreak Rainbow-flowering, wisdom-fruiting,
\forcelinebreak Wine which is already man,
\forcelinebreak Food which teach and reason can.


Wine which Music is, —
\forcelinebreak Music and wine are one, —
\forcelinebreak That I, drinking this,
\forcelinebreak Shall hear far Chaos talk with me;
\forcelinebreak Kings unborn shall walk with me;
\forcelinebreak And the poor grass shall plot and plan
\forcelinebreak What it will do when it is man.
\forcelinebreak Quickened so, will I unlock
\forcelinebreak Every crypt of every rock.


I thank the joyful juice
\forcelinebreak For all I know; —
\forcelinebreak Winds of remembering
\forcelinebreak Of the ancient being blow,
\forcelinebreak And seeming-solid walls of use
\forcelinebreak Open and flow.


Pour, Bacchus! the remembering wine;
\forcelinebreak Retrieve the loss of me and mine!
\forcelinebreak Vine for vine be antidote,
\forcelinebreak And the grape requite the lote!
\forcelinebreak Haste to cure the old despair, —
\forcelinebreak Reason in Nature’s lotus drenched,
\forcelinebreak The memory of ages quenched;
\forcelinebreak Give them again to shine;
\forcelinebreak Let wine repair what this undid;
\forcelinebreak And where the infection slid,
\forcelinebreak A dazzling memory revive;
\forcelinebreak Refresh the faded tints,
\forcelinebreak Recut the aged prints,
\forcelinebreak And write my old adventures with the pen
\forcelinebreak Which on the first day drew,
\forcelinebreak Upon the tablets blue,
\forcelinebreak The dancing Pleiads and eternal men.


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\section{Merops}


What care I, so they stand the same, —
\forcelinebreak Things of the heavenly mind, —
\forcelinebreak How long the power to give them name
\forcelinebreak Tarries yet behind?


Thus far to-day your favors reach,
\forcelinebreak O fair, appeasing presences!
\forcelinebreak Ye taught my lips a single speech,
\forcelinebreak And a thousand silences.


Space grants beyond his fated road
\forcelinebreak No inch to the god of day;
\forcelinebreak And copious language still bestowed
\forcelinebreak One word, no more, to say.


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\section{The House}


There is no architect
\forcelinebreak Can build as the Muse can;
\forcelinebreak She is skilful to select
\forcelinebreak Materials for her plan;


Slow and warily to choose
\forcelinebreak Rafters of immortal pine,
\forcelinebreak Or cedar incorruptible,
\forcelinebreak Worthy her design,


She threads dark Alpine forests
\forcelinebreak Or valleys by the sea,
\forcelinebreak In many lands, with painful steps,
\forcelinebreak Ere she can find a tree.


She ransacks mines and ledges
\forcelinebreak And quarries every rock,
\forcelinebreak To hew the famous adamant
\forcelinebreak For each eternal block —


She lays her beams in music,
\forcelinebreak In music every one,
\forcelinebreak To the cadence of the whirling world
\forcelinebreak Which dances round the sun —


That so they shall not be displaced
\forcelinebreak By lapses or by wars,
\forcelinebreak But for the love of happy souls
\forcelinebreak Outlive the newest stars.


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\section{Saadi}


Trees in groves,
\forcelinebreak Kine in droves,
\forcelinebreak In ocean sport the scaly herds,
\forcelinebreak Wedge-like cleave the air the birds,
\forcelinebreak To northern lakes fly wind-borne ducks,
\forcelinebreak Browse the mountain sheep in flocks,
\forcelinebreak Men consort in camp and town,
\forcelinebreak But the poet dwells alone.


God, who gave to him the lyre,
\forcelinebreak Of all mortals the desire,
\forcelinebreak For all breathing men’s behoof,
\forcelinebreak Straitly charged him, ‘Sit aloof;’
\forcelinebreak Annexed a warning, poets say,
\forcelinebreak To the bright premium, —
\forcelinebreak Ever, when twain together play,
\forcelinebreak Shall the harp be dumb.


Many may come,
\forcelinebreak But one shall sing;
\forcelinebreak Two touch the string,
\forcelinebreak The harp is dumb.
\forcelinebreak Though there come a million,
\forcelinebreak Wise Saadi dwells alone.


Yet Saadi loved the race of men, —
\forcelinebreak No churl, immured in cave or den;
\forcelinebreak In bower and hall
\forcelinebreak He wants them all,
\forcelinebreak Nor can dispense
\forcelinebreak With Persia for his audience;
\forcelinebreak They must give ear,
\forcelinebreak Grow red with joy and white with fear;
\forcelinebreak But he has no companion;
\forcelinebreak Come ten, or come a million,
\forcelinebreak Good Saadi dwells alone.


Be thou ware where Saadi dwells;
\forcelinebreak Wisdom of the gods is he, —
\forcelinebreak Entertain it reverently.
\forcelinebreak Gladly round that golden lamp
\forcelinebreak Sylvan deities encamp,
\forcelinebreak And simple maids and noble youth
\forcelinebreak Are welcome to the man of truth.
\forcelinebreak Most welcome they who need him most,
\forcelinebreak They feed the spring which they exhaust;
\forcelinebreak For greater need
\forcelinebreak Draws better deed:
\forcelinebreak But, critic, spare thy vanity,
\forcelinebreak Nor show thy pompous parts,
\forcelinebreak To vex with odious subtlety
\forcelinebreak The cheerer of men’s hearts.


Sad-eyed Fakirs swiftly say
\forcelinebreak Endless dirges to decay,
\forcelinebreak Never in the blaze of light
\forcelinebreak Lose the shudder of midnight;
\forcelinebreak Pale at overflowing noon
\forcelinebreak Hear wolves barking at the moon;
\forcelinebreak In the bower of dalliance sweet
\forcelinebreak Hear the far Avenger’s feet:
\forcelinebreak And shake before those awful Powers,
\forcelinebreak Who in their pride forgive not ours.
\forcelinebreak Thus the sad-eyed Fakirs preach:
\forcelinebreak ‘Bard, when thee would Allah teach,
\forcelinebreak And lift thee to his holy mount,
\forcelinebreak He sends thee from his bitter fount
\forcelinebreak Wormwood, — saying, “Go thy ways;
\forcelinebreak Drink not the Malaga of praise,
\forcelinebreak But do the deed thy fellows hate,
\forcelinebreak And compromise thy peaceful state;
\forcelinebreak Smite the white breasts which thee fed.
\forcelinebreak Stuff sharp thorns beneath the head
\forcelinebreak Of them thou shouldst have comforted;
\forcelinebreak For out of woe and out of crime
\forcelinebreak Draws the heart a lore sublime.”’
\forcelinebreak And yet it seemeth not to me
\forcelinebreak That the high gods love tragedy;
\forcelinebreak For Saadi sat in the sun,
\forcelinebreak And thanks was his contrition;
\forcelinebreak For haircloth and for bloody whips,
\forcelinebreak Had active hands and smiling lips;
\forcelinebreak And yet his runes he rightly read,
\forcelinebreak And to his folk his message sped.
\forcelinebreak Sunshine in his heart transferred
\forcelinebreak Lighted each transparent word,
\forcelinebreak And well could honoring Persia learn
\forcelinebreak What Saadi wished to say;
\forcelinebreak For Saadi’s nightly stars did burn
\forcelinebreak Brighter than Jami’s day.


Whispered the Muse in Saadi’s cot:
\forcelinebreak ‘O gentle Saadi, listen not,
\forcelinebreak Tempted by thy praise of wit,
\forcelinebreak Or by thirst and appetite
\forcelinebreak For the talents not thine own,
\forcelinebreak To sons of contradiction.
\forcelinebreak Never, son of eastern morning,
\forcelinebreak Follow falsehood, follow scorning.
\forcelinebreak Denounce who will, who will deny,
\forcelinebreak And pile the hills to scale the sky;
\forcelinebreak Let theist, atheist, pantheist,
\forcelinebreak Define and wrangle how they list,
\forcelinebreak Fierce conserver, fierce destroyer, —
\forcelinebreak But thou, joy-giver and enjoyer,
\forcelinebreak Unknowing war, unknowing crime,
\forcelinebreak Gentle Saadi, mind thy rhyme;
\forcelinebreak Heed not what the brawlers say,
\forcelinebreak Heed thou only Saadi’s lay.


‘Let the great world bustle on
\forcelinebreak With war and trade, with camp and town;
\forcelinebreak A thousand men shall dig and eat;
\forcelinebreak At forge and furnace thousands sweat;
\forcelinebreak And thousands sail the purple sea,
\forcelinebreak And give or take the stroke of war,
\forcelinebreak Or crowd the market and bazaar;
\forcelinebreak Oft shall war end, and peace return,
\forcelinebreak And cities rise where cities burn,
\forcelinebreak Ere one man my hill shall climb,
\forcelinebreak Who can turn the golden rhyme.
\forcelinebreak Let them manage how they may,
\forcelinebreak Heed thou only Saadi’s lay.
\forcelinebreak Seek the living among the dead, —
\forcelinebreak Man in man is imprisonèd;
\forcelinebreak Barefooted Dervish is not poor,
\forcelinebreak If fate unlock his bosom’s door,
\forcelinebreak So that what his eye hath seen
\forcelinebreak His tongue can paint as bright, as keen;
\forcelinebreak And what his tender heart hath felt
\forcelinebreak With equal fire thy heart shalt melt.
\forcelinebreak For, whom the Muses smile upon,
\forcelinebreak And touch with soft persuasion,
\forcelinebreak His words like a storm-wind can bring
\forcelinebreak Terror and beauty on their wing;
\forcelinebreak In his every syllable
\forcelinebreak Lurketh Nature veritable;
\forcelinebreak And though he speak in midnight dark, —
\forcelinebreak In heaven no star, on earth no spark, —
\forcelinebreak Yet before the listener’s eye
\forcelinebreak Swims the world in ecstasy,
\forcelinebreak The forest waves, the morning breaks,
\forcelinebreak The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,
\forcelinebreak Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be,
\forcelinebreak And life pulsates in rock or tree.
\forcelinebreak Saadi, so far thy words shall reach:
\forcelinebreak Suns rise and set in Saadi’s speech!’


And thus to Saadi said the Muse:
\forcelinebreak ‘Eat thou the bread which men refuse;
\forcelinebreak Flee from the goods which from thee flee;
\forcelinebreak Seek nothing, — Fortune seeketh thee.
\forcelinebreak Nor mount, nor dive; all good things keep
\forcelinebreak The midway of the eternal deep.
\forcelinebreak Wish not to fill the isles with eyes
\forcelinebreak To fetch thee birds of paradise:
\forcelinebreak On thine orchard’s edge belong
\forcelinebreak All the brags of plume and song;
\forcelinebreak Wise Ali’s sunbright sayings pass
\forcelinebreak For proverbs in the market-place:
\forcelinebreak Through mountains bored by regal art,
\forcelinebreak Toil whistles as he drives his cart.
\forcelinebreak Nor scour the seas, nor sift mankind,
\forcelinebreak A poet or a friend to find:
\forcelinebreak Behold, he watches at the door!
\forcelinebreak Behold his shadow on the floor!
\forcelinebreak Open innumerable doors
\forcelinebreak The heaven where unveiled Allah pours
\forcelinebreak The flood of truth, the flood of good,
\forcelinebreak The Seraph’s and the Cherub’s food.
\forcelinebreak Those doors are men: the Pariah hind
\forcelinebreak Admits thee to the perfect Mind.
\forcelinebreak Seek not beyond thy cottage wall
\forcelinebreak Redeemers that can yield thee all:
\forcelinebreak While thou sittest at thy door
\forcelinebreak On the desert’s yellow floor,
\forcelinebreak Listening to the gray-haired crones,
\forcelinebreak Foolish gossips, ancient drones,
\forcelinebreak Saadi, see! they rise in stature
\forcelinebreak To the height of mighty Nature,
\forcelinebreak And the secret stands revealed
\forcelinebreak Fraudulent Time in vain concealed, —
\forcelinebreak That blessed gods in servile masks
\forcelinebreak Plied for thee thy household tasks.’


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\section{Holidays}


From fall to spring, the russet acorn,
\forcelinebreak Fruit beloved of maid and boy,
\forcelinebreak Lent itself beneath the forest,
\forcelinebreak To be the children’s toy.


Pluck it now! In vain, — thou canst not;
\forcelinebreak Its root has pierced yon shady mound;
\forcelinebreak Toy no longer — it has duties;
\forcelinebreak It is anchored in the ground.


Year by year the rose-lipped maiden,
\forcelinebreak Playfellow of young and old,
\forcelinebreak Was frolic sunshine, dear to all men,
\forcelinebreak More dear to one than mines of gold.


Whither went the lovely hoyden?
\forcelinebreak Disappeared in blessed wife;
\forcelinebreak Servant to a wooden cradle,
\forcelinebreak Living in a baby’s life.


Still thou playest; — short vacation
\forcelinebreak Fate grants each to stand aside;
\forcelinebreak Now must thou be man and artist, —
\forcelinebreak ‘T is the turning of the tide.


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\section{Xenophanes}


By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave
\forcelinebreak One scent to hyson and to wall-flower,
\forcelinebreak One sound to pine-groves and to waterfalls,
\forcelinebreak One aspect to the desert and the lake.
\forcelinebreak It was her stern necessity: all things
\forcelinebreak Are of one pattern made; bird, beast and flower,
\forcelinebreak Song, picture, form, space, thought and character
\forcelinebreak Deceive us, seeming to be many things,
\forcelinebreak And are but one. Beheld far off, they part
\forcelinebreak As God and devil; bring them to the mind,
\forcelinebreak They dull its edge with their monotony.
\forcelinebreak To know one element, explore another,
\forcelinebreak And in the second reappears the first.
\forcelinebreak The specious panorama of a year
\forcelinebreak But multiplies the image of a day, —
\forcelinebreak A belt of mirrors round a taper’s flame;
\forcelinebreak And universal Nature, through her vast
\forcelinebreak And crowded whole, an infinite paroquet,
\forcelinebreak Repeats one note.


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\section{The Day’s Ration}


When I was born,
\forcelinebreak From all the seas of strength Fate filled a chalice,
\forcelinebreak Saying, ‘This be thy portion, child; this chalice,
\forcelinebreak Less than a lily’s, thou shalt daily draw
\forcelinebreak From my great arteries, — nor less, nor more.’
\forcelinebreak All substances the cunning chemist Time
\forcelinebreak Melts down into that liquor of my life, —
\forcelinebreak Friends, foes, joys, fortunes, beauty and disgust.
\forcelinebreak And whether I am angry or content,
\forcelinebreak Indebted or insulted, loved or hurt,
\forcelinebreak All he distils into sidereal wine
\forcelinebreak And brims my little cup; heedless, alas!
\forcelinebreak Of all he sheds how little it will hold,
\forcelinebreak How much runs over on the desert sands.
\forcelinebreak If a new Muse draw me with splendid ray,
\forcelinebreak And I uplift myself into its heaven,
\forcelinebreak The needs of the first sight absorb my blood,
\forcelinebreak And all the following hours of the day
\forcelinebreak Drag a ridiculous age.
\forcelinebreak To-day, when friends approach, and every hour
\forcelinebreak Brings book, or starbright scroll of genius,
\forcelinebreak The little cup will hold not a bead more,
\forcelinebreak And all the costly liquor runs to waste;
\forcelinebreak Nor gives the jealous lord one diamond drop
\forcelinebreak So to be husbanded for poorer days.
\forcelinebreak Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
\forcelinebreak Why need I galleries, when a pupil’s draught
\forcelinebreak After the master’s sketch fills and o’erfills
\forcelinebreak My apprehension? Why seek Italy,
\forcelinebreak Who cannot circumnavigate the sea
\forcelinebreak Of thoughts and things at home, but still adjourn
\forcelinebreak The nearest matters for a thousand days?


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\section{Blight}


Give me truths;
\forcelinebreak For I am weary of the surfaces,
\forcelinebreak And die of inanition. If I knew
\forcelinebreak Only the herbs and simples of the wood,
\forcelinebreak Rue, cinquefoil, gill, vervain and agrimony,
\forcelinebreak Blue-vetch and trillium, hawkweed, sassafras,
\forcelinebreak Milkweeds and murky brakes, quaint pipes and sundew,
\forcelinebreak And rare and virtuous roots, which in these woods
\forcelinebreak Draw untold juices from the common earth,
\forcelinebreak Untold, unknown, and I could surely spell
\forcelinebreak Their fragrance, and their chemistry apply
\forcelinebreak By sweet affinities to human flesh,
\forcelinebreak Driving the foe and stablishing the friend, —
\forcelinebreak O, that were much, and I could be a part
\forcelinebreak Of the round day, related to the sun
\forcelinebreak And planted world, and full executor
\forcelinebreak Of their imperfect functions.
\forcelinebreak But these young scholars, who invade our hills,
\forcelinebreak Bold as the engineer who fells the wood,
\forcelinebreak And travelling often in the cut he makes,
\forcelinebreak Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not,
\forcelinebreak And all their botany is Latin names.
\forcelinebreak The old men studied magic in the flowers,
\forcelinebreak And human fortunes in astronomy,
\forcelinebreak And an omnipotence in chemistry,
\forcelinebreak Preferring things to names, for these were men,
\forcelinebreak Were unitarians of the united world,
\forcelinebreak And, wheresoever their clear eye-beams fell,
\forcelinebreak They caught the footsteps of the SAME. Our eyes
\forcelinebreak Are armed, but we are strangers to the stars,
\forcelinebreak And strangers to the mystic beast and bird,
\forcelinebreak And strangers to the plant and to the mine.
\forcelinebreak The injured elements say, ‘Not in us;’
\forcelinebreak And night and day, ocean and continent,
\forcelinebreak Fire, plant and mineral say, ‘Not in us;’
\forcelinebreak And haughtily return us stare for stare.
\forcelinebreak For we invade them impiously for gain;
\forcelinebreak We devastate them unreligiously,
\forcelinebreak And coldly ask their pottage, not their love.
\forcelinebreak Therefore they shove us from them, yield to us
\forcelinebreak Only what to our griping toil is due;
\forcelinebreak But the sweet affluence of love and song,
\forcelinebreak The rich results of the divine consents
\forcelinebreak Of man and earth, of world beloved and lover,
\forcelinebreak The nectar and ambrosia, are withheld;
\forcelinebreak And in the midst of spoils and slaves, we thieves
\forcelinebreak And pirates of the universe, shut out
\forcelinebreak Daily to a more thin and outward rind,
\forcelinebreak Turn pale and starve. Therefore, to our sick eyes,
\forcelinebreak The stunted trees look sick, the summer short,
\forcelinebreak Clouds shade the sun, which will not tan our hay,
\forcelinebreak And nothing thrives to reach its natural term;
\forcelinebreak And life, shorn of its venerable length,
\forcelinebreak Even at its greatest space is a defeat,
\forcelinebreak And dies in anger that it was a dupe;
\forcelinebreak And, in its highest noon and wantonness,
\forcelinebreak Is early frugal, like a beggar’s child;
\forcelinebreak Even in the hot pursuit of the best aims
\forcelinebreak And prizes of ambition, checks its hand,
\forcelinebreak Like Alpine cataracts frozen as they leaped,
\forcelinebreak Chilled with a miserly comparison
\forcelinebreak Of the toy’s purchase with the length of life.


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\section{Musketaquid}


Because I was content with these poor fields,
\forcelinebreak Low, open meads, slender and sluggish streams,
\forcelinebreak And found a home in haunts which others scorned,
\forcelinebreak The partial wood-gods overpaid my love,
\forcelinebreak And granted me the freedom of their state,
\forcelinebreak And in their secret senate have prevailed
\forcelinebreak With the dear, dangerous lords that rule our life,
\forcelinebreak Made moon and planets parties to their bond,
\forcelinebreak And through my rock-like, solitary wont
\forcelinebreak Shot million rays of thought and tenderness.
\forcelinebreak For me, in showers, in sweeping showers, the Spring
\forcelinebreak Visits the valley; — break away the clouds, —
\forcelinebreak I bathe in the morn’s soft and silvered air,
\forcelinebreak And loiter willing by yon loitering stream.
\forcelinebreak Sparrows far off, and nearer, April’s bird,
\forcelinebreak Blue-coated, — flying before from tree to tree,
\forcelinebreak Courageous sing a delicate overture
\forcelinebreak To lead the tardy concert of the year.
\forcelinebreak Onward and nearer rides the sun of May;
\forcelinebreak And wide around, the marriage of the plants
\forcelinebreak Is sweetly solemnized. Then flows amain
\forcelinebreak The surge of summer’s beauty; dell and crag,
\forcelinebreak Hollow and lake, hillside and pine arcade,
\forcelinebreak Are touched with genius. Yonder ragged cliff
\forcelinebreak Has thousand faces in a thousand hours.


Beneath low hills, in the broad interval
\forcelinebreak Through which at will our Indian rivulet
\forcelinebreak Winds mindful still of sannup and of squaw,
\forcelinebreak Whose pipe and arrow oft the plough unburies,
\forcelinebreak Here in pine houses built of new-fallen trees,
\forcelinebreak Supplanters of the tribe, the farmers dwell.
\forcelinebreak Traveller, to thee, perchance, a tedious road,
\forcelinebreak Or, it may be, a picture; to these men,
\forcelinebreak The landscape is an armory of powers,
\forcelinebreak Which, one by one, they know to draw and use.
\forcelinebreak They harness beast, bird, insect, to their work;
\forcelinebreak They prove the virtues of each bed of rock,
\forcelinebreak And, like the chemist ‘mid his loaded jars,
\forcelinebreak Draw from each stratum its adapted use
\forcelinebreak To drug their crops or weapon their arts withal.
\forcelinebreak They turn the frost upon their chemic heap,
\forcelinebreak They set the wind to winnow pulse and grain,
\forcelinebreak They thank the spring-flood for its fertile slime,
\forcelinebreak And, on cheap summit-levels of the snow,
\forcelinebreak Slide with the sledge to inaccessible woods
\forcelinebreak O’er meadows bottomless. So, year by year,
\forcelinebreak They fight the elements with elements
\forcelinebreak (That one would say, meadow and forest walked,
\forcelinebreak Transmuted in these men to rule their like),
\forcelinebreak And by the order in the field disclose
\forcelinebreak The order regnant in the yeoman’s brain.


What these strong masters wrote at large in miles,
\forcelinebreak I followed in small copy in my acre;
\forcelinebreak For there’s no rood has not a star above it;
\forcelinebreak The cordial quality of pear or plum
\forcelinebreak Ascends as gladly in a single tree
\forcelinebreak As in broad orchards resonant with bees;
\forcelinebreak And every atom poises for itself,
\forcelinebreak And for the whole. The gentle deities
\forcelinebreak Showed me the lore of colors and of sounds,
\forcelinebreak The innumerable tenements of beauty.
\forcelinebreak The miracle of generative force,
\forcelinebreak Far-reaching concords of astronomy
\forcelinebreak Felt in the plants and in the punctual birds;
\forcelinebreak Better, the linked purpose of the whole,
\forcelinebreak And, chiefest prize, found I true liberty
\forcelinebreak In the glad home plain-dealing Nature gave.
\forcelinebreak The polite found me impolite; the great
\forcelinebreak Would mortify me, but in vain; for still
\forcelinebreak I am a willow of the wilderness,
\forcelinebreak Loving the wind that bent me. All my hurts
\forcelinebreak My garden spade can heal. A woodland walk,
\forcelinebreak A quest of river-grapes, a mocking thrush,
\forcelinebreak A wild-rose, or rock-loving columbine,
\forcelinebreak Salve my worst wounds.
\forcelinebreak For thus the wood-gods murmured in my ear:
\forcelinebreak ‘Dost love our manners? Canst thou silent lie?
\forcelinebreak Canst thou, thy pride forgot, like Nature pass
\forcelinebreak Into the winter night’s extinguished mood?
\forcelinebreak Canst thou shine now, then darkle,
\forcelinebreak And being latent, feel thyself no less?
\forcelinebreak As, when the all-worshipped moon attracts the eye,
\forcelinebreak The river, hill, stems, foliage are obscure,
\forcelinebreak Yet envies none, none are unenviable.’


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\section{Dirge}


CONCORD, 1838


I reached the middle of the mount
\forcelinebreak Up which the incarnate soul must climb,
\forcelinebreak And paused for them, and looked around,
\forcelinebreak With me who walked through space and time.


Five rosy boys with morning light
\forcelinebreak Had leaped from one fair mother’s arms,
\forcelinebreak Fronted the sun with hope as bright,
\forcelinebreak And greeted God with childhood’s psalms.


Knows he who tills this lonely field
\forcelinebreak To reap its scanty corn,
\forcelinebreak What mystic fruit his acres yield
\forcelinebreak At midnight and at morn?


In the long sunny afternoon
\forcelinebreak The plain was full of ghosts;
\forcelinebreak I wandered up, I wandered down,
\forcelinebreak Beset by pensive hosts.


The winding Concord gleamed below,
\forcelinebreak Pouring as wide a flood
\forcelinebreak As when my brothers, long ago,
\forcelinebreak Came with me to the wood.


But they are gone, — the holy ones
\forcelinebreak Who trod with me this lovely vale;
\forcelinebreak The strong, star-bright companions
\forcelinebreak Are silent, low and pale.


My good, my noble, in their prime,
\forcelinebreak Who made this world the feast it was
\forcelinebreak Who learned with me the lore of time,
\forcelinebreak Who loved this dwelling-place!


They took this valley for their toy,
\forcelinebreak They played with it in every mood;
\forcelinebreak A cell for prayer, a hall for joy, —
\forcelinebreak They treated Nature as they would.


They colored the horizon round;
\forcelinebreak Stars flamed and faded as they bade,
\forcelinebreak All echoes hearkened for their sound, —
\forcelinebreak They made the woodlands glad or mad.


I touch this flower of silken leaf,
\forcelinebreak Which once our childhood knew;
\forcelinebreak Its soft leaves wound me with a grief
\forcelinebreak Whose balsam never grew.


Hearken to yon pine-warbler
\forcelinebreak Singing aloft in the tree!
\forcelinebreak Hearest thou, O traveller,
\forcelinebreak What he singeth to me?


Not unless God made sharp thine ear
\forcelinebreak With sorrow such as mine,
\forcelinebreak Out of that delicate lay could’st thou
\forcelinebreak Its heavy tale divine.


‘Go, lonely man,’ it saith;
\forcelinebreak ‘They loved thee from their birth;
\forcelinebreak Their hands were pure, and pure their faith, —
\forcelinebreak There are no such hearts on earth.


‘Ye drew one mother’s milk,
\forcelinebreak One chamber held ye all;
\forcelinebreak A very tender history
\forcelinebreak Did in your childhood fall.


‘You cannot unlock your heart,
\forcelinebreak The key is gone with them;
\forcelinebreak The silent organ loudest chants
\forcelinebreak The master’s requiem.’


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\section{Threnody}


The South-wind brings
\forcelinebreak Life, sunshine and desire,
\forcelinebreak And on every mount and meadow
\forcelinebreak Breathes aromatic fire;
\forcelinebreak But over the dead he has no power,
\forcelinebreak The lost, the lost, he cannot restore;
\forcelinebreak And, looking over the hills, I mourn
\forcelinebreak The darling who shall not return.


I see my empty house,
\forcelinebreak I see my trees repair their boughs;
\forcelinebreak And he, the wondrous child,
\forcelinebreak Whose silver warble wild
\forcelinebreak Outvalued every pulsing sound
\forcelinebreak Within the air’s cerulean round, —
\forcelinebreak The hyacinthine boy, for whom
\forcelinebreak Morn well might break and April bloom,
\forcelinebreak The gracious boy, who did adorn
\forcelinebreak The world whereinto he was born,
\forcelinebreak And by his countenance repay
\forcelinebreak The favor of the loving Day, —
\forcelinebreak Has disappeared from the Day’s eye;
\forcelinebreak Far and wide she cannot find him;
\forcelinebreak My hopes pursue, they cannot bind him.
\forcelinebreak Returned this day, the South-wind searches,
\forcelinebreak And finds young pines and budding birches;
\forcelinebreak But finds not the budding man;
\forcelinebreak Nature, who lost, cannot remake him;
\forcelinebreak Fate let him fall, Fate can’t retake him;
\forcelinebreak Nature, Fate, men, him seek in vain.


And whither now, my truant wise and sweet,
\forcelinebreak O, whither tend thy feet?
\forcelinebreak I had the right, few days ago,
\forcelinebreak Thy steps to watch, thy place to know:
\forcelinebreak How have I forfeited the right?
\forcelinebreak Hast thou forgot me in a new delight?
\forcelinebreak I hearken for thy household cheer,
\forcelinebreak O eloquent child!
\forcelinebreak Whose voice, an equal messenger,
\forcelinebreak Conveyed thy meaning mild.
\forcelinebreak What though the pains and joys
\forcelinebreak Whereof it spoke were toys
\forcelinebreak Fitting his age and ken,
\forcelinebreak Yet fairest dames and bearded men,
\forcelinebreak Who heard the sweet request,
\forcelinebreak So gentle, wise and grave,
\forcelinebreak Bended with joy to his behest
\forcelinebreak And let the world’s affairs go by,
\forcelinebreak A while to share his cordial game,
\forcelinebreak Or mend his wicker wagon-frame,
\forcelinebreak Still plotting how their hungry fear
\forcelinebreak That winsome voice again might hear;
\forcelinebreak For his lips could well pronounce
\forcelinebreak Words that were persuasions.


Gentlest guardians marked serene
\forcelinebreak His early hope, his liberal mien;
\forcelinebreak Took counsel from his guiding eyes
\forcelinebreak To make this wisdom earthly wise.
\forcelinebreak Ah, vainly do these eyes recall
\forcelinebreak The school-march, each day’s festival,
\forcelinebreak When every morn my bosom glowed
\forcelinebreak To watch the convoy on the road;
\forcelinebreak The babe in willow wagon closed,
\forcelinebreak With rolling eyes and face composed;
\forcelinebreak With children forward and behind,
\forcelinebreak Like Cupids studiously inclined;
\forcelinebreak And he the chieftain paced beside,
\forcelinebreak The centre of the troop allied,
\forcelinebreak With sunny face of sweet repose,
\forcelinebreak To guard the babe from fancied foes.
\forcelinebreak The little captain innocent
\forcelinebreak Took the eye with him as he went;
\forcelinebreak Each village senior paused to scan
\forcelinebreak And speak the lovely caravan.
\forcelinebreak From the window I look out
\forcelinebreak To mark thy beautiful parade,
\forcelinebreak Stately marching in cap and coat
\forcelinebreak To some tune by fairies played; —
\forcelinebreak A music heard by thee alone
\forcelinebreak To works as noble led thee on.


Now Love and Pride, alas! in vain,
\forcelinebreak Up and down their glances strain.
\forcelinebreak The painted sled stands where it stood;
\forcelinebreak The kennel by the corded wood;
\forcelinebreak His gathered sticks to stanch the wall
\forcelinebreak Of the snow-tower, when snow should fall;
\forcelinebreak The ominous hole he dug in the sand,
\forcelinebreak And childhood’s castles built or planned;
\forcelinebreak His daily haunts I well discern, —
\forcelinebreak The poultry-yard, the shed, the barn, —
\forcelinebreak And every inch of garden ground
\forcelinebreak Paced by the blessed feet around,
\forcelinebreak From the roadside to the brook
\forcelinebreak Whereinto he loved to look.
\forcelinebreak Step the meek fowls where erst they ranged;
\forcelinebreak The wintry garden lies unchanged;
\forcelinebreak The brook into the stream runs on;
\forcelinebreak But the deep-eyed boy is gone.


On that shaded day,
\forcelinebreak Dark with more clouds than tempests are,
\forcelinebreak When thou didst yield thy innocent breath
\forcelinebreak In birdlike heavings unto death,
\forcelinebreak Night came, and Nature had not thee;
\forcelinebreak I said, ‘We are mates in misery.’
\forcelinebreak The morrow dawned with needless glow;
\forcelinebreak Each snowbird chirped, each fowl must crow;
\forcelinebreak Each tramper started; but the feet
\forcelinebreak Of the most beautiful and sweet
\forcelinebreak Of human youth had left the hill
\forcelinebreak And garden, — they were bound and still.
\forcelinebreak There’s not a sparrow or a wren,
\forcelinebreak There’s not a blade of autumn grain,
\forcelinebreak Which the four seasons do not tend
\forcelinebreak And tides of life and increase lend;
\forcelinebreak And every chick of every bird,
\forcelinebreak And weed and rock-moss is preferred.
\forcelinebreak O ostrich-like forgetfulness!
\forcelinebreak O loss of larger in the less!
\forcelinebreak Was there no star that could be sent,
\forcelinebreak No watcher in the firmament,
\forcelinebreak No angel from the countless host
\forcelinebreak That loiters round the crystal coast,
\forcelinebreak Could stoop to heal that only child,
\forcelinebreak Nature’s sweet marvel undefiled,
\forcelinebreak And keep the blossom of the earth,
\forcelinebreak Which all her harvests were not worth?
\forcelinebreak Not mine, — I never called thee mine,
\forcelinebreak But Nature’s heir, — if I repine,
\forcelinebreak And seeing rashly torn and moved
\forcelinebreak Not what I made, but what I loved,
\forcelinebreak Grow early old with grief that thou
\forcelinebreak Must to the wastes of Nature go, —
\forcelinebreak ‘T is because a general hope
\forcelinebreak Was quenched, and all must doubt and grope.
\forcelinebreak For flattering planets seemed to say
\forcelinebreak This child should ills of ages stay,
\forcelinebreak By wondrous tongue, and guided pen,
\forcelinebreak Bring the flown Muses back to men.
\forcelinebreak Perchance not he but Nature ailed,
\forcelinebreak The world and not the infant failed.
\forcelinebreak It was not ripe yet to sustain
\forcelinebreak A genius of so fine a strain,
\forcelinebreak Who gazed upon the sun and moon
\forcelinebreak As if he came unto his own,
\forcelinebreak And, pregnant with his grander thought,
\forcelinebreak Brought the old order into doubt.
\forcelinebreak His beauty once their beauty tried;
\forcelinebreak They could not feed him, and he died,
\forcelinebreak And wandered backward as in scorn,
\forcelinebreak To wait an aeon to be born.
\forcelinebreak Ill day which made this beauty waste,
\forcelinebreak Plight broken, this high face defaced!
\forcelinebreak Some went and came about the dead;
\forcelinebreak And some in books of solace read;
\forcelinebreak Some to their friends the tidings say;
\forcelinebreak Some went to write, some went to pray;
\forcelinebreak One tarried here, there hurried one;
\forcelinebreak But their heart abode with none.
\forcelinebreak Covetous death bereaved us all,
\forcelinebreak To aggrandize one funeral.
\forcelinebreak The eager fate which carried thee
\forcelinebreak Took the largest part of me:
\forcelinebreak For this losing is true dying;
\forcelinebreak This is lordly man’s down-lying,
\forcelinebreak This his slow but sure reclining,
\forcelinebreak Star by star his world resigning.


O child of paradise,
\forcelinebreak Boy who made dear his father’s home,
\forcelinebreak In whose deep eyes
\forcelinebreak Men read the welfare of the times to come,
\forcelinebreak I am too much bereft.
\forcelinebreak The world dishonored thou hast left.
\forcelinebreak O truth’s and nature’s costly lie!
\forcelinebreak O trusted broken prophecy!
\forcelinebreak O richest fortune sourly crossed!
\forcelinebreak Born for the future, to the future lost!


The deep Heart answered, ‘Weepest thou?
\forcelinebreak Worthier cause for passion wild
\forcelinebreak If I had not taken the child.
\forcelinebreak And deemest thou as those who pore,
\forcelinebreak With aged eyes, short way before, —
\forcelinebreak Think’st Beauty vanished from the coast
\forcelinebreak Of matter, and thy darling lost?
\forcelinebreak Taught he not thee — the man of eld,
\forcelinebreak Whose eyes within his eyes beheld
\forcelinebreak Heaven’s numerous hierarchy span
\forcelinebreak The mystic gulf from God to man?
\forcelinebreak To be alone wilt thou begin
\forcelinebreak When worlds of lovers hem thee in?
\forcelinebreak To-morrow, when the masks shall fall
\forcelinebreak That dizen Nature’s carnival,
\forcelinebreak The pure shall see by their own will,
\forcelinebreak Which overflowing Love shall fill,
\forcelinebreak ‘T is not within the force of fate
\forcelinebreak The fate-conjoined to separate.
\forcelinebreak But thou, my votary, weepest thou?
\forcelinebreak I gave thee sight — where is it now?
\forcelinebreak I taught thy heart beyond the reach
\forcelinebreak Of ritual, bible, or of speech;
\forcelinebreak Wrote in thy mind’s transparent table,
\forcelinebreak As far as the incommunicable;
\forcelinebreak Taught thee each private sign to raise
\forcelinebreak Lit by the supersolar blaze.
\forcelinebreak Past utterance, and past belief,
\forcelinebreak And past the blasphemy of grief,
\forcelinebreak The mysteries of Nature’s heart;
\forcelinebreak And though no Muse can these impart,
\forcelinebreak Throb thine with Nature’s throbbing breast,
\forcelinebreak And all is clear from east to west.


‘I came to thee as to a friend;
\forcelinebreak Dearest, to thee I did not send
\forcelinebreak Tutors, but a joyful eye,
\forcelinebreak Innocence that matched the sky,
\forcelinebreak Lovely locks, a form of wonder,
\forcelinebreak Laughter rich as woodland thunder,
\forcelinebreak That thou might’st entertain apart
\forcelinebreak The richest flowering of all art:
\forcelinebreak And, as the great all-loving Day
\forcelinebreak Through smallest chambers takes its way,
\forcelinebreak That thou might’st break thy daily bread
\forcelinebreak With prophet, savior and head;
\forcelinebreak That thou might’st cherish for thine own
\forcelinebreak The riches of sweet Mary’s Son,
\forcelinebreak Boy-Rabbi, Israel’s paragon.
\forcelinebreak And thoughtest thou such guest
\forcelinebreak Would in thy hall take up his rest?
\forcelinebreak Would rushing life forget her laws,
\forcelinebreak Fate’s glowing revolution pause?
\forcelinebreak High omens ask diviner guess;
\forcelinebreak Not to be conned to tediousness
\forcelinebreak And know my higher gifts unbind
\forcelinebreak The zone that girds the incarnate mind.
\forcelinebreak When the scanty shores are full
\forcelinebreak With Thought’s perilous, whirling pool;
\forcelinebreak When frail Nature can no more,
\forcelinebreak Then the Spirit strikes the hour:
\forcelinebreak My servant Death, with solving rite,
\forcelinebreak Pours finite into infinite.
\forcelinebreak Wilt thou freeze love’s tidal flow,
\forcelinebreak Whose streams through Nature circling go?
\forcelinebreak Nail the wild star to its track
\forcelinebreak On the half-climbed zodiac?
\forcelinebreak Light is light which radiates,
\forcelinebreak Blood is blood which circulates,
\forcelinebreak Life is life which generates,
\forcelinebreak And many-seeming life is one, —
\forcelinebreak Wilt thou transfix and make it none?
\forcelinebreak Its onward force too starkly pent
\forcelinebreak In figure, bone and lineament?
\forcelinebreak Wilt thou, uncalled, interrogate,
\forcelinebreak Talker! the unreplying Fate?
\forcelinebreak Nor see the genius of the whole
\forcelinebreak Ascendant in the private soul,
\forcelinebreak Beckon it when to go and come,
\forcelinebreak Self-announced its hour of doom?
\forcelinebreak Fair the soul’s recess and shrine,
\forcelinebreak Magic-built to last a season;
\forcelinebreak Masterpiece of love benign,
\forcelinebreak Fairer that expansive reason
\forcelinebreak Whose omen ’tis, and sign.
\forcelinebreak Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know
\forcelinebreak What rainbows teach, and sunsets show?
\forcelinebreak Verdict which accumulates
\forcelinebreak From lengthening scroll of human fates,
\forcelinebreak Voice of earth to earth returned,
\forcelinebreak Prayers of saints that inly burned, —
\forcelinebreak Saying, What is excellent,
\forcelinebreak As God lives, is permanent;
\forcelinebreak Hearts are dust, hearts’ loves remain;
\forcelinebreak Heart’s love will meet thee again.
\forcelinebreak Revere the Maker; fetch thine eye
\forcelinebreak Up to his style, and manners of the sky.
\forcelinebreak Not of adamant and gold
\forcelinebreak Built he heaven stark and cold;
\forcelinebreak No, but a nest of bending reeds,
\forcelinebreak Flowering grass and scented weeds;
\forcelinebreak Or like a traveller’s fleeing tent,
\forcelinebreak Or bow above the tempest bent;
\forcelinebreak Built of tears and sacred flames,
\forcelinebreak And virtue reaching to its aims;
\forcelinebreak Built of furtherance and pursuing,
\forcelinebreak Not of spent deeds, but of doing.
\forcelinebreak Silent rushes the swift Lord
\forcelinebreak Through ruined systems still restored,
\forcelinebreak Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless,
\forcelinebreak Plants with worlds the wilderness;
\forcelinebreak Waters with tears of ancient sorrow
\forcelinebreak Apples of Eden ripe to-morrow.
\forcelinebreak House and tenant go to ground,
\forcelinebreak Lost in God, in Godhead found.’


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\section{Concord Hymn}


SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE BATTLE MONUMENT, JULY 4, 1837


By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
\forcelinebreak Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
\forcelinebreak Here once the embattled farmers stood
\forcelinebreak And fired the shot heard round the world.


The foe long since in silence slept;
\forcelinebreak Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
\forcelinebreak And Time the ruined bridge has swept
\forcelinebreak Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.


On this green bank, by this soft stream,
\forcelinebreak We set to-day a votive stone;
\forcelinebreak That memory may their deed redeem,
\forcelinebreak When, like our sires, our sons are gone.


Spirit, that made those heroes dare
\forcelinebreak To die, and leave their children free,
\forcelinebreak Bid Time and Nature gently spare
\forcelinebreak The shaft we raise to them and thee.


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\chapter{May-Day and Other Pieces}



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\section{May-day}


Daughter of Heaven and Earth, coy Spring,
\forcelinebreak With sudden passion languishing,
\forcelinebreak Teaching Barren moors to smile,
\forcelinebreak Painting pictures mile on mile,
\forcelinebreak Holds a cup with cowslip-wreaths,
\forcelinebreak Whence a smokeless incense breathes.
\forcelinebreak The air is full of whistlings bland;
\forcelinebreak What was that I heard
\forcelinebreak Out of the hazy land?
\forcelinebreak Harp of the wind, or song of bird,
\forcelinebreak Or vagrant booming of the air,
\forcelinebreak Voice of a meteor lost in day?
\forcelinebreak Such tidings of the starry sphere
\forcelinebreak Can this elastic air convey.
\forcelinebreak Or haply ’twas the cannonade
\forcelinebreak Of the pent and darkened lake,
\forcelinebreak Cooled by the pendent mountain’s shade,
\forcelinebreak Whose deeps, till beams of noonday break,
\forcelinebreak Afflicted moan, and latest hold
\forcelinebreak Even into May the iceberg cold.
\forcelinebreak Was it a squirrel’s pettish bark,
\forcelinebreak Or clarionet of jay? or hark
\forcelinebreak Where yon wedged line the Nestor leads,
\forcelinebreak Steering north with raucous cry
\forcelinebreak Through tracts and provinces of sky,
\forcelinebreak Every night alighting down
\forcelinebreak In new landscapes of romance,
\forcelinebreak Where darkling feed the clamorous clans
\forcelinebreak By lonely lakes to men unknown.
\forcelinebreak Come the tumult whence it will,
\forcelinebreak Voice of sport, or rush of wings,
\forcelinebreak It is a sound, it is a token
\forcelinebreak That the marble sleep is broken,
\forcelinebreak And a change has passed on things.


When late I walked, in earlier days,
\forcelinebreak All was stiff and stark;
\forcelinebreak Knee-deep snows choked all the ways,
\forcelinebreak In the sky no spark;
\forcelinebreak Firm-braced I sought my ancient woods,
\forcelinebreak Struggling through the drifted roads;
\forcelinebreak The whited desert knew me not,
\forcelinebreak Snow-ridges masked each darling spot;
\forcelinebreak The summer dells, by genius haunted,
\forcelinebreak One arctic moon had disenchanted.
\forcelinebreak All the sweet secrets therein hid
\forcelinebreak By Fancy, ghastly spells undid.
\forcelinebreak Eldest mason, Frost, had piled
\forcelinebreak Swift cathedrals in the wild;
\forcelinebreak The piny hosts were sheeted ghosts
\forcelinebreak In the star-lit minster aisled.
\forcelinebreak I found no joy: the icy wind
\forcelinebreak Might rule the forest to his mind.
\forcelinebreak Who would freeze on frozen lakes?
\forcelinebreak Back to books and sheltered home,
\forcelinebreak And wood-fire flickering on the walls,
\forcelinebreak To hear, when, ‘mid our talk and games,
\forcelinebreak Without the baffled North-wind calls.
\forcelinebreak But soft! a sultry morning breaks;
\forcelinebreak The ground-pines wash their rusty green,
\forcelinebreak The maple-tops their crimson tint,
\forcelinebreak On the soft path each track is seen,
\forcelinebreak The girl’s foot leaves its neater print.
\forcelinebreak The pebble loosened from the frost
\forcelinebreak Asks of the urchin to be tost.
\forcelinebreak In flint and marble beats a heart,
\forcelinebreak The kind Earth takes her children’s part,
\forcelinebreak The green lane is the school-boy’s friend,
\forcelinebreak Low leaves his quarrel apprehend,
\forcelinebreak The fresh ground loves his top and ball,
\forcelinebreak The air rings jocund to his call,
\forcelinebreak The brimming brook invites a leap,
\forcelinebreak He dives the hollow, climbs the steep.
\forcelinebreak The youth sees omens where he goes,
\forcelinebreak And speaks all languages the rose,
\forcelinebreak The wood-fly mocks with tiny voice
\forcelinebreak The far halloo of human voice;
\forcelinebreak The perfumed berry on the spray
\forcelinebreak Smacks of faint memories far away.
\forcelinebreak A subtle chain of countless rings
\forcelinebreak The next into the farthest brings,
\forcelinebreak And, striving to be man, the worm
\forcelinebreak Mounts through all the spires of form.


The caged linnet in the Spring
\forcelinebreak Hearkens for the choral glee,
\forcelinebreak When his fellows on the wing
\forcelinebreak Migrate from the Southern Sea;
\forcelinebreak When trellised grapes their flowers unmask,
\forcelinebreak And the new-born tendrils twine,
\forcelinebreak The old wine darkling in the cask
\forcelinebreak Feels the bloom on the living vine,
\forcelinebreak And bursts the hoops at hint of Spring:
\forcelinebreak And so, perchance, in Adam’s race,
\forcelinebreak Of Eden’s bower some dream-like trace
\forcelinebreak Survived the Flight and swam the Flood,
\forcelinebreak And wakes the wish in youngest blood
\forcelinebreak To tread the forfeit Paradise,
\forcelinebreak And feed once more the exile’s eyes;
\forcelinebreak And ever when the happy child
\forcelinebreak In May beholds the blooming wild,
\forcelinebreak And hears in heaven the bluebird sing,
\forcelinebreak ‘Onward,’ he cries, ‘your baskets bring, —
\forcelinebreak In the next field is air more mild,
\forcelinebreak And o’er yon hazy crest is Eden’s balmier spring.’


Not for a regiment’s parade,
\forcelinebreak Nor evil laws or rulers made,
\forcelinebreak Blue Walden rolls its cannonade,
\forcelinebreak But for a lofty sign
\forcelinebreak Which the Zodiac threw,
\forcelinebreak That the bondage-days are told.
\forcelinebreak And waters free as winds shall flow.
\forcelinebreak Lo! how all the tribes combine
\forcelinebreak To rout the flying foe.
\forcelinebreak See, every patriot oak-leaf throws
\forcelinebreak His elfin length upon the snows,
\forcelinebreak Not idle, since the leaf all day
\forcelinebreak Draws to the spot the solar ray,
\forcelinebreak Ere sunset quarrying inches down,
\forcelinebreak And halfway to the mosses brown;
\forcelinebreak While the grass beneath the rime
\forcelinebreak Has hints of the propitious time,
\forcelinebreak And upward pries and perforates
\forcelinebreak Through the cold slab a thousand gates,
\forcelinebreak Till green lances peering through
\forcelinebreak Bend happy in the welkin blue.


As we thaw frozen flesh with snow,
\forcelinebreak So Spring will not her time forerun,
\forcelinebreak Mix polar night with tropic glow,
\forcelinebreak Nor cloy us with unshaded sun,
\forcelinebreak Nor wanton skip with bacchic dance,
\forcelinebreak But she has the temperance
\forcelinebreak Of the gods, whereof she is one, —
\forcelinebreak Masks her treasury of heat
\forcelinebreak Under east winds crossed with sleet.
\forcelinebreak Plants and birds and humble creatures
\forcelinebreak Well accept her rule austere;
\forcelinebreak Titan-born, to hardy natures
\forcelinebreak Cold is genial and dear.
\forcelinebreak As Southern wrath to Northern right
\forcelinebreak Is but straw to anthracite;
\forcelinebreak As in the day of sacrifice,
\forcelinebreak When heroes piled the pyre,
\forcelinebreak The dismal Massachusetts ice
\forcelinebreak Burned more than others’ fire,
\forcelinebreak So Spring guards with surface cold
\forcelinebreak The garnered heat of ages old.
\forcelinebreak Hers to sow the seed of bread,
\forcelinebreak That man and all the kinds be fed;
\forcelinebreak And, when the sunlight fills the hours,
\forcelinebreak Dissolves the crust, displays the flowers.


Beneath the calm, within the light,
\forcelinebreak A hid unruly appetite
\forcelinebreak Of swifter life, a surer hope,
\forcelinebreak Strains every sense to larger scope,
\forcelinebreak Impatient to anticipate
\forcelinebreak The halting steps of aged Fate.
\forcelinebreak Slow grows the palm, too slow the pearl:
\forcelinebreak When Nature falters, fain would zeal
\forcelinebreak Grasp the felloes of her wheel,
\forcelinebreak And grasping give the orbs another whirl.
\forcelinebreak Turn swiftlier round, O tardy ball!
\forcelinebreak And sun this frozen side.
\forcelinebreak Bring hither back the robin’s call,
\forcelinebreak Bring back the tulip’s pride.


Why chidest thou the tardy Spring?
\forcelinebreak The hardy bunting does not chide;
\forcelinebreak The blackbirds make the maples ring
\forcelinebreak With social cheer and jubilee;
\forcelinebreak The redwing flutes his o-ka-lee,
\forcelinebreak The robins know the melting snow;
\forcelinebreak The sparrow meek, prophetic-eyed,
\forcelinebreak Her nest beside the snow-drift weaves,
\forcelinebreak Secure the osier yet will hide
\forcelinebreak Her callow brood in mantling leaves, —
\forcelinebreak And thou, by science all undone,
\forcelinebreak Why only must thy reason fail
\forcelinebreak To see the southing of the sun?


The world rolls round, — mistrust it not, —
\forcelinebreak Befalls again what once befell;
\forcelinebreak All things return, both sphere and mote,
\forcelinebreak And I shall hear my bluebird’s note,
\forcelinebreak And dream the dream of Auburn dell.


April cold with dropping rain
\forcelinebreak Willows and lilacs brings again,
\forcelinebreak The whistle of returning birds,
\forcelinebreak And trumpet-lowing of the herds.
\forcelinebreak The scarlet maple-keys betray
\forcelinebreak What potent blood hath modest May,
\forcelinebreak What fiery force the earth renews,
\forcelinebreak The wealth of forms, the flush of hues;
\forcelinebreak What joy in rosy waves outpoured
\forcelinebreak Flows from the heart of Love, the Lord.


Hither rolls the storm of heat;
\forcelinebreak I feel its finer billows beat
\forcelinebreak Like a sea which me infolds;
\forcelinebreak Heat with viewless fingers moulds,
\forcelinebreak Swells, and mellows, and matures,
\forcelinebreak Paints, and flavors, and allures,
\forcelinebreak Bird and brier inly warms,
\forcelinebreak Still enriches and transforms,
\forcelinebreak Gives the reed and lily length,
\forcelinebreak Adds to oak and oxen strength,
\forcelinebreak Transforming what it doth infold,
\forcelinebreak Life out of death, new out of old,
\forcelinebreak Painting fawns’ and leopards’ fells,
\forcelinebreak Seethes the gulf-encrimsoning shells,
\forcelinebreak Fires gardens with a joyful blaze
\forcelinebreak Of tulips, in the morning’s rays.
\forcelinebreak The dead log touched bursts into leaf,
\forcelinebreak The wheat-blade whispers of the sheaf.
\forcelinebreak What god is this imperial Heat,
\forcelinebreak Earth’s prime secret, sculpture’s seat?
\forcelinebreak Doth it bear hidden in its heart
\forcelinebreak Water-line patterns of all art?
\forcelinebreak Is it Daedalus? is it Love?
\forcelinebreak Or walks in mask almighty Jove,
\forcelinebreak And drops from Power’s redundant horn
\forcelinebreak All seeds of beauty to be born?


Where shall we keep the holiday,
\forcelinebreak And duly greet the entering May?
\forcelinebreak Too strait and low our cottage doors,
\forcelinebreak And all unmeet our carpet floors;
\forcelinebreak Nor spacious court, nor monarch’s hall,
\forcelinebreak Suffice to hold the festival.
\forcelinebreak Up and away! where haughty woods
\forcelinebreak Front the liberated floods:
\forcelinebreak We will climb the broad-backed hills,
\forcelinebreak Hear the uproar of their joy;
\forcelinebreak We will mark the leaps and gleams
\forcelinebreak Of the new-delivered streams,
\forcelinebreak And the murmuring rivers of sap
\forcelinebreak Mount in the pipes of the trees,
\forcelinebreak Giddy with day, to the topmost spire,
\forcelinebreak Which for a spike of tender green
\forcelinebreak Bartered its powdery cap;
\forcelinebreak And the colors of joy in the bird,
\forcelinebreak And the love in its carol heard,
\forcelinebreak Frog and lizard in holiday coats,
\forcelinebreak And turtle brave in his golden spots;
\forcelinebreak While cheerful cries of crag and plain
\forcelinebreak Reply to the thunder of river and main.


As poured the flood of the ancient sea
\forcelinebreak Spilling over mountain chains,
\forcelinebreak Bending forests as bends the sedge,
\forcelinebreak Faster flowing o’er the plains, —
\forcelinebreak A world-wide wave with a foaming edge
\forcelinebreak That rims the running silver sheet, —
\forcelinebreak So pours the deluge of the heat
\forcelinebreak Broad northward o’er the land,
\forcelinebreak Painting artless paradises,
\forcelinebreak Drugging herbs with Syrian spices,
\forcelinebreak Fanning secret fires which glow
\forcelinebreak In columbine and clover-blow,
\forcelinebreak Climbing the northern zones,
\forcelinebreak Where a thousand pallid towns
\forcelinebreak Lie like cockles by the main,
\forcelinebreak Or tented armies on a plain.
\forcelinebreak The million-handed sculptor moulds
\forcelinebreak Quaintest bud and blossom folds,
\forcelinebreak The million-handed painter pours
\forcelinebreak Opal hues and purple dye;
\forcelinebreak Azaleas flush the island floors,
\forcelinebreak And the tints of heaven reply.


Wreaths for the May! for happy Spring
\forcelinebreak To-day shall all her dowry bring,
\forcelinebreak The love of kind, the joy, the grace,
\forcelinebreak Hymen of element and race,
\forcelinebreak Knowing well to celebrate
\forcelinebreak With song and hue and star and state,
\forcelinebreak With tender light and youthful cheer,
\forcelinebreak The spousals of the new-born year.


Spring is strong and virtuous,
\forcelinebreak Broad-sowing, cheerful, plenteous,
\forcelinebreak Quickening underneath the mould
\forcelinebreak Grains beyond the price of gold.
\forcelinebreak So deep and large her bounties are,
\forcelinebreak That one broad, long midsummer day
\forcelinebreak Shall to the planet overpay
\forcelinebreak The ravage of a year of war.


Drug the cup, thou butler sweet,
\forcelinebreak And send the nectar round;
\forcelinebreak The feet that slid so long on sleet
\forcelinebreak Are glad to feel the ground.
\forcelinebreak Fill and saturate each kind
\forcelinebreak With good according to its mind,
\forcelinebreak Fill each kind and saturate
\forcelinebreak With good agreeing with its fate,
\forcelinebreak And soft perfection of its plan —
\forcelinebreak Willow and violet, maiden and man.


The bitter-sweet, the haunting air
\forcelinebreak Creepeth, bloweth everywhere;
\forcelinebreak It preys on all, all prey on it.
\forcelinebreak Blooms in beauty, thinks in wit,
\forcelinebreak Stings the strong with enterprise,
\forcelinebreak Makes travellers long for Indian skies,
\forcelinebreak And where it comes this courier fleet
\forcelinebreak Fans in all hearts expectance sweet,
\forcelinebreak As if to-morrow should redeem
\forcelinebreak The vanished rose of evening’s dream.
\forcelinebreak By houses lies a fresher green,
\forcelinebreak On men and maids a ruddier mien,
\forcelinebreak As if Time brought a new relay
\forcelinebreak Of shining virgins every May,
\forcelinebreak And Summer came to ripen maids
\forcelinebreak To a beauty that not fades.


I saw the bud-crowned Spring go forth,
\forcelinebreak Stepping daily onward north
\forcelinebreak To greet staid ancient cavaliers
\forcelinebreak Filing single in stately train.
\forcelinebreak And who, and who are the travellers?
\forcelinebreak They were Night and Day, and Day and Night,
\forcelinebreak Pilgrims wight with step forthright.
\forcelinebreak I saw the Days deformed and low,
\forcelinebreak Short and bent by cold and snow;
\forcelinebreak The merry Spring threw wreaths on them,
\forcelinebreak Flower-wreaths gay with bud and bell;
\forcelinebreak Many a flower and many a gem,
\forcelinebreak They were refreshed by the smell,
\forcelinebreak They shook the snow from hats and shoon,
\forcelinebreak They put their April raiment on;
\forcelinebreak And those eternal forms,
\forcelinebreak Unhurt by a thousand storms,
\forcelinebreak Shot up to the height of the sky again,
\forcelinebreak And danced as merrily as young men.
\forcelinebreak I saw them mask their awful glance
\forcelinebreak Sidewise meek in gossamer lids;
\forcelinebreak And to speak my thought if none forbids
\forcelinebreak It was as if the eternal gods,
\forcelinebreak Tired of their starry periods,
\forcelinebreak Hid their majesty in cloth
\forcelinebreak Woven of tulips and painted moth.
\forcelinebreak On carpets green the maskers march
\forcelinebreak Below May’s well-appointed arch,
\forcelinebreak Each star, each god; each grace amain,
\forcelinebreak Every joy and virtue speed,
\forcelinebreak Marching duly in her train,
\forcelinebreak And fainting Nature at her need
\forcelinebreak Is made whole again.


’Twas the vintage-day of field and wood,
\forcelinebreak When magic wine for bards is brewed;
\forcelinebreak Every tree and stem and chink
\forcelinebreak Gushed with syrup to the brink.
\forcelinebreak The air stole into the streets of towns,
\forcelinebreak Refreshed the wise, reformed the clowns,
\forcelinebreak And betrayed the fund of joy
\forcelinebreak To the high-school and medalled boy:
\forcelinebreak On from hall to chamber ran,
\forcelinebreak From youth to maid, from boy to man,
\forcelinebreak To babes, and to old eyes as well.
\forcelinebreak ‘Once more,’ the old man cried, ‘ye clouds,
\forcelinebreak Airy turrets purple-piled,
\forcelinebreak Which once my infancy beguiled,
\forcelinebreak Beguile me with the wonted spell.
\forcelinebreak I know ye skilful to convoy
\forcelinebreak The total freight of hope and joy
\forcelinebreak Into rude and homely nooks,
\forcelinebreak Shed mocking lustres on shelf of books,
\forcelinebreak On farmer’s byre, on pasture rude,
\forcelinebreak And stony pathway to the wood.
\forcelinebreak I care not if the pomps you show
\forcelinebreak Be what they soothfast appear,
\forcelinebreak Or if yon realms in sunset glow
\forcelinebreak Be bubbles of the atmosphere.
\forcelinebreak And if it be to you allowed
\forcelinebreak To fool me with a shining cloud,
\forcelinebreak So only new griefs are consoled
\forcelinebreak By new delights, as old by old,
\forcelinebreak Frankly I will be your guest,
\forcelinebreak Count your change and cheer the best.
\forcelinebreak The world hath overmuch of pain, —
\forcelinebreak If Nature give me joy again,
\forcelinebreak Of such deceit I’ll not complain.’


Ah! well I mind the calendar,
\forcelinebreak Faithful through a thousand years,
\forcelinebreak Of the painted race of flowers,
\forcelinebreak Exact to days, exact to hours,
\forcelinebreak Counted on the spacious dial
\forcelinebreak Yon broidered zodiac girds.
\forcelinebreak I know the trusty almanac
\forcelinebreak Of the punctual coming-back,
\forcelinebreak On their due days, of the birds.
\forcelinebreak I marked them yestermorn,
\forcelinebreak A flock of finches darting
\forcelinebreak Beneath the crystal arch,
\forcelinebreak Piping, as they flew, a march, —
\forcelinebreak Belike the one they used in parting
\forcelinebreak Last year from yon oak or larch;
\forcelinebreak Dusky sparrows in a crowd,
\forcelinebreak Diving, darting northward free,
\forcelinebreak Suddenly betook them all,
\forcelinebreak Every one to his hole in the wall,
\forcelinebreak Or to his niche in the apple-tree.
\forcelinebreak I greet with joy the choral trains
\forcelinebreak Fresh from palms and Cuba’s canes.
\forcelinebreak Best gems of Nature’s cabinet,
\forcelinebreak With dews of tropic morning wet,
\forcelinebreak Beloved of children, bards and Spring,
\forcelinebreak O birds, your perfect virtues bring,
\forcelinebreak Your song, your forms, your rhythmic flight,
\forcelinebreak Your manners for the heart’s delight,
\forcelinebreak Nestle in hedge, or barn, or roof,
\forcelinebreak Here weave your chamber weather-proof,
\forcelinebreak Forgive our harms, and condescend
\forcelinebreak To man, as to a lubber friend,
\forcelinebreak And, generous, teach his awkward race
\forcelinebreak Courage and probity and grace!


Poets praise that hidden wine
\forcelinebreak Hid in milk we drew
\forcelinebreak At the barrier of Time,
\forcelinebreak When our life was new.
\forcelinebreak We had eaten fairy fruit,
\forcelinebreak We were quick from head to foot,
\forcelinebreak All the forms we looked on shone
\forcelinebreak As with diamond dews thereon.
\forcelinebreak What cared we for costly joys,
\forcelinebreak The Museum’s far-fetched toys?
\forcelinebreak Gleam of sunshine on the wall
\forcelinebreak Poured a deeper cheer than all
\forcelinebreak The revels of the Carnival.
\forcelinebreak We a pine-grove did prefer
\forcelinebreak To a marble theatre,
\forcelinebreak Could with gods on mallows dine,
\forcelinebreak Nor cared for spices or for wine.
\forcelinebreak Wreaths of mist and rainbow spanned.
\forcelinebreak Arch on arch, the grimmest land;
\forcelinebreak Whittle of a woodland bird
\forcelinebreak Made the pulses dance,
\forcelinebreak Note of horn in valleys heard
\forcelinebreak Filled the region with romance.


None can tell how sweet,
\forcelinebreak How virtuous, the morning air;
\forcelinebreak Every accent vibrates well;
\forcelinebreak Not alone the wood-bird’s call,
\forcelinebreak Or shouting boys that chase their ball,
\forcelinebreak Pass the height of minstrel skill,
\forcelinebreak But the ploughman’s thoughtless cry,
\forcelinebreak Lowing oxen, sheep that bleat,
\forcelinebreak And the joiner’s hammer-beat,
\forcelinebreak Softened are above their will,
\forcelinebreak Take tones from groves they wandered through
\forcelinebreak Or flutes which passing angels blew.
\forcelinebreak All grating discords melt,
\forcelinebreak No dissonant note is dealt,
\forcelinebreak And though thy voice be shrill
\forcelinebreak Like rasping file on steel,
\forcelinebreak Such is the temper of the air,
\forcelinebreak Echo waits with art and care,
\forcelinebreak And will the faults of song repair.


So by remote Superior Lake,
\forcelinebreak And by resounding Mackinac,
\forcelinebreak When northern storms the forest shake,
\forcelinebreak And billows on the long beach break,
\forcelinebreak The artful Air will separate
\forcelinebreak Note by note all sounds that grate,
\forcelinebreak Smothering in her ample breast
\forcelinebreak All but godlike words,
\forcelinebreak Reporting to the happy ear
\forcelinebreak Only purified accords.
\forcelinebreak Strangely wrought from barking waves,
\forcelinebreak Soft music daunts the Indian braves, —
\forcelinebreak Convent-chanting which the child
\forcelinebreak Hears pealing from the panther’s cave
\forcelinebreak And the impenetrable wild.


Soft on the South-wind sleeps the haze:
\forcelinebreak So on thy broad mystic van
\forcelinebreak Lie the opal-colored days,
\forcelinebreak And waft the miracle to man.
\forcelinebreak Soothsayer of the eldest gods,
\forcelinebreak Repairer of what harms betide,
\forcelinebreak Revealer of the inmost powers
\forcelinebreak Prometheus proffered, Jove denied;
\forcelinebreak Disclosing treasures more than true,
\forcelinebreak Or in what far to-morrow due;
\forcelinebreak Speaking by the tongues of flowers,
\forcelinebreak By the ten-tongued laurel speaking,
\forcelinebreak Singing by the oriole songs,
\forcelinebreak Heart of bird the man’s heart seeking;
\forcelinebreak Whispering hints of treasure hid
\forcelinebreak Under Morn’s unlifted lid,
\forcelinebreak Islands looming just beyond
\forcelinebreak The dim horizon’s utmost bound; —
\forcelinebreak Who can, like thee, our rags upbraid,
\forcelinebreak Or taunt us with our hope decayed?
\forcelinebreak Or who like thee persuade,
\forcelinebreak Making the splendor of the air,
\forcelinebreak The morn and sparkling dew, a snare?
\forcelinebreak Or who resent
\forcelinebreak Thy genius, wiles and blandishment?


There is no orator prevails
\forcelinebreak To beckon or persuade
\forcelinebreak Like thee the youth or maid:
\forcelinebreak Thy birds, thy songs, thy brooks, thy gales,
\forcelinebreak Thy blooms, thy kinds,
\forcelinebreak Thy echoes in the wilderness,
\forcelinebreak Soothe pain, and age, and love’s distress,
\forcelinebreak Fire fainting will, and build heroic minds.


For thou, O Spring! canst renovate
\forcelinebreak All that high God did first create.
\forcelinebreak Be still his arm and architect,
\forcelinebreak Rebuild the ruin, mend defect;
\forcelinebreak Chemist to vamp old worlds with new,
\forcelinebreak Coat sea and sky with heavenlier blue,
\forcelinebreak New tint the plumage of the birds,
\forcelinebreak And slough decay from grazing herds,
\forcelinebreak Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain,
\forcelinebreak Cleanse the torrent at the fountain,
\forcelinebreak Purge alpine air by towns defiled,
\forcelinebreak Bring to fair mother fairer child,
\forcelinebreak Not less renew the heart and brain,
\forcelinebreak Scatter the sloth, wash out the stain,
\forcelinebreak Make the aged eye sun-clear,
\forcelinebreak To parting soul bring grandeur near.
\forcelinebreak Under gentle types, my Spring
\forcelinebreak Masks the might of Nature’s king,
\forcelinebreak An energy that searches thorough
\forcelinebreak From Chaos to the dawning morrow;
\forcelinebreak Into all our human plight,
\forcelinebreak The soul’s pilgrimage and flight;
\forcelinebreak In city or in solitude,
\forcelinebreak Step by step, lifts bad to good,
\forcelinebreak Without halting, without rest,
\forcelinebreak Lifting Better up to Best;
\forcelinebreak Planting seeds of knowledge pure,
\forcelinebreak Through earth to ripen, through heaven endure.


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\section{The Adirondacs}


A JOURNAL


DEDICATED TO MY FELLOW TRAVELLERS IN AUGUST, 1858


Wise and polite, — and if I drew
\forcelinebreak Their several portraits, you would own
\forcelinebreak Chaucer had no such worthy crew,
\forcelinebreak Nor Boccace in Decameron.


We crossed Champlain to Keeseville with our friends,
\forcelinebreak Thence, in strong country carts, rode up the forks
\forcelinebreak Of the Ausable stream, intent to reach
\forcelinebreak The Adirondac lakes. At Martin’s Beach
\forcelinebreak We chose our boats; each man a boat and guide, —
\forcelinebreak Ten men, ten guides, our company all told.


Next morn, we swept with oars the Saranac,
\forcelinebreak With skies of benediction, to Round Lake,
\forcelinebreak Where all the sacred mountains drew around us,
\forcelinebreak Taháwus, Seaward, MacIntyre, Baldhead,
\forcelinebreak And other Titans without muse or name.
\forcelinebreak Pleased with these grand companions, we glide on,
\forcelinebreak Instead of flowers, crowned with a wreath of hills.
\forcelinebreak We made our distance wider, boat from boat,
\forcelinebreak As each would hear the oracle alone.
\forcelinebreak By the bright morn the gay flotilla slid
\forcelinebreak Through files of flags that gleamed like bayonets,
\forcelinebreak Through gold-moth-haunted beds of pickerel-flower,
\forcelinebreak Through scented banks of lilies white and gold,
\forcelinebreak Where the deer feeds at night, the teal by day,
\forcelinebreak On through the Upper Saranac, and up
\forcelinebreak Père Raquette stream, to a small tortuous pass
\forcelinebreak Winding through grassy shallows in and out,
\forcelinebreak Two creeping miles of rushes, pads and sponge,
\forcelinebreak To Follansbee Water and the Lake of Loons.


Northward the length of Follansbee we rowed,
\forcelinebreak Under low mountains, whose unbroken ridge
\forcelinebreak Ponderous with beechen forest sloped the shore.
\forcelinebreak A pause and council: then, where near the head
\forcelinebreak Due east a bay makes inward to the land
\forcelinebreak Between two rocky arms, we climb the bank,
\forcelinebreak And in the twilight of the forest noon
\forcelinebreak Wield the first axe these echoes ever heard.
\forcelinebreak We cut young trees to make our poles and thwarts,
\forcelinebreak Barked the white spruce to weatherfend the roof,
\forcelinebreak Then struck a light and kindled the camp-fire.


The wood was sovran with centennial trees, —
\forcelinebreak Oak, cedar, maple, poplar, beech and fir,
\forcelinebreak Linden and spruce. In strict society
\forcelinebreak Three conifers, white, pitch and Norway pine,
\forcelinebreak Five-leaved, three-leaved and two-leaved, grew thereby,
\forcelinebreak Our patron pine was fifteen feet in girth,
\forcelinebreak The maple eight, beneath its shapely tower.


‘Welcome!’ the wood-god murmured through the leaves, —
\forcelinebreak ‘Welcome, though late, unknowing, yet known to me.’
\forcelinebreak Evening drew on; stars peeped through maple-boughs,
\forcelinebreak Which o’erhung, like a cloud, our camping fire.
\forcelinebreak Decayed millennial trunks, like moonlight flecks,
\forcelinebreak Lit with phosphoric crumbs the forest floor.


Ten scholars, wonted to lie warm and soft
\forcelinebreak In well-hung chambers daintily bestowed,
\forcelinebreak Lie here on hemlock-boughs, like Sacs and Sioux,
\forcelinebreak And greet unanimous the joyful change.
\forcelinebreak So fast will Nature acclimate her sons,
\forcelinebreak Though late returning to her pristine ways.
\forcelinebreak Off soundings, seamen do not suffer cold;
\forcelinebreak And, in the forest, delicate clerks, unbrowned,
\forcelinebreak Sleep on the fragrant brush, as on down-beds.
\forcelinebreak Up with the dawn, they fancied the light air
\forcelinebreak That circled freshly in their forest dress
\forcelinebreak Made them to boys again. Happier that they
\forcelinebreak Slipped off their pack of duties, leagues behind,
\forcelinebreak At the first mounting of the giant stairs.
\forcelinebreak No placard on these rocks warned to the polls,
\forcelinebreak No door-bell heralded a visitor,
\forcelinebreak No courier waits, no letter came or went,
\forcelinebreak Nothing was ploughed, or reaped, or bought, or sold;
\forcelinebreak The frost might glitter, it would blight no crop,
\forcelinebreak The falling rain will spoil no holiday.
\forcelinebreak We were made freemen of the forest laws,
\forcelinebreak All dressed, like Nature, fit for her own ends,
\forcelinebreak Essaying nothing she cannot perform.


In Adirondac lakes
\forcelinebreak At morn or noon, the guide rows bareheaded:
\forcelinebreak Shoes, flannel shirt, and kersey trousers make
\forcelinebreak His brief toilette: at night, or in the rain,
\forcelinebreak He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn:
\forcelinebreak A paddle in the right hand, or an oar,
\forcelinebreak And in the left, a gun, his needful arms.
\forcelinebreak By turns we praised the stature of our guides,
\forcelinebreak Their rival strength and suppleness, their skill
\forcelinebreak To row, to swim, to shoot, to build a camp,
\forcelinebreak To climb a lofty stem, clean without boughs
\forcelinebreak Full fifty feet, and bring the eaglet down:
\forcelinebreak Temper to face wolf, bear, or catamount,
\forcelinebreak And wit to trap or take him in his lair.
\forcelinebreak Sound, ruddy men, frolic and innocent,
\forcelinebreak In winter, lumberers; in summer, guides;
\forcelinebreak Their sinewy arms pull at the oar untired
\forcelinebreak Three times ten thousand strokes, from morn to eve.


Look to yourselves, ye polished gentlemen!
\forcelinebreak No city airs or arts pass current here.
\forcelinebreak Your rank is all reversed; let men or cloth
\forcelinebreak Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls:
\forcelinebreak They are the doctors of the wilderness,
\forcelinebreak And we the low-prized laymen.
\forcelinebreak In sooth, red flannel is a saucy test
\forcelinebreak Which few can put on with impunity.
\forcelinebreak What make you, master, fumbling at the oar?
\forcelinebreak Will you catch crabs? Truth tries pretension here.
\forcelinebreak The sallow knows the basket-maker’s thumb;
\forcelinebreak The oar, the guide’s. Dare you accept the tasks
\forcelinebreak He shall impose, to find a spring, trap foxes,
\forcelinebreak Tell the sun’s time, determine the true north,
\forcelinebreak Or stumbling on through vast self-similar woods
\forcelinebreak To thread by night the nearest way to camp?


Ask you, how went the hours?
\forcelinebreak All day we swept the lake, searched every cove,
\forcelinebreak North from Camp Maple, south to Osprey Bay,
\forcelinebreak Watching when the loud dogs should drive in deer,
\forcelinebreak Or whipping its rough surface for a trout;
\forcelinebreak Or, bathers, diving from the rock at noon;
\forcelinebreak Challenging Echo by our guns and cries;
\forcelinebreak Or listening to the laughter of the loon;
\forcelinebreak Or, in the evening twilight’s latest red,
\forcelinebreak Beholding the procession of the pines;
\forcelinebreak Or, later yet, beneath a lighted jack,
\forcelinebreak In the boat’s bows, a silent night-hunter
\forcelinebreak Stealing with paddle to the feeding-grounds
\forcelinebreak Of the red deer, to aim at a square mist.
\forcelinebreak Hark to that muffled roar! a tree in the woods
\forcelinebreak Is fallen: but hush! it has not scared the buck
\forcelinebreak Who stands astonished at the meteor light,
\forcelinebreak Then turns to bound away, — is it too late?


Our heroes tried their rifles at a mark,
\forcelinebreak Six rods, sixteen, twenty, or forty-five;
\forcelinebreak Sometimes their wits at sally and retort,
\forcelinebreak With laughter sudden as the crack of rifle;
\forcelinebreak Or parties scaled the near acclivities
\forcelinebreak Competing seekers of a rumored lake,
\forcelinebreak Whose unauthenticated waves we named
\forcelinebreak Lake Probability, — our carbuncle,
\forcelinebreak Long sought, not found.


Two Doctors in the camp
\forcelinebreak Dissected the slain deer, weighed the trout’s brain,
\forcelinebreak Captured the lizard, salamander, shrew,
\forcelinebreak Crab, mice, snail, dragon-fly, minnow and moth;
\forcelinebreak Insatiate skill in water or in air
\forcelinebreak Waved the scoop-net, and nothing came amiss;
\forcelinebreak The while, one leaden got of alcohol
\forcelinebreak Gave an impartial tomb to all the kinds.
\forcelinebreak Not less the ambitious botanist sought plants,
\forcelinebreak Orchis and gentian, fern and long whip-scirpus,
\forcelinebreak Rosy polygonum, lake-margin’s pride,
\forcelinebreak Hypnum and hydnum, mushroom, sponge and moss,
\forcelinebreak Or harebell nodding in the gorge of falls.
\forcelinebreak Above, the eagle flew, the osprey screamed,
\forcelinebreak The raven croaked, owls hooted, the woodpecker
\forcelinebreak Loud hammered, and the heron rose in the swamp.
\forcelinebreak As water poured through hollows of the hills
\forcelinebreak To feed this wealth of lakes and rivulets,
\forcelinebreak So Nature shed all beauty lavishly
\forcelinebreak From her redundant horn.


Lords of this realm,
\forcelinebreak Bounded by dawn and sunset, and the day
\forcelinebreak Rounded by hours where each outdid the last
\forcelinebreak In miracles of pomp, we must be proud,
\forcelinebreak As if associates of the sylvan gods.
\forcelinebreak We seemed the dwellers of the zodiac,
\forcelinebreak So pure the Alpine element we breathed,
\forcelinebreak So light, so lofty pictures came and went.
\forcelinebreak We trode on air, contemned the distant town,
\forcelinebreak Its timorous ways, big trifles, and we planned
\forcelinebreak That we should build, hard-by, a spacious lodge
\forcelinebreak And how we should come hither with our sons,
\forcelinebreak Hereafter, — willing they, and more adroit.


Hard fare, hard bed and comic misery, —
\forcelinebreak The midge, the blue-fly and the mosquito
\forcelinebreak Painted our necks, hands, ankles, with red bands:
\forcelinebreak But, on the second day, we heed them not,
\forcelinebreak Nay, we saluted them Auxiliaries,
\forcelinebreak Whom earlier we had chid with spiteful names.
\forcelinebreak For who defends our leafy tabernacle
\forcelinebreak From bold intrusion of the travelling crowd, —
\forcelinebreak Who but the midge, mosquito and the fly,
\forcelinebreak Which past endurance sting the tender cit,
\forcelinebreak But which we learn to scatter with a smudge,
\forcelinebreak Or baffle by a veil, or slight by scorn?


Our foaming ale we drank from hunters’ pans,
\forcelinebreak Ale, and a sup of wine. Our steward gave
\forcelinebreak Venison and trout, potatoes, beans, wheat-bread;
\forcelinebreak All ate like abbots, and, if any missed
\forcelinebreak Their wonted convenance, cheerly hid the loss
\forcelinebreak With hunters’ appetite and peals of mirth.
\forcelinebreak And Stillman, our guides’ guide, and Commodore,
\forcelinebreak Crusoe, Crusader, Pius Aeneas, said aloud,
\forcelinebreak “Chronic dyspepsia never came from eating
\forcelinebreak Food indigestible”: — then murmured some,
\forcelinebreak Others applauded him who spoke the truth.


Nor doubt but visitings of graver thought
\forcelinebreak Checked in these souls the turbulent heyday
\forcelinebreak ‘Mid all the hints and glories of the home.
\forcelinebreak For who can tell what sudden privacies
\forcelinebreak Were sought and found, amid the hue and cry
\forcelinebreak Of scholars furloughed from their tasks and let
\forcelinebreak Into this Oreads’ fended Paradise,
\forcelinebreak As chapels in the city’s thoroughfares,
\forcelinebreak Whither gaunt Labor slips to wipe his brow
\forcelinebreak And meditate a moment on Heaven’s rest.
\forcelinebreak Judge with what sweet surprises Nature spoke
\forcelinebreak To each apart, lifting her lovely shows
\forcelinebreak To spiritual lessons pointed home,
\forcelinebreak And as through dreams in watches of the night,
\forcelinebreak So through all creatures in their form and ways
\forcelinebreak Some mystic hint accosts the vigilant,
\forcelinebreak Not clearly voiced, but waking a new sense
\forcelinebreak Inviting to new knowledge, one with old.
\forcelinebreak Hark to that petulant chirp! what ails the warbler?
\forcelinebreak Mark his capricious ways to draw the eye.
\forcelinebreak Now soar again. What wilt thou, restless bird,
\forcelinebreak Seeking in that chaste blue a bluer light,
\forcelinebreak Thirsting in that pure for a purer sky?


And presently the sky is changed; O world!
\forcelinebreak What pictures and what harmonies are thine!
\forcelinebreak The clouds are rich and dark, the air serene,
\forcelinebreak So like the soul of me, what if ‘t were me?
\forcelinebreak A melancholy better than all mirth.
\forcelinebreak Comes the sweet sadness at the retrospect,
\forcelinebreak Or at the foresight of obscurer years?
\forcelinebreak Like yon slow-sailing cloudy promontory
\forcelinebreak Whereon the purple iris dwells in beauty
\forcelinebreak Superior to all its gaudy skirts.
\forcelinebreak And, that no day of life may lack romance,
\forcelinebreak The spiritual stars rise nightly, shedding down
\forcelinebreak A private beam into each several heart.
\forcelinebreak Daily the bending skies solicit man,
\forcelinebreak The seasons chariot him from this exile,
\forcelinebreak The rainbow hours bedeck his glowing chair,
\forcelinebreak The storm-winds urge the heavy weeks along,
\forcelinebreak Suns haste to set, that so remoter lights
\forcelinebreak Beckon the wanderer to his vaster home.


With a vermilion pencil mark the day
\forcelinebreak When of our little fleet three cruising skiffs
\forcelinebreak Entering Big Tupper, bound for the foaming Falls
\forcelinebreak Of loud Bog River, suddenly confront
\forcelinebreak Two of our mates returning with swift oars.
\forcelinebreak One held a printed journal waving high
\forcelinebreak Caught from a late-arriving traveller,
\forcelinebreak Big with great news, and shouted the report
\forcelinebreak For which the world had waited, now firm fact,
\forcelinebreak Of the wire-cable laid beneath the sea,
\forcelinebreak And landed on our coast, and pulsating
\forcelinebreak With ductile fire. Loud, exulting cries
\forcelinebreak From boat to boat, and to the echoes round,
\forcelinebreak Greet the glad miracle. Thought’s new-found path
\forcelinebreak Shall supplement henceforth all trodden ways,
\forcelinebreak Match God’s equator with a zone of art,
\forcelinebreak And lift man’s public action to a height
\forcelinebreak Worthy the enormous cloud of witnesses,
\forcelinebreak When linkèd hemispheres attest his deed.
\forcelinebreak We have few moments in the longest life
\forcelinebreak Of such delight and wonder as there grew, —
\forcelinebreak Nor yet unsuited to that solitude:
\forcelinebreak A burst of joy, as if we told the fact
\forcelinebreak To ears intelligent; as if gray rock
\forcelinebreak And cedar grove and cliff and lake should know
\forcelinebreak This feat of wit, this triumph of mankind;
\forcelinebreak As if we men were talking in a vein
\forcelinebreak Of sympathy so large, that ours was theirs,
\forcelinebreak And a prime end of the most subtle element
\forcelinebreak Were fairly reached at last. Wake, echoing caves!
\forcelinebreak Bend nearer, faint day-moon! Yon thundertops,
\forcelinebreak Let them hear well! ’tis theirs as much as ours.


A spasm throbbing through the pedestals
\forcelinebreak Of Alp and Andes, isle and continent,
\forcelinebreak Urging astonished Chaos with a thrill
\forcelinebreak To be a brain, or serve the brain of man.
\forcelinebreak The lightning has run masterless too long;
\forcelinebreak He must to school and learn his verb and noun
\forcelinebreak And teach his nimbleness to earn his wage,
\forcelinebreak Spelling with guided tongue man’s messages
\forcelinebreak Shot through the weltering pit of the salt sea.
\forcelinebreak And yet I marked, even in the manly joy
\forcelinebreak Of our great-hearted Doctor in his boat
\forcelinebreak (Perchance I erred), a shade of discontent;
\forcelinebreak Or was it for mankind a generous shame,
\forcelinebreak As of a luck not quite legitimate,
\forcelinebreak Since fortune snatched from wit the lion’s part?
\forcelinebreak Was it a college pique of town and gown,
\forcelinebreak As one within whose memory it burned
\forcelinebreak That not academicians, but some lout,
\forcelinebreak Found ten years since the Californian gold?
\forcelinebreak And now, again, a hungry company
\forcelinebreak Of traders, led by corporate sons of trade,
\forcelinebreak Perversely borrowing from the shop the tools
\forcelinebreak Of science, not from the philosophers,
\forcelinebreak Had won the brightest laurel of all time.
\forcelinebreak ’Twas always thus, and will be; hand and head
\forcelinebreak Are ever rivals: but, though this be swift,
\forcelinebreak The other slow, — this the Prometheus,
\forcelinebreak And that the Jove, — yet, howsoever hid,
\forcelinebreak It was from Jove the other stole his fire,
\forcelinebreak And, without Jove, the good had never been.
\forcelinebreak It is not Iroquois or cannibals,
\forcelinebreak But ever the free race with front sublime,
\forcelinebreak And these instructed by their wisest too,
\forcelinebreak Who do the feat, and lift humanity.
\forcelinebreak Let not him mourn who best entitled was,
\forcelinebreak Nay, mourn not one: let him exult,
\forcelinebreak Yea, plant the tree that bears best apples, plant,
\forcelinebreak And water it with wine, nor watch askance
\forcelinebreak Whether thy sons or strangers eat the fruit:
\forcelinebreak Enough that mankind eat and are refreshed.


We flee away from cities, but we bring
\forcelinebreak The best of cities with us, these learned classifiers,
\forcelinebreak Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.
\forcelinebreak We praise the guide, we praise the forest life:
\forcelinebreak But will we sacrifice our dear-bought lore
\forcelinebreak Of books and arts and trained experiment,
\forcelinebreak Or count the Sioux a match for Agassiz?
\forcelinebreak O no, not we! Witness the shout that shook
\forcelinebreak Wild Tupper Lake; witness the mute all-hail
\forcelinebreak The joyful traveller gives, when on the verge
\forcelinebreak Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears
\forcelinebreak From a log cabin stream Beethoven’s notes
\forcelinebreak On the piano, played with master’s hand.
\forcelinebreak ‘Well done!’ he cries; ‘the bear is kept at bay,
\forcelinebreak The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire;
\forcelinebreak All the fierce enemies, ague, hunger, cold,
\forcelinebreak This thin spruce roof, this clayed log-wall,
\forcelinebreak This wild plantation will suffice to chase.
\forcelinebreak Now speed the gay celerities of art,
\forcelinebreak What in the desert was impossible
\forcelinebreak Within four walls is possible again, —
\forcelinebreak Culture and libraries, mysteries of skill,
\forcelinebreak Traditioned fame of masters, eager strife
\forcelinebreak Of keen competing youths, joined or alone
\forcelinebreak To outdo each other and extort applause.
\forcelinebreak Mind wakes a new-born giant from her sleep.
\forcelinebreak Twirl the old wheels! Time takes fresh start again,
\forcelinebreak On for a thousand years of genius more.’


The holidays were fruitful, but must end;
\forcelinebreak One August evening had a cooler breath;
\forcelinebreak Into each mind intruding duties crept;
\forcelinebreak Under the cinders burned the fires of home;
\forcelinebreak Nay, letters found us in our paradise:
\forcelinebreak So in the gladness of the new event
\forcelinebreak We struck our camp and left the happy hills.
\forcelinebreak The fortunate star that rose on us sank not;
\forcelinebreak The prodigal sunshine rested on the land,
\forcelinebreak The rivers gambolled onward to the sea,
\forcelinebreak And Nature, the inscrutable and mute,
\forcelinebreak Permitted on her infinite repose
\forcelinebreak Almost a smile to steal to cheer her sons,
\forcelinebreak As if one riddle of the Sphinx were guessed.


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\section{Brahma}


If the red slayer think he slays,
\forcelinebreak Or if the slain think he is slain,
\forcelinebreak They know not well the subtle ways
\forcelinebreak I keep, and pass, and turn again.


Far or forgot to me is near;
\forcelinebreak Shadow and sunlight are the same;
\forcelinebreak The vanished gods to me appear;
\forcelinebreak And one to me are shame and fame.


They reckon ill who leave me out;
\forcelinebreak When me they fly, I am the wings;
\forcelinebreak I am the doubter and the doubt,
\forcelinebreak And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.


The strong gods pine for my abode,
\forcelinebreak And pine in vain the sacred Seven;
\forcelinebreak But thou, meek lover of the good!
\forcelinebreak Find me, and turn thy back on heaven.


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\section{Nemesis}


Already blushes on thy cheek
\forcelinebreak The bosom thought which thou must speak;
\forcelinebreak The bird, how far it haply roam
\forcelinebreak By cloud or isle, is flying home;
\forcelinebreak The maiden fears, and fearing runs
\forcelinebreak Into the charmed snare she shuns;
\forcelinebreak And every man, in love or pride,
\forcelinebreak Of his fate is never wide.


Will a woman’s fan the ocean smooth?
\forcelinebreak Or prayers the stony Parcae soothe,
\forcelinebreak Or coax the thunder from its mark?
\forcelinebreak Or tapers light the chaos dark?
\forcelinebreak In spite of Virtue and the Muse,
\forcelinebreak Nemesis will have her dues,
\forcelinebreak And all our struggles and our toils
\forcelinebreak Tighter wind the giant coils.


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\section{Fate}


Deep in the man sits fast his fate
\forcelinebreak To mould his fortunes, mean or great:
\forcelinebreak Unknown to Cromwell as to me
\forcelinebreak Was Cromwell’s measure or degree;
\forcelinebreak Unknown to him as to his horse,
\forcelinebreak If he than his groom be better or worse.
\forcelinebreak He works, plots, fights, in rude affairs,
\forcelinebreak With squires, lords, kings, his craft compares,
\forcelinebreak Till late he learned, through doubt and fear,
\forcelinebreak Broad England harbored not his peer:
\forcelinebreak Obeying time, the last to own
\forcelinebreak The Genius from its cloudy throne.
\forcelinebreak For the prevision is allied
\forcelinebreak Unto the thing so signified;
\forcelinebreak Or say, the foresight that awaits
\forcelinebreak Is the same Genius that creates.


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\section{Freedom}


Once I wished I might rehearse
\forcelinebreak Freedom’s paean in my verse,
\forcelinebreak That the slave who caught the strain
\forcelinebreak Should throb until he snapped his chain,
\forcelinebreak But the Spirit said, ‘Not so;
\forcelinebreak Speak it not, or speak it low;
\forcelinebreak Name not lightly to be said,
\forcelinebreak Gift too precious to be prayed,
\forcelinebreak Passion not to be expressed
\forcelinebreak But by heaving of the breast:
\forcelinebreak Yet, — wouldst thou the mountain find
\forcelinebreak Where this deity is shrined,
\forcelinebreak Who gives to seas and sunset skies
\forcelinebreak Their unspent beauty of surprise,
\forcelinebreak And, when it lists him, waken can
\forcelinebreak Brute or savage into man;
\forcelinebreak Or, if in thy heart he shine,
\forcelinebreak Blends the starry fates with thine,
\forcelinebreak Draws angels nigh to dwell with thee,
\forcelinebreak And makes thy thoughts archangels be;
\forcelinebreak Freedom’s secret wilt thou know? —
\forcelinebreak Counsel not with flesh and blood;
\forcelinebreak Loiter not for cloak or food;
\forcelinebreak Right thou feelest, rush to do.’


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\section{Ode Sung in the Town Hall, Concord, July 4, 1857}


O tenderly the haughty day
\forcelinebreak Fills his blue urn with fire;
\forcelinebreak One morn is in the mighty heaven,
\forcelinebreak And one in our desire.


The cannon booms from town to town,
\forcelinebreak Our pulses beat not less,
\forcelinebreak The joy-bells chime their tidings down,
\forcelinebreak Which children’s voices bless.


For He that flung the broad blue fold
\forcelinebreak O’er-mantling land and sea,
\forcelinebreak One third part of the sky unrolled
\forcelinebreak For the banner of the free.


The men are ripe of Saxon kind
\forcelinebreak To build an equal state, —
\forcelinebreak To take the statute from the mind
\forcelinebreak And make of duty fate.


United States! the ages plead, —
\forcelinebreak Present and Past in under-song, —
\forcelinebreak Go put your creed into your deed,
\forcelinebreak Nor speak with double tongue.


For sea and land don’t understand,
\forcelinebreak Nor skies without a frown
\forcelinebreak See rights for which the one hand fights
\forcelinebreak By the other cloven down.


Be just at home; then write your scroll
\forcelinebreak Of honor o’er the sea,
\forcelinebreak And bid the broad Atlantic roll,
\forcelinebreak A ferry of the free.


And henceforth there shall be no chain,
\forcelinebreak Save underneath the sea
\forcelinebreak The wires shall murmur through the main
\forcelinebreak Sweet songs of liberty.


The conscious stars accord above,
\forcelinebreak The waters wild below,
\forcelinebreak And under, through the cable wove,
\forcelinebreak Her fiery errands go.


For He that worketh high and wise.
\forcelinebreak Nor pauses in his plan,
\forcelinebreak Will take the sun out of the skies
\forcelinebreak Ere freedom out of man.


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\section{Boston Hymn Read in Music Hall, January 1, 1863}


The word of the Lord by night
\forcelinebreak To the watching Pilgrims came,
\forcelinebreak As they sat by the seaside,
\forcelinebreak And filled their hearts with flame.


God said, I am tired of kings,
\forcelinebreak I suffer them no more;
\forcelinebreak Up to my ear the morning brings
\forcelinebreak The outrage of the poor.


Think ye I made this ball
\forcelinebreak A field of havoc and war,
\forcelinebreak Where tyrants great and tyrants small
\forcelinebreak Might harry the weak and poor?


My angel, — his name is Freedom, —
\forcelinebreak Choose him to be your king;
\forcelinebreak He shall cut pathways east and west
\forcelinebreak And fend you with his wing.


Lo! I uncover the land
\forcelinebreak Which I hid of old time in the West,
\forcelinebreak As the sculptor uncovers the statue
\forcelinebreak When he has wrought his best;


I show Columbia, of the rocks
\forcelinebreak Which dip their foot in the seas
\forcelinebreak And soar to the air-borne flocks
\forcelinebreak Of clouds and the boreal fleece.


I will divide my goods;
\forcelinebreak Call in the wretch and slave:
\forcelinebreak None shall rule but the humble.
\forcelinebreak And none but Toil shall have.


I will have never a noble,
\forcelinebreak No lineage counted great;
\forcelinebreak Fishers and choppers and ploughmen
\forcelinebreak Shall constitute a state.


Go, cut down trees in the forest
\forcelinebreak And trim the straightest boughs;
\forcelinebreak Cut down trees in the forest
\forcelinebreak And build me a wooden house.


Call the people together,
\forcelinebreak The young men and the sires,
\forcelinebreak The digger in the harvest-field,
\forcelinebreak Hireling and him that hires;


And here in a pine state-house
\forcelinebreak They shall choose men to rule
\forcelinebreak In every needful faculty,
\forcelinebreak In church and state and school.


Lo, now! if these poor men
\forcelinebreak Can govern the land and sea
\forcelinebreak And make just laws below the sun,
\forcelinebreak As planets faithful be.


And ye shall succor men;
\forcelinebreak ’Tis nobleness to serve;
\forcelinebreak Help them who cannot help again:
\forcelinebreak Beware from right to swerve.


I break your bonds and masterships,
\forcelinebreak And I unchain the slave:
\forcelinebreak Free be his heart and hand henceforth
\forcelinebreak As wind and wandering wave.


I cause from every creature
\forcelinebreak His proper good to flow:
\forcelinebreak As much as he is and doeth,
\forcelinebreak So much he shall bestow.


But, laying hands on another
\forcelinebreak To coin his labor and sweat,
\forcelinebreak He goes in pawn to his victim
\forcelinebreak For eternal years in debt.


To-day unbind the captive,
\forcelinebreak So only are ye unbound;
\forcelinebreak Lift up a people from the dust,
\forcelinebreak Trump of their rescue, sound!


Pay ransom to the owner
\forcelinebreak And fill the bag to the brim.
\forcelinebreak Who is the owner? The slave is owner,
\forcelinebreak And ever was. Pay him.


O North! give him beauty for rags,
\forcelinebreak And honor, O South! for his shame;
\forcelinebreak Nevada! coin thy golden crags
\forcelinebreak With Freedom’s image and name.


Up! and the dusky race
\forcelinebreak That sat in darkness long, —
\forcelinebreak Be swift their feet as antelopes.
\forcelinebreak And as behemoth strong.


Come, East and West and North,
\forcelinebreak By races, as snow-flakes,
\forcelinebreak And carry my purpose forth,
\forcelinebreak Which neither halts nor shakes.


My will fulfilled shall be,
\forcelinebreak For, in daylight or in dark,
\forcelinebreak My thunderbolt has eyes to see
\forcelinebreak His way home to the mark.


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\section{Voluntaries}


I


Low and mournful be the strain,
\forcelinebreak Haughty thought be far from me;
\forcelinebreak Tones of penitence and pain,
\forcelinebreak Meanings of the tropic sea;
\forcelinebreak Low and tender in the cell
\forcelinebreak Where a captive sits in chains.
\forcelinebreak Crooning ditties treasured well
\forcelinebreak From his Afric’s torrid plains.
\forcelinebreak Sole estate his sire bequeathed, —
\forcelinebreak Hapless sire to hapless son, —
\forcelinebreak Was the wailing song he breathed,
\forcelinebreak And his chain when life was done.


What his fault, or what his crime?
\forcelinebreak Or what ill planet crossed his prime?
\forcelinebreak Heart too soft and will too weak
\forcelinebreak To front the fate that crouches near, —
\forcelinebreak Dove beneath the vulture’s beak; —
\forcelinebreak Will song dissuade the thirsty spear?
\forcelinebreak Dragged from his mother’s arms and breast,
\forcelinebreak Displaced, disfurnished here,
\forcelinebreak His wistful toil to do his best
\forcelinebreak Chilled by a ribald jeer.
\forcelinebreak Great men in the Senate sate,
\forcelinebreak Sage and hero, side by side,
\forcelinebreak Building for their sons the State,
\forcelinebreak Which they shall rule with pride.
\forcelinebreak They forbore to break the chain
\forcelinebreak Which bound the dusky tribe,
\forcelinebreak Checked by the owners’ fierce disdain,
\forcelinebreak Lured by ‘Union’ as the bribe.
\forcelinebreak Destiny sat by, and said,
\forcelinebreak ‘Pang for pang your seed shall pay,
\forcelinebreak Hide in false peace your coward head,
\forcelinebreak I bring round the harvest day.’


II


Freedom all winged expands,
\forcelinebreak Nor perches in a narrow place;
\forcelinebreak Her broad van seeks unplanted lands;
\forcelinebreak She loves a poor and virtuous race.
\forcelinebreak Clinging to a colder zone
\forcelinebreak Whose dark sky sheds the snowflake down,
\forcelinebreak The snowflake is her banner’s star,
\forcelinebreak Her stripes the boreal streamers are.
\forcelinebreak Long she loved the Northman well;
\forcelinebreak Now the iron age is done,
\forcelinebreak She will not refuse to dwell
\forcelinebreak With the offspring of the Sun;
\forcelinebreak Foundling of the desert far,
\forcelinebreak Where palms plume, siroccos blaze,
\forcelinebreak He roves unhurt the burning ways
\forcelinebreak In climates of the summer star.
\forcelinebreak He has avenues to God
\forcelinebreak Hid from men of Northern brain,
\forcelinebreak Far beholding, without cloud,
\forcelinebreak What these with slowest steps attain.
\forcelinebreak If once the generous chief arrive
\forcelinebreak To lead him willing to be led,
\forcelinebreak For freedom he will strike and strive,
\forcelinebreak And drain his heart till he be dead.


III


In an age of fops and toys,
\forcelinebreak Wanting wisdom, void of right,
\forcelinebreak Who shall nerve heroic boys
\forcelinebreak To hazard all in Freedom’s fight, —
\forcelinebreak Break sharply off their jolly games,
\forcelinebreak Forsake their comrades gay
\forcelinebreak And quit proud homes and youthful dames
\forcelinebreak For famine, toil and fray?
\forcelinebreak Yet on the nimble air benign
\forcelinebreak Speed nimbler messages,
\forcelinebreak That waft the breath of grace divine
\forcelinebreak To hearts in sloth and ease.
\forcelinebreak So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
\forcelinebreak So near is God to man,
\forcelinebreak When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
\forcelinebreak The youth replies, I can.


IV


O, well for the fortunate soul
\forcelinebreak Which Music’s wings infold,
\forcelinebreak Stealing away the memory
\forcelinebreak Of sorrows new and old!
\forcelinebreak Yet happier he whose inward sight,
\forcelinebreak Stayed on his subtile thought,
\forcelinebreak Shuts his sense on toys of time,
\forcelinebreak To vacant bosoms brought.
\forcelinebreak But best befriended of the God
\forcelinebreak He who, in evil times,
\forcelinebreak Warned by an inward voice,
\forcelinebreak Heeds not the darkness and the dread,
\forcelinebreak Biding by his rule and choice,
\forcelinebreak Feeling only the fiery thread
\forcelinebreak Leading over heroic ground,
\forcelinebreak Walled with mortal terror round,
\forcelinebreak To the aim which him allures,
\forcelinebreak And the sweet heaven his deed secures.
\forcelinebreak Peril around, all else appalling,
\forcelinebreak Cannon in front and leaden rain
\forcelinebreak Him duty through the clarion calling
\forcelinebreak To the van called not in vain.


Stainless soldier on the walls,
\forcelinebreak Knowing this, — and knows no more, —
\forcelinebreak Whoever fights, whoever falls,
\forcelinebreak Justice conquers evermore,
\forcelinebreak Justice after as before, —
\forcelinebreak And he who battles on her side,
\forcelinebreak God, though he were ten times slain,
\forcelinebreak Crowns him victor glorified,
\forcelinebreak Victor over death and pain.


V


Blooms the laurel which belongs
\forcelinebreak To the valiant chief who fights;
\forcelinebreak I see the wreath, I hear the songs
\forcelinebreak Lauding the Eternal Rights,
\forcelinebreak Victors over daily wrongs:
\forcelinebreak Awful victors, they misguide
\forcelinebreak Whom they will destroy,
\forcelinebreak And their coming triumph hide
\forcelinebreak In our downfall, or our joy:
\forcelinebreak They reach no term, they never sleep,
\forcelinebreak In equal strength through space abide;
\forcelinebreak Though, feigning dwarfs, they crouch and creep,
\forcelinebreak The strong they slay, the swift outstride:
\forcelinebreak Fate’s grass grows rank in valley clods,
\forcelinebreak And rankly on the castled steep, —
\forcelinebreak Speak it firmly, these are gods,
\forcelinebreak All are ghosts beside.


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\section{Love and Thought}


Two well-assorted travellers use
\forcelinebreak The highway, Eros and the Muse.
\forcelinebreak From the twins is nothing hidden,
\forcelinebreak To the pair is nought forbidden;
\forcelinebreak Hand in hand the comrades go
\forcelinebreak Every nook of Nature through:
\forcelinebreak Each for other they were born,
\forcelinebreak Each can other best adorn;
\forcelinebreak They know one only mortal grief
\forcelinebreak Past all balsam or relief;
\forcelinebreak When, by false companions crossed,
\forcelinebreak The pilgrims have each other lost.


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\section{Una}


Roving, roving, as it seems,
\forcelinebreak Una lights my clouded dreams;
\forcelinebreak Still for journeys she is dressed;
\forcelinebreak We wander far by east and west.


In the homestead, homely thought,
\forcelinebreak At my work I ramble not;
\forcelinebreak If from home chance draw me wide,
\forcelinebreak Half-seen Una sits beside.


In my house and garden-plot,
\forcelinebreak Though beloved, I miss her not;
\forcelinebreak But one I seek in foreign places,
\forcelinebreak One face explore in foreign faces.


At home a deeper thought may light
\forcelinebreak The inward sky with chrysolite,
\forcelinebreak And I greet from far the ray,
\forcelinebreak Aurora of a dearer day.


But if upon the seas I sail,
\forcelinebreak Or trundle on the glowing rail,
\forcelinebreak I am but a thought of hers,
\forcelinebreak Loveliest of travellers.


So the gentle poet’s name
\forcelinebreak To foreign parts is blown by fame,
\forcelinebreak Seek him in his native town,
\forcelinebreak He is hidden and unknown.


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\section{Boston}


Sicut patribus, sit Deus nobis.


The rocky nook with hilltops three
\forcelinebreak Looked eastward from the farms,
\forcelinebreak And twice each day the flowing sea
\forcelinebreak Took Boston in its arms;
\forcelinebreak The men of yore were stout and poor,
\forcelinebreak And sailed for bread to every shore.


And where they went on trade intent
\forcelinebreak They did what freemen can,
\forcelinebreak Their dauntless ways did all men praise,
\forcelinebreak The merchant was a man.
\forcelinebreak The world was made for honest trade, —
\forcelinebreak To plant and eat be none afraid.


The waves that rocked them on the deep
\forcelinebreak To them their secret told;
\forcelinebreak Said the winds that sung the lads to sleep,
\forcelinebreak ‘Like us be free and bold!’
\forcelinebreak The honest waves refused to slaves
\forcelinebreak The empire of the ocean caves.


Old Europe groans with palaces,
\forcelinebreak Has lords enough and more; —
\forcelinebreak We plant and build by foaming seas
\forcelinebreak A city of the poor; —
\forcelinebreak For day by day could Boston Bay
\forcelinebreak Their honest labor overpay.


We grant no dukedoms to the few,
\forcelinebreak We hold like rights, and shall; —
\forcelinebreak Equal on Sunday in the pew,
\forcelinebreak On Monday in the mall,
\forcelinebreak For what avail the plough or sail,
\forcelinebreak Or land or life, if freedom fail?


The noble craftsman we promote,
\forcelinebreak Disown the knave and fool;
\forcelinebreak Each honest man shall have his vote,
\forcelinebreak Each child shall have his school.
\forcelinebreak A union then of honest men,
\forcelinebreak Or union never more again.


The wild rose and the barberry thorn
\forcelinebreak Hung out their summer pride,
\forcelinebreak Where now on heated pavements worn
\forcelinebreak The feet of millions stride.


Fair rose the planted hills behind
\forcelinebreak The good town on the bay,
\forcelinebreak And where the western hills declined
\forcelinebreak The prairie stretched away.


What care though rival cities soar
\forcelinebreak Along the stormy coast,
\forcelinebreak Penn’s town, New York and Baltimore,
\forcelinebreak If Boston knew the most!


They laughed to know the world so wide;
\forcelinebreak The mountains said, ‘Good-day!
\forcelinebreak We greet you well, you Saxon men,
\forcelinebreak Up with your towns and stay!’
\forcelinebreak The world was made for honest trade, —
\forcelinebreak To plant and eat be none afraid.


‘For you,’ they said, ‘no barriers be,
\forcelinebreak For you no sluggard rest;
\forcelinebreak Each street leads downward to the sea,
\forcelinebreak Or landward to the west.’


O happy town beside the sea,
\forcelinebreak Whose roads lead everywhere to all;
\forcelinebreak Than thine no deeper moat can be,
\forcelinebreak No stouter fence, no steeper wall!


Bad news from George on the English throne;
\forcelinebreak ‘You are thriving well,’ said he;
\forcelinebreak ‘Now by these presents be it known
\forcelinebreak You shall pay us a tax on tea;
\forcelinebreak ’Tis very small, — no load at all, —
\forcelinebreak Honor enough that we send the call.


‘Not so,’ said Boston, ‘good my lord,
\forcelinebreak We pay your governors here
\forcelinebreak Abundant for their bed and board,
\forcelinebreak Six thousand pounds a year.
\forcelinebreak (Your Highness knows our homely word)
\forcelinebreak Millions for self-government,
\forcelinebreak But for tribute never a cent.’


The cargo came! and who could blame
\forcelinebreak If Indians seized the tea,
\forcelinebreak And, chest by chest, let down the same,
\forcelinebreak Into the laughing sea?
\forcelinebreak For what avail the plough or sail,
\forcelinebreak Or land or life, if freedom fail?


The townsmen braved the English king,
\forcelinebreak Found friendship in the French,
\forcelinebreak And honor joined the patriot ring
\forcelinebreak Low on their wooden bench.


O bounteous seas that never fail!
\forcelinebreak O day remembered yet!
\forcelinebreak O happy port that spied the sail
\forcelinebreak Which wafted Lafayette!
\forcelinebreak Pole-star of light in Europe’s night,
\forcelinebreak That never faltered from the right.


Kings shook with fear, old empires crave
\forcelinebreak The secret force to find
\forcelinebreak Which fired the little State to save
\forcelinebreak The rights of all mankind.


But right is might through all the world;
\forcelinebreak Province to province faithful clung,
\forcelinebreak Through good and ill the war-bolt hurled,
\forcelinebreak Till Freedom cheered and joy-bells rung.


The sea returning day by day
\forcelinebreak Restores the world-wide mart;
\forcelinebreak So let each dweller on the Bay
\forcelinebreak Fold Boston in his heart,
\forcelinebreak Till these echoes be choked with snows,
\forcelinebreak Or over the town blue ocean flows.


Let the blood of her hundred thousands
\forcelinebreak Throb in each manly vein;
\forcelinebreak And the wits of all her wisest,
\forcelinebreak Make sunshine in her brain.
\forcelinebreak For you can teach the lightning speech,
\forcelinebreak And round the globe your voices reach.


And each shall care for other,
\forcelinebreak And each to each shall bend,
\forcelinebreak To the poor a noble brother,
\forcelinebreak To the good an equal friend.


A blessing through the ages thus
\forcelinebreak Shield all thy roofs and towers!
\forcelinebreak GOD WITH THE FATHERS, SO WITH US,
\forcelinebreak Thou darling town of ours!


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\section{Letters}


Every day brings a ship,
\forcelinebreak Every ship brings a word;
\forcelinebreak Well for those who have no fear.
\forcelinebreak Looking seaward, well assured
\forcelinebreak That the word the vessel brings
\forcelinebreak Is the word they wish to hear.


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\section{Rubies}


They brought me rubies from the mine,
\forcelinebreak And held them to the sun;
\forcelinebreak I said, they are drops of frozen wine
\forcelinebreak From Eden’s vats that run.


I looked again, — I thought them hearts
\forcelinebreak Of friends to friends unknown;
\forcelinebreak Tides that should warm each neighboring life
\forcelinebreak Are locked in sparkling stone.


But fire to thaw that ruddy snow,
\forcelinebreak To break enchanted ice,
\forcelinebreak And give love’s scarlet tides to flow, —
\forcelinebreak When shall that sun arise?


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\section{Merlin’s Song}


I


Of Merlin wise I learned a song, —
\forcelinebreak Sing it low or sing it loud,
\forcelinebreak It is mightier than the strong,
\forcelinebreak And punishes the proud.
\forcelinebreak I sing it to the surging crowd, —
\forcelinebreak Good men it will calm and cheer,
\forcelinebreak Bad men it will chain and cage —
\forcelinebreak In the heart of the music peals a strain
\forcelinebreak Which only angels hear;
\forcelinebreak Whether it waken joy or rage
\forcelinebreak Hushed myriads hark in vain,
\forcelinebreak Yet they who hear it shed their age,
\forcelinebreak And take their youth again.


II


Hear what British Merlin sung,
\forcelinebreak Of keenest eye and truest tongue.
\forcelinebreak Say not, the chiefs who first arrive
\forcelinebreak Usurp the seats for which all strive;
\forcelinebreak The forefathers this land who found
\forcelinebreak Failed to plant the vantage-ground;
\forcelinebreak Ever from one who comes to-morrow
\forcelinebreak Men wait their good and truth to borrow.
\forcelinebreak But wilt thou measure all thy road,
\forcelinebreak See thou lift the lightest load.
\forcelinebreak Who has little, to him who has less, can spare,
\forcelinebreak And thou, Cyndyllan’s son! beware
\forcelinebreak Ponderous gold and stuffs to bear,
\forcelinebreak To falter ere thou thy task fulfil, —
\forcelinebreak Only the light-armed climb the hill.
\forcelinebreak The richest of all lords is Use,
\forcelinebreak And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse.
\forcelinebreak Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,
\forcelinebreak Drink the wild air’s salubrity:
\forcelinebreak When the star Canope shines in May,
\forcelinebreak Shepherds are thankful and nations gay.
\forcelinebreak The music that can deepest reach,
\forcelinebreak And cure all ill, is cordial speech:
\forcelinebreak Mask thy wisdom with delight,
\forcelinebreak Toy with the bow, yet hit the white.
\forcelinebreak Of all wit’s uses, the main one
\forcelinebreak Is to live well with who has none.


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\section{The Test}


(Musa loquitur.)


I hung my verses in the wind,
\forcelinebreak Time and tide their faults may find.
\forcelinebreak All were winnowed through and through,
\forcelinebreak Five lines lasted sound and true;
\forcelinebreak Five were smelted in a pot
\forcelinebreak Than the South more fierce and hot;
\forcelinebreak These the siroc could not melt,
\forcelinebreak Fire their fiercer flaming felt,
\forcelinebreak And the meaning was more white
\forcelinebreak Than July’s meridian light.
\forcelinebreak Sunshine cannot bleach the snow,
\forcelinebreak Nor time unmake what poets know.
\forcelinebreak Have you eyes to find the five
\forcelinebreak Which five hundred did survive?


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\section{Solution}


I am the Muse who sung alway
\forcelinebreak By Jove, at dawn of the first day.
\forcelinebreak Star-crowned, sole-sitting, long I wrought
\forcelinebreak To fire the stagnant earth with thought:
\forcelinebreak On spawning slime my song prevails,
\forcelinebreak Wolves shed their fangs, and dragons scales;
\forcelinebreak Flushed in the sky the sweet May-morn,
\forcelinebreak Earth smiled with flowers, and man was born.
\forcelinebreak Then Asia yeaned her shepherd race,
\forcelinebreak And Nile substructs her granite base, —
\forcelinebreak Tented Tartary, columned Nile, —
\forcelinebreak And, under vines, on rocky isle,
\forcelinebreak Or on wind-blown sea-marge bleak,
\forcelinebreak Forward stepped the perfect Greek:
\forcelinebreak That wit and joy might find a tongue,
\forcelinebreak And earth grow civil, HOMER sung.


Flown to Italy from Greece,
\forcelinebreak I brooded long and held my peace,
\forcelinebreak For I am wont to sing uncalled,
\forcelinebreak And in days of evil plight
\forcelinebreak Unlock doors of new delight;
\forcelinebreak And sometimes mankind I appalled
\forcelinebreak With a bitter horoscope,
\forcelinebreak With spasms of terror for balm of hope.
\forcelinebreak Then by better thought I lead
\forcelinebreak Bards to speak what nations need;
\forcelinebreak So I folded me in fears,
\forcelinebreak And DANTE searched the triple spheres,
\forcelinebreak Moulding Nature at his will,
\forcelinebreak So shaped, so colored, swift or still,
\forcelinebreak And, sculptor-like, his large design
\forcelinebreak Etched on Alp and Apennine.


Seethed in mists of Penmanmaur,
\forcelinebreak Taught by Plinlimmon’s Druid power,
\forcelinebreak England’s genius filled all measure
\forcelinebreak Of heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,
\forcelinebreak Gave to the mind its emperor,
\forcelinebreak And life was larger than before:
\forcelinebreak Nor sequent centuries could hit
\forcelinebreak Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE’S wit.
\forcelinebreak The men who lived with him became
\forcelinebreak Poets, for the air was fame.


Far in the North, where polar night
\forcelinebreak Holds in check the frolic light,
\forcelinebreak In trance upborne past mortal goal
\forcelinebreak The Swede EMANUEL leads the soul.
\forcelinebreak Through snows above, mines underground,
\forcelinebreak The inks of Erebus he found;
\forcelinebreak Rehearsed to men the damned wails
\forcelinebreak On which the seraph music sails.
\forcelinebreak In spirit-worlds he trod alone,
\forcelinebreak But walked the earth unmarked, unknown,
\forcelinebreak The near bystander caught no sound, —
\forcelinebreak Yet they who listened far aloof
\forcelinebreak Heard rendings of the skyey roof,
\forcelinebreak And felt, beneath, the quaking ground;
\forcelinebreak And his air-sown, unheeded words,
\forcelinebreak In the next age, are flaming swords.


In newer days of war and trade,
\forcelinebreak Romance forgot, and faith decayed,
\forcelinebreak When Science armed and guided war,
\forcelinebreak And clerks the Janus-gates unbar,
\forcelinebreak When France, where poet never grew,
\forcelinebreak Halved and dealt the globe anew,
\forcelinebreak GOETHE, raised o’er joy and strife,
\forcelinebreak Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life
\forcelinebreak And brought Olympian wisdom down
\forcelinebreak To court and mart, to gown and town.
\forcelinebreak Stooping, his finger wrote in clay
\forcelinebreak The open secret of to-day.


So bloom the unfading petals five,
\forcelinebreak And verses that all verse outlive.


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\section{Hymn Sung at the Second Church, at the Ordination of Rev. Chandler Robbins}


We love the venerable house
\forcelinebreak Our fathers built to God; —
\forcelinebreak In heaven are kept their grateful vows,
\forcelinebreak Their dust endears the sod.


Here holy thoughts a light have shed
\forcelinebreak From many a radiant face,
\forcelinebreak And prayers of humble virtue made
\forcelinebreak The perfume of the place.


And anxious hearts have pondered here
\forcelinebreak The mystery of life,
\forcelinebreak And prayed the eternal Light to clear
\forcelinebreak Their doubts, and aid their strife.


From humble tenements around
\forcelinebreak Came up the pensive train,
\forcelinebreak And in the church a blessing found
\forcelinebreak That filled their homes again;


For faith and peace and mighty love
\forcelinebreak That from the Godhead flow,
\forcelinebreak Showed them the life of Heaven above
\forcelinebreak Springs from the life below.


They live with God; their homes are dust;
\forcelinebreak Yet here their children pray,
\forcelinebreak And in this fleeting lifetime trust
\forcelinebreak To find the narrow way.


On him who by the altar stands,
\forcelinebreak On him thy blessing fall,
\forcelinebreak Speak through his lips thy pure commands,
\forcelinebreak Thou heart that lovest all.


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\section{Nature I}


Winters know
\forcelinebreak Easily to shed the snow,
\forcelinebreak And the untaught Spring is wise
\forcelinebreak In cowslips and anemonies.
\forcelinebreak Nature, hating art and pains,
\forcelinebreak Baulks and baffles plotting brains;
\forcelinebreak Casualty and Surprise
\forcelinebreak Are the apples of her eyes;
\forcelinebreak But she dearly loves the poor,
\forcelinebreak And, by marvel of her own,
\forcelinebreak Strikes the loud pretender down.
\forcelinebreak For Nature listens in the rose
\forcelinebreak And hearkens in the berry’s bell
\forcelinebreak To help her friends, to plague her foes,
\forcelinebreak And like wise God she judges well.
\forcelinebreak Yet doth much her love excel
\forcelinebreak To the souls that never fell,
\forcelinebreak To swains that live in happiness
\forcelinebreak And do well because they please,
\forcelinebreak Who walk in ways that are unfamed,
\forcelinebreak And feats achieve before they’re named.


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\section{Nature II}


She is gamesome and good,
\forcelinebreak But of mutable mood, —
\forcelinebreak No dreary repeater now and again,
\forcelinebreak She will be all things to all men.
\forcelinebreak She who is old, but nowise feeble,
\forcelinebreak Pours her power into the people,
\forcelinebreak Merry and manifold without bar,
\forcelinebreak Makes and moulds them what they are,
\forcelinebreak And what they call their city way
\forcelinebreak Is not their way, but hers,
\forcelinebreak And what they say they made to-day,
\forcelinebreak They learned of the oaks and firs.
\forcelinebreak She spawneth men as mallows fresh,
\forcelinebreak Hero and maiden, flesh of her flesh;
\forcelinebreak She drugs her water and her wheat
\forcelinebreak With the flavors she finds meet,
\forcelinebreak And gives them what to drink and eat;
\forcelinebreak And having thus their bread and growth,
\forcelinebreak They do her bidding, nothing loath.
\forcelinebreak What’s most theirs is not their own,
\forcelinebreak But borrowed in atoms from iron and stone,
\forcelinebreak And in their vaunted works of Art
\forcelinebreak The master-stroke is still her part.


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\section{The Romany Girl}


The sun goes down, and with him takes
\forcelinebreak The coarseness of my poor attire;
\forcelinebreak The fair moon mounts, and aye the flame
\forcelinebreak Of Gypsy beauty blazes higher.


Pale Northern girls! you scorn our race;
\forcelinebreak You captives of your air-tight halls,
\forcelinebreak Wear out indoors your sickly days,
\forcelinebreak But leave us the horizon walls.


And if I take you, dames, to task,
\forcelinebreak And say it frankly without guile,
\forcelinebreak Then you are Gypsies in a mask,
\forcelinebreak And I the lady all the while.


If on the heath, below the moon,
\forcelinebreak I court and play with paler blood,
\forcelinebreak Me false to mine dare whisper none, —
\forcelinebreak One sallow horseman knows me good.


Go, keep your cheek’s rose from the rain,
\forcelinebreak For teeth and hair with shopmen deal;
\forcelinebreak My swarthy tint is in the grain,
\forcelinebreak The rocks and forest know it real.


The wild air bloweth in our lungs,
\forcelinebreak The keen stars twinkle in our eyes,
\forcelinebreak The birds gave us our wily tongues,
\forcelinebreak The panther in our dances flies.


You doubt we read the stars on high,
\forcelinebreak Nathless we read your fortunes true;
\forcelinebreak The stars may hide in the upper sky,
\forcelinebreak But without glass we fathom you.


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\section{Days}


Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,
\forcelinebreak Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
\forcelinebreak And marching single in an endless file,
\forcelinebreak Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.
\forcelinebreak To each they offer gifts after his will,
\forcelinebreak Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that holds them all.
\forcelinebreak I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,
\forcelinebreak Forgot my morning wishes, hastily
\forcelinebreak Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day
\forcelinebreak Turned and departed silent. I, too late,
\forcelinebreak Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.


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\section{My Garden}


If I could put my woods in song
\forcelinebreak And tell what’s there enjoyed,
\forcelinebreak All men would to my gardens throng,
\forcelinebreak And leave the cities void.


In my plot no tulips blow, —
\forcelinebreak Snow-loving pines and oaks instead;
\forcelinebreak And rank the savage maples grow
\forcelinebreak From Spring’s faint flush to Autumn red.


My garden is a forest ledge
\forcelinebreak Which older forests bound;
\forcelinebreak The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge,
\forcelinebreak Then plunge to depths profound.


Here once the Deluge ploughed,
\forcelinebreak Laid the terraces, one by one;
\forcelinebreak Ebbing later whence it flowed,
\forcelinebreak They bleach and dry in the sun.


The sowers made haste to depart, —
\forcelinebreak The wind and the birds which sowed it;
\forcelinebreak Not for fame, nor by rules of art,
\forcelinebreak Planted these, and tempests flowed it.


Waters that wash my garden-side
\forcelinebreak Play not in Nature’s lawful web,
\forcelinebreak They heed not moon or solar tide, —
\forcelinebreak Five years elapse from flood to ebb.


Hither hasted, in old time, Jove,
\forcelinebreak And every god, — none did refuse;
\forcelinebreak And be sure at last came Love,
\forcelinebreak And after Love, the Muse.


Keen ears can catch a syllable,
\forcelinebreak As if one spake to another,
\forcelinebreak In the hemlocks tall, untamable,
\forcelinebreak And what the whispering grasses smother.


Aeolian harps in the pine
\forcelinebreak Ring with the song of the Fates;
\forcelinebreak Infant Bacchus in the vine, —
\forcelinebreak Far distant yet his chorus waits.


Canst thou copy in verse one chime
\forcelinebreak Of the wood-bell’s peal and cry,
\forcelinebreak Write in a book the morning’s prime,
\forcelinebreak Or match with words that tender sky?


Wonderful verse of the gods,
\forcelinebreak Of one import, of varied tone;
\forcelinebreak They chant the bliss of their abodes
\forcelinebreak To man imprisoned in his own.


Ever the words of the gods resound;
\forcelinebreak But the porches of man’s ear
\forcelinebreak Seldom in this low life’s round
\forcelinebreak Are unsealed that he may hear.


Wandering voices in the air
\forcelinebreak And murmurs in the wold
\forcelinebreak Speak what I cannot declare,
\forcelinebreak Yet cannot all withhold.


When the shadow fell on the lake,
\forcelinebreak The whirlwind in ripples wrote
\forcelinebreak Air-bells of fortune that shine and break,
\forcelinebreak And omens above thought.


But the meanings cleave to the lake,
\forcelinebreak Cannot be carried in book or urn;
\forcelinebreak Go thy ways now, come later back,
\forcelinebreak On waves and hedges still they burn.


These the fates of men forecast,
\forcelinebreak Of better men than live to-day;
\forcelinebreak If who can read them comes at last
\forcelinebreak He will spell in the sculpture, ‘Stay.’


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\section{The Chartist’s Complaint}


Day! hast thou two faces,
\forcelinebreak Making one place two places?
\forcelinebreak One, by humble farmer seen,
\forcelinebreak Chill and wet, unlighted, mean,
\forcelinebreak Useful only, triste and damp,
\forcelinebreak Serving for a laborer’s lamp?
\forcelinebreak Have the same mists another side,
\forcelinebreak To be the appanage of pride,
\forcelinebreak Gracing the rich man’s wood and lake,
\forcelinebreak His park where amber mornings break,
\forcelinebreak And treacherously bright to show
\forcelinebreak His planted isle where roses glow?
\forcelinebreak O Day! and is your mightiness
\forcelinebreak A sycophant to smug success?
\forcelinebreak Will the sweet sky and ocean broad
\forcelinebreak Be fine accomplices to fraud?
\forcelinebreak O Sun! I curse thy cruel ray:
\forcelinebreak Back, back to chaos, harlot Day!


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\section{The Titmouse}


You shall not be overbold
\forcelinebreak When you deal with arctic cold,
\forcelinebreak As late I found my lukewarm blood
\forcelinebreak Chilled wading in the snow-choked wood.
\forcelinebreak How should I fight? my foeman fine
\forcelinebreak Has million arms to one of mine:
\forcelinebreak East, west, for aid I looked in vain,
\forcelinebreak East, west, north, south, are his domain.
\forcelinebreak Miles off, three dangerous miles, is home;
\forcelinebreak Must borrow his winds who there would come.
\forcelinebreak Up and away for life! be fleet! —
\forcelinebreak The frost-king ties my fumbling feet,
\forcelinebreak Sings in my ears, my hands are stones,
\forcelinebreak Curdles the blood to the marble bones,
\forcelinebreak Tugs at the heart-strings, numbs the sense,
\forcelinebreak And hems in life with narrowing fence.
\forcelinebreak Well, in this broad bed lie and sleep, —
\forcelinebreak The punctual stars will vigil keep, —
\forcelinebreak Embalmed by purifying cold;
\forcelinebreak The winds shall sing their dead-march old,
\forcelinebreak The snow is no ignoble shroud,
\forcelinebreak The moon thy mourner, and the cloud.


Softly, — but this way fate was pointing,
\forcelinebreak ‘T was coming fast to such anointing,
\forcelinebreak When piped a tiny voice hard by,
\forcelinebreak Gay and polite, a cheerful cry,
\forcelinebreak Chic-chic-a-dee-de! saucy note
\forcelinebreak Out of sound heart and merry throat,
\forcelinebreak As if it said, ‘Good day, good sir!
\forcelinebreak Fine afternoon, old passenger!
\forcelinebreak Happy to meet you in these places,
\forcelinebreak Where January brings few faces.’


This poet, though he live apart,
\forcelinebreak Moved by his hospitable heart,
\forcelinebreak Sped, when I passed his sylvan fort,
\forcelinebreak To do the honors of his court,
\forcelinebreak As fits a feathered lord of land;
\forcelinebreak Flew near, with soft wing grazed my hand,
\forcelinebreak Hopped on the bough, then, darting low,
\forcelinebreak Prints his small impress on the snow,
\forcelinebreak Shows feats of his gymnastic play,
\forcelinebreak Head downward, clinging to the spray.


Here was this atom in full breath,
\forcelinebreak Hurling defiance at vast death;
\forcelinebreak This scrap of valor just for play
\forcelinebreak Fronts the north-wind in waistcoat gray,
\forcelinebreak As if to shame my weak behavior;
\forcelinebreak I greeted loud my little savior,
\forcelinebreak ‘You pet! what dost here? and what for?
\forcelinebreak In these woods, thy small Labrador,
\forcelinebreak At this pinch, wee San Salvador!
\forcelinebreak What fire burns in that little chest
\forcelinebreak So frolic, stout and self-possest?
\forcelinebreak Henceforth I wear no stripe but thine;
\forcelinebreak Ashes and jet all hues outshine.
\forcelinebreak Why are not diamonds black and gray,
\forcelinebreak To ape thy dare-devil array?
\forcelinebreak And I affirm, the spacious North
\forcelinebreak Exists to draw thy virtue forth.
\forcelinebreak I think no virtue goes with size;
\forcelinebreak The reason of all cowardice
\forcelinebreak Is, that men are overgrown,
\forcelinebreak And, to be valiant, must come down
\forcelinebreak To the titmouse dimension.’


‘T is good will makes intelligence,
\forcelinebreak And I began to catch the sense
\forcelinebreak Of my bird’s song: ‘Live out of doors
\forcelinebreak In the great woods, on prairie floors.
\forcelinebreak I dine in the sun; when he sinks in the sea,
\forcelinebreak I too have a hole in a hollow tree;
\forcelinebreak And I like less when Summer beats
\forcelinebreak With stifling beams on these retreats,
\forcelinebreak Than noontide twilights which snow makes
\forcelinebreak With tempest of the blinding flakes.
\forcelinebreak For well the soul, if stout within,
\forcelinebreak Can arm impregnably the skin;
\forcelinebreak And polar frost my frame defied,
\forcelinebreak Made of the air that blows outside.’


With glad remembrance of my debt,
\forcelinebreak I homeward turn; farewell, my pet!
\forcelinebreak When here again thy pilgrim comes,
\forcelinebreak He shall bring store of seeds and crumbs.
\forcelinebreak Doubt not, so long as earth has bread,
\forcelinebreak Thou first and foremost shalt be fed;
\forcelinebreak The Providence that is most large
\forcelinebreak Takes hearts like thine in special charge,
\forcelinebreak Helps who for their own need are strong,
\forcelinebreak And the sky doats on cheerful song.
\forcelinebreak Henceforth I prize thy wiry chant
\forcelinebreak O’er all that mass and minster vaunt;
\forcelinebreak For men mis-hear thy call in Spring,
\forcelinebreak As ‘t would accost some frivolous wing,
\forcelinebreak Crying out of the hazel copse, Phe-be!
\forcelinebreak And, in winter, Chic-a-dee-dee!
\forcelinebreak I think old Caesar must have heard
\forcelinebreak In northern Gaul my dauntless bird,
\forcelinebreak And, echoed in some frosty wold,
\forcelinebreak Borrowed thy battle-numbers bold.
\forcelinebreak And I will write our annals new,
\forcelinebreak And thank thee for a better clew,
\forcelinebreak I, who dreamed not when I came here
\forcelinebreak To find the antidote of fear,
\forcelinebreak Now hear thee say in Roman key,
\forcelinebreak Paean! Veni, vidi, vici.


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\section{The Harp}


One musician is sure,
\forcelinebreak His wisdom will not fail,
\forcelinebreak He has not tasted wine impure,
\forcelinebreak Nor bent to passion frail.
\forcelinebreak Age cannot cloud his memory,
\forcelinebreak Nor grief untune his voice,
\forcelinebreak Ranging down the ruled scale
\forcelinebreak From tone of joy to inward wail,
\forcelinebreak Tempering the pitch of all
\forcelinebreak In his windy cave.
\forcelinebreak He all the fables knows,
\forcelinebreak And in their causes tells, —
\forcelinebreak Knows Nature’s rarest moods,
\forcelinebreak Ever on her secret broods.
\forcelinebreak The Muse of men is coy,
\forcelinebreak Oft courted will not come;
\forcelinebreak In palaces and market squares
\forcelinebreak Entreated, she is dumb;
\forcelinebreak But my minstrel knows and tells
\forcelinebreak The counsel of the gods,
\forcelinebreak Knows of Holy Book the spells,
\forcelinebreak Knows the law of Night and Day,
\forcelinebreak And the heart of girl and boy,
\forcelinebreak The tragic and the gay,
\forcelinebreak And what is writ on Table Round
\forcelinebreak Of Arthur and his peers;
\forcelinebreak What sea and land discoursing say
\forcelinebreak In sidereal years.
\forcelinebreak He renders all his lore
\forcelinebreak In numbers wild as dreams,
\forcelinebreak Modulating all extremes, —
\forcelinebreak What the spangled meadow saith
\forcelinebreak To the children who have faith;
\forcelinebreak Only to children children sing,
\forcelinebreak Only to youth will spring be spring.


Who is the Bard thus magnified?
\forcelinebreak When did he sing? and where abide?


Chief of song where poets feast
\forcelinebreak Is the wind-harp which thou seest
\forcelinebreak In the casement at my side.


Aeolian harp,
\forcelinebreak How strangely wise thy strain!
\forcelinebreak Gay for youth, gay for youth,
\forcelinebreak (Sweet is art, but sweeter truth,)
\forcelinebreak In the hall at summer eve
\forcelinebreak Fate and Beauty skilled to weave.
\forcelinebreak From the eager opening strings
\forcelinebreak Rung loud and bold the song.
\forcelinebreak Who but loved the wind-harp’s note?
\forcelinebreak How should not the poet doat
\forcelinebreak On its mystic tongue,
\forcelinebreak With its primeval memory,
\forcelinebreak Reporting what old minstrels told
\forcelinebreak Of Merlin locked the harp within, —
\forcelinebreak Merlin paying the pain of sin,
\forcelinebreak Pent in a dungeon made of air, —
\forcelinebreak And some attain his voice to hear,
\forcelinebreak Words of pain and cries of fear,
\forcelinebreak But pillowed all on melody,
\forcelinebreak As fits the griefs of bards to be.
\forcelinebreak And what if that all-echoing shell,
\forcelinebreak Which thus the buried Past can tell,
\forcelinebreak Should rive the Future, and reveal
\forcelinebreak What his dread folds would fain conceal?
\forcelinebreak It shares the secret of the earth,
\forcelinebreak And of the kinds that owe her birth.
\forcelinebreak Speaks not of self that mystic tone,
\forcelinebreak But of the Overgods alone:
\forcelinebreak It trembles to the cosmic breath, —
\forcelinebreak As it heareth, so it saith;
\forcelinebreak Obeying meek the primal Cause,
\forcelinebreak It is the tongue of mundane laws.
\forcelinebreak And this, at least, I dare affirm,
\forcelinebreak Since genius too has bound and term,
\forcelinebreak There is no bard in all the choir,
\forcelinebreak Not Homer’s self, the poet sire,
\forcelinebreak Wise Milton’s odes of pensive pleasure,
\forcelinebreak Or Shakspeare, whom no mind can measure,
\forcelinebreak Nor Collins’ verse of tender pain,
\forcelinebreak Nor Byron’s clarion of disdain,
\forcelinebreak Scott, the delight of generous boys,
\forcelinebreak Or Wordsworth, Pan’s recording voice, —
\forcelinebreak Not one of all can put in verse,
\forcelinebreak Or to this presence could rehearse
\forcelinebreak The sights and voices ravishing
\forcelinebreak The boy knew on the hills in spring,
\forcelinebreak When pacing through the oaks he heard
\forcelinebreak Sharp queries of the sentry-bird,
\forcelinebreak The heavy grouse’s sudden whir,
\forcelinebreak The rattle of the kingfisher;
\forcelinebreak Saw bonfires of the harlot flies
\forcelinebreak In the lowland, when day dies;
\forcelinebreak Or marked, benighted and forlorn,
\forcelinebreak The first far signal-fire of morn.
\forcelinebreak These syllables that Nature spoke,
\forcelinebreak And the thoughts that in him woke,
\forcelinebreak Can adequately utter none
\forcelinebreak Save to his ear the wind-harp lone.
\forcelinebreak Therein I hear the Parcae reel
\forcelinebreak The threads of man at their humming wheel,
\forcelinebreak The threads of life and power and pain,
\forcelinebreak So sweet and mournful falls the strain.
\forcelinebreak And best can teach its Delphian chord
\forcelinebreak How Nature to the soul is moored,
\forcelinebreak If once again that silent string,
\forcelinebreak As erst it wont, would thrill and ring.


Not long ago at eventide,
\forcelinebreak It seemed, so listening, at my side
\forcelinebreak A window rose, and, to say sooth,
\forcelinebreak I looked forth on the fields of youth:
\forcelinebreak I saw fair boys bestriding steeds,
\forcelinebreak I knew their forms in fancy weeds,
\forcelinebreak Long, long concealed by sundering fates,
\forcelinebreak Mates of my youth, — yet not my mates,
\forcelinebreak Stronger and bolder far than I,
\forcelinebreak With grace, with genius, well attired,
\forcelinebreak And then as now from far admired,
\forcelinebreak Followed with love
\forcelinebreak They knew not of,
\forcelinebreak With passion cold and shy.
\forcelinebreak O joy, for what recoveries rare!
\forcelinebreak Renewed, I breathe Elysian air,
\forcelinebreak See youth’s glad mates in earliest bloom, —
\forcelinebreak Break not my dream, obtrusive tomb!
\forcelinebreak Or teach thou, Spring! the grand recoil
\forcelinebreak Of life resurgent from the soil
\forcelinebreak Wherein was dropped the mortal spoil.


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\section{Seashore}


I heard or seemed to hear the chiding Sea
\forcelinebreak Say, Pilgrim, why so late and slow to come?
\forcelinebreak Am I not always here, thy summer home?
\forcelinebreak Is not my voice thy music, morn and eve?
\forcelinebreak My breath thy healthful climate in the heats,
\forcelinebreak My touch thy antidote, my bay thy bath?
\forcelinebreak Was ever building like my terraces?
\forcelinebreak Was ever couch magnificent as mine?
\forcelinebreak Lie on the warm rock-ledges, and there learn
\forcelinebreak A little hut suffices like a town.
\forcelinebreak I make your sculptured architecture vain,
\forcelinebreak Vain beside mine. I drive my wedges home,
\forcelinebreak And carve the coastwise mountain into caves.
\forcelinebreak Lo! here is Rome and Nineveh and Thebes,
\forcelinebreak Karnak and Pyramid and Giant’s Stairs
\forcelinebreak Half piled or prostrate; and my newest slab
\forcelinebreak Older than all thy race.


Behold the Sea,
\forcelinebreak The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
\forcelinebreak Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,
\forcelinebreak Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;
\forcelinebreak Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,
\forcelinebreak Purger of earth, and medicine of men;
\forcelinebreak Creating a sweet climate by my breath,
\forcelinebreak Washing out harms and griefs from memory,
\forcelinebreak And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,
\forcelinebreak Giving a hint of that which changes not.
\forcelinebreak Rich are the sea-gods: — who gives gifts but they?
\forcelinebreak They grope the sea for pearls, but more than pearls:
\forcelinebreak They pluck Force thence, and give it to the wise.
\forcelinebreak For every wave is wealth to Daedalus,
\forcelinebreak Wealth to the cunning artist who can work
\forcelinebreak This matchless strength. Where shall he find, O waves!
\forcelinebreak A load your Atlas shoulders cannot lift?


I with my hammer pounding evermore
\forcelinebreak The rocky coast, smite Andes into dust,
\forcelinebreak Strewing my bed, and, in another age,
\forcelinebreak Rebuild a continent of better men.
\forcelinebreak Then I unbar the doors: my paths lead out
\forcelinebreak The exodus of nations: I disperse
\forcelinebreak Men to all shores that front the hoary main.


I too have arts and sorceries;
\forcelinebreak Illusion dwells forever with the wave.
\forcelinebreak I know what spells are laid. Leave me to deal
\forcelinebreak With credulous and imaginative man;
\forcelinebreak For, though he scoop my water in his palm,
\forcelinebreak A few rods off he deems it gems and clouds.
\forcelinebreak Planting strange fruits and sunshine on the shore,
\forcelinebreak I make some coast alluring, some lone isle,
\forcelinebreak To distant men, who must go there, or die.


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\section{Song of Nature}


Mine are the night and morning,
\forcelinebreak The pits of air, the gulf of space,
\forcelinebreak The sportive sun, the gibbous moon,
\forcelinebreak The innumerable days.


I hide in the solar glory,
\forcelinebreak I am dumb in the pealing song,
\forcelinebreak I rest on the pitch of the torrent,
\forcelinebreak In slumber I am strong.


No numbers have counted my tallies,
\forcelinebreak No tribes my house can fill,
\forcelinebreak I sit by the shining Fount of Life
\forcelinebreak And pour the deluge still;


And ever by delicate powers
\forcelinebreak Gathering along the centuries
\forcelinebreak From race on race the rarest flowers,
\forcelinebreak My wreath shall nothing miss.


And many a thousand summers
\forcelinebreak My gardens ripened well,
\forcelinebreak And light from meliorating stars
\forcelinebreak With firmer glory fell.


I wrote the past in characters
\forcelinebreak Of rock and fire the scroll,
\forcelinebreak The building in the coral sea,
\forcelinebreak The planting of the coal.


And thefts from satellites and rings
\forcelinebreak And broken stars I drew,
\forcelinebreak And out of spent and aged things
\forcelinebreak I formed the world anew;


What time the gods kept carnival,
\forcelinebreak Tricked out in star and flower,
\forcelinebreak And in cramp elf and saurian forms
\forcelinebreak They swathed their too much power.


Time and Thought were my surveyors,
\forcelinebreak They laid their courses well,
\forcelinebreak They boiled the sea, and piled the layers
\forcelinebreak Of granite, marl and shell.


But he, the man-child glorious, —
\forcelinebreak Where tarries he the while?
\forcelinebreak The rainbow shines his harbinger,
\forcelinebreak The sunset gleams his smile.


My boreal lights leap upward,
\forcelinebreak Forthright my planets roll,
\forcelinebreak And still the man-child is not born,
\forcelinebreak The summit of the whole.


Must time and tide forever run?
\forcelinebreak Will never my winds go sleep in the west?
\forcelinebreak Will never my wheels which whirl the sun
\forcelinebreak And satellites have rest?


Too much of donning and doffing,
\forcelinebreak Too slow the rainbow fades,
\forcelinebreak I weary of my robe of snow,
\forcelinebreak My leaves and my cascades;


I tire of globes and races,
\forcelinebreak Too long the game is played;
\forcelinebreak What without him is summer’s pomp,
\forcelinebreak Or winter’s frozen shade?


I travail in pain for him,
\forcelinebreak My creatures travail and wait;
\forcelinebreak His couriers come by squadrons,
\forcelinebreak He comes not to the gate.


Twice I have moulded an image,
\forcelinebreak And thrice outstretched my hand,
\forcelinebreak Made one of day and one of night
\forcelinebreak And one of the salt sea-sand.


One in a Judaean manger,
\forcelinebreak And one by Avon stream,
\forcelinebreak One over against the mouths of Nile,
\forcelinebreak And one in the Academe.


I moulded kings and saviors,
\forcelinebreak And bards o’er kings to rule; —
\forcelinebreak But fell the starry influence short,
\forcelinebreak The cup was never full.


Yet whirl the glowing wheels once more,
\forcelinebreak And mix the bowl again;
\forcelinebreak Seethe, Fate! the ancient elements,
\forcelinebreak Heat, cold, wet, dry, and peace, and pain.


Let war and trade and creeds and song
\forcelinebreak Blend, ripen race on race,
\forcelinebreak The sunburnt world a man shall breed
\forcelinebreak Of all the zones and countless days.


No ray is dimmed, no atom worn,
\forcelinebreak My oldest force is good as new,
\forcelinebreak And the fresh rose on yonder thorn
\forcelinebreak Gives back the bending heavens in dew.


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\section{Two Rivers}


Thy summer voice, Musketaquit,
\forcelinebreak Repeats the music of the rain;
\forcelinebreak But sweeter rivers pulsing flit
\forcelinebreak Through thee, as thou through Concord Plain.


Thou in thy narrow banks art pent:
\forcelinebreak The stream I love unbounded goes
\forcelinebreak Through flood and sea and firmament;
\forcelinebreak Through light, through life, it forward flows.


I see the inundation sweet,
\forcelinebreak I hear the spending of the stream
\forcelinebreak Through years, through men, through Nature fleet,
\forcelinebreak Through love and thought, through power and dream.


Musketaquit, a goblin strong,
\forcelinebreak Of shard and flint makes jewels gay;
\forcelinebreak They lose their grief who hear his song,
\forcelinebreak And where he winds is the day of day.


So forth and brighter fares my stream, —
\forcelinebreak Who drink it shall not thirst again;
\forcelinebreak No darkness stains its equal gleam.
\forcelinebreak And ages drop in it like rain.


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\section{Waldeinsamkeit}


I do not count the hours I spend
\forcelinebreak In wandering by the sea;
\forcelinebreak The forest is my loyal friend,
\forcelinebreak Like God it useth me.


In plains that room for shadows make
\forcelinebreak Of skirting hills to lie,
\forcelinebreak Bound in by streams which give and take
\forcelinebreak Their colors from the sky;


Or on the mountain-crest sublime,
\forcelinebreak Or down the oaken glade,
\forcelinebreak O what have I to do with time?
\forcelinebreak For this the day was made.


Cities of mortals woe-begone
\forcelinebreak Fantastic care derides,
\forcelinebreak But in the serious landscape lone
\forcelinebreak Stern benefit abides.


Sheen will tarnish, honey cloy,
\forcelinebreak And merry is only a mask of sad,
\forcelinebreak But, sober on a fund of joy,
\forcelinebreak The woods at heart are glad.


There the great Planter plants
\forcelinebreak Of fruitful worlds the grain,
\forcelinebreak And with a million spells enchants
\forcelinebreak The souls that walk in pain.


Still on the seeds of all he made
\forcelinebreak The rose of beauty burns;
\forcelinebreak Through times that wear and forms that fade,
\forcelinebreak Immortal youth returns.


The black ducks mounting from the lake,
\forcelinebreak The pigeon in the pines,
\forcelinebreak The bittern’s boom, a desert make
\forcelinebreak Which no false art refines.


Down in yon watery nook,
\forcelinebreak Where bearded mists divide,
\forcelinebreak The gray old gods whom Chaos knew,
\forcelinebreak The sires of Nature, hide.


Aloft, in secret veins of air,
\forcelinebreak Blows the sweet breath of song,
\forcelinebreak O, few to scale those uplands dare,
\forcelinebreak Though they to all belong!


See thou bring not to field or stone
\forcelinebreak The fancies found in books;
\forcelinebreak Leave authors’ eyes, and fetch your own,
\forcelinebreak To brave the landscape’s looks.


Oblivion here thy wisdom is,
\forcelinebreak Thy thrift, the sleep of cares;
\forcelinebreak For a proud idleness like this
\forcelinebreak Crowns all thy mean affairs.


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\section{Terminus}


It is time to be old,
\forcelinebreak To take in sail: —
\forcelinebreak The god of bounds,
\forcelinebreak Who sets to seas a shore,
\forcelinebreak Came to me in his fatal rounds,
\forcelinebreak And said: ‘No more!
\forcelinebreak No farther shoot
\forcelinebreak Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root.
\forcelinebreak Fancy departs: no more invent;
\forcelinebreak Contract thy firmament
\forcelinebreak To compass of a tent.
\forcelinebreak There’s not enough for this and that,
\forcelinebreak Make thy option which of two;
\forcelinebreak Economize the failing river,
\forcelinebreak Not the less revere the Giver,
\forcelinebreak Leave the many and hold the few.
\forcelinebreak Timely wise accept the terms,
\forcelinebreak Soften the fall with wary foot;
\forcelinebreak A little while
\forcelinebreak Still plan and smile,
\forcelinebreak And, — fault of novel germs, —
\forcelinebreak Mature the unfallen fruit.
\forcelinebreak Curse, if thou wilt, thy sires,
\forcelinebreak Bad husbands of their fires,
\forcelinebreak Who, when they gave thee breath,
\forcelinebreak Failed to bequeath
\forcelinebreak The needful sinew stark as once,
\forcelinebreak The Baresark marrow to thy bones,
\forcelinebreak But left a legacy of ebbing veins,
\forcelinebreak Inconstant heat and nerveless reins, —
\forcelinebreak Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb,
\forcelinebreak Amid the gladiators, halt and numb.’


As the bird trims her to the gale,
\forcelinebreak I trim myself to the storm of time,
\forcelinebreak I man the rudder, reef the sail,
\forcelinebreak Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime:
\forcelinebreak ‘Lowly faithful, banish fear,
\forcelinebreak Right onward drive unharmed;
\forcelinebreak The port, well worth the cruise, is near,
\forcelinebreak And every wave is charmed.’


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\section{The Nun’s Aspiration}


The yesterday doth never smile,
\forcelinebreak The day goes drudging through the while,
\forcelinebreak Yet, in the name of Godhead, I
\forcelinebreak The morrow front, and can defy;
\forcelinebreak Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed,
\forcelinebreak Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
\forcelinebreak Ah me! it was my childhood’s thought,
\forcelinebreak If He should make my web a blot
\forcelinebreak On life’s fair picture of delight,
\forcelinebreak My heart’s content would find it right.
\forcelinebreak But O, these waves and leaves, —
\forcelinebreak When happy stoic Nature grieves,
\forcelinebreak No human speech so beautiful
\forcelinebreak As their murmurs mine to lull.
\forcelinebreak On this altar God hath built
\forcelinebreak I lay my vanity and guilt;
\forcelinebreak Nor me can Hope or Passion urge
\forcelinebreak Hearing as now the lofty dirge
\forcelinebreak Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,
\forcelinebreak Nature’s funeral high and dim, —
\forcelinebreak Sable pageantry of clouds,
\forcelinebreak Mourning summer laid in shrouds.
\forcelinebreak Many a day shall dawn and die,
\forcelinebreak Many an angel wander by,
\forcelinebreak And passing, light my sunken turf
\forcelinebreak Moist perhaps by ocean surf,
\forcelinebreak Forgotten amid splendid tombs,
\forcelinebreak Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms.
\forcelinebreak On earth I dream; — I die to be:
\forcelinebreak Time, shake not thy bald head at me.
\forcelinebreak I challenge thee to hurry past
\forcelinebreak Or for my turn to fly too fast.
\forcelinebreak Think me not numbed or halt with age,
\forcelinebreak Or cares that earth to earth engage,
\forcelinebreak Caught with love’s cord of twisted beams,
\forcelinebreak Or mired by climate’s gross extremes.
\forcelinebreak I tire of shams, I rush to be:
\forcelinebreak I pass with yonder comet free, —
\forcelinebreak Pass with the comet into space
\forcelinebreak Which mocks thy aeons to embrace;
\forcelinebreak Aeons which tardily unfold
\forcelinebreak Realm beyond realm, — extent untold;
\forcelinebreak No early morn, no evening late, —
\forcelinebreak Realms self-upheld, disdaining Fate,
\forcelinebreak Whose shining sons, too great for fame,
\forcelinebreak Never heard thy weary name;
\forcelinebreak Nor lives the tragic bard to say
\forcelinebreak How drear the part I held in one,
\forcelinebreak How lame the other limped away.


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\section{April}


The April winds are magical
\forcelinebreak And thrill our tuneful frames;
\forcelinebreak The garden walks are passional
\forcelinebreak To bachelors and dames.
\forcelinebreak The hedge is gemmed with diamonds,
\forcelinebreak The air with Cupids full,
\forcelinebreak The cobweb clues of Rosamond
\forcelinebreak Guide lovers to the pool.
\forcelinebreak Each dimple in the water,
\forcelinebreak Each leaf that shades the rock
\forcelinebreak Can cozen, pique and flatter,
\forcelinebreak Can parley and provoke.
\forcelinebreak Goodfellow, Puck and goblins,
\forcelinebreak Know more than any book.
\forcelinebreak Down with your doleful problems,
\forcelinebreak And court the sunny brook.
\forcelinebreak The south-winds are quick-witted,
\forcelinebreak The schools are sad and slow,
\forcelinebreak The masters quite omitted
\forcelinebreak The lore we care to know.


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\section{Maiden Speech of the Aeolian Harp}


Soft and softlier hold me, friends!
\forcelinebreak Thanks if your genial care
\forcelinebreak Unbind and give me to the air.
\forcelinebreak Keep your lips or finger-tips
\forcelinebreak For flute or spinet’s dancing chips;
\forcelinebreak I await a tenderer touch,
\forcelinebreak I ask more or not so much:
\forcelinebreak Give me to the atmosphere, —
\forcelinebreak Where is the wind, my brother, — where?
\forcelinebreak Lift the sash, lay me within,
\forcelinebreak Lend me your ears, and I begin.
\forcelinebreak For gentle harp to gentle hearts
\forcelinebreak The secret of the world imparts;
\forcelinebreak And not to-day and not to-morrow
\forcelinebreak Can drain its wealth of hope and sorrow;
\forcelinebreak But day by day, to loving ear
\forcelinebreak Unlocks new sense and loftier cheer.
\forcelinebreak I’ve come to live with you, sweet friends,
\forcelinebreak This home my minstrel-journeyings ends.
\forcelinebreak Many and subtle are my lays,
\forcelinebreak The latest better than the first,
\forcelinebreak For I can mend the happiest days
\forcelinebreak And charm the anguish of the worst.


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\section{Cupido}


The solid, solid universe
\forcelinebreak Is pervious to Love;
\forcelinebreak With bandaged eyes he never errs,
\forcelinebreak Around, below, above.
\forcelinebreak His blinding light
\forcelinebreak He flingeth white
\forcelinebreak On God’s and Satan’s brood,
\forcelinebreak And reconciles
\forcelinebreak By mystic wiles
\forcelinebreak The evil and the good.


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\section{The Past}


The debt is paid,
\forcelinebreak The verdict said,
\forcelinebreak The Furies laid,
\forcelinebreak The plague is stayed.
\forcelinebreak All fortunes made;
\forcelinebreak Turn the key and bolt the door,
\forcelinebreak Sweet is death forevermore.
\forcelinebreak Nor haughty hope, nor swart chagrin,
\forcelinebreak Nor murdering hate, can enter in.
\forcelinebreak All is now secure and fast;
\forcelinebreak Not the gods can shake the Past;
\forcelinebreak Flies-to the adamantine door
\forcelinebreak Bolted down forevermore.
\forcelinebreak None can reënter there, —
\forcelinebreak No thief so politic,
\forcelinebreak No Satan with a royal trick
\forcelinebreak Steal in by window, chink, or hole,
\forcelinebreak To bind or unbind, add what lacked,
\forcelinebreak Insert a leaf, or forge a name,
\forcelinebreak New-face or finish what is packed,
\forcelinebreak Alter or mend eternal Fact.


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\section{The Last Farewell}


LINES WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR’S BROTHER, EDWARD BLISS EMERSON, WHILST SAILING OUT OF BOSTON HARBOR, BOUND FOR THE ISLAND OF PORTO RICO, IN 1832


Farewell, ye lofty spires
\forcelinebreak That cheered the holy light!
\forcelinebreak Farewell, domestic fires
\forcelinebreak That broke the gloom of night!
\forcelinebreak Too soon those spires are lost,
\forcelinebreak Too fast we leave the bay,
\forcelinebreak Too soon by ocean tost
\forcelinebreak From hearth and home away,
\forcelinebreak Far away, far away.


Farewell the busy town,
\forcelinebreak The wealthy and the wise,
\forcelinebreak Kind smile and honest frown
\forcelinebreak From bright, familiar eyes.
\forcelinebreak All these are fading now;
\forcelinebreak Our brig hastes on her way,
\forcelinebreak Her unremembering prow
\forcelinebreak Is leaping o’er the sea,
\forcelinebreak Far away, far away.


Farewell, my mother fond,
\forcelinebreak Too kind, too good to me;
\forcelinebreak Nor pearl nor diamond
\forcelinebreak Would pay my debt to thee.
\forcelinebreak But even thy kiss denies
\forcelinebreak Upon my cheek to stay;
\forcelinebreak The winged vessel flies,
\forcelinebreak And billows round her play,
\forcelinebreak Far away, far away.


Farewell, my brothers true,
\forcelinebreak My betters, yet my peers;
\forcelinebreak How desert without you
\forcelinebreak My few and evil years!
\forcelinebreak But though aye one in heart,
\forcelinebreak Together sad or gay,
\forcelinebreak Rude ocean doth us part;
\forcelinebreak We separate to-day,
\forcelinebreak Far away, far away.


Farewell, thou fairest one,
\forcelinebreak Unplighted yet to me,
\forcelinebreak Uncertain of thine own
\forcelinebreak I gave my heart to thee.
\forcelinebreak That untold early love
\forcelinebreak I leave untold to-day,
\forcelinebreak My lips in whisper move
\forcelinebreak Farewell to \dots{}!
\forcelinebreak Far away, far away.


Farewell I breathe again
\forcelinebreak To dim New England’s shore,
\forcelinebreak My heart shall beat not when
\forcelinebreak I pant for thee no more.
\forcelinebreak In yon green palmy isle,
\forcelinebreak Beneath the tropic ray,
\forcelinebreak I murmur never while
\forcelinebreak For thee and thine I pray;
\forcelinebreak Far away, far away.


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\section{In Memoriam E. B. E.}


I mourn upon this battle-field,
\forcelinebreak But not for those who perished here.
\forcelinebreak Behold the river-bank
\forcelinebreak Whither the angry farmers came,
\forcelinebreak In sloven dress and broken rank,
\forcelinebreak Nor thought of fame.
\forcelinebreak Their deed of blood
\forcelinebreak All mankind praise;
\forcelinebreak Even the serene Reason says,
\forcelinebreak It was well done.
\forcelinebreak The wise and simple have one glance
\forcelinebreak To greet yon stern head-stone,
\forcelinebreak Which more of pride than pity gave
\forcelinebreak To mark the Briton’s friendless grave.
\forcelinebreak Yet it is a stately tomb;
\forcelinebreak The grand return
\forcelinebreak Of eve and morn,
\forcelinebreak The year’s fresh bloom,
\forcelinebreak The silver cloud,
\forcelinebreak Might grace the dust that is most proud.


Yet not of these I muse
\forcelinebreak In this ancestral place,
\forcelinebreak But of a kindred face
\forcelinebreak That never joy or hope shall here diffuse.


Ah, brother of the brief but blazing star!
\forcelinebreak What hast thou to do with these
\forcelinebreak Haunting this bank’s historic trees?
\forcelinebreak Thou born for noblest life,
\forcelinebreak For action’s field, for victor’s car,
\forcelinebreak Thou living champion of the right?
\forcelinebreak To these their penalty belonged:
\forcelinebreak I grudge not these their bed of death,
\forcelinebreak But thine to thee, who never wronged
\forcelinebreak The poorest that drew breath.


All inborn power that could
\forcelinebreak Consist with homage to the good
\forcelinebreak Flamed from his martial eye;
\forcelinebreak He who seemed a soldier born,
\forcelinebreak He should have the helmet worn,
\forcelinebreak All friends to fend, all foes defy,
\forcelinebreak Fronting foes of God and man,
\forcelinebreak Frowning down the evil-doer,
\forcelinebreak Battling for the weak and poor.
\forcelinebreak His from youth the leader’s look
\forcelinebreak Gave the law which others took,
\forcelinebreak And never poor beseeching glance
\forcelinebreak Shamed that sculptured countenance.


There is no record left on earth,
\forcelinebreak Save in tablets of the heart,
\forcelinebreak Of the rich inherent worth,
\forcelinebreak Of the grace that on him shone,
\forcelinebreak Of eloquent lips, of joyful wit:
\forcelinebreak He could not frame a word unfit,
\forcelinebreak An act unworthy to be done;
\forcelinebreak Honor prompted every glance,
\forcelinebreak Honor came and sat beside him,
\forcelinebreak In lowly cot or painful road,
\forcelinebreak And evermore the cruel god
\forcelinebreak Cried “Onward!” and the palm-crown showed,
\forcelinebreak Born for success he seemed,
\forcelinebreak With grace to win, with heart to hold,
\forcelinebreak With shining gifts that took all eyes,
\forcelinebreak With budding power in college-halls,
\forcelinebreak As pledged in coming days to forge
\forcelinebreak Weapons to guard the State, or scourge
\forcelinebreak Tyrants despite their guards or walls.
\forcelinebreak On his young promise Beauty smiled,
\forcelinebreak Drew his free homage unbeguiled,
\forcelinebreak And prosperous Age held out his hand,
\forcelinebreak And richly his large future planned,
\forcelinebreak And troops of friends enjoyed the tide, —
\forcelinebreak All, all was given, and only health denied.


I see him with superior smile
\forcelinebreak Hunted by Sorrow’s grisly train
\forcelinebreak In lands remote, in toil and pain,
\forcelinebreak With angel patience labor on,
\forcelinebreak With the high port he wore erewhile,
\forcelinebreak When, foremost of the youthful band,
\forcelinebreak The prizes in all lists he won;
\forcelinebreak Nor bate one jot of heart or hope,
\forcelinebreak And, least of all, the loyal tie
\forcelinebreak Which holds to home ‘neath every sky,
\forcelinebreak The joy and pride the pilgrim feels
\forcelinebreak In hearts which round the hearth at home
\forcelinebreak Keep pulse for pulse with those who roam.


What generous beliefs console
\forcelinebreak The brave whom Fate denies the goal!
\forcelinebreak If others reach it, is content;
\forcelinebreak To Heaven’s high will his will is bent.
\forcelinebreak Firm on his heart relied,
\forcelinebreak What lot soe’er betide,
\forcelinebreak Work of his hand
\forcelinebreak He nor repents nor grieves,
\forcelinebreak Pleads for itself the fact,
\forcelinebreak As unrepenting Nature leaves
\forcelinebreak Her every act.


Fell the bolt on the branching oak;
\forcelinebreak The rainbow of his hope was broke;
\forcelinebreak No craven cry, no secret tear, —
\forcelinebreak He told no pang, he knew no fear;
\forcelinebreak Its peace sublime his aspect kept,
\forcelinebreak His purpose woke, his features slept;
\forcelinebreak And yet between the spasms of pain
\forcelinebreak His genius beamed with joy again.


O’er thy rich dust the endless smile
\forcelinebreak Of Nature in thy Spanish isle
\forcelinebreak Hints never loss or cruel break
\forcelinebreak And sacrifice for love’s dear sake,
\forcelinebreak Nor mourn the unalterable Days
\forcelinebreak That Genius goes and Folly stays.
\forcelinebreak What matters how, or from what ground,
\forcelinebreak The freed soul its Creator found?
\forcelinebreak Alike thy memory embalms
\forcelinebreak That orange-grove, that isle of palms,
\forcelinebreak And these loved banks, whose oak-bough bold
\forcelinebreak Root in the blood of heroes old.


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\chapter{Elements and Mottoes}



\bigskip

\section{Experience}


The lords of life, the lords of life, —
\forcelinebreak I saw them pass
\forcelinebreak In their own guise,
\forcelinebreak Like and unlike,
\forcelinebreak Portly and grim, —
\forcelinebreak Use and Surprise,
\forcelinebreak Surface and Dream,
\forcelinebreak Succession swift and spectral Wrong,
\forcelinebreak Temperament without a tongue,
\forcelinebreak And the inventor of the game
\forcelinebreak Omnipresent without name; —
\forcelinebreak Some to see, some to be guessed,
\forcelinebreak They marched from east to west:
\forcelinebreak Little man, least of all,
\forcelinebreak Among the legs of his guardians tall,
\forcelinebreak Walked about with puzzled look.
\forcelinebreak Him by the hand dear Nature took,
\forcelinebreak Dearest Nature, strong and kind,
\forcelinebreak Whispered, ‘Darling, never mind!
\forcelinebreak To-morrow they will wear another face,
\forcelinebreak The founder thou; these are thy race!’


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\section{Compensation}


The wings of Time are black and white,
\forcelinebreak Pied with morning and with night.
\forcelinebreak Mountain tall and ocean deep
\forcelinebreak Trembling balance duly keep.
\forcelinebreak In changing moon and tidal wave
\forcelinebreak Glows the feud of Want and Have.
\forcelinebreak Gauge of more and less through space,
\forcelinebreak Electric star or pencil plays,
\forcelinebreak The lonely Earth amid the balls
\forcelinebreak That hurry through the eternal halls,
\forcelinebreak A makeweight flying to the void,
\forcelinebreak Supplemental asteroid,
\forcelinebreak Or compensatory spark,
\forcelinebreak Shoots across the neutral Dark.


Man’s the elm, and Wealth the vine;
\forcelinebreak Stanch and strong the tendrils twine:
\forcelinebreak Though the frail ringlets thee deceive,
\forcelinebreak None from its stock that vine can reave.
\forcelinebreak Fear not, then, thou child infirm,
\forcelinebreak There’s no god dare wrong a worm;
\forcelinebreak Laurel crowns cleave to deserts,
\forcelinebreak And power to him who power exerts.
\forcelinebreak Hast not thy share? On winged feet,
\forcelinebreak Lo it rushes thee to meet;
\forcelinebreak And all that Nature made thy own,
\forcelinebreak Floating in air or pent in stone,
\forcelinebreak Will rive the hills and swim the sea,
\forcelinebreak And, like thy shadow, follow thee.


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\section{Politics}


Gold and iron are good
\forcelinebreak To buy iron and gold;
\forcelinebreak All earth’s fleece and food
\forcelinebreak For their like are sold.
\forcelinebreak Boded Merlin wise,
\forcelinebreak Proved Napoleon great,
\forcelinebreak Nor kind nor coinage buys
\forcelinebreak Aught above its rate.
\forcelinebreak Fear, Craft and Avarice
\forcelinebreak Cannot rear a State.
\forcelinebreak Out of dust to build
\forcelinebreak What is more than dust,
\forcelinebreak Walls Amphion piled
\forcelinebreak Phoebus stablish must.
\forcelinebreak When the Muses nine
\forcelinebreak With the Virtues meet,
\forcelinebreak Find to their design
\forcelinebreak An Atlantic seat,
\forcelinebreak By green orchard boughs
\forcelinebreak Fended from the heat,
\forcelinebreak here the statesman ploughs
\forcelinebreak Furrow for the wheat, —
\forcelinebreak When the Church is social worth,
\forcelinebreak When the state-house is the hearth,
\forcelinebreak Then the perfect State is come,
\forcelinebreak The republican at home.


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\section{Heroism}


Ruby wine is drunk by knaves,
\forcelinebreak Sugar spends to fatten slaves,
\forcelinebreak Rose and vine-leaf deck buffoons;
\forcelinebreak Thunder-clouds are Jove’s festoons,
\forcelinebreak Drooping oft in wreaths of dread,
\forcelinebreak Lightning-knotted round his head;
\forcelinebreak The hero is not fed on sweets,
\forcelinebreak Daily his own heart he eats;
\forcelinebreak Chambers of the great are jails,
\forcelinebreak And head-winds right for royal sails.


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\section{Character}


The sun set, but set not his hope:
\forcelinebreak Stars rose; his faith was earlier up:
\forcelinebreak Fixed on the enormous galaxy,
\forcelinebreak Deeper and older seemed his eye;
\forcelinebreak And matched his sufferance sublime
\forcelinebreak The taciturnity of time.
\forcelinebreak He spoke, and words more soft than rain
\forcelinebreak Brought the Age of Gold again:
\forcelinebreak His action won such reverence sweet
\forcelinebreak As hid all measure of the feat.


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\section{Culture}


Can rules or tutors educate
\forcelinebreak The semigod whom we await?
\forcelinebreak He must be musical,
\forcelinebreak Tremulous, impressional,
\forcelinebreak Alive to gentle influence
\forcelinebreak Of landscape and of sky,
\forcelinebreak And tender to the spirit-touch
\forcelinebreak Of man’s or maiden’s eye:
\forcelinebreak But, to his native centre fast,
\forcelinebreak Shall into Future fuse the Past,
\forcelinebreak And the world’s flowing fates in his own mould recast.


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\section{Friendship}


A ruddy drop of manly blood
\forcelinebreak The surging sea outweighs,
\forcelinebreak The world uncertain comes and goes;
\forcelinebreak The lover rooted stays.
\forcelinebreak I fancied he was fled, —
\forcelinebreak And, after many a year,
\forcelinebreak Glowed unexhausted kindliness,
\forcelinebreak Like daily sunrise there.
\forcelinebreak My careful heart was free again,
\forcelinebreak O friend, my bosom said,
\forcelinebreak Through thee alone the sky is arched,
\forcelinebreak Through thee the rose is red;
\forcelinebreak All things through thee take nobler form,
\forcelinebreak And look beyond the earth,
\forcelinebreak The mill-round of our fate appears
\forcelinebreak A sun-path in thy worth.
\forcelinebreak Me too thy nobleness has taught
\forcelinebreak To master my despair;
\forcelinebreak The fountains of my hidden life
\forcelinebreak Are through thy friendship fair.


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\section{Spiritual Laws}


The living Heaven thy prayers respect,
\forcelinebreak House at once and architect,
\forcelinebreak Quarrying man’s rejected hours,
\forcelinebreak Builds therewith eternal towers;
\forcelinebreak Sole and self-commanded works,
\forcelinebreak Fears not undermining days,
\forcelinebreak Grows by decays,
\forcelinebreak And, by the famous might that lurks
\forcelinebreak In reaction and recoil,
\forcelinebreak Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;
\forcelinebreak Forging, through swart arms of Offence,
\forcelinebreak The silver seat of Innocence.


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\section{Beauty}


Was never form and never face
\forcelinebreak So sweet to SEYD as only grace
\forcelinebreak Which did not slumber like a stone,
\forcelinebreak But hovered gleaming and was gone.
\forcelinebreak Beauty chased he everywhere,
\forcelinebreak In flame, in storm, in clouds of air.
\forcelinebreak He smote the lake to feed his eye
\forcelinebreak With the beryl beam of the broken wave;
\forcelinebreak He flung in pebbles well to hear
\forcelinebreak The moment’s music which they gave.
\forcelinebreak Oft pealed for him a lofty tone
\forcelinebreak From nodding pole and belting zone.
\forcelinebreak He heard a voice none else could hear
\forcelinebreak From centred and from errant sphere.
\forcelinebreak The quaking earth did quake in rhyme,
\forcelinebreak Seas ebbed and flowed in epic chime.
\forcelinebreak In dens of passion, and pits of woe,
\forcelinebreak He saw strong Eros struggling through,
\forcelinebreak To sun the dark and solve the curse,
\forcelinebreak And beam to the bounds of the universe.
\forcelinebreak While thus to love he gave his days
\forcelinebreak In loyal worship, scorning praise,
\forcelinebreak How spread their lures for him in vain
\forcelinebreak Thieving Ambition and paltering Gain!
\forcelinebreak He thought it happier to be dead,
\forcelinebreak To die for Beauty, than live for bread.


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\section{Manners}


Grace, Beauty and Caprice
\forcelinebreak Build this golden portal;
\forcelinebreak Graceful women, chosen men,
\forcelinebreak Dazzle every mortal.
\forcelinebreak Their sweet and lofty countenance
\forcelinebreak His enchanted food;
\forcelinebreak He need not go to them, their forms
\forcelinebreak Beset his solitude.
\forcelinebreak He looketh seldom in their face,
\forcelinebreak His eyes explore the ground, —
\forcelinebreak The green grass is a looking-glass
\forcelinebreak Whereon their traits are found.
\forcelinebreak Little and less he says to them,
\forcelinebreak So dances his heart in his breast;
\forcelinebreak Their tranquil mien bereaveth him
\forcelinebreak Of wit, of words, of rest.
\forcelinebreak Too weak to win, too fond to shun
\forcelinebreak The tyrants of his doom,
\forcelinebreak The much deceived Endymion
\forcelinebreak Slips behind a tomb.


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\section{Art}


Give to barrows, trays and pans
\forcelinebreak Grace and glimmer of romance;
\forcelinebreak Bring the moonlight into noon
\forcelinebreak Hid in gleaming piles of stone;
\forcelinebreak On the city’s paved street
\forcelinebreak Plant gardens lined with lilacs sweet;
\forcelinebreak Let spouting fountains cool the air,
\forcelinebreak Singing in the sun-baked square;
\forcelinebreak Let statue, picture, park and hall,
\forcelinebreak Ballad, flag and festival,
\forcelinebreak The past restore, the day adorn,
\forcelinebreak And make to-morrow a new morn.
\forcelinebreak So shall the drudge in dusty frock
\forcelinebreak Spy behind the city clock
\forcelinebreak Retinues of airy kings,
\forcelinebreak Skirts of angels, starry wings,
\forcelinebreak His fathers shining in bright fables,
\forcelinebreak His children fed at heavenly tables.
\forcelinebreak ‘T is the privilege of Art
\forcelinebreak Thus to play its cheerful part,
\forcelinebreak Man on earth to acclimate
\forcelinebreak And bend the exile to his fate,
\forcelinebreak And, moulded of one element
\forcelinebreak With the days and firmament,
\forcelinebreak Teach him on these as stairs to climb,
\forcelinebreak And live on even terms with Time;
\forcelinebreak Whilst upper life the slender rill
\forcelinebreak Of human sense doth overfill.


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\section{Unity}


Space is ample, east and west,
\forcelinebreak But two cannot go abreast,
\forcelinebreak Cannot travel in it two:
\forcelinebreak Yonder masterful cuckoo
\forcelinebreak Crowds every egg out of the nest,
\forcelinebreak Quick or dead, except its own;
\forcelinebreak A spell is laid on sod and stone,
\forcelinebreak Night and Day were tampered with,
\forcelinebreak Every quality and pith
\forcelinebreak Surcharged and sultry with a power
\forcelinebreak That works its will on age and hour.


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\section{Worship}


This is he, who, felled by foes,
\forcelinebreak Sprung harmless up, refreshed by blows:
\forcelinebreak He to captivity was sold,
\forcelinebreak But him no prison-bars would hold:
\forcelinebreak Though they sealed him in a rock,
\forcelinebreak Mountain chains he can unlock:
\forcelinebreak Thrown to lions for their meat,
\forcelinebreak The crouching lion kissed his feet;
\forcelinebreak Bound to the stake, no flames appalled,
\forcelinebreak But arched o’er him an honoring vault.
\forcelinebreak This is he men miscall Fate,
\forcelinebreak Threading dark ways, arriving late,
\forcelinebreak But ever coming in time to crown
\forcelinebreak The truth, and hurl wrong-doers down.
\forcelinebreak He is the oldest, and best known,
\forcelinebreak More near than aught thou call’st thy own,
\forcelinebreak Yet, greeted in another’s eyes,
\forcelinebreak Disconcerts with glad surprise.
\forcelinebreak This is Jove, who, deaf to prayers,
\forcelinebreak Floods with blessings unawares.
\forcelinebreak Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line
\forcelinebreak Severing rightly his from thine,
\forcelinebreak Which is human, which divine.


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\section{Prudence}


Theme no poet gladly sung,
\forcelinebreak Fair to old and foul to young;
\forcelinebreak Scorn not thou the love of parts,
\forcelinebreak And the articles of arts.
\forcelinebreak Grandeur of the perfect sphere
\forcelinebreak Thanks the atoms that cohere.


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\section{Nature}


I


A subtle chain of countless rings
\forcelinebreak The next unto the farthest brings;
\forcelinebreak The eye reads omens where it goes,
\forcelinebreak And speaks all languages the rose;
\forcelinebreak And, striving to be man, the worm
\forcelinebreak Mounts through all the spires of form.


II


The rounded world is fair to see,
\forcelinebreak Nine times folded in mystery:
\forcelinebreak Though baffled seers cannot impart
\forcelinebreak The secret of its laboring heart,
\forcelinebreak Throb thine with Nature’s throbbing breast,
\forcelinebreak And all is clear from east to west.
\forcelinebreak Spirit that lurks each form within
\forcelinebreak Beckons to spirit of its kin;
\forcelinebreak Self-kindled every atom glows
\forcelinebreak And hints the future which it owes.


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\section{The Informing Spirit}


I


There is no great and no small
\forcelinebreak To the Soul that maketh all:
\forcelinebreak And where it cometh, all things are;
\forcelinebreak And it cometh everywhere.


II


I am owner of the sphere,
\forcelinebreak Of the seven stars and the solar year,
\forcelinebreak Of Caesar’s hand, and Plato’s brain,
\forcelinebreak Of Lord Christ’s heart, and Shakspeare’s strain.


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\section{Circles}


Nature centres into balls,
\forcelinebreak And her proud ephemerals,
\forcelinebreak Fast to surface and outside,
\forcelinebreak Scan the profile of the sphere;
\forcelinebreak Knew they what that signified,
\forcelinebreak A new genesis were here.


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\section{Intellect}


Go, speed the stars of Thought
\forcelinebreak On to their shining goals; —
\forcelinebreak The sower scatters broad his seed;
\forcelinebreak The wheat thou strew’st be souls.


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\section{Gifts}


Gifts of one who loved me, —
\forcelinebreak ‘T was high time they came;
\forcelinebreak When he ceased to love me,
\forcelinebreak Time they stopped for shame.


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\section{Promise}


In countless upward-striving waves
\forcelinebreak The moon-drawn tide-wave strives;
\forcelinebreak In thousand far-transplanted grafts
\forcelinebreak The parent fruit survives;
\forcelinebreak So, in the new-born millions,
\forcelinebreak The perfect Adam lives.
\forcelinebreak Not less are summer mornings dear
\forcelinebreak To every child they wake,
\forcelinebreak And each with novel life his sphere
\forcelinebreak Fills for his proper sake.


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\section{Caritas}


In the suburb, in the town,
\forcelinebreak On the railway, in the square,
\forcelinebreak Came a beam of goodness down
\forcelinebreak Doubling daylight everywhere:
\forcelinebreak Peace now each for malice takes,
\forcelinebreak Beauty for his sinful weeds,
\forcelinebreak For the angel Hope aye makes
\forcelinebreak Him an angel whom she leads.


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\section{Power}


His tongue was framed to music,
\forcelinebreak And his hand was armed with skill;
\forcelinebreak His face was the mould of beauty,
\forcelinebreak And his heart the throne of will.


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\section{Wealth}


Who shall tell what did befall,
\forcelinebreak Far away in time, when once,
\forcelinebreak Over the lifeless ball,
\forcelinebreak Hung idle stars and suns?
\forcelinebreak What god the element obeyed?
\forcelinebreak Wings of what wind the lichen bore,
\forcelinebreak Wafting the puny seeds of power,
\forcelinebreak Which, lodged in rock, the rock abrade?
\forcelinebreak And well the primal pioneer
\forcelinebreak Knew the strong task to it assigned,
\forcelinebreak Patient through Heaven’s enormous year
\forcelinebreak To build in matter home for mind.
\forcelinebreak From air the creeping centuries drew
\forcelinebreak The matted thicket low and wide,
\forcelinebreak This must the leaves of ages strew
\forcelinebreak The granite slab to clothe and hide,
\forcelinebreak Ere wheat can wave its golden pride.
\forcelinebreak What smiths, and in what furnace, rolled
\forcelinebreak (In dizzy aeons dim and mute
\forcelinebreak The reeling brain can ill compute)
\forcelinebreak Copper and iron, lead and gold?
\forcelinebreak What oldest star the fame can save
\forcelinebreak Of races perishing to pave
\forcelinebreak The planet with a floor of lime?
\forcelinebreak Dust is their pyramid and mole:
\forcelinebreak Who saw what ferns and palms were pressed
\forcelinebreak Under the tumbling mountain’s breast,
\forcelinebreak In the safe herbal of the coal?
\forcelinebreak But when the quarried means were piled,
\forcelinebreak All is waste and worthless, till
\forcelinebreak Arrives the wise selecting will,
\forcelinebreak And, out of slime and chaos, Wit
\forcelinebreak Draws the threads of fair and fit.
\forcelinebreak Then temples rose, and towns, and marts,
\forcelinebreak The shop of toil, the hall of arts;
\forcelinebreak Then flew the sail across the seas
\forcelinebreak To feed the North from tropic trees;
\forcelinebreak The storm-wind wove, the torrent span,
\forcelinebreak Where they were bid, the rivers ran;
\forcelinebreak New slaves fulfilled the poet’s dream,
\forcelinebreak Galvanic wire, strong-shouldered steam.
\forcelinebreak Then docks were built, and crops were stored,
\forcelinebreak And ingots added to the hoard.
\forcelinebreak But though light-headed man forget,
\forcelinebreak Remembering Matter pays her debt:
\forcelinebreak Still, through her motes and masses, draw
\forcelinebreak Electric thrills and ties of law,
\forcelinebreak Which bind the strengths of Nature wild
\forcelinebreak To the conscience of a child.


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\section{Illusions}


Flow, flow the waves hated,
\forcelinebreak Accursed, adored,
\forcelinebreak The waves of mutation;
\forcelinebreak No anchorage is.
\forcelinebreak Sleep is not, death is not;
\forcelinebreak Who seem to die live.
\forcelinebreak House you were born in,
\forcelinebreak Friends of your spring-time,
\forcelinebreak Old man and young maid,
\forcelinebreak Day’s toil and its guerdon,
\forcelinebreak They are all vanishing,
\forcelinebreak Fleeing to fables,
\forcelinebreak Cannot be moored.
\forcelinebreak See the stars through them,
\forcelinebreak Through treacherous marbles.
\forcelinebreak Know the stars yonder,
\forcelinebreak The stars everlasting,
\forcelinebreak Are fugitive also,
\forcelinebreak And emulate, vaulted,
\forcelinebreak The lambent heat lightning
\forcelinebreak And fire-fly’s flight.


When thou dost return
\forcelinebreak On the wave’s circulation,
\forcelinebreak Behold the shimmer,
\forcelinebreak The wild dissipation,
\forcelinebreak And, out of endeavor
\forcelinebreak To change and to flow,
\forcelinebreak The gas become solid,
\forcelinebreak And phantoms and nothings
\forcelinebreak Return to be things,
\forcelinebreak And endless imbroglio
\forcelinebreak Is law and the world, —
\forcelinebreak Then first shalt thou know,
\forcelinebreak That in the wild turmoil,
\forcelinebreak Horsed on the Proteus,
\forcelinebreak Thou ridest to power,
\forcelinebreak And to endurance.


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\bigskip

\chapter{Quatrains}

\section{A.H.}


High was her heart, and yet was well inclined,
\forcelinebreak Her manners made of bounty well refined;
\forcelinebreak Far capitals and marble courts, her eye still seemed to see,
\forcelinebreak Minstrels and kings and high-born dames, and of the best that be.


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\section{Hush!}


Every thought is public,
\forcelinebreak Every nook is wide;
\forcelinebreak Thy gossips spread each whisper,
\forcelinebreak And the gods from side to side.


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\section{Orator}


He who has no hands
\forcelinebreak Perforce must use his tongue;
\forcelinebreak Foxes are so cunning
\forcelinebreak Because they are not strong.


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\section{Artist}


Quit the hut, frequent the palace,
\forcelinebreak Reck not what the people say;
\forcelinebreak For still, where’er the trees grow biggest,
\forcelinebreak Huntsmen find the easiest way.


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\section{Poet}


Ever the Poet from the land
\forcelinebreak Steers his bark and trims his sail;
\forcelinebreak Right out to sea his courses stand,
\forcelinebreak New worlds to find in pinnace frail.


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\section{Poet}


To clothe the fiery thought
\forcelinebreak In simple words succeeds,
\forcelinebreak For still the craft of genius is
\forcelinebreak To mask a king in weeds.


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\section{Botanist}


Go thou to thy learned task,
\forcelinebreak I stay with the flowers of Spring:
\forcelinebreak Do thou of the Ages ask
\forcelinebreak What me the Hours will bring.


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\section{Gardener}


True Brahmin, in the morning meadows wet,
\forcelinebreak Expound the Vedas of the violet,
\forcelinebreak Or, hid in vines, peeping through many a loop,
\forcelinebreak See the plum redden, and the beurré stoop.


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\section{Forester}


He took the color of his vest
\forcelinebreak From rabbit’s coat or grouse’s breast;
\forcelinebreak For, as the wood-kinds lurk and hide,
\forcelinebreak So walks the woodman, unespied.


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\section{Northman}


The gale that wrecked you on the sand,
\forcelinebreak It helped my rowers to row;
\forcelinebreak The storm is my best galley hand
\forcelinebreak And drives me where I go.


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\section{From Alcuin}


The sea is the road of the bold,
\forcelinebreak Frontier of the wheat-sown plains,
\forcelinebreak The pit wherein the streams are rolled
\forcelinebreak And fountain of the rains.


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\section{Excelsior}


Over his head were the maple buds,
\forcelinebreak And over the tree was the moon,
\forcelinebreak And over the moon were the starry studs
\forcelinebreak That drop from the angels’ shoon.


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\section{S.H.}


With beams December planets dart
\forcelinebreak His cold eye truth and conduct scanned,
\forcelinebreak July was in his sunny heart,
\forcelinebreak October in his liberal hand.


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\section{Borrowing From the French}


Some of your hurts you have cured,
\forcelinebreak And the sharpest you still have survived,
\forcelinebreak But what torments of grief you endured
\forcelinebreak From evils which never arrived!


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\section{Nature}


Boon Nature yields each day a brag which we now first behold,
\forcelinebreak And trains us on to slight the new, as if it were the old:
\forcelinebreak But blest is he, who, playing deep, yet haply asks not why,
\forcelinebreak Too busied with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.


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\section{Fate}


Her planted eye to-day controls,
\forcelinebreak Is in the morrow most at home,
\forcelinebreak And sternly calls to being souls
\forcelinebreak That curse her when they come.


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\section{Horoscope}


Ere he was born, the stars of fate
\forcelinebreak Plotted to make him rich and great:
\forcelinebreak When from the womb the babe was loosed,
\forcelinebreak The gate of gifts behind him closed.


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\section{Power}


Cast the bantling on the rocks,
\forcelinebreak Suckle him with the she-wolf’s teat,
\forcelinebreak Wintered with the hawk and fox,
\forcelinebreak Power and speed be hands and feet.


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\section{Climacteric}


I am not wiser for my age,
\forcelinebreak Nor skilful by my grief;
\forcelinebreak Life loiters at the book’s first page, —
\forcelinebreak Ah! could we turn the leaf.


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\section{Heri, Cras, Hodie}


Shines the last age, the next with hope is seen,
\forcelinebreak To-day slinks poorly off unmarked between:
\forcelinebreak Future or Past no richer secret folds,
\forcelinebreak O friendless Present! than thy bosom holds.


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\section{Memory}


Night-dreams trace on Memory’s wall
\forcelinebreak Shadows of the thoughts of day,
\forcelinebreak And thy fortunes, as they fall,
\forcelinebreak The bias of the will betray.


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\section{Love}


Love on his errand bound to go
\forcelinebreak Can swim the flood and wade through snow,
\forcelinebreak Where way is none, ‘t will creep and wind
\forcelinebreak And eat through Alps its home to find.


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\section{Sacrifice}


Though love repine, and reason chafe,
\forcelinebreak There came a voice without reply, —
\forcelinebreak ‘‘T is man’s perdition to be safe,
\forcelinebreak When for the truth he ought to die.’


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\section{Pericles}


Well and wisely said the Greek,
\forcelinebreak Be thou faithful, but not fond;
\forcelinebreak To the altar’s foot thy fellow seek, —
\forcelinebreak The Furies wait beyond.


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\section{Casella}


Test of the poet is knowledge of love,
\forcelinebreak For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove;
\forcelinebreak Never was poet, of late or of yore,
\forcelinebreak Who was not tremulous with love-lore.


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\section{Shakspeare}


I see all human wits
\forcelinebreak Are measured but a few;
\forcelinebreak Unmeasured still my Shakspeare sits,
\forcelinebreak Lone as the blessed Jew.


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\section{Hafiz}


Her passions the shy violet
\forcelinebreak From Hafiz never hides;
\forcelinebreak Love-longings of the raptured bird
\forcelinebreak The bird to him confides.


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\section{Nature in Leasts}


As sings the pine-tree in the wind,
\forcelinebreak So sings in the wind a sprig of the pine;
\forcelinebreak Her strength and soul has laughing France
\forcelinebreak Shed in each drop of wine.


[Greek: ADAKRYN NEMONTAI AIONA]


‘A New commandment,’ said the smiling Muse,
\forcelinebreak ‘I give my darling son, Thou shalt not preach’; —
\forcelinebreak Luther, Fox, Behmen, Swedenborg, grew pale,
\forcelinebreak And, on the instant, rosier clouds upbore
\forcelinebreak Hafiz and Shakspeare with their shining choirs.


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\chapter{Fragments}



\bigskip

\section{The Poet}


I


Right upward on the road of fame
\forcelinebreak With sounding steps the poet came;
\forcelinebreak Born and nourished in miracles,
\forcelinebreak His feet were shod with golden bells,
\forcelinebreak Or where he stepped the soil did peal
\forcelinebreak As if the dust were glass and steel.
\forcelinebreak The gallant child where’er he came
\forcelinebreak Threw to each fact a tuneful name.
\forcelinebreak The things whereon he cast his eyes
\forcelinebreak Could not the nations rebaptize,
\forcelinebreak Nor Time’s snows hide the names he set,
\forcelinebreak Nor last posterity forget.
\forcelinebreak Yet every scroll whereon he wrote
\forcelinebreak In latent fire his secret thought,
\forcelinebreak Fell unregarded to the ground,
\forcelinebreak Unseen by such as stood around.
\forcelinebreak The pious wind took it away,
\forcelinebreak The reverent darkness hid the lay.
\forcelinebreak Methought like water-haunting birds
\forcelinebreak Divers or dippers were his words,
\forcelinebreak And idle clowns beside the mere
\forcelinebreak At the new vision gape and jeer.
\forcelinebreak But when the noisy scorn was past,
\forcelinebreak Emerge the wingèd words in haste.
\forcelinebreak New-bathed, new-trimmed, on healthy wing,
\forcelinebreak Right to the heaven they steer and sing.


A Brother of the world, his song
\forcelinebreak Sounded like a tempest strong
\forcelinebreak Which tore from oaks their branches broad,
\forcelinebreak And stars from the ecliptic road.
\forcelinebreak Times wore he as his clothing-weeds,
\forcelinebreak He sowed the sun and moon for seeds.
\forcelinebreak As melts the iceberg in the seas,
\forcelinebreak As clouds give rain to the eastern breeze,
\forcelinebreak As snow-banks thaw in April’s beam,
\forcelinebreak The solid kingdoms like a dream
\forcelinebreak Resist in vain his motive strain,
\forcelinebreak They totter now and float amain.
\forcelinebreak For the Muse gave special charge
\forcelinebreak His learning should be deep and large,
\forcelinebreak And his training should not scant
\forcelinebreak The deepest lore of wealth or want:
\forcelinebreak His flesh should feel, his eyes should read
\forcelinebreak Every maxim of dreadful Need;
\forcelinebreak In its fulness he should taste
\forcelinebreak Life’s honeycomb, but not too fast;
\forcelinebreak Full fed, but not intoxicated;
\forcelinebreak He should be loved; he should be hated;
\forcelinebreak A blooming child to children dear,
\forcelinebreak His heart should palpitate with fear.


And well he loved to quit his home
\forcelinebreak And, Calmuck, in his wagon roam
\forcelinebreak To read new landscapes and old skies; —
\forcelinebreak But oh, to see his solar eyes
\forcelinebreak Like meteors which chose their way
\forcelinebreak And rived the dark like a new day!
\forcelinebreak Not lazy grazing on all they saw,
\forcelinebreak Each chimney-pot and cottage door,
\forcelinebreak Farm-gear and village picket-fence,
\forcelinebreak But, feeding on magnificence,
\forcelinebreak They bounded to the horizon’s edge
\forcelinebreak And searched with the sun’s privilege.
\forcelinebreak Landward they reached the mountains old
\forcelinebreak Where pastoral tribes their flocks infold,
\forcelinebreak Saw rivers run seaward by cities high
\forcelinebreak And the seas wash the low-hung sky;
\forcelinebreak Saw the endless rack of the firmament
\forcelinebreak And the sailing moon where the cloud was rent,
\forcelinebreak And through man and woman and sea and star
\forcelinebreak Saw the dance of Nature forward and far,
\forcelinebreak Through worlds and races and terms and times
\forcelinebreak Saw musical order and pairing rhymes.


II


The gods talk in the breath of the woods,
\forcelinebreak They talk in the shaken pine,
\forcelinebreak And fill the long reach of the old seashore
\forcelinebreak With dialogue divine;
\forcelinebreak And the poet who overhears
\forcelinebreak Some random word they say
\forcelinebreak Is the fated man of men
\forcelinebreak Whom the ages must obey:
\forcelinebreak One who having nectar drank
\forcelinebreak Into blissful orgies sank;
\forcelinebreak He takes no mark of night or day,
\forcelinebreak He cannot go, he cannot stay,
\forcelinebreak He would, yet would not, counsel keep,
\forcelinebreak But, like a walker in his sleep
\forcelinebreak With staring eye that seeth none,
\forcelinebreak Ridiculously up and down
\forcelinebreak Seeks how he may fitly tell
\forcelinebreak The heart-o’erlading miracle.


Not yet, not yet,
\forcelinebreak Impatient friend, —
\forcelinebreak A little while attend;
\forcelinebreak Not yet I sing: but I must wait,
\forcelinebreak My hand upon the silent string,
\forcelinebreak Fully until the end.
\forcelinebreak I see the coming light,
\forcelinebreak I see the scattered gleams,
\forcelinebreak Aloft, beneath, on left and right
\forcelinebreak The stars’ own ether beams;
\forcelinebreak These are but seeds of days,
\forcelinebreak Not yet a steadfast morn,
\forcelinebreak An intermittent blaze,
\forcelinebreak An embryo god unborn.


How all things sparkle,
\forcelinebreak The dust is alive,
\forcelinebreak To the birth they arrive:
\forcelinebreak I snuff the breath of my morning afar,
\forcelinebreak I see the pale lustres condense to a star:
\forcelinebreak The fading colors fix,
\forcelinebreak The vanishing are seen,
\forcelinebreak And the world that shall be
\forcelinebreak Twins the world that has been.
\forcelinebreak I know the appointed hour,
\forcelinebreak I greet my office well,
\forcelinebreak Never faster, never slower
\forcelinebreak Revolves the fatal wheel!
\forcelinebreak The Fairest enchants me,
\forcelinebreak The Mighty commands me,
\forcelinebreak Saying, ‘Stand in thy place;
\forcelinebreak Up and eastward turn thy face;
\forcelinebreak As mountains for the morning wait,
\forcelinebreak Coming early, coming late,
\forcelinebreak So thou attend the enriching Fate
\forcelinebreak Which none can stay, and none accelerate.
\forcelinebreak I am neither faint nor weary,
\forcelinebreak Fill thy will, O faultless heart!
\forcelinebreak Here from youth to age I tarry, —
\forcelinebreak Count it flight of bird or dart.
\forcelinebreak My heart at the heart of things
\forcelinebreak Heeds no longer lapse of time,
\forcelinebreak Rushing ages moult their wings,
\forcelinebreak Bathing in thy day sublime.


The sun set, but set not his hope: —
\forcelinebreak Stars rose, his faith was earlier up:
\forcelinebreak Fixed on the enormous galaxy,
\forcelinebreak Deeper and older seemed his eye,
\forcelinebreak And matched his sufferance sublime
\forcelinebreak The taciturnity of Time.


Beside his hut and shading oak,
\forcelinebreak Thus to himself the poet spoke,
\forcelinebreak ‘I have supped to-night with gods,
\forcelinebreak I will not go under a wooden roof:
\forcelinebreak As I walked among the hills
\forcelinebreak In the love which Nature fills,
\forcelinebreak The great stars did not shine aloof,
\forcelinebreak They hurried down from their deep abodes
\forcelinebreak And hemmed me in their glittering troop.


‘Divine Inviters! I accept
\forcelinebreak The courtesy ye have shown and kept
\forcelinebreak From ancient ages for the bard,
\forcelinebreak To modulate
\forcelinebreak With finer fate
\forcelinebreak A fortune harsh and hard.
\forcelinebreak With aim like yours
\forcelinebreak I watch your course,
\forcelinebreak Who never break your lawful dance
\forcelinebreak By error or intemperance.
\forcelinebreak O birds of ether without wings!
\forcelinebreak O heavenly ships without a sail!
\forcelinebreak O fire of fire! O best of things!
\forcelinebreak O mariners who never fail!
\forcelinebreak Sail swiftly through your amber vault,
\forcelinebreak An animated law, a presence to exalt.’


Ah, happy if a sun or star
\forcelinebreak Could chain the wheel of Fortune’s car,
\forcelinebreak And give to hold an even state,
\forcelinebreak Neither dejected nor elate,
\forcelinebreak That haply man upraised might keep
\forcelinebreak The height of Fancy’s far-eyed steep.
\forcelinebreak In vain: the stars are glowing wheels,
\forcelinebreak Giddy with motion Nature reels,
\forcelinebreak Sun, moon, man, undulate and stream,
\forcelinebreak The mountains flow, the solids seem,
\forcelinebreak Change acts, reacts; back, forward hurled,
\forcelinebreak And pause were palsy to the world. —
\forcelinebreak The morn is come: the starry crowds
\forcelinebreak Are hid behind the thrice-piled clouds;
\forcelinebreak The new day lowers, and equal odds
\forcelinebreak Have changed not less the guest of gods;
\forcelinebreak Discrowned and timid, thoughtless, worn,
\forcelinebreak The child of genius sits forlorn:
\forcelinebreak Between two sleeps a short day’s stealth,
\forcelinebreak ‘Mid many ails a brittle health,
\forcelinebreak A cripple of God, half true, half formed,
\forcelinebreak And by great sparks Promethean warmed,
\forcelinebreak Constrained by impotence to adjourn
\forcelinebreak To infinite time his eager turn,
\forcelinebreak His lot of action at the urn.
\forcelinebreak He by false usage pinned about
\forcelinebreak No breath therein, no passage out,
\forcelinebreak Cast wishful glances at the stars
\forcelinebreak And wishful saw the Ocean stream: —
\forcelinebreak ‘Merge me in the brute universe,
\forcelinebreak Or lift to a diviner dream!’


Beside him sat enduring love,
\forcelinebreak Upon him noble eyes did rest,
\forcelinebreak Which, for the Genius that there strove.
\forcelinebreak The follies bore that it invest.
\forcelinebreak They spoke not, for their earnest sense
\forcelinebreak Outran the craft of eloquence.


He whom God had thus preferred, —
\forcelinebreak To whom sweet angels ministered,
\forcelinebreak Saluted him each morn as brother,
\forcelinebreak And bragged his virtues to each other, —
\forcelinebreak Alas! how were they so beguiled,
\forcelinebreak And they so pure? He, foolish child,
\forcelinebreak A facile, reckless, wandering will,
\forcelinebreak Eager for good, not hating ill,
\forcelinebreak Thanked Nature for each stroke she dealt;
\forcelinebreak On his tense chords all strokes were felt,
\forcelinebreak The good, the bad with equal zeal,
\forcelinebreak He asked, he only asked, to feel.
\forcelinebreak Timid, self-pleasing, sensitive,
\forcelinebreak With Gods, with fools, content to live;
\forcelinebreak Bended to fops who bent to him;
\forcelinebreak Surface with surfaces did swim.


‘Sorrow, sorrow!’ the angels cried,
\forcelinebreak ‘Is this dear Nature’s manly pride?
\forcelinebreak Call hither thy mortal enemy,
\forcelinebreak Make him glad thy fall to see!
\forcelinebreak Yon waterflag, yon sighing osier,
\forcelinebreak A drop can shake, a breath can fan;
\forcelinebreak Maidens laugh and weep; Composure
\forcelinebreak Is the pudency of man,’


Again by night the poet went
\forcelinebreak From the lighted halls
\forcelinebreak Beneath the darkling firmament
\forcelinebreak To the seashore, to the old seawalls,
\forcelinebreak Out shone a star beneath the cloud,
\forcelinebreak The constellation glittered soon, —
\forcelinebreak You have no lapse; so have ye glowed
\forcelinebreak But once in your dominion.
\forcelinebreak And yet, dear stars, I know ye shine
\forcelinebreak Only by needs and loves of mine;
\forcelinebreak Light-loving, light-asking life in me
\forcelinebreak Feeds those eternal lamps I see.
\forcelinebreak And I to whom your light has spoken,
\forcelinebreak I, pining to be one of you,
\forcelinebreak I fall, my faith is broken,
\forcelinebreak Ye scorn me from your deeps of blue.
\forcelinebreak Or if perchance, ye orbs of Fate,
\forcelinebreak Your ne’er averted glance
\forcelinebreak Beams with a will compassionate
\forcelinebreak On sons of time and chance,
\forcelinebreak Then clothe these hands with power
\forcelinebreak In just proportion,
\forcelinebreak Nor plant immense designs
\forcelinebreak Where equal means are none.’


CHORUS OF SPIRITS


Means, dear brother, ask them not;
\forcelinebreak Soul’s desire is means enow,
\forcelinebreak Pure content is angel’s lot,
\forcelinebreak Thine own theatre art thou.


Gentler far than falls the snow
\forcelinebreak In the woodwalks still and low
\forcelinebreak Fell the lesson on his heart
\forcelinebreak And woke the fear lest angels part.


POET


I see your forms with deep content,
\forcelinebreak I know that ye are excellent,
\forcelinebreak But will ye stay?
\forcelinebreak I hear the rustle of wings,
\forcelinebreak Ye meditate what to say
\forcelinebreak Ere ye go to quit me for ever and aye.


SPIRITS


Brother, we are no phantom band;
\forcelinebreak Brother, accept this fatal hand.
\forcelinebreak Aches thine unbelieving heart
\forcelinebreak With the fear that we must part?
\forcelinebreak See, all we are rooted here
\forcelinebreak By one thought to one same sphere;
\forcelinebreak From thyself thou canst not flee, —
\forcelinebreak From thyself no more can we.


POET


Suns and stars their courses keep,
\forcelinebreak But not angels of the deep:
\forcelinebreak Day and night their turn observe,
\forcelinebreak But the day of day may swerve.
\forcelinebreak Is there warrant that the waves
\forcelinebreak Of thought in their mysterious caves
\forcelinebreak Will heap in me their highest tide,
\forcelinebreak In me therewith beatified?
\forcelinebreak Unsure the ebb and flood of thought,
\forcelinebreak The moon comes back, — the Spirit not.


SPIRITS


Brother, sweeter is the Law
\forcelinebreak Than all the grace Love ever saw;
\forcelinebreak We are its suppliants. By it, we
\forcelinebreak Draw the breath of Eternity;
\forcelinebreak Serve thou it not for daily bread, —
\forcelinebreak Serve it for pain and fear and need.
\forcelinebreak Love it, though it hide its light;
\forcelinebreak By love behold the sun at night.
\forcelinebreak If the Law should thee forget,
\forcelinebreak More enamoured serve it yet;
\forcelinebreak Though it hate thee, suffer long;
\forcelinebreak Put the Spirit in the wrong;
\forcelinebreak Brother, no decrepitude
\forcelinebreak Chills the limbs of Time;
\forcelinebreak As fleet his feet, his hands as good,
\forcelinebreak His vision as sublime:
\forcelinebreak On Nature’s wheels there is no rust;
\forcelinebreak Nor less on man’s enchanted dust
\forcelinebreak Beauty and Force alight.


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\section{Fragments on the Poet and the Poetic Gift}


I


There are beggars in Iran and Araby,
\forcelinebreak SAID was hungrier than all;
\forcelinebreak Hafiz said he was a fly
\forcelinebreak That came to every festival.
\forcelinebreak He came a pilgrim to the Mosque
\forcelinebreak On trail of camel and caravan,
\forcelinebreak Knew every temple and kiosk
\forcelinebreak Out from Mecca to Ispahan;
\forcelinebreak Northward he went to the snowy hills,
\forcelinebreak At court he sat in the grave Divan.
\forcelinebreak His music was the south-wind’s sigh,
\forcelinebreak His lamp, the maiden’s downcast eye,
\forcelinebreak And ever the spell of beauty came
\forcelinebreak And turned the drowsy world to flame.
\forcelinebreak By lake and stream and gleaming hall
\forcelinebreak And modest copse and the forest tall,
\forcelinebreak Where’er he went, the magic guide
\forcelinebreak Kept its place by the poet’s side.
\forcelinebreak Said melted the days like cups of pearl,
\forcelinebreak Served high and low, the lord and the churl,
\forcelinebreak Loved harebells nodding on a rock,
\forcelinebreak A cabin hung with curling smoke,
\forcelinebreak Ring of axe or hum of wheel
\forcelinebreak Or gleam which use can paint on steel,
\forcelinebreak And huts and tents; nor loved he less
\forcelinebreak Stately lords in palaces,
\forcelinebreak Princely women hard to please,
\forcelinebreak Fenced by form and ceremony,
\forcelinebreak Decked by courtly rites and dress
\forcelinebreak And etiquette of gentilesse.
\forcelinebreak But when the mate of the snow and wind,
\forcelinebreak He left each civil scale behind:
\forcelinebreak Him wood-gods fed with honey wild
\forcelinebreak And of his memory beguiled.
\forcelinebreak He loved to watch and wake
\forcelinebreak When the wing of the south-wind whipt the lake
\forcelinebreak And the glassy surface in ripples brake
\forcelinebreak And fled in pretty frowns away
\forcelinebreak Like the flitting boreal lights,
\forcelinebreak Rippling roses in northern nights,
\forcelinebreak Or like the thrill of Aeolian strings
\forcelinebreak In which the sudden wind-god rings.
\forcelinebreak In caves and hollow trees he crept
\forcelinebreak And near the wolf and panther slept.
\forcelinebreak He came to the green ocean’s brim
\forcelinebreak And saw the wheeling sea-birds skim,
\forcelinebreak Summer and winter, o’er the wave,
\forcelinebreak Like creatures of a skiey mould,
\forcelinebreak Impassible to heat or cold.
\forcelinebreak He stood before the tumbling main
\forcelinebreak With joy too tense for sober brain;
\forcelinebreak He shared the life of the element,
\forcelinebreak The tie of blood and home was rent:
\forcelinebreak As if in him the welkin walked,
\forcelinebreak The winds took flesh, the mountains talked,
\forcelinebreak And he the bard, a crystal soul
\forcelinebreak Sphered and concentric with the whole.


II


The Dervish whined to Said,
\forcelinebreak “Thou didst not tarry while I prayed.
\forcelinebreak Beware the fire that Eblis burned,”
\forcelinebreak But Saadi coldly thus returned,
\forcelinebreak “Once with manlike love and fear
\forcelinebreak I gave thee for an hour my ear,
\forcelinebreak I kept the sun and stars at bay,
\forcelinebreak And love, for words thy tongue could say.
\forcelinebreak I cannot sell my heaven again
\forcelinebreak For all that rattles in thy brain.”


III


Said Saadi, “When I stood before
\forcelinebreak Hassan the camel-driver’s door,
\forcelinebreak I scorned the fame of Timour brave;
\forcelinebreak Timour, to Hassan, was a slave.
\forcelinebreak In every glance of Hassan’s eye
\forcelinebreak I read great years of victory,
\forcelinebreak And I, who cower mean and small
\forcelinebreak In the frequent interval
\forcelinebreak When wisdom not with me resides,
\forcelinebreak Worship Toil’s wisdom that abides.
\forcelinebreak I shunned his eyes, that faithful man’s,
\forcelinebreak I shunned the toiling Hassan’s glance.”


IV


The civil world will much forgive
\forcelinebreak To bards who from its maxims live,
\forcelinebreak But if, grown bold, the poet dare
\forcelinebreak Bend his practice to his prayer
\forcelinebreak And following his mighty heart
\forcelinebreak Shame the times and live apart, —
\forcelinebreak Vae solis! I found this,
\forcelinebreak That of goods I could not miss
\forcelinebreak If I fell within the line,
\forcelinebreak Once a member, all was mine,
\forcelinebreak Houses, banquets, gardens, fountains,
\forcelinebreak Fortune’s delectable mountains;
\forcelinebreak But if I would walk alone,
\forcelinebreak Was neither cloak nor crumb my own.
\forcelinebreak And thus the high Muse treated me,
\forcelinebreak Directly never greeted me,
\forcelinebreak But when she spread her dearest spells,
\forcelinebreak Feigned to speak to some one else.
\forcelinebreak I was free to overhear,
\forcelinebreak Or I might at will forbear;
\forcelinebreak Yet mark me well, that idle word
\forcelinebreak Thus at random overheard
\forcelinebreak Was the symphony of spheres,
\forcelinebreak And proverb of a thousand years,
\forcelinebreak The light wherewith all planets shone,
\forcelinebreak The livery all events put on,
\forcelinebreak It fell in rain, it grew in grain,
\forcelinebreak It put on flesh in friendly form,
\forcelinebreak Frowned in my foe and growled in storm,
\forcelinebreak It spoke in Tullius Cicero,
\forcelinebreak In Milton and in Angelo:
\forcelinebreak I travelled and found it at Rome;
\forcelinebreak Eastward it filled all Heathendom
\forcelinebreak And it lay on my hearth when I came home.


V


Mask thy wisdom with delight,
\forcelinebreak Toy with the bow, yet hit the white,
\forcelinebreak As Jelaleddin old and gray;
\forcelinebreak He seemed to bask, to dream and play
\forcelinebreak Without remoter hope or fear
\forcelinebreak Than still to entertain his ear
\forcelinebreak And pass the burning summer-time
\forcelinebreak In the palm-grove with a rhyme;
\forcelinebreak Heedless that each cunning word
\forcelinebreak Tribes and ages overheard:
\forcelinebreak Those idle catches told the laws
\forcelinebreak Holding Nature to her cause.


God only knew how Saadi dined;
\forcelinebreak Roses he ate, and drank the wind;
\forcelinebreak He freelier breathed beside the pine,
\forcelinebreak In cities he was low and mean;
\forcelinebreak The mountain waters washed him clean
\forcelinebreak And by the sea-waves he was strong;
\forcelinebreak He heard their medicinal song,
\forcelinebreak Asked no physician but the wave,
\forcelinebreak No palace but his sea-beat cave.


Saadi held the Muse in awe,
\forcelinebreak She was his mistress and his law;
\forcelinebreak A twelvemonth he could silence hold,
\forcelinebreak Nor ran to speak till she him told;
\forcelinebreak He felt the flame, the fanning wings,
\forcelinebreak Nor offered words till they were things,
\forcelinebreak Glad when the solid mountain swims
\forcelinebreak In music and uplifting hymns.


Charmed from fagot and from steel,
\forcelinebreak Harvests grew upon his tongue,
\forcelinebreak Past and future must reveal
\forcelinebreak All their heart when Saadi sung;
\forcelinebreak Sun and moon must fall amain
\forcelinebreak Like sower’s seeds into his brain,
\forcelinebreak There quickened to be born again.


The free winds told him what they knew,
\forcelinebreak Discoursed of fortune as they blew;
\forcelinebreak Omens and signs that filled the air
\forcelinebreak To him authentic witness bare;
\forcelinebreak The birds brought auguries on their wings,
\forcelinebreak And carolled undeceiving things
\forcelinebreak Him to beckon, him to warn;
\forcelinebreak Well might then the poet scorn
\forcelinebreak To learn of scribe or courier
\forcelinebreak Things writ in vaster character;
\forcelinebreak And on his mind at dawn of day
\forcelinebreak Soft shadows of the evening lay.


 * * *


Pale genius roves alone,
\forcelinebreak No scout can track his way,
\forcelinebreak None credits him till he have shown
\forcelinebreak His diamonds to the day.


Not his the feaster’s wine,
\forcelinebreak Nor land, nor gold, nor power,
\forcelinebreak By want and pain God screeneth him
\forcelinebreak Till his elected hour.


Go, speed the stars of Thought
\forcelinebreak On to their shining goals: —
\forcelinebreak The sower scatters broad his seed,
\forcelinebreak The wheat thou strew’st be souls.


I grieve that better souls than mine
\forcelinebreak Docile read my measured line:
\forcelinebreak High destined youths and holy maids
\forcelinebreak Hallow these my orchard shades;
\forcelinebreak Environ me and me baptize
\forcelinebreak With light that streams from gracious eyes.
\forcelinebreak I dare not be beloved and known,
\forcelinebreak I ungrateful, I alone.


Ever find me dim regards,
\forcelinebreak Love of ladies, love of bards,
\forcelinebreak Marked forbearance, compliments,
\forcelinebreak Tokens of benevolence.
\forcelinebreak What then, can I love myself?
\forcelinebreak Fame is profitless as pelf,
\forcelinebreak A good in Nature not allowed
\forcelinebreak They love me, as I love a cloud
\forcelinebreak Sailing falsely in the sphere,
\forcelinebreak Hated mist if it come near.


For thought, and not praise;
\forcelinebreak Thought is the wages
\forcelinebreak For which I sell days,
\forcelinebreak Will gladly sell ages
\forcelinebreak And willing grow old
\forcelinebreak Deaf, and dumb, and blind, and cold,
\forcelinebreak Melting matter into dreams,
\forcelinebreak Panoramas which I saw
\forcelinebreak And whatever glows or seems
\forcelinebreak Into substance, into Law.


For Fancy’s gift
\forcelinebreak Can mountains lift;
\forcelinebreak The Muse can knit
\forcelinebreak What is past, what is done,
\forcelinebreak With the web that’s just begun;
\forcelinebreak Making free with time and size,
\forcelinebreak Dwindles here, there magnifies,
\forcelinebreak Swells a rain-drop to a tun;
\forcelinebreak So to repeat
\forcelinebreak No word or feat
\forcelinebreak Crowds in a day the sum of ages,
\forcelinebreak And blushing Love outwits the sages.


Try the might the Muse affords
\forcelinebreak And the balm of thoughtful words;
\forcelinebreak Bring music to the desolate;
\forcelinebreak Hang roses on the stony fate.


But over all his crowning grace,
\forcelinebreak Wherefor thanks God his daily praise,
\forcelinebreak Is the purging of his eye
\forcelinebreak To see the people of the sky:
\forcelinebreak From blue mount and headland dim
\forcelinebreak Friendly hands stretch forth to him,
\forcelinebreak Him they beckon, him advise
\forcelinebreak Of heavenlier prosperities
\forcelinebreak And a more excelling grace
\forcelinebreak And a truer bosom-glow
\forcelinebreak Than the wine-fed feasters know.
\forcelinebreak They turn his heart from lovely maids,
\forcelinebreak And make the darlings of the earth
\forcelinebreak Swainish, coarse and nothing worth:
\forcelinebreak Teach him gladly to postpone
\forcelinebreak Pleasures to another stage
\forcelinebreak Beyond the scope of human age,
\forcelinebreak Freely as task at eve undone
\forcelinebreak Waits unblamed to-morrow’s sun.


By thoughts I lead
\forcelinebreak Bards to say what nations need;
\forcelinebreak What imports, what irks and what behooves,
\forcelinebreak Framed afar as Fates and Loves.


And as the light divides the dark
\forcelinebreak Through with living swords,
\forcelinebreak So shall thou pierce the distant age
\forcelinebreak With adamantine words.


I framed his tongue to music,
\forcelinebreak I armed his hand with skill,
\forcelinebreak I moulded his face to beauty
\forcelinebreak And his heart the throne of Will.


For every God
\forcelinebreak Obeys the hymn, obeys the ode.


For art, for music over-thrilled,
\forcelinebreak The wine-cup shakes, the wine is spilled.


Hold of the Maker, not the Made;
\forcelinebreak Sit with the Cause, or grim or glad.


That book is good
\forcelinebreak Which puts me in a working mood.
\forcelinebreak Unless to Thought is added Will,
\forcelinebreak Apollo is an imbecile.
\forcelinebreak What parts, what gems, what colors shine, —
\forcelinebreak Ah, but I miss the grand design.


Like vaulters in a circus round
\forcelinebreak Who leap from horse to horse, but never touch the ground.


For Genius made his cabin wide,
\forcelinebreak And Love led Gods therein to bide.


The atom displaces all atoms beside,
\forcelinebreak And Genius unspheres all souls that abide.


To transmute crime to wisdom, so to stem
\forcelinebreak The vice of Japhet by the thought of Shem.


He could condense cerulean ether
\forcelinebreak Into the very best sole-leather.


Forbore the ant-hill, shunned to tread,
\forcelinebreak In mercy, on one little head.


I have no brothers and no peers,
\forcelinebreak And the dearest interferes:
\forcelinebreak When I would spend a lonely day,
\forcelinebreak Sun and moon are in my way.


The brook sings on, but sings in vain
\forcelinebreak Wanting the echo in my brain.


He planted where the deluge ploughed.
\forcelinebreak His hired hands were wind and cloud;
\forcelinebreak His eyes detect the Gods concealed
\forcelinebreak In the hummock of the field.


For what need I of book or priest,
\forcelinebreak Or sibyl from the mummied East,
\forcelinebreak When every star is Bethlehem star?
\forcelinebreak I count as many as there are
\forcelinebreak Cinquefoils or violets in the grass,
\forcelinebreak So many saints and saviors,
\forcelinebreak So many high behaviors
\forcelinebreak Salute the bard who is alive
\forcelinebreak And only sees what he doth give.


Coin the day-dawn into lines
\forcelinebreak In which its proper splendor shines;
\forcelinebreak Coin the moonlight into verse
\forcelinebreak Which all its marvel shall rehearse,
\forcelinebreak Chasing with words fast-flowing things; nor try
\forcelinebreak To plant thy shrivelled pedantry
\forcelinebreak On the shoulders of the sky.


Ah, not to me those dreams belong!
\forcelinebreak A better voice peals through my song.


The Muse’s hill by Fear is guarded,
\forcelinebreak A bolder foot is still rewarded.


His instant thought a poet spoke,
\forcelinebreak And filled the age his fame;
\forcelinebreak An inch of ground the lightning strook
\forcelinebreak But lit the sky with flame.


If bright the sun, he tarries,
\forcelinebreak All day his song is heard;
\forcelinebreak And when he goes he carries
\forcelinebreak No more baggage than a bird.


The Asmodean feat is mine,
\forcelinebreak To spin my sand-heap into twine.


Slighted Minerva’s learnèd tongue,
\forcelinebreak But leaped with joy when on the wind
\forcelinebreak The shell of Clio rung.


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\section{Fragments on Nature and Life}


NATURE


The patient Pan,
\forcelinebreak Drunken with nectar,
\forcelinebreak Sleeps or feigns slumber,
\forcelinebreak Drowsily humming
\forcelinebreak Music to the march of time.
\forcelinebreak This poor tooting, creaking cricket,
\forcelinebreak Pan, half asleep, rolling over
\forcelinebreak His great body in the grass,
\forcelinebreak Tooting, creaking,
\forcelinebreak Feigns to sleep, sleeping never;
\forcelinebreak ‘T is his manner,
\forcelinebreak Well he knows his own affair,
\forcelinebreak Piling mountain chains of phlegm
\forcelinebreak On the nervous brain of man,
\forcelinebreak As he holds down central fires
\forcelinebreak Under Alps and Andes cold;
\forcelinebreak Haply else we could not live,
\forcelinebreak Life would be too wild an ode.


Come search the wood for flowers, —
\forcelinebreak Wild tea and wild pea,
\forcelinebreak Grapevine and succory,
\forcelinebreak Coreopsis
\forcelinebreak And liatris,
\forcelinebreak Flaunting in their bowers;
\forcelinebreak Grass with green flag half-mast high,
\forcelinebreak Succory to match the sky,
\forcelinebreak Columbine with horn of honey,
\forcelinebreak Scented fern and agrimony;
\forcelinebreak Forest full of essences
\forcelinebreak Fit for fairy presences,
\forcelinebreak Peppermint and sassafras,
\forcelinebreak Sweet fern, mint and vernal grass,
\forcelinebreak Panax, black birch, sugar maple,
\forcelinebreak Sweet and scent for Dian’s table,
\forcelinebreak Elder-blow, sarsaparilla,
\forcelinebreak Wild rose, lily, dry vanilla, —
\forcelinebreak Spices in the plants that run
\forcelinebreak To bring their first fruits to the sun.
\forcelinebreak Earliest heats that follow frore
\forcelinebreak Nervèd leaf of hellebore,
\forcelinebreak Sweet willow, checkerberry red,
\forcelinebreak With its savory leaf for bread.
\forcelinebreak Silver birch and black
\forcelinebreak With the selfsame spice
\forcelinebreak Found in polygala root and rind,
\forcelinebreak Sassafras, fern, benzöine,
\forcelinebreak Mouse-ear, cowslip, wintergreen,
\forcelinebreak Which by aroma may compel
\forcelinebreak The frost to spare, what scents so well.


Where the fungus broad and red
\forcelinebreak Lifts its head,
\forcelinebreak Like poisoned loaf of elfin bread,
\forcelinebreak Where the aster grew
\forcelinebreak With the social goldenrod,
\forcelinebreak In a chapel, which the dew
\forcelinebreak Made beautiful for God: —
\forcelinebreak O what would Nature say?
\forcelinebreak She spared no speech to-day:
\forcelinebreak The fungus and the bulrush spoke,
\forcelinebreak Answered the pine-tree and the oak,
\forcelinebreak The wizard South blew down the glen,
\forcelinebreak Filled the straits and filled the wide,
\forcelinebreak Each maple leaf turned up its silver side.
\forcelinebreak All things shine in his smoky ray,
\forcelinebreak And all we see are pictures high;
\forcelinebreak Many a high hillside,
\forcelinebreak While oaks of pride
\forcelinebreak Climb to their tops,
\forcelinebreak And boys run out upon their leafy ropes.
\forcelinebreak The maple street
\forcelinebreak In the houseless wood,
\forcelinebreak Voices followed after,
\forcelinebreak Every shrub and grape leaf
\forcelinebreak Rang with fairy laughter.
\forcelinebreak I have heard them fall
\forcelinebreak Like the strain of all
\forcelinebreak King Oberon’s minstrelsy.
\forcelinebreak Would hear the everlasting
\forcelinebreak And know the only strong?
\forcelinebreak You must worship fasting,
\forcelinebreak You must listen long.
\forcelinebreak Words of the air
\forcelinebreak Which birds of the air
\forcelinebreak Carry aloft, below, around,
\forcelinebreak To the isles of the deep,
\forcelinebreak To the snow-capped steep,
\forcelinebreak To the thundercloud.


For Nature, true and like in every place,
\forcelinebreak Will hint her secret in a garden patch,
\forcelinebreak Or in lone corners of a doleful heath,
\forcelinebreak As in the Andes watched by fleets at sea,
\forcelinebreak Or the sky-piercing horns of Himmaleh;
\forcelinebreak And, when I would recall the scenes I dreamed
\forcelinebreak On Adirondac steeps, I know
\forcelinebreak Small need have I of Turner or Daguerre,
\forcelinebreak Assured to find the token once again
\forcelinebreak In silver lakes that unexhausted gleam
\forcelinebreak And peaceful woods beside my cottage door.


What all the books of ages paint, I have.
\forcelinebreak What prayers and dreams of youthful genius feign,
\forcelinebreak I daily dwell in, and am not so blind
\forcelinebreak But I can see the elastic tent of day
\forcelinebreak Belike has wider hospitality
\forcelinebreak Than my few needs exhaust, and bids me read
\forcelinebreak The quaint devices on its mornings gay.
\forcelinebreak Yet Nature will not be in full possessed,
\forcelinebreak And they who truliest love her, heralds are
\forcelinebreak And harbingers of a majestic race,
\forcelinebreak Who, having more absorbed, more largely yield,
\forcelinebreak And walk on earth as the sun walks in the sphere.


But never yet the man was found
\forcelinebreak Who could the mystery expound,
\forcelinebreak Though Adam, born when oaks were young,
\forcelinebreak Endured, the Bible says, as long;
\forcelinebreak But when at last the patriarch died
\forcelinebreak The Gordian noose was still untied.
\forcelinebreak He left, though goodly centuries old,
\forcelinebreak Meek Nature’s secret still untold.


Atom from atom yawns as far
\forcelinebreak As moon from earth, or star from star.


When all their blooms the meadows flaunt
\forcelinebreak To deck the morning of the year,
\forcelinebreak Why tinge thy lustres jubilant
\forcelinebreak With forecast or with fear?


Teach me your mood, O patient stars!
\forcelinebreak Who climb each night the ancient sky,
\forcelinebreak Leaving on space no shade, no scars,
\forcelinebreak No trace of age, no fear to die.


The sun athwart the cloud thought it no sin
\forcelinebreak To use my land to put his rainbows in.


For joy and beauty planted it,
\forcelinebreak With faerie gardens cheered,
\forcelinebreak And boding Fancy haunted it
\forcelinebreak With men and women weird.


What central flowing forces, say,
\forcelinebreak Make up thy splendor, matchless day?


Day by day for her darlings to her much she added more;
\forcelinebreak In her hundred-gated Thebes every chamber was a door,
\forcelinebreak A door to something grander, — loftier walls, and vaster floor.


She paints with white and red the moors
\forcelinebreak To draw the nations out of doors.


A score of airy miles will smooth
\forcelinebreak Rough Monadnoc to a gem.


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\section{The Earth}


Our eyeless bark sails free
\forcelinebreak Though with boom and spar
\forcelinebreak Andes, Alp or Himmalee,
\forcelinebreak Strikes never moon or star.


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\section{The Heavens}


Wisp and meteor nightly falling,
\forcelinebreak But the Stars of God remain.


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\section{Transition}


See yonder leafless trees against the sky,
\forcelinebreak How they diffuse themselves into the air,
\forcelinebreak And, ever subdividing, separate
\forcelinebreak Limbs into branches, branches into twigs.
\forcelinebreak As if they loved the element, and hasted
\forcelinebreak To dissipate their being into it.


Parks and ponds are good by day;
\forcelinebreak I do not delight
\forcelinebreak In black acres of the night,
\forcelinebreak Nor my unseasoned step disturbs
\forcelinebreak The sleeps of trees or dreams of herbs.


In Walden wood the chickadee
\forcelinebreak Runs round the pine and maple tree
\forcelinebreak Intent on insect slaughter:
\forcelinebreak O tufted entomologist!
\forcelinebreak Devour as many as you list,
\forcelinebreak Then drink in Walden water.


The low December vault in June be lifted high,
\forcelinebreak And largest clouds be flakes of down in that enormous sky.


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\section{The Garden}


Many things the garden shows,
\forcelinebreak And pleased I stray
\forcelinebreak From tree to tree
\forcelinebreak Watching the white pear-bloom,
\forcelinebreak Bee-infested quince or plum.
\forcelinebreak I could walk days, years, away
\forcelinebreak Till the slow ripening, secular tree
\forcelinebreak Had reached its fruiting-time,
\forcelinebreak Nor think it long.


Solar insect on the wing
\forcelinebreak In the garden murmuring,
\forcelinebreak Soothing with thy summer horn
\forcelinebreak Swains by winter pinched and worn.


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\section{Birds}


Darlings of children and of bard,
\forcelinebreak Perfect kinds by vice unmarred,
\forcelinebreak All of worth and beauty set
\forcelinebreak Gems in Nature’s cabinet;
\forcelinebreak These the fables she esteems
\forcelinebreak Reality most like to dreams.
\forcelinebreak Welcome back, you little nations,
\forcelinebreak Far-travelled in the south plantations;
\forcelinebreak Bring your music and rhythmic flight,
\forcelinebreak Your colors for our eyes’ delight:
\forcelinebreak Freely nestle in our roof,
\forcelinebreak Weave your chamber weatherproof;
\forcelinebreak And your enchanting manners bring
\forcelinebreak And your autumnal gathering.
\forcelinebreak Exchange in conclave general
\forcelinebreak Greetings kind to each and all,
\forcelinebreak Conscious each of duty done
\forcelinebreak And unstainèd as the sun.


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\section{Water}


The water understands
\forcelinebreak Civilization well;
\forcelinebreak It wets my foot, but prettily
\forcelinebreak It chills my life, but wittily,
\forcelinebreak It is not disconcerted,
\forcelinebreak It is not broken-hearted:
\forcelinebreak Well used, it decketh joy,
\forcelinebreak Adorneth, doubleth joy:
\forcelinebreak Ill used, it will destroy,
\forcelinebreak In perfect time and measure
\forcelinebreak With a face of golden pleasure
\forcelinebreak Elegantly destroy.


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\section{Nahant}


All day the waves assailed the rock,
\forcelinebreak I heard no church-bell chime,
\forcelinebreak The sea-beat scorns the minster clock
\forcelinebreak And breaks the glass of Time.


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\section{Sunrise}


Would you know what joy is hid
\forcelinebreak In our green Musketaquid,
\forcelinebreak And for travelled eyes what charms
\forcelinebreak Draw us to these meadow farms,
\forcelinebreak Come and I will show you all
\forcelinebreak Makes each day a festival.
\forcelinebreak Stand upon this pasture hill,
\forcelinebreak Face the eastern star until
\forcelinebreak The slow eye of heaven shall show
\forcelinebreak The world above, the world below.


Behold the miracle!
\forcelinebreak Thou saw’st but now the twilight sad
\forcelinebreak And stood beneath the firmament,
\forcelinebreak A watchman in a dark gray tent,
\forcelinebreak Waiting till God create the earth, —
\forcelinebreak Behold the new majestic birth!
\forcelinebreak The mottled clouds, like scraps of wool,
\forcelinebreak Steeped in the light are beautiful.
\forcelinebreak What majestic stillness broods
\forcelinebreak Over these colored solitudes.
\forcelinebreak Sleeps the vast East in pleasèd peace,
\forcelinebreak Up the far mountain walls the streams increase
\forcelinebreak Inundating the heaven
\forcelinebreak With spouting streams and waves of light
\forcelinebreak Which round the floating isles unite: —
\forcelinebreak See the world below
\forcelinebreak Baptized with the pure element,
\forcelinebreak A clear and glorious firmament
\forcelinebreak Touched with life by every beam.
\forcelinebreak I share the good with every flower,
\forcelinebreak I drink the nectar of the hour: —
\forcelinebreak This is not the ancient earth
\forcelinebreak Whereof old chronicles relate
\forcelinebreak The tragic tales of crime and fate;
\forcelinebreak But rather, like its beads of dew
\forcelinebreak And dew-bent violets, fresh and new,
\forcelinebreak An exhalation of the time.


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\section{Night in June}


I left my dreary page and sallied forth,
\forcelinebreak Received the fair inscriptions of the night;
\forcelinebreak The moon was making amber of the world,
\forcelinebreak Glittered with silver every cottage pane,
\forcelinebreak The trees were rich, yet ominous with gloom.
\forcelinebreak The meadows broad
\forcelinebreak From ferns and grapes and from the folded flowers
\forcelinebreak Sent a nocturnal fragrance; harlot flies
\forcelinebreak Flashed their small fires in air, or held their court
\forcelinebreak In fairy groves of herds-grass.


He lives not who can refuse me;
\forcelinebreak All my force saith, Come and use me:
\forcelinebreak A gleam of sun, a summer rain,
\forcelinebreak And all the zone is green again.


Seems, though the soft sheen all enchants,
\forcelinebreak Cheers the rough crag and mournful dell,
\forcelinebreak As if on such stern forms and haunts
\forcelinebreak A wintry storm more fitly fell.


Put in, drive home the sightless wedges
\forcelinebreak And split to flakes the crystal ledges.


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\section{Maia}


Illusion works impenetrable,
\forcelinebreak Weaving webs innumerable,
\forcelinebreak Her gay pictures never fail,
\forcelinebreak Crowds each on other, veil on veil,
\forcelinebreak Charmer who will be believed
\forcelinebreak By man who thirsts to be deceived.


Illusions like the tints of pearl,
\forcelinebreak Or changing colors of the sky,
\forcelinebreak Or ribbons of a dancing girl
\forcelinebreak That mend her beauty to the eye.


The cold gray down upon the quinces lieth
\forcelinebreak And the poor spinners weave their webs thereon
\forcelinebreak To share the sunshine that so spicy is.


Samson stark, at Dagon’s knee,
\forcelinebreak Gropes for columns strong as he;
\forcelinebreak When his ringlets grew and curled,
\forcelinebreak Groped for axle of the world.


But Nature whistled with all her winds,
\forcelinebreak Did as she pleased and went her way.


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\section{Life}


A train of gay and clouded days
\forcelinebreak Dappled with joy and grief and praise,
\forcelinebreak Beauty to fire us, saints to save,
\forcelinebreak Escort us to a little grave.


No fate, save by the victim’s fault, is low,
\forcelinebreak For God hath writ all dooms magnificent,
\forcelinebreak So guilt not traverses his tender will.


Around the man who seeks a noble end,
\forcelinebreak Not angels but divinities attend.


From high to higher forces
\forcelinebreak The scale of power uprears,
\forcelinebreak The heroes on their horses,
\forcelinebreak The gods upon their spheres.


This shining moment is an edifice
\forcelinebreak Which the Omnipotent cannot rebuild.


Roomy Eternity
\forcelinebreak Casts her schemes rarely,
\forcelinebreak And an aeon allows
\forcelinebreak For each quality and part
\forcelinebreak Of the multitudinous
\forcelinebreak And many-chambered heart.


The beggar begs by God’s command,
\forcelinebreak And gifts awake when givers sleep,
\forcelinebreak Swords cannot cut the giving hand
\forcelinebreak Nor stab the love that orphans keep.


In the chamber, on the stairs,
\forcelinebreak Lurking dumb,
\forcelinebreak Go and come
\forcelinebreak Lemurs and Lars.


Such another peerless queen
\forcelinebreak Only could her mirror show.


Easy to match what others do,
\forcelinebreak Perform the feat as well as they;
\forcelinebreak Hard to out-do the brave, the true,
\forcelinebreak And find a loftier way:
\forcelinebreak The school decays, the learning spoils
\forcelinebreak Because of the sons of wine;
\forcelinebreak How snatch the stripling from their toils? —
\forcelinebreak Yet can one ray of truth divine
\forcelinebreak The blaze of revellers’ feasts outshine.


Of all wit’s uses the main one
\forcelinebreak Is to live well with who has none.


The tongue is prone to lose the way,
\forcelinebreak Not so the pen, for in a letter
\forcelinebreak We have not better things to say,
\forcelinebreak But surely say them better.


She walked in flowers around my field
\forcelinebreak As June herself around the sphere.


Friends to me are frozen wine;
\forcelinebreak I wait the sun on them should shine.


You shall not love me for what daily spends;
\forcelinebreak You shall not know me in the noisy street,
\forcelinebreak Where I, as others, follow petty ends;
\forcelinebreak Nor when in fair saloons we chance to meet;
\forcelinebreak Nor when I’m jaded, sick, anxious or mean.
\forcelinebreak But love me then and only, when you know
\forcelinebreak Me for the channel of the rivers of God
\forcelinebreak From deep ideal fontal heavens that flow.


To and fro the Genius flies,
\forcelinebreak A light which plays and hovers
\forcelinebreak Over the maiden’s head
\forcelinebreak And dips sometimes as low as to her eyes.
\forcelinebreak Of her faults I take no note,
\forcelinebreak Fault and folly are not mine;
\forcelinebreak Comes the Genius, — all’s forgot,
\forcelinebreak Replunged again into that upper sphere
\forcelinebreak He scatters wide and wild its lustres here.


Love
\forcelinebreak Asks nought his brother cannot give;
\forcelinebreak Asks nothing, but does all receive.
\forcelinebreak Love calls not to his aid events;
\forcelinebreak He to his wants can well suffice:
\forcelinebreak Asks not of others soft consents,
\forcelinebreak Nor kind occasion without eyes;
\forcelinebreak Nor plots to ope or bolt a gate,
\forcelinebreak Nor heeds Condition’s iron walls, —
\forcelinebreak Where he goes, goes before him Fate;
\forcelinebreak Whom he uniteth, God installs;
\forcelinebreak Instant and perfect his access
\forcelinebreak To the dear object of his thought,
\forcelinebreak Though foes and land and seas between
\forcelinebreak Himself and his love intervene.


The brave Empedocles, defying fools,
\forcelinebreak Pronounced the word that mortals hate to hear —
\forcelinebreak “I am divine, I am not mortal made;
\forcelinebreak I am superior to my human weeds.”
\forcelinebreak Not Sense but Reason is the Judge of truth;
\forcelinebreak Reason’s twofold, part human, part divine;
\forcelinebreak That human part may be described and taught,
\forcelinebreak The other portion language cannot speak.


Tell men what they knew before;
\forcelinebreak Paint the prospect from their door.


Him strong Genius urged to roam,
\forcelinebreak Stronger Custom brought him home.


That each should in his house abide.
\forcelinebreak Therefore was the world so wide.


Thou shalt make thy house
\forcelinebreak The temple of a nation’s vows.
\forcelinebreak Spirits of a higher strain
\forcelinebreak Who sought thee once shall seek again.
\forcelinebreak I detected many a god
\forcelinebreak Forth already on the road,
\forcelinebreak Ancestors of beauty come
\forcelinebreak In thy breast to make a home.


The archangel Hope
\forcelinebreak Looks to the azure cope,
\forcelinebreak Waits through dark ages for the morn,
\forcelinebreak Defeated day by day, but unto victory born.


As the drop feeds its fated flower,
\forcelinebreak As finds its Alp the snowy shower,
\forcelinebreak Child of the omnific Need,
\forcelinebreak Hurled into life to do a deed,
\forcelinebreak Man drinks the water, drinks the light.


Ever the Rock of Ages melts
\forcelinebreak Into the mineral air,
\forcelinebreak To be the quarry whence to build
\forcelinebreak Thought and its mansions fair.


Go if thou wilt, ambrosial flower,
\forcelinebreak Go match thee with thy seeming peers;
\forcelinebreak I will wait Heaven’s perfect hour
\forcelinebreak Through the innumerable years.


Yes, sometimes to the sorrow-stricken
\forcelinebreak Shall his own sorrow seem impertinent,
\forcelinebreak A thing that takes no more root in the world
\forcelinebreak Than doth the traveller’s shadow on the rock.


But if thou do thy best,
\forcelinebreak Without remission, without rest,
\forcelinebreak And invite the sunbeam,
\forcelinebreak And abhor to feign or seem
\forcelinebreak Even to those who thee should love
\forcelinebreak And thy behavior approve;
\forcelinebreak If thou go in thine own likeness,
\forcelinebreak Be it health, or be it sickness;
\forcelinebreak If thou go as thy father’s son,
\forcelinebreak If thou wear no mask or lie,
\forcelinebreak Dealing purely and nakedly, —


 * * *


Ascending thorough just degrees
\forcelinebreak To a consummate holiness,
\forcelinebreak As angel blind to trespass done,
\forcelinebreak And bleaching all souls like the sun.


From the stores of eldest matter,
\forcelinebreak The deep-eyed flame, obedient water,
\forcelinebreak Transparent air, all-feeding earth,
\forcelinebreak He took the flower of all their worth,
\forcelinebreak And, best with best in sweet consent,
\forcelinebreak Combined a new temperament.


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\section{Rex}


The bard and mystic held me for their own,
\forcelinebreak I filled the dream of sad, poetic maids,
\forcelinebreak I took the friendly noble by the hand,
\forcelinebreak I was the trustee of the hand-cart man,
\forcelinebreak The brother of the fisher, porter, swain,
\forcelinebreak And these from the crowd’s edge well pleased beheld
\forcelinebreak The service done to me as done to them.


With the key of the secret he marches faster,
\forcelinebreak From strength to strength, and for night brings day;
\forcelinebreak While classes or tribes, too weak to master
\forcelinebreak The flowing conditions of life, give way.


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\section{Suum Cuique}


Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?
\forcelinebreak Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.


If curses be the wage of love,
\forcelinebreak Hide in thy skies, thou fruitless Jove,
\forcelinebreak Not to be named:
\forcelinebreak It is clear
\forcelinebreak Why the gods will not appear;
\forcelinebreak They are ashamed.


When wrath and terror changed Jove’s regal port,
\forcelinebreak And the rash-leaping thunderbolt fell short.


Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift,
\forcelinebreak Sit still and Truth is near:
\forcelinebreak Suddenly it will uplift
\forcelinebreak Your eyelids to the sphere:
\forcelinebreak Wait a little, you shall see
\forcelinebreak The portraiture of things to be.


The rules to men made evident
\forcelinebreak By Him who built the day,
\forcelinebreak The columns of the firmament
\forcelinebreak Not firmer based than they.


On bravely through the sunshine and the showers!
\forcelinebreak Time hath his work to do and we have ours.


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\section{The Bohemian Hymn}


In many forms we try
\forcelinebreak To utter God’s infinity,
\forcelinebreak But the boundless hath no form,
\forcelinebreak And the Universal Friend
\forcelinebreak Doth as far transcend
\forcelinebreak An angel as a worm.


The great Idea baffles wit,
\forcelinebreak Language falters under it,
\forcelinebreak It leaves the learned in the lurch;
\forcelinebreak Nor art, nor power, nor toil can find
\forcelinebreak The measure of the eternal Mind,
\forcelinebreak Nor hymn, nor prayer, nor church.


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\section{Grace}


How much, preventing God, how much I owe
\forcelinebreak To the defences thou hast round me set;
\forcelinebreak Example, custom, fear, occasion slow, —
\forcelinebreak These scorned bondmen were my parapet.
\forcelinebreak I dare not peep over this parapet
\forcelinebreak To gauge with glance the roaring gulf below,
\forcelinebreak The depths of sin to which I had descended,
\forcelinebreak Had not these me against myself defended.


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\section{Insight}


Power that by obedience grows,
\forcelinebreak Knowledge which its source not knows,
\forcelinebreak Wave which severs whom it bears
\forcelinebreak From the things which he compares,
\forcelinebreak Adding wings through things to range,
\forcelinebreak To his own blood harsh and strange.


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\section{Pan}


O what are heroes, prophets, men,
\forcelinebreak But pipes through which the breath of Pan doth blow
\forcelinebreak A momentary music. Being’s tide
\forcelinebreak Swells hitherward, and myriads of forms
\forcelinebreak Live, robed with beauty, painted by the sun;
\forcelinebreak Their dust, pervaded by the nerves of God,
\forcelinebreak Throbs with an overmastering energy
\forcelinebreak Knowing and doing. Ebbs the tide, they lie
\forcelinebreak White hollow shells upon the desert shore,
\forcelinebreak But not the less the eternal wave rolls on
\forcelinebreak To animate new millions, and exhale
\forcelinebreak Races and planets, its enchanted foam.


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\section{Monadnoc From Afar}


Dark flower of Cheshire garden,
\forcelinebreak Red evening duly dyes
\forcelinebreak Thy sombre head with rosy hues
\forcelinebreak To fix far-gazing eyes.
\forcelinebreak Well the Planter knew how strongly
\forcelinebreak Works thy form on human thought;
\forcelinebreak I muse what secret purpose had he
\forcelinebreak To draw all fancies to this spot.


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\section{September}


In the turbulent beauty
\forcelinebreak Of a gusty Autumn day,
\forcelinebreak Poet on a sunny headland
\forcelinebreak Sighed his soul away.


Farms the sunny landscape dappled,
\forcelinebreak Swandown clouds dappled the farms,
\forcelinebreak Cattle lowed in mellow distance
\forcelinebreak Where far oaks outstretched their arms.


Sudden gusts came full of meaning,
\forcelinebreak All too much to him they said,
\forcelinebreak Oh, south winds have long memories,
\forcelinebreak Of that be none afraid.


I cannot tell rude listeners
\forcelinebreak Half the tell-tale South-wind said, —
\forcelinebreak ‘T would bring the blushes of yon maples
\forcelinebreak To a man and to a maid.


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\section{Eros}


They put their finger on their lip,
\forcelinebreak The Powers above:
\forcelinebreak The seas their islands clip,
\forcelinebreak The moons in ocean dip,
\forcelinebreak They love, but name not love.


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\section{October}


October woods wherein
\forcelinebreak The boy’s dream comes to pass,
\forcelinebreak And Nature squanders on the boy her pomp,
\forcelinebreak And crowns him with a more than royal crown,
\forcelinebreak And unimagined splendor waits his steps.
\forcelinebreak The gazing urchin walks through tents of gold,
\forcelinebreak Through crimson chambers, porphyry and pearl,
\forcelinebreak Pavilion on pavilion, garlanded,
\forcelinebreak Incensed and starred with lights and airs and shapes,
\forcelinebreak Color and sound, music to eye and ear,
\forcelinebreak Beyond the best conceit of pomp or power.


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\section{Peter’s Field}


[Knows he who tills this lonely field
\forcelinebreak To reap its scanty corn,
\forcelinebreak What mystic fruit his acres yield
\forcelinebreak At midnight and at morn?]


That field by spirits bad and good,
\forcelinebreak By Hell and Heaven is haunted,
\forcelinebreak And every rood in the hemlock wood
\forcelinebreak I know is ground enchanted.


[In the long sunny afternoon
\forcelinebreak The plain was full of ghosts:
\forcelinebreak I wandered up, I wandered down,
\forcelinebreak Beset by pensive hosts.]


For in those lonely grounds the sun
\forcelinebreak Shines not as on the town,
\forcelinebreak In nearer arcs his journeys run,
\forcelinebreak And nearer stoops the moon.


There in a moment I have seen
\forcelinebreak The buried Past arise;
\forcelinebreak The fields of Thessaly grew green,
\forcelinebreak Old gods forsook the skies.


I cannot publish in my rhyme
\forcelinebreak What pranks the greenwood played;
\forcelinebreak It was the Carnival of time,
\forcelinebreak And Ages went or stayed.


To me that spectral nook appeared
\forcelinebreak The mustering Day of Doom,
\forcelinebreak And round me swarmed in shadowy troop
\forcelinebreak Things past and things to come.


The darkness haunteth me elsewhere;
\forcelinebreak There I am full of light;
\forcelinebreak In every whispering leaf I hear
\forcelinebreak More sense than sages write.


Underwoods were full of pleasance,
\forcelinebreak All to each in kindness bend,
\forcelinebreak And every flower made obeisance
\forcelinebreak As a man unto his friend.


Far seen, the river glides below,
\forcelinebreak Tossing one sparkle to the eyes:
\forcelinebreak I catch thy meaning, wizard wave;
\forcelinebreak The River of my Life replies.


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\section{Music}


Let me go where’er I will,
\forcelinebreak I hear a sky-born music still:
\forcelinebreak It sounds from all things old,
\forcelinebreak It sounds from all things young,
\forcelinebreak From all that’s fair, from all that’s foul,
\forcelinebreak Peals out a cheerful song.


It is not only in the rose,
\forcelinebreak It is not only in the bird,
\forcelinebreak Not only where the rainbow glows,
\forcelinebreak Nor in the song of woman heard,
\forcelinebreak But in the darkest, meanest things
\forcelinebreak There alway, alway something sings.


‘T is not in the high stars alone,
\forcelinebreak Nor in the cup of budding flowers,
\forcelinebreak Nor in the redbreast’s mellow tone,
\forcelinebreak Nor in the bow that smiles in showers,
\forcelinebreak But in the mud and scum of things
\forcelinebreak There alway, alway something sings.


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\section{The Walk}


A Queen rejoices in her peers,
\forcelinebreak And wary Nature knows her own
\forcelinebreak By court and city, dale and down,
\forcelinebreak And like a lover volunteers,
\forcelinebreak And to her son will treasures more
\forcelinebreak And more to purpose freely pour
\forcelinebreak In one wood walk, than learned men
\forcelinebreak Can find with glass in ten times ten.


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\section{Cosmos}


Who saw the hid beginnings
\forcelinebreak When Chaos and Order strove,
\forcelinebreak Or who can date the morning.
\forcelinebreak The purple flaming of love?


I saw the hid beginnings
\forcelinebreak When Chaos and Order strove,
\forcelinebreak And I can date the morning prime
\forcelinebreak And purple flame of love.


Song breathed from all the forest,
\forcelinebreak The total air was fame;
\forcelinebreak It seemed the world was all torches
\forcelinebreak That suddenly caught the flame.


 * * *


Is there never a retroscope mirror
\forcelinebreak In the realms and corners of space
\forcelinebreak That can give us a glimpse of the battle
\forcelinebreak And the soldiers face to face?


Sit here on the basalt courses
\forcelinebreak Where twisted hills betray
\forcelinebreak The seat of the world-old Forces
\forcelinebreak Who wrestled here on a day.


 * * *


When the purple flame shoots up,
\forcelinebreak And Love ascends his throne,
\forcelinebreak I cannot hear your songs, O birds,
\forcelinebreak For the witchery of my own.


And every human heart
\forcelinebreak Still keeps that golden day
\forcelinebreak And rings the bells of jubilee
\forcelinebreak On its own First of May.


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\section{The Miracle}


I have trod this path a hundred times
\forcelinebreak With idle footsteps, crooning rhymes.
\forcelinebreak I know each nest and web-worm’s tent,
\forcelinebreak The fox-hole which the woodchucks rent,
\forcelinebreak Maple and oak, the old Divan
\forcelinebreak Self-planted twice, like the banian.
\forcelinebreak I know not why I came again
\forcelinebreak Unless to learn it ten times ten.
\forcelinebreak To read the sense the woods impart
\forcelinebreak You must bring the throbbing heart.
\forcelinebreak Love is aye the counterforce, —
\forcelinebreak Terror and Hope and wild Remorse,
\forcelinebreak Newest knowledge, fiery thought,
\forcelinebreak Or Duty to grand purpose wrought.
\forcelinebreak Wandering yester morn the brake,
\forcelinebreak I reached this heath beside the lake,
\forcelinebreak And oh, the wonder of the power,
\forcelinebreak The deeper secret of the hour!
\forcelinebreak Nature, the supplement of man,
\forcelinebreak His hidden sense interpret can; —
\forcelinebreak What friend to friend cannot convey
\forcelinebreak Shall the dumb bird instructed say.
\forcelinebreak Passing yonder oak, I heard
\forcelinebreak Sharp accents of my woodland bird;
\forcelinebreak I watched the singer with delight, —
\forcelinebreak But mark what changed my joy to fright, —
\forcelinebreak When that bird sang, I gave the theme;
\forcelinebreak That wood-bird sang my last night’s dream,
\forcelinebreak A brown wren was the Daniel
\forcelinebreak That pierced my trance its drift to tell,
\forcelinebreak Knew my quarrel, how and why,
\forcelinebreak Published it to lake and sky,
\forcelinebreak Told every word and syllable
\forcelinebreak In his flippant chirping babble,
\forcelinebreak All my wrath and all my shames,
\forcelinebreak Nay, God is witness, gave the names.


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\section{The Waterfall}


A patch of meadow upland
\forcelinebreak Reached by a mile of road,
\forcelinebreak Soothed by the voice of waters,
\forcelinebreak With birds and flowers bestowed.


Hither I come for strength
\forcelinebreak Which well it can supply,
\forcelinebreak For Love draws might from terrene force
\forcelinebreak And potencies of sky.


The tremulous battery Earth
\forcelinebreak Responds to the touch of man;
\forcelinebreak It thrills to the antipodes,
\forcelinebreak From Boston to Japan.


The planets’ child the planet knows
\forcelinebreak And to his joy replies;
\forcelinebreak To the lark’s trill unfolds the rose,
\forcelinebreak Clouds flush their gayest dyes.


When Ali prayed and loved
\forcelinebreak Where Syrian waters roll,
\forcelinebreak Upward the ninth heaven thrilled and moved;
\forcelinebreak At the tread of the jubilant soul.


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\section{Walden}


In my garden three ways meet,
\forcelinebreak Thrice the spot is blest;
\forcelinebreak Hermit-thrush comes there to build,
\forcelinebreak Carrier-doves to nest.


There broad-armed oaks, the copses’ maze,
\forcelinebreak The cold sea-wind detain;
\forcelinebreak Here sultry Summer overstays
\forcelinebreak When Autumn chills the plain.


Self-sown my stately garden grows;
\forcelinebreak The winds and wind-blown seed,
\forcelinebreak Cold April rain and colder snows
\forcelinebreak My hedges plant and feed.


From mountains far and valleys near
\forcelinebreak The harvests sown to-day
\forcelinebreak Thrive in all weathers without fear, —
\forcelinebreak Wild planters, plant away!


In cities high the careful crowds
\forcelinebreak Of woe-worn mortals darkling go,
\forcelinebreak But in these sunny solitudes
\forcelinebreak My quiet roses blow.


Methought the sky looked scornful down
\forcelinebreak On all was base in man,
\forcelinebreak And airy tongues did taunt the town,
\forcelinebreak ‘Achieve our peace who can!’


What need I holier dew
\forcelinebreak Than Walden’s haunted wave,
\forcelinebreak Distilled from heaven’s alembic blue,
\forcelinebreak Steeped in each forest cave?


[If Thought unlock her mysteries,
\forcelinebreak If Friendship on me smile,
\forcelinebreak I walk in marble galleries,
\forcelinebreak I talk with kings the while.]


How drearily in College hall
\forcelinebreak The Doctor stretched the hours,
\forcelinebreak But in each pause we heard the call
\forcelinebreak Of robins out of doors.


The air is wise, the wind thinks well,
\forcelinebreak And all through which it blows,
\forcelinebreak If plants or brain, if egg or shell,
\forcelinebreak Or bird or biped knows;


And oft at home ‘mid tasks I heed,
\forcelinebreak I heed how wears the day;
\forcelinebreak We must not halt while fiercely speed
\forcelinebreak The spans of life away.


What boots it here of Thebes or Rome
\forcelinebreak Or lands of Eastern day?
\forcelinebreak In forests I am still at home
\forcelinebreak And there I cannot stray.


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\section{The Enchanter}


In the deep heart of man a poet dwells
\forcelinebreak Who all the day of life his summer story tells;
\forcelinebreak Scatters on every eye dust of his spells,
\forcelinebreak Scent, form and color; to the flowers and shells
\forcelinebreak Wins the believing child with wondrous tales;
\forcelinebreak Touches a cheek with colors of romance,
\forcelinebreak And crowds a history into a glance;
\forcelinebreak Gives beauty to the lake and fountain,
\forcelinebreak Spies oversea the fires of the mountain;
\forcelinebreak When thrushes ope their throat, ‘t is he that sings,
\forcelinebreak And he that paints the oriole’s fiery wings.
\forcelinebreak The little Shakspeare in the maiden’s heart
\forcelinebreak Makes Romeo of a plough-boy on his cart;
\forcelinebreak Opens the eye to Virtue’s starlike meed
\forcelinebreak And gives persuasion to a gentle deed.


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\section{Written in a Volume of Goethe}


Six thankful weeks, — and let it be
\forcelinebreak A meter of prosperity, —
\forcelinebreak In my coat I bore this book,
\forcelinebreak And seldom therein could I look,
\forcelinebreak For I had too much to think,
\forcelinebreak Heaven and earth to eat and drink.
\forcelinebreak Is he hapless who can spare
\forcelinebreak In his plenty things so rare?


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\section{Riches}


Have ye seen the caterpillar
\forcelinebreak Foully warking in his nest?
\forcelinebreak ‘T is the poor man getting siller,
\forcelinebreak Without cleanness, without rest.


Have ye seen the butterfly
\forcelinebreak In braw claithing drest?
\forcelinebreak ‘T is the poor man gotten rich,
\forcelinebreak In rings and painted vest.


The poor man crawls in web of rags
\forcelinebreak And sore bested with woes.
\forcelinebreak But when he flees on riches’ wings,
\forcelinebreak He laugheth at his foes.


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\section{Philosopher}


Philosophers are lined with eyes within,
\forcelinebreak And, being so, the sage unmakes the man.
\forcelinebreak In love, he cannot therefore cease his trade;
\forcelinebreak Scarce the first blush has overspread his cheek,
\forcelinebreak He feels it, introverts his learned eye
\forcelinebreak To catch the unconscious heart in the very act.


His mother died, — the only friend he had, —
\forcelinebreak Some tears escaped, but his philosophy
\forcelinebreak Couched like a cat sat watching close behind
\forcelinebreak And throttled all his passion. Is’t not like
\forcelinebreak That devil-spider that devours her mate
\forcelinebreak Scarce freed from her embraces?


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\section{Intellect}


Gravely it broods apart on joy,
\forcelinebreak And, truth to tell, amused by pain.


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\section{Limits}


Who knows this or that?
\forcelinebreak Hark in the wall to the rat:
\forcelinebreak Since the world was, he has gnawed;
\forcelinebreak Of his wisdom, of his fraud
\forcelinebreak What dost thou know?
\forcelinebreak In the wretched little beast
\forcelinebreak Is life and heart,
\forcelinebreak Child and parent,
\forcelinebreak Not without relation
\forcelinebreak To fruitful field and sun and moon.
\forcelinebreak What art thou? His wicked eye
\forcelinebreak Is cruel to thy cruelty.


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\section{Inscription for a Well in Memory of the Martyrs of the War}


Fall, stream, from Heaven to bless; return as well;
\forcelinebreak So did our sons; Heaven met them as they fell.


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\section{The Exile (After Taliessin)}


The heavy blue chain
\forcelinebreak Of the boundless main
\forcelinebreak Didst thou, just man, endure.


I have an arrow that will find its mark,
\forcelinebreak A mastiff that will bite without a hark.


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\section{Silence}


They put their finger on their lip, —
\forcelinebreak The Powers above;
\forcelinebreak The seas their islands clip,
\forcelinebreak The moons in Ocean dip, —
\forcelinebreak They love but name not love.


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\section{Fame}


Ah Fate! cannot a man
\forcelinebreak Be wise without a beard?
\forcelinebreak From East to West, from Beersheba to Dan,
\forcelinebreak Say, was it never heard,
\forcelinebreak That wisdom might in youth be gotten,
\forcelinebreak Or wit be ripe before’t was rotten?


He pays too high a price
\forcelinebreak For knowledge and for fame,
\forcelinebreak Who gives his sinews, to be wise,
\forcelinebreak His teeth and bones, to buy a name,
\forcelinebreak And crawls through life a paralytic,
\forcelinebreak To earn the praise of bard and critic.


Is it not better done,
\forcelinebreak To dine and sleep through forty years,
\forcelinebreak Be loved by few, be feared by none,
\forcelinebreak Laugh life away, have wine for tears,
\forcelinebreak And take the mortal leap undaunted,
\forcelinebreak Content that all we asked was granted?


But Fate will not permit
\forcelinebreak The seed of gods to die,
\forcelinebreak Nor suffer Sense to win from Wit
\forcelinebreak Its guerdon in the sky,
\forcelinebreak Nor let us hide, whate’er our pleasure,
\forcelinebreak The world’s light underneath a measure.


Go then, sad youth, and shine!
\forcelinebreak Go, sacrifice to fame;
\forcelinebreak Put love, joy, health, upon the shrine,
\forcelinebreak And life to fan the flame!
\forcelinebreak Thy hapless self for praises barter,
\forcelinebreak And die to Fame an honored martyr.


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\section{I Am Owner of the Sphere}


I am owner of the sphere,
\forcelinebreak Of the seven stars and the solar year,
\forcelinebreak Of Cæsar’s hand, and Plato’s brain,
\forcelinebreak Of Lord Christ’s heart, and Shakspeare’s strain.


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\section{William Rufus and the Jew}


“May it please my lord the king, — there’s a Jew at the door.”
\forcelinebreak — “Let him in,” said the king, “what’s he waiting there for?”
\forcelinebreak — “I wot, Sir, you come from Abraham’s loins,
\forcelinebreak Love not Christ, eat no pork, do no good with your coins.”
\forcelinebreak “My lord the king! I do as Moses bids;
\forcelinebreak Eschewing all evil, I shut my coffer lids;
\forcelinebreak From the law of my fathers, God forbid I should swerve;
\forcelinebreak The uncircumcised Nazarite, my race must not serve;
\forcelinebreak But Isaac my son to the Gentiles hath gone over,
\forcelinebreak And no means can I find my first-born to recover.
\forcelinebreak I would give fifty marks, and my gabardine to boot,
\forcelinebreak To the Rabbi that would bring him from the Christian faith about;
\forcelinebreak But phylacteried Rabbins live far over sea,
\forcelinebreak I cannot go to them, and they will not come to me.
\forcelinebreak Will it please my lord the king, from the house of Magog,
\forcelinebreak To bring my son back to his own synagogue.”
\forcelinebreak — “Why I ‘ll be the Rabbi, — where’s a fitter Pharisee?
\forcelinebreak Count me out the fifty marks, and go send your son to me.”
\forcelinebreak The king filled his mouth with arguments and jibes,
\forcelinebreak To win the boy back to the faith of the tribes,
\forcelinebreak But Isaac the Jew was so hard and stiff-necked,
\forcelinebreak That by no means could the king come to any effect;
\forcelinebreak So he paid the Jew back twenty marks of his gains;
\forcelinebreak Quoth he, “I think I ‘ll keep the thirty for the payment of my pains.”


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\section{Grace}


How much, Preventing God! how much I owe
\forcelinebreak To the defences thou hast round me set:
\forcelinebreak Example, custom, fear, occasion slow, —
\forcelinebreak These scorned bondmen were my parapet.
\forcelinebreak I dare not peep over this parapet
\forcelinebreak To guage with glance the roaring gulf below.
\forcelinebreak The depths of sin to which I had descended,
\forcelinebreak Had not these me against myself defended.


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\section{The Three Dimensions}


“Room for the spheres!” — then first they shined,
\forcelinebreak And dived into the ample sky;
\forcelinebreak “Room! room!” cried the new mankind,
\forcelinebreak And took the oath of liberty.
\forcelinebreak Room! room! willed the opening mind,
\forcelinebreak And found it in Variety.


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\section{Motto to “The Poet.”}


A moody child and wildly wise
\forcelinebreak Pursued the game with joyful eyes,
\forcelinebreak Which chose, like meteors, their way,
\forcelinebreak And rived the dark with private ray:
\forcelinebreak They overleapt the horizon’s edge,
\forcelinebreak Searched with Apollo’s privilege;
\forcelinebreak Through man, and woman, and sea, and star,
\forcelinebreak Saw the dance of nature forward far;
\forcelinebreak Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times,
\forcelinebreak Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes.


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\section{Motto to “Gifts.”}


Gifts of one who loved me, —
\forcelinebreak ‘T was high time they came;
\forcelinebreak When he ceased to love me,
\forcelinebreak Time they stopped for shame.


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\section{Mottoes to “History.”}


There is no great and no small
\forcelinebreak To the Soul that maketh all:
\forcelinebreak And where it cometh, all things are;
\forcelinebreak And it cometh everywhere.


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\section{Motto to “Nature.”}


The rounded world is fair to see,
\forcelinebreak Nine times folded in mystery:
\forcelinebreak Though baffled seers cannot impart
\forcelinebreak The secret of its laboring heart,
\forcelinebreak Throb thine with Nature’s throbbing breast,
\forcelinebreak And all is clear from east to west.
\forcelinebreak Spirit that lurks each form within
\forcelinebreak Beckons to spirit of its kin;
\forcelinebreak Self-kindled every atom glows,
\forcelinebreak And hints the future which it owes.


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\section{Motto to “Circles.”}


Nature centres into balls,
\forcelinebreak And her proud ephemerals,
\forcelinebreak Fast to surface and outside,
\forcelinebreak Scan the profile of the sphere;
\forcelinebreak Knew they what that signified,
\forcelinebreak A new genesis were here.


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\section{Motto to “Nominalist and Realist.”}


In countless upward-striving waves
\forcelinebreak The moon-drawn tide-wave strives;
\forcelinebreak In thousand far-transplanted grafts
\forcelinebreak The parent fruit survives;
\forcelinebreak So, in the new-born millions,
\forcelinebreak The perfect Adam lives.
\forcelinebreak Not less are summer-mornings dear
\forcelinebreak To every child they wake,
\forcelinebreak And each with novel life his sphere
\forcelinebreak Fills for his proper sake.


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\section{My Thoughts}


Many are the thoughts that come to me
\forcelinebreak In my lonely musing;
\forcelinebreak And they drift so strange and swift,
\forcelinebreak There’s no time for choosing
\forcelinebreak Which to follow, for to leave
\forcelinebreak Any, seems a losing.


When they come, they come in flocks,
\forcelinebreak As on glancing feather,
\forcelinebreak Startled birds rise one by one
\forcelinebreak In autumnal weather,
\forcelinebreak Waking one another up
\forcelinebreak From the sheltering heather.


Some so merry that I laugh,
\forcelinebreak Some are grave and serious,
\forcelinebreak Some so trite, their least approach
\forcelinebreak Is enough to weary us: —
\forcelinebreak Others flit like midnight ghosts,
\forcelinebreak Shrouded and mysterious.


There are thoughts that o’er me steal,
\forcelinebreak Like the day when dawning;
\forcelinebreak Great thoughts winged with melody
\forcelinebreak Common utterance scorning,
\forcelinebreak Moving in an inward tune,
\forcelinebreak And an inward morning.


Some have dark and drooping wings,
\forcelinebreak Children all of sorrow;
\forcelinebreak Some are as gay, as if today
\forcelinebreak Could see no cloudy morrow, —
\forcelinebreak And yet, like light and shade, they each
\forcelinebreak Must from the other borrow.


One by one they come to me
\forcelinebreak On their destined mission;
\forcelinebreak One by one I see them fade
\forcelinebreak With no hopeless vision;
\forcelinebreak For they’ve led me on a step
\forcelinebreak To their home Elysian.


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\section{Motto to “Prudence.”}


Theme no poet gladly sung,
\forcelinebreak Fair to old and foul to young,
\forcelinebreak Scorn not thou the love of parts,
\forcelinebreak And the articles of arts.
\forcelinebreak Grandeur of the perfect sphere
\forcelinebreak Thanks the atoms that cohere.


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\section{Motto to “Intellect.”}


Go, speed the stars of Thought
\forcelinebreak On to their shining goals; —
\forcelinebreak The sower scatters broad his seed,
\forcelinebreak The wheat thou strew’st be souls.


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\section{Motto to “Nature.”}


A subtle chain of countless rings
\forcelinebreak The next unto the farthest brings;
\forcelinebreak The eye reads omens where it goes,
\forcelinebreak And speaks all languages the rose;
\forcelinebreak And, striving to be man, the worm
\forcelinebreak Mounts through all the spires of form.


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\section{Motto to “Considerations by the Way.”}


Hear what British Merlin sung,
\forcelinebreak Of keenest eye and truest tongue.
\forcelinebreak Say not, the chiefs who first arrive
\forcelinebreak Usurp the seats for which all strive;
\forcelinebreak The forefathers this land who found
\forcelinebreak Failed to plant the vantage-ground;
\forcelinebreak Ever from one who comes to-morrow
\forcelinebreak Men wait their good and truth to borrow.
\forcelinebreak But wilt thou measure all thy road,
\forcelinebreak See thou lift the lightest load.
\forcelinebreak Who has little, to him who has less, can spare,
\forcelinebreak And thou, Cyndyllan’s son! beware
\forcelinebreak Ponderous gold and stuffs to bear,
\forcelinebreak To falter ere thou thy task fulfil, —
\forcelinebreak Only the light-armed climb the hill.
\forcelinebreak The richest of all lords is Use,
\forcelinebreak And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse.
\forcelinebreak Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,
\forcelinebreak Drink the wild air’s salubrity:
\forcelinebreak Where the star Canope shines in May,
\forcelinebreak Shepherds are thankful, and nations gay.
\forcelinebreak The music that can deepest reach,
\forcelinebreak And cure all ill, is cordial speech:
\forcelinebreak Mask thy wisdom with delight,
\forcelinebreak Toy with the bow, yet hit the white.
\forcelinebreak Of all wit’s uses, the main one
\forcelinebreak Is to live well with who has none.
\forcelinebreak Cleave to thine acre; the round year
\forcelinebreak Will fetch all fruits and virtues here:
\forcelinebreak Fool and foe may harmless roam,
\forcelinebreak Loved and lovers bide at home.
\forcelinebreak A day for toil, an hour for sport,
\forcelinebreak But for a friend is life too short.


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\section{Motto to “New England Reformers.”}


In the suburb, in the town,
\forcelinebreak On the railway, in the square,
\forcelinebreak Came a beam of goodness down
\forcelinebreak Doubling daylight everywhere:
\forcelinebreak Peace now each for malice takes,
\forcelinebreak Beauty for his sinful weeds,
\forcelinebreak For the angel Hope aye makes
\forcelinebreak Him an angel whom she leads.


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\section{Motto to “Fate.”}


Delicate omens traced in air
\forcelinebreak To the lone bard true witness bare;
\forcelinebreak Birds with auguries on their wings
\forcelinebreak Chanted undeceiving things
\forcelinebreak Him to beckon, him to warn;
\forcelinebreak Well might then the poet scorn
\forcelinebreak To learn of scribe or courier
\forcelinebreak Hints writ in vaster character;
\forcelinebreak And on his mind, at dawn of day,
\forcelinebreak Soft shadows of the evening lay.
\forcelinebreak For the prevision is allied
\forcelinebreak Unto the thing so signified;
\forcelinebreak Or say, the foresight that awaits
\forcelinebreak Is the same Genius that creates.


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\section{Motto to “Power.”}


His tongue was framed to music,
\forcelinebreak And his hand was armed with skill,
\forcelinebreak His face was the mould of beauty,
\forcelinebreak And his heart the throne of will.


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\section{Motto to “Illusions.”}


Flow, flow the waves hated,
\forcelinebreak Accursed, adored,
\forcelinebreak The waves of mutation:
\forcelinebreak No anchorage is.
\forcelinebreak Sleep is not, death is not;
\forcelinebreak Who seem to die live.
\forcelinebreak Flouse you were born in,
\forcelinebreak Friends of your spring-time,
\forcelinebreak Old man and young maid,
\forcelinebreak Day’s toil and its guerdon,
\forcelinebreak They are all vanishing,
\forcelinebreak Fleeing to fables,
\forcelinebreak Cannot be moored.
\forcelinebreak See the stars through them,
\forcelinebreak Through treacherous marbles.
\forcelinebreak Know, the stars yonder,
\forcelinebreak The stars everlasting,
\forcelinebreak Are fugitive also,
\forcelinebreak And emulate, vaulted,
\forcelinebreak The lambent heat-lightning,
\forcelinebreak And fire-fly’s flight.


When thou dost return
\forcelinebreak On the wave’s circulation,
\forcelinebreak Beholding the shimmer,
\forcelinebreak The wild dissipation,
\forcelinebreak And, out of endeavor
\forcelinebreak To change and to flow,
\forcelinebreak The gas become solid,
\forcelinebreak And phantoms and nothings
\forcelinebreak Return to be things,
\forcelinebreak And endless imbroglio
\forcelinebreak Is law and the world, —
\forcelinebreak Then first shalt thou know,
\forcelinebreak That in the wild turmoil,
\forcelinebreak Horsed on the Proteus,
\forcelinebreak Thou ridest to power,
\forcelinebreak And to endurance.


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\section{The Cup of Life is Not So Shallow}


The cup of life is not so shallow
\forcelinebreak That we have drained the best,
\forcelinebreak That all the wine at once we swallow,
\forcelinebreak And lees make all the rest.


Maids of as soft a bloom shall marry
\forcelinebreak As Hymen yet hath blessed,
\forcelinebreak And fairer forms are in the quarry
\forcelinebreak Than Angelo released.


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\section{Where is Skrymir? Giant Skrymir?}


Where is Skrymir? Giant Skrymir?
\forcelinebreak Come transplant the woods for me!
\forcelinebreak Scoop up yonder aged ash,
\forcelinebreak Centennial pine, mahogany beech,
\forcelinebreak Oaks that grew in the dark ages
\forcelinebreak Heedful, bring them, set them straight,
\forcelinebreak In sifted soil, before my porch;
\forcelinebreak Now turn the river on their roots,
\forcelinebreak So the new top shall not droop
\forcelinebreak His tall erected plume, nor a leaf wilt.


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\section{South Wind}


In the turbulent beauty
\forcelinebreak Of a gusty autumn day,
\forcelinebreak Poet in a wood-crowned headland
\forcelinebreak Sighed his soul away.
\forcelinebreak Farms the sunny landscape dappled,
\forcelinebreak Swan-down clouds dappled the farms,
\forcelinebreak Catde lowed in hazy distance
\forcelinebreak Where far oaks outstretched their arms.
\forcelinebreak Sudden gusts came full of meaning,
\forcelinebreak All too much to him they said; —
\forcelinebreak Southwinds have long memories,
\forcelinebreak Of that be none afraid.
\forcelinebreak I cannot tell rude listeners
\forcelinebreak Half the telltale South wind said,
\forcelinebreak T’would bring the blushes of yon maples
\forcelinebreak To a man and to a maid.


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\section{There Are Beggars in Iran and Araby}


There are beggars in Iran and Araby,
\forcelinebreak Said was hungrier than all;
\forcelinebreak Men said he was a fly
\forcelinebreak That came to every festival,
\forcelinebreak Also he came to the mosque
\forcelinebreak In trail of camel and caravan,
\forcelinebreak Out from Mecca to Isphaban; —
\forcelinebreak Northward he went to the snowy hills, —
\forcelinebreak At court he sat in the grave divan.
\forcelinebreak His music was the south wind’s sigh,
\forcelinebreak His lamp the maiden’s downcast eye,
\forcelinebreak And ever the spell of beauty came
\forcelinebreak And turned the drowsy world to flame.
\forcelinebreak By lake and stream and gleaming hall,
\forcelinebreak And modest copse, and the forest tall,
\forcelinebreak Where’er he went the magic guide
\forcelinebreak Kept its place by the poet’s side.
\forcelinebreak Tell me the world is a talisman,
\forcelinebreak To read it must be the art of man;
\forcelinebreak Said melted the days in cups like pearl,
\forcelinebreak Served high and low, the lord and the churl;
\forcelinebreak Loved harebells nodding on a rock,
\forcelinebreak A cabin hung with curling smoke,
\forcelinebreak And huts and tents, nor loved he less
\forcelinebreak Stately lords in palaces,
\forcelinebreak Fenced by form and ceremony.


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\section{Quoth Saadi, When I Stood Before}


Quoth Saadi, when I stood before
\forcelinebreak Hassan the camel-driver’s door,
\forcelinebreak I scorned the fame of Timour brave, —
\forcelinebreak Timour to Hassan was a slave.
\forcelinebreak In every glance of Hassan’s eye
\forcelinebreak I read great years of victory;
\forcelinebreak And I, who cower mean and small
\forcelinebreak In the frequent interval
\forcelinebreak When Wisdom not with me resides,
\forcelinebreak Worship toil’s wisdom that abides;
\forcelinebreak I shunned his eye, — the faithful man’s,
\forcelinebreak I shunned the toiling Hassan’s glance.


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\section{Dante’s Vita Nuova}


THE NEW LIFE OF DANTE ALIGHIERI


I


In that part of the book of my memory before which little could be read, is found this title, The New Life begins. Under which rubric, I find written the words which it is my purpose to copy in this book, and if not all, at least their sense.


II


Nine times already after my birth was the heaven of light returned to the same point in its proper gyration, when to my eyes first appeared the gracious lady of my mind, who was called Beatrice by many who did not know her name. She had then been so long in this life that in her time the starry heaven had moved towards the East one of the twelve parts of a degree, so that she appeared to me as at the beginning of her ninth year, \& I saw her about the end of mine and she appeared to me clothed in a very noble lowly colour and becoming red, girt \& adorned in the mode which belonged to her tender youth. At that moment, I say verily the spirit of life which dwells in the secretest chamber of the heart did so quake that it appeared violently in my least pulses, and trembling said,


Ecce deus fortior me; veniens dominabitur mihi.
\forcelinebreak Behold a god stronger than I who cometh to rule me.


At that moment, the animal spirit which dwells in the chamber into which all the sensuous spirits carry their perceptions, began to marvel much, \&, speaking specially to the spirits of sight, said,


Now hath appeared our Supreme Good.
\forcelinebreak Apparuit jam Beatitudo nostra.


At that moment, the natural spirit which dwells in that part where our nourishment is supplied, began to weep \& weeping said,


Heu miser, quia frequenter impeditus ero deinceps.
\forcelinebreak Wo is me I am henceforth to have my way no longer.


From that hour forth, I say, that, Love ruled my soul, which was so much disposed by him \& he began to take over me so much lordship \& governance, through the strength which my imagination gave to him, that it behoved me to do all his pleasure to the utmost, \& he commanded me many times that I should seek to see this youngest angel; wherefore I in my boyhood many times went seeking her, \& I saw her with such new \& such praiseworthy manners that certainly those words of the Poet Homer might be spoken of her,


“She seemed not the daughter of a mortal, but of a god.”


And it was so that her image which continually abode with me, (was it the presumption of Love to subdue me) was always of so noble virtue that it never suffered Love to rule me without the faithful counsel of reason in matters wherein such counsel were good to hear. But since the controuling the passions \& manners of so much youth may seem to some fabulous, I will quit these, \& passing over many things which might be taken from the book where these lie hidden, I will come to those words which are written in my memory under longer paragraphs.


III


When so many days were past that nine years were exactly completed after the forewritten appearance of this most gentle maid, — in the last of these days, it happened, that this wonderful lady appeared to me clothed in the purest white, in the middle between two gentlewomen who were of maturer age; \& passing through a road turned her eyes towards that part where I was, very fearful, and by her ineffable courtesy which is today requited in the other world, saluted me virtuously, so that it appeared to me then that I saw all the limits of happiness. The hour when her sweetest salute arrived at me, was precisely the ninth of that day, and inasmuch as it was the first time that her words turned to arrive at my ears, I took so much sweetness, that, like one intoxicated, I departed from the company \& withdrew to a solitary place of my chamber, \& set myself to think on this most courteous one. And thinking of her, there came to me a sweet sleep in which appeared to me a marvellous vision, wherein I seemed to see in my chamber a cloud of the colour of fire, within which I discerned a figure of a signor of aspect fearful to the beholder.
\forcelinebreak And he appeared to have so much joy in himself, that it was wonderful, and he said many things, which I did not understand, except a few, among which I heard these words; I am thy lord.


In his arms appeared to me to sleep a person naked save that she was lightly infolded in a blood-red cloth, whom I beholding very attentively knew that she was the lady of peace, who had the day before deigned to salute me, \& in one of his hands it appeared that he held something which burned wholly, \& it seemed to me that he said to me these words;


Vide cor tuum.


And when he had remained some time it appeared to me that he waked her who slept, and so prevailed by his genius that he made her eat that thing which burned in her hand which she eat doubtfully. After a little while his joy turned into bitterest lamentation, and thus complaining he took again this lady in his arms, and with her he seemed to me to go towards heaven. Whence I suffered so great anguish that my weak sleep could not bear, so it broke, \& I awaked. And immediately I began to reflect, \& found that the hour in which this dream had appeared to me was the fourth of the night, so that it appeared plainly that it was the first hour of the nine last hours of the night. I thinking of this which had appeared to me proposed to make it known to many who were the famous poets (trovatori) in that time. And because I had already seen by myself the art of saying words in rhyme, I proposed to make a sonnet, in which I should salute all the faithful of love, \& praying them that they would judge my vision, I should write them what I had seen in my dream, \& I then begun this sonnet.


To each taken soul \& gentle heart,
\forcelinebreak To whose sight comes the present word,
\forcelinebreak To the end that they may write again their thought
\forcelinebreak Greeting in the name of their lord, that is, Love.
\forcelinebreak Already was it the third hour
\forcelinebreak Of the time when every star is most bright,
\forcelinebreak When Love appeared to me suddenly
\forcelinebreak Whose substance seen made me tremble.
\forcelinebreak Glad seemed Love, holding
\forcelinebreak My heart in his hand, \& in his arms had
\forcelinebreak My lady asleep rolled in a garment;
\forcelinebreak Then he waked her, and with that burning heart
\forcelinebreak Fed he her lowly trembling;
\forcelinebreak Then bewailing it, he seemed to go away.


This sonnet was answered by many \& with different meanings; among which respondents was he whom I call first among my friends (Guido Cavalcanti). And he wrote this sonnet.


You have seen, in my judgment, every valour,
\forcelinebreak And every game, \& every good which man feels,
\forcelinebreak As if you were in proof of a mighty lord
\forcelinebreak Who ruled the world of honour.
\forcelinebreak Then live in places where grief dies,
\forcelinebreak And hold reason in your pious mind
\forcelinebreak Yes go gently in dreams to the race
\forcelinebreak Who carry their heart without pain.
\forcelinebreak Seeing her carry the heart of you,
\forcelinebreak Death demands your lady,
\forcelinebreak Feeds on the living heart of her timid.
\forcelinebreak When it appeared to you that she went away grieving
\forcelinebreak It was the sweet dream which was completed
\forcelinebreak That its contrary came conquering it.


And this was the beginning of the friendship between me \& him, when he knew that it was I that had sent this to him. The true meaning of the said sonnet was not seen then by any one, but now is manifest to the most simple.


IV


And after this vision my natural spirit began to be impeded in its operation because the soul was all given up to thinking of this most gentle one, whence I became in a little time after, of so frail \& weak a condition, that many friends grieved at my face, and many full of envy persisted to know of me that which I wished to conceal altogether, from others, and I becoming sensible of the evil demand which they made me, through the will of love which commanded me according to the counsel of reason, answered them, that love was that which had governed me thus. I spoke of love because I carried in my face so many of his ensigns which could not be covered \& when they asked on whose account this love had thus destroyed me I smiling looked at them \& said nothing to them.


V


One day it happened that this most gentle one sat in a place where were heard words of the Queen of Glory, \& I was in a place from whence I could see my chief joy, and in the midst between her \& me in a right line sat a gentlewoman of very pleasant aspect who beheld many times with wonder my glances which appeared to terminate on her, whence many were informed of her looking. And so much was this regarded, that, on leaving that place I heard some one say near me, See how such a lady destroys the person of this man. And naming her, I heard that they spoke of her who was placed midway in the right line which begun from the most gentle Beatrice \& terminated in my eyes. Then I comforted myself much, assuring myself that my secret was not communicated to others that day by my face, \& immediately I thought of making of this gentlewoman a screen of the truth, and I carried this so well in a little time that my secret was believed to be known by many persons who spoke to me of it. Through this gentlewoman I concealed myself some years \& months \& to make it more credible to others, I made for her certain little pieces in rhyme, which it is not my purpose to write here, except insofar as they concern the most gentle Beatrice; and therefore I will leave them all, only I shall write one which appears to be in praise of her.


VI


I say that in the time when this gentlewoman was the screen of so much love, there arose on my part a wish to record the name of the most gentle, and to accompany it with many names of ladies, \& specially with the name of this gentlewoman, and having taken the names of sixty the fairest women of the city, where my lady was placed by the most High Lord, I composed an epistle under the form of service, which I will not copy, \& should not have mentioned except to say this, that composing it, it strangely happened that in no other number would the name of my lady stand, except in the ninth, among the names of these ladies.


VII


The gentlewoman through whom I had for some time concealed my inclination, happened to quit the abovementioned city \& went into a distant country; I as it were frightened from my fine defence, greatly discomforted myself more than I should have believed beforehand, \& thinking that if I should not speak somewhat dolorously of her departure, people would very soon become aware of my secret, I proposed to make a lament, in a sonnet which I will copy, because my lady was the immediate cause of certain words which are in the sonnet as appears to whoso understands it; and then I wrote this sonnet;


O ye who pass by the way of Love,
\forcelinebreak Attend \& behold,
\forcelinebreak If any sorrow be great as mine.
\forcelinebreak And I pray only that you will hear me
\forcelinebreak And then imagine
\forcelinebreak If I am the lodging \& the key of every grief.
\forcelinebreak Love, not truly by my small goodness
\forcelinebreak But by his own nobility
\forcelinebreak Placed me in a life so sweet \& gentle
\forcelinebreak That I heard myself say secretly many times
\forcelinebreak Ah! by what worth
\forcelinebreak Does the heart so lightly possess this treasure?
\forcelinebreak Now have I lost all my presumption
\forcelinebreak Which arose out of the amorous treasure
\forcelinebreak Wherefore I remain poor
\forcelinebreak In a fashion, which to speak, breeds doubt.
\forcelinebreak So that wishing to do as those
\forcelinebreak Who through shame conceal their want,
\forcelinebreak I outwardly show a gladness
\forcelinebreak And within from the heart I pine \& bewail.


VIII


After the departure of this gentlewoman, it was the pleasure of the Lord of the Angels to call to his glory a lady of very gentle countenance who was a great favourite in this city, whose body I saw lie without life in the midst of many ladies who lamented her. I also lamenting, proposed to myself to say some words of her death in guerdon of this, that I had once seen her with my lady; \&, on that, I touched in the last part of the words which I wrote of her, as appears plainly to whoso understands it; and I said then these two sonnets; of which the first begins;


Lament lovers, since Love laments,
\forcelinebreak Seeing what cause he had to weep.
\forcelinebreak Love hears with pity ladies cry
\forcelinebreak Showing bitter grief in their eyes,
\forcelinebreak Because rough Death in gentle heart
\forcelinebreak Hath wrought his cruel work,
\forcelinebreak Spoiling that which the world praises
\forcelinebreak In a gentle dame, out of honour.
\forcelinebreak Hear how much horror Love felt,
\forcelinebreak Since I saw him lament in true form
\forcelinebreak Over the beautiful dead image;
\forcelinebreak And I looked toward the Heaven often
\forcelinebreak Where the gentle soul was already placed,
\forcelinebreak Who was a lady of so gay an aspect.
\forcelinebreak and the second;
\forcelinebreak Rough Death, enemy of pity,
\forcelinebreak Ancient mother of grief,
\forcelinebreak Indisputable heavy judgment
\forcelinebreak Thou hast given matter of grief to the heart;
\forcelinebreak Wherefore I go sad.
\forcelinebreak The tongue wearies of blaming thee
\forcelinebreak And if thou wouldst make request for grace
\forcelinebreak It behoves that I tell
\forcelinebreak Your offence with every cruel injury;
\forcelinebreak Not because it is hidden from people
\forcelinebreak But to make angry at it
\forcelinebreak Whoso nourishes himself with Love henceforth.
\forcelinebreak From the world thou hast divided courtesy,
\forcelinebreak And that which in a lady is virtue to prize.
\forcelinebreak In gay youth
\forcelinebreak Thou hast destroyed amorous beauty
\forcelinebreak I will no more discover what dame she is
\forcelinebreak Except by her known virtues.
\forcelinebreak Whoso does not merit salvation
\forcelinebreak Let her never hope to have her company.


IX


Some days after the death of this lady, something occurred which required me to leave the city abovementioned, \& to go towards those parts where was the gentlewoman who had been my defence. It chanced that my journey did not reach so far as to where she was, and although I was in the company of many according to the appearance, the going displeased me so that my sighs could not exhale the anguish which the heart felt, because I was departing from my felicity. And yet my sweetest lord who ruled me through the virtue of the most gentle lady, in my imagination appeared like a pilgrim lightly clad, \& with coarse clothes, He seemed to me astonished \& looked on the ground, except that sometimes his eyes turned to a beautiful running river, very clear, which ran along the road in which I walked. It seemed to me that Love called me, \& said to me these words; “I come from that lady who has long been thy defence, \& I know that her return will not be.


And therefore this heart which I made thee to have from her, I have with me \& I carry it to a lady who shall be thy defence as this one was, (and he named her to me so that I knew her well) but notwithstanding if of these words I have spoken to thee, thou speakest anything, tell it in a fashion that by them may not be discerned the feigned love which thou hast shown to this one, \& which it will behove thee to show to others.” And having said these words, this my imagination disappeared very suddenly through the large part which it appeared to me that Love had given me of himself. And, as if changed in countenance, I rode that day very thoughtful, \&, attended by many sighs, on the next day I began thus this sonnet.


Riding the other day through a road
\forcelinebreak Sad at going where it displeased me
\forcelinebreak I found Love in the midst of the way
\forcelinebreak In the light dress of a pilgrim.
\forcelinebreak His semblance appeared mean
\forcelinebreak As if he had lost his lordship,
\forcelinebreak And sighing thoughtful came
\forcelinebreak So as not to see the people, his head down;
\forcelinebreak When he saw me, he called me by name,
\forcelinebreak And said, I come from the distant place
\forcelinebreak Where was your heart by my will,
\forcelinebreak And I bring it back to serve a new pleasure.
\forcelinebreak Then I took of him so great part
\forcelinebreak That he disappeared \& I knew not how.


X


After my return I set myself to seek this lady whom my lord had named to me in the road of sighs \&, that my story may be short, I say, that in a little time I made her my defence so much, that too many people spoke of her, beyond all the limits of courtesy, whereat I often was sorely grieved. And for this cause, that is, of this excessive fame, which appeared as if I had viciously defamed myself, that most gentle one who was the destroyer of all vices, \& queen of the virtues, passing in some place, denied to me her sweetest salute, in which consisted all my peace. And digressing somewhat from the present argument, I wish to explain what her salutation operated virtuously in me.


XI


I say that when she appeared from any part, through the hope of her wonderful sweetness no enemy remained to me; also there was added to me a flame of charity, which made me pardon whoever had offended me. And if any one had demanded aught of me, my answer would have been only Love, with a face clothed in humility; and when she was at hand ready to salute, a spirit of Love destroying all the other sensuous spirits, advanced forth the weak spirits of sight and said to them, Go to honour your lady, \& he remained in the place of them; and whoso had wished to know Love, could do so, beholding the tremor of my eyes. And when this gendest lady saluted me, not that Love was such a medium that he could shade from me the intolerable clearness, but he, as by excess of sweetness became such that my body, which now was all under his regiment, often moved itself as something heavily inanimate, so that it plainly appeared that in her salute dwelt my peace, which many times filled \& overran my capacity.


XII


Now returning to the argument, I say, that when this joy was denied me, there came to me so much grief, that withdrawing from all company, I went into a lonely place to bathe the ground with bitterest tears. And, after some time, this weeping being stopped, I went into my chamber, where I could lament without being heard, and there calling pity from the Lady of all courtesy, \& saying, O Love, aid thy faithful servant, — I slept like a beaten child worn out with crying. It happened in the midst of my sleep, that I seemed to see in my chamber beside me a youth clothed in whitest vestments \& thinking much how much he looked at me there where I lay,
\forcelinebreak \& when he had looked at me some time, it seemed to me, that, sighing he called me; \& he said to me these words.


Fili mi, tempus est ut pretermictantur simulacra nostra.


Then it appeared to me that I knew him who called me thus, as many times in my sighs he had called me and considering him I thought that he wept piteously \& he seemed to expect some word from me, whence taking courage began to speak thus with him. Lord of nobleness, why weepest thou? and he said to me these words; “I am, as it were, the centre of the circle, to whom all the parts of the circumference are alike. But not so, thou.”


Then thinking on his words, it seemed to me that he had spoken very obscurely, so that I forced myself to speak, \& said these words to him, “What is that, my Lord, which you say with so much obscurity?” And he replied to me in the vulgar speech. “Do not ask more than is useful to you.” And yet I begun to speak with him of the salute which had been denied me. And asking the cause, it was answered in this manner. “This our Beatrice heard from certain persons that the lady whom I named to thee in the road of sighs received some displeasure from you. And therefore this most gentle one who is the contrary of all annoys, did not deign to salute your person, fearing lest it should be hurtful. Wherefore to the end that she may truly know something of the secret you have kept through so long a consuetude, I wish that you should say certain words, first, in which you comprise the power which I hold over you through her, \& how you were hers, so early, from her infancy \& of this call as witness him who knows it and pray him that he tell her it, \& I who know this, willingly will converse with her of it, \& by this she shall know your will, knowing which, she will understand the words of those deceived persons. Make these words as a means, so that thou shalt not speak to her immediately, which is not fit nor send them into any place without me where they can be heard by her, but adorn diem with sweet harmony in which I will be in all parts where it behoves;” and, having said these words, he disappeared, \& my dream was broken.


Wherefore recollecting myself I found that this vision had appeared to me in the ninth hour of the day. And before I went out of the chamber, I proposed to make a ballad in which that was done which my lord had imposed on me, and
\forcelinebreak I made this Ballad;


Ballad, I wish that you should find Love
\forcelinebreak And with him go before my lady
\forcelinebreak So that my excuse which thou shalt sing
\forcelinebreak My lord may reason with her,
\forcelinebreak Thou ballad goest so courteously
\forcelinebreak That without company
\forcelinebreak Thou shouldest have courage in all parts;
\forcelinebreak But if thou wouldst go securely,
\forcelinebreak Find Love again first,
\forcelinebreak Who perhaps it is not good sense to leave
\forcelinebreak Because she who ought to hear thee
\forcelinebreak If she is, as I believe, in truth angry with me
\forcelinebreak If thou by him be not attended
\forcelinebreak Easily may do you a dishonour.
\forcelinebreak With sweet sound, when thou art with him,
\forcelinebreak Begin these words;
\forcelinebreak After thou hast sought pity,
\forcelinebreak Lady, he who sent me to you
\forcelinebreak If it please you
\forcelinebreak If there be excuse would that you should hear it of me
\forcelinebreak Love is here who through your beauty
\forcelinebreak Makes him, as he will, change face,
\forcelinebreak Then because he made him look at another
\forcelinebreak Think you not that his heart is changed.
\forcelinebreak Tell her; lady his heart is set
\forcelinebreak With such firm faith
\forcelinebreak That to serve you he has every thought ready;
\forcelinebreak Early was yours \& he never swerved.
\forcelinebreak If she do not believe you
\forcelinebreak Tell her to ask Love whether it be true;
\forcelinebreak And at last make to her a humble prayer
\forcelinebreak (To pardon it if it were a trouble to her)
\forcelinebreak That she would command me by messenger that I should die.
\forcelinebreak And she shall see her good servant obey.
\forcelinebreak And say to her who is the key of all pity
\forcelinebreak Before I become free
\forcelinebreak That I shall know how to tell my good reason
\forcelinebreak Through the grace of my sweet notes;
\forcelinebreak Remain thou here with her
\forcelinebreak And tell of thy servant what you will.
\forcelinebreak And if she by thy prayer pardon him,
\forcelinebreak Cause that she announce to him a fair seeming peace.
\forcelinebreak My gentle ballad, when it pleases thee
\forcelinebreak Move in such form that you have honor.
\forcelinebreak Should any man confront me \& say that he knew not to what purpose was this speaking in the second person, since the ballad is nothing else than these words which I speak, then I say, that this doubt I intend to solve \& clear up in this little book, in part even more doubtful, and then he may here understand who doubts more than one who should confront me in the manner proposed.


XIII


After the abovementioned vision, having already spoken the words which Love had charged me to say, many \& diverse thoughts began to combat \& to try me, each, as it were, irresistible; among which thoughts, four hindered most the repose of life. One of them was this. Good is the lordship of Love since it draws the mind of the faithful from all vile matters. Another was this. The lordship of love is not good, since by how much faith the faithful yields, by so much the more sharp \& grievous crises it requires him to pass. Another was this; The name of love is so sweet to hear, that it appears to me impossible that its proper operation should be in most things other than sweet, because names follow the things named, as it is written, Names are the consequences of things Nomina sunt consequentta rerurn. The fourth was this; The lady through whom Love binds thee thus, is not like other ladies, that she may lightly be removed from the heart. — And each assaulted me so long, that it made me stand like one who knows not by what way he shall take his road, who wishes to go \& knows not his path. And if I thought of wishing to seek a common passage for them, that is, one in which they should all agree, this was very unpleasing to me, that is, to cry out \& to throw myself into the arms of pity. And remaining in this state, there came to me a willingness to write rhymes and, I then said this sonnet;


All my thoughts speak of Love
\forcelinebreak And have in them so great variety,
\forcelinebreak That one makes me wish his power,
\forcelinebreak Another foolish talks of his valour,
\forcelinebreak Another hopeful brings me grief,
\forcelinebreak Another makes me complain often,
\forcelinebreak And they agree only in asking pity.
\forcelinebreak Trembling with fear which is in the heart.
\forcelinebreak Therefore I know not what theme to take.
\forcelinebreak And I would speak; and I know not what to say;
\forcelinebreak Thus I find myself in amorous errour
\forcelinebreak And if with all I would make agreement
\forcelinebreak It would need that I should call my enemy
\forcelinebreak My lady Pity who defends me


XIV


After the battle of these different thoughts it happened that this most gentle one was in a place where many gentle ladies were assembled, to which place I was conducted by a friendly person thinking to do me a great pleasure, inasmuch as he led me where so many ladies displayed their beauties, wherefore I, not knowing whither I was led, \& confiding in the person who was one that had led his friend to the end of life, said to him, Why are we come to these ladies? Then he said, that he did thus that they should be worthily served. It is true that here they were gathered to the company of a gentlewoman who was that day married, and, therefore, according to the custom in that city, it behoved that they should give her their company in the first sitting down at table in the house of her bridegroom. So that I, believing that I did this friend a pleasure, made myself ready to stand at the sendee of these ladies in his company; and in the end of my making ready, it appeared to me that I felt a strange tremor begin on the left side of my breast, \& extend itself suddenly through all parts of my body. Then I say that I turned my person feignedly to a picture which surrounded this house, \& fearing lest others should be aware of my trembling, I lifted my eyes, \& beholding the ladies, I saw among them the most gentle Beatrice.


Then were my spirits destroyed through the force with which Love took me, seeing himself in such nearness to the most gentle lady, that there did not remain in life any but the spirits of sight, \& even these remained outside of their organs, because Love wished to stand in their most noble place to see the wonder of this lady. And as soon as I was other than at first, I was much grieved for these little spirits (spiritelli) who lamented aloud, \& said, If this one had not dazzled us out of our places, we could have remained to see the marvel of this dame, as our peers also remain. I say that many of these ladies becoming aware of my transfiguration, began to wonder, \&, discoursing, bantered concerning me and that most gentle one. Therefore the friend of good faith took me by the hand \& leading me out of the sight of these ladies, asked me what ailed me? Then I answered somewhat, \& rallied my dead-like spirits, \& these fugitives being returned to their seats, I said to my friend these words,— “I have had my feet in that part of the life beyond, from which there is no more power in the understanding to return.” And having parted with him, I returned to my chamber of tears, where, weeping \& ashamed, I said to myself, If this lady knew my condition, I do not believe that she would so mistake my person; rather would she surely have much pity on me. And remaining in this grief, I proposed to speak some words, in which, addressing her, I might signify to her the cause of my transfiguration; \& I would say that I know well that she knows me not, \& that if she knew me, I believe that pity of it would come to others, \& I proposed to tell her them (the words or verses) desiring that they would come by chance into her audience, \& then I said this sonnet;


With the other dames you deride my sight
\forcelinebreak And do not know the lady who moves me
\forcelinebreak That I assumed to you a strange face
\forcelinebreak When I beheld your beauty.
\forcelinebreak If you knew it, your compassion could not
\forcelinebreak Hold out longer against me the accustomed trial
\forcelinebreak That when Love found me so near to you
\forcelinebreak He took courage \& so much security
\forcelinebreak That haughtily among my tremulous spirits,
\forcelinebreak Some he slew, \& some he drove out,
\forcelinebreak So that he alone remained to see you.
\forcelinebreak Wherefore I change myself into the form of another
\forcelinebreak But not so that I do not well taste now
\forcelinebreak The woes of the tormented fugitives.


XV


After the new transfiguration, there came to me a strong thought, which rarely left me, nay which was always with me; since you came to so ridiculous appearance, when you were near this lady, why then do you seek to see her? If you were asked anything by her, what wouldst thou have to answer?


Granting that thou shouldest have each of thy powers liberated, in as much as thou shouldest answer her. And to this replied another humble thought, \& said, I would tell her that so soon as I imagine her wonderful beauty, so soon have I the desire to behold her, which is of so much force that it kills \& destroys in my memory all which can rise against it, \& therefore these past sufferings do not restrain me from seeking the view of her. Therefore, I, moved by such thoughts, proposed to say certain words in which excusing myself to her with such passion, I described also how it was with me in her presence; \& I said then this sonnet;


Whatever in the mind hinders dies
\forcelinebreak When I come to behold you, o beautiful joy,
\forcelinebreak And when I am near you, I hear Love
\forcelinebreak Who says, Fly, if you are loath to die.
\forcelinebreak The face shows the colour of the heart
\forcelinebreak Fainting where it leans;
\forcelinebreak And through the drunkenness of great fear
\forcelinebreak The stones seem to cry, Die, die;
\forcelinebreak It were a sin in whom should then see me
\forcelinebreak If he should not comfort the astonished soul
\forcelinebreak Only showing that he grieved for me
\forcelinebreak For pity which shall kill your contempt
\forcelinebreak Which cries in the sad expression
\forcelinebreak Of the eyes which desire their own death


XVI


After that which I had said in this sonnet I had an inclination to say also words in which I might say the four things also abovementioned concerning my state, which it did not seem to me I had yet made known. The first of which is, that, often I grieved when my memory moved the fancy to imagine what Love had made me become. The second is, that, Love often suddenly assailed me so strongly that there remained no other life in me except the thought which spoke of this lady.


The third; that, when this battle of love so assaulted me, I moved myself, as it were, all discoloured, to see this lady, believing that the sight of her would defend me from this array, forgetting all which had befallen me through approaching so much gentleness. The fourth is, how such a sight not only did not defend me, but finally discomfited the little life I had; and therefore I said this sonnet;


Often comes to mind
\forcelinebreak The dark quality Love gives me
\forcelinebreak And such pity rises, that often
\forcelinebreak I say, Ah! Happened it so to another?
\forcelinebreak For suddenly Love assaults me
\forcelinebreak So that life almost leaves me
\forcelinebreak A living spirit only remains
\forcelinebreak (And this remains, because he speaks of you)
\forcelinebreak Then I force myself to seek aid
\forcelinebreak And thus dead-like \& without strength
\forcelinebreak I come to see you trusting to be healed
\forcelinebreak And if I lift my eyes to look at you
\forcelinebreak In the heart begins a quaking
\forcelinebreak Which drives the soul from the pulses.


XVII


After I had said these three sonnets in which I addressed this lady, because they were, as it were, reporters of all my condition, believing that I should be silent \& say no more, since I seemed to me to have expressed myself sufficiently. Since then I refrained from speaking to her. It behoved me to take new \& nobler argument than the past, \&, because the occasion of my new subject is delightful to hear, I will relate it as briefly as I can.


XVIII


Whereas many persons by my countenance had become acquainted with my secret, certain ladies who were met for their mutual entertainment, knew well my heart, because each of them had been present at my many discomfitures, \& I passing near them as led by my chance, was called by one of these gentlewomen and she who spoke to me was a lady of very graceful speech, so that when I joined them, \& saw well that my most gentle lady was not there, recollecting myself, I saluted them, \& inquired their pleasure. The ladies were many, among whom were some who laughed among themselves: others of them looked at me, awaiting what I should say: others of them spoke apart, of whom one turning her eyes towards me, \& calling me by name, said these words; “To what end lovest thou this lady of thine, since thou canst not sustain her presence? Tell us what is the end of such a love, which should be a thing wholly new.” And when she had spoken these words, not only she but all the others began to listen for my reply. Then I said these words; Ladies, the end of my love was truly the salute (saluto) of this lady, of whom perhaps you have heard, and therein abides the happiness of the end of all my desires; but since it pleases her to deny it to me, my lord Love (I thank him for it) has placed all my firmness in that which cannot be taken away. Then these ladies began to speak among themselves, \& if sometimes we see fall water mixed with beautiful snow, so seemed it to me to hear their words come forth mingled with sighs; and after they had spoken awhile apart, again said to me that lady who had first spoken, these words; “We pray thee that thou wouldest tell us where is thy felicity?” And I, answering her, said thus much; “In those words which praise my lady.” Then answered me this one who spoke before, “If thou toldest me truly, those words which thou saidest describing thy condition, thou wouldst have turned with another intention.”


Whereupon, I thinking on these words, as one ashamed, departed from them, \& came away speaking to myself; ‘Since there is so much felicity in those words which praise my lady, why have I used others,’ and therefore I proposed to take for the argument of my speaking evermore this which should be the praise of this most gentle one, \& thinking much on that point it seemed to me that I had undertaken too high argument for me. So that I dared not begin, \& so waited several days, with desire to speak \& with fear to commence.


XIX


It then chanced that passing through a road along which ran a very clear brook, I felt such willingness to speak that I began to think of the manner I used and I thought that to speak of her, was not fit; but that I ought to speak to ladies in the second person, and not to every lady, but only to those who are gentle, \& who are not merely women. Then I say, that my tongue spoke as if moved by itself, \& I said then “Ladies who apprehend love.” These words I laid up in my mind with great joy thinking to take them for my beginning; therefore being afterwards returned to the abovenamed City, \& thinking for some days, I began the regular ode in the usual manner, as follows.


Ladies, who have heard of Love,
\forcelinebreak I wish to speak with you of my Lady,
\forcelinebreak Not because I think I can perfect her praise
\forcelinebreak But to discourse that I may relieve my mind;
\forcelinebreak I say, that thinking on her worth
\forcelinebreak Love so gently taught me to feel
\forcelinebreak That if I then did not lose my fire
\forcelinebreak I would put all men in love by my speech.
\forcelinebreak And I do not wish to speak so proudly
\forcelinebreak That I might become vile through fear,
\forcelinebreak But I will treat of her gentle estate
\forcelinebreak For her sake lightly,
\forcelinebreak Ladies \& amorous maidens with you,
\forcelinebreak Since it is not fit to speak to others of her.
\forcelinebreak An Angel calls in the divine intellect,
\forcelinebreak And says, Sire, in the world is seen
\forcelinebreak A living wonder, which issues
\forcelinebreak From a soul which even up hither shines.
\forcelinebreak Heaven which has no other defect
\forcelinebreak Than wanting her, asks her of the Lord.
\forcelinebreak And each saint asks Mercy
\forcelinebreak Only pity pleads on our part.
\forcelinebreak That the Lord says who understands it of my lady;
\forcelinebreak Dear children now suffer me in peace;
\forcelinebreak Pleases me that your hope is so great,
\forcelinebreak There is one who expects to lose her
\forcelinebreak And who will say in Hell to the Ill-born,
\forcelinebreak I have seen the hope of the Blessed.
\forcelinebreak My Lady is desired in highest heaven.
\forcelinebreak Now I proceed to make you know her virtue:
\forcelinebreak I say, that whoso would seem a gentle lady,
\forcelinebreak Go with her; since when she goes in the road
\forcelinebreak Love casts in evil hearts a frost
\forcelinebreak So that every thought of theirs freezes,
\forcelinebreak And whatever can stand there to see,
\forcelinebreak Must become a noble thing, or die.
\forcelinebreak And when any one finds that he is worthy
\forcelinebreak To see her, he proves his virtue,
\forcelinebreak For that happens to him that imparts health
\forcelinebreak And so humbles him that he forgets all sin.
\forcelinebreak Yet has God, through greater grace, given,
\forcelinebreak That he cannot end ill, who has spoken to her.
\forcelinebreak Love said of her; A mortal thing —
\forcelinebreak How can it be so adorned, \& so pure?
\forcelinebreak Then he beheld her \& swore by himself
\forcelinebreak That God did not mean to make a new thing.
\forcelinebreak Color of pearl in her form, as
\forcelinebreak It befits a lady to have, not out of measure,
\forcelinebreak She has as much goodness as nature can;
\forcelinebreak By her pattern beauty is tried;
\forcelinebreak From her eyes, as she moves them,
\forcelinebreak Proceed spirits of love inflamed,
\forcelinebreak Which enkindle the eyes of whoso watches her,
\forcelinebreak And pass through, so that each finds the heart.
\forcelinebreak You see Love painted in the face
\forcelinebreak So that none can behold her steadily.
\forcelinebreak Canzone! I know that you will go speaking
\forcelinebreak To many dames, when I shall send you forth.
\forcelinebreak Now I warn you, since I have trained you up
\forcelinebreak For the daughter of Love, young \& smooth,
\forcelinebreak That where you go, you say praying,
\forcelinebreak ‘Direct me to go, since I am sent
\forcelinebreak To her for whose praise I am adorned’;
\forcelinebreak And if you will not go as a vain one,
\forcelinebreak Nor remain where are mean people,
\forcelinebreak Endeavour if you can to be made known
\forcelinebreak Alone to a lady, or to a courteous man,
\forcelinebreak Who shall swiftly deserve thee.
\forcelinebreak Thou wilt find Love; with him, her;
\forcelinebreak Commend me to him as you ought.


XX


After this sonnet had got abroad a little, because a friend had heard it, his desire moved him to pray me that I would tell him what is Love, having, perhaps, through the words he had heard, a hope of me beyond what was due. Then I thinking that after such a piece, it would be fine to discourse somewhat, of love, \& thinking that my friend should be served, I proposed to speak words in which I should treat of love, \& then I said this sonnet.


Love \& the gentle heart are one thing;
\forcelinebreak As the Sage in his precept has it;
\forcelinebreak And you may dare be one without the other,
\forcelinebreak As well as a rational soul without reason.
\forcelinebreak Nature, when it is amorous, makes
\forcelinebreak Love the Sire, the heart for his abode
\forcelinebreak Within which sleeping he reposes
\forcelinebreak As little and as long as he will.
\forcelinebreak Beauty then appears in wise woman,
\forcelinebreak Which pleases the eyes, so that within the heart
\forcelinebreak Is born desire of the pleasant object,
\forcelinebreak And so abides in it,
\forcelinebreak That it causes the spirit of Love to awake.
\forcelinebreak And the like does a valiant man, in a woman.


XXI


After I had treated of Love in the rhyme aforesaid, there came to me the wish to speak words also in praise of this most gentle one, by which I might show how, through her, this love awoke, \& how not only it awoke where it had slept, but where it is not in energy \& there working wonderfully, made it appear; and then I said;


In her eyes my Lady carries Love,
\forcelinebreak Because she makes that noble which she looks upon.
\forcelinebreak Where she passes, every man turns to see her,
\forcelinebreak And whom she salutes, his heart quakes,
\forcelinebreak So that looking down, his whole countenance is changed,
\forcelinebreak And on every fault of his sighs.
\forcelinebreak Flees before her, all anger, \& pride.
\forcelinebreak Aid me, Ladies, to do her honour,
\forcelinebreak Every sweetness, every lowly thought
\forcelinebreak Is born in the heart of him who hears her speak,
\forcelinebreak Therefore is he blessed who first sees her.
\forcelinebreak How she looks when she smiles a little,
\forcelinebreak Cannot be told, nor held in the mind,
\forcelinebreak So new \& so gentle a miracle is it.


XXII


Not many days after this, it pleased that glorious Lord who refused not himself to die, that he who was the father of so great a marvel as this most noble Beatrice, departing out of this life should ascend to the eternal glory. Therefore, because such departure is woeful to those who remain, and were his friends, and there is no friendship so close as that of a good father with a good child, and this lady was at the summit of goodness, and her father, as many believed, and as was true, was good in a high degree, it is manifest that this lady was bitterly full of grief, \& when, according to the custom of the city, ladies with ladies \& men with men assembled there, where this Beatrice piteously lamented, — I seeing so many ladies return from her, heard them speak their words of this most gentle one, how she lamented, among which words I heard them say, “Indeed she wept so that whoever saw her might die with pity.” Then these ladies passed by, \& I remained in so great sadness that some tears then bathed my face; which I concealed, covering my eyes often with my hands; and if I had not expected to hear again of her, since I was in place where most of those ladies passed who came from her, I should have concealed myself immediately when my tears came, \& yet tarrying longer in the same place, ladies also passed near me conversing together in these words, “Which of us can ever be glad, who have heard this lady speak so piteously?” After these came others, saying, “This one weeps neither more nor less than if he had seen her as we saw her.” Others then said of me, “You shall see this one so changed that he does not appear to be himself.” And thus these ladies passing, I heard their words of her \& of me (in this manner I have set down), thinking whereupon, I proposed to say such words as I might worthily find occasion, in which words I comprised all which I had heard from these ladies, and, since I should willingly have questioned them, if it had not been blameable, I took occasion to speak as if I had, \& as if they had answered me, and I made two sonnets; and in the first I ask whatever I had to ask, \& in the other I report their answer, taking that which I heard from them as they would have said to me in reply; \& I began the first;


Ye who wear a lowly semblance
\forcelinebreak With downcast eyes showing grief,
\forcelinebreak Whence come you that your colour
\forcelinebreak Appears like that of stone?
\forcelinebreak Saw ye our gentle Lady,
\forcelinebreak Her face bathed in the pity of Love?
\forcelinebreak Tell me, ladies, what the heart says
\forcelinebreak Since I see you go with honest action,
\forcelinebreak And if ye come from so great piety,
\forcelinebreak Please you to stay here with me a little,
\forcelinebreak And hide nothing of her from me.
\forcelinebreak I see tears in your eyes,
\forcelinebreak And I see you come so disfigured
\forcelinebreak That my heart quakes to see you so.


The second;


Art thou he who has discoursed with us often
\forcelinebreak Of our lady, alone speaking to us?
\forcelinebreak Thy voice resembles him well
\forcelinebreak But thy sad form appears of quite another.
\forcelinebreak Ah! why weepest thou so cordially,
\forcelinebreak That you compel others to pity thee?
\forcelinebreak Hast thou seen her weep, that thou canst not
\forcelinebreak Conceal at all thy woful mind?
\forcelinebreak Leave us to weep, \& to go disconsolate,
\forcelinebreak (And it were sin, if we should not,)
\forcelinebreak Who in her sorrow have heard her speak.
\forcelinebreak She has in her face sorrow so wise
\forcelinebreak That who would have beheld her
\forcelinebreak Would fall dead before her.


XXIII


After this, in a few days, it chanced that in (some) part of my body there fell on me a grievous infirmity, from which I suffered for many days the bitterest pain, which brought me to such debility, that I was forced to remain like those who cannot move themselves. In the ninth day, feeling my pain as it were intolerable, there came to me a thought of my lady. And when I had thought a little of her, \& I returned to think of my debilitated life, and seeing how frail was its duration, even if I were well, I began to bewail myself of so much misery, and, deeply sighing, I said to myself, Of necessity, it must be that the most gentle Beatrice will some time die; and then
\forcelinebreak I felt such an amazement of fear that I closed my eyes, and began to work like a raving person, \& to imagine in this manner. In the commencement of the wandering which my fancy made, appeared to me certain faces of ladies dishevelled, who said to me, “Thou too shalt die;” and after these ladies appeared certain different faces horrible to see, who said to me, “Thou art dead.” Thus my fancy beginning to wander, I came to that pass, that I knew not where I was, \& I seemed to see ladies go dishevelled, weeping in a manner wonderfully sad, \& it appeared to me that I saw the sun darkened, so that the stars showed themselves in such a colour that I thought they also wept, \& very great earthquakes, \& I, admiring in such a fancy, \& greatly afraid, imagined that some friend came \& said to me, “Now knowest thou not thy wonderful lady is departed from this world?” Then began I to weep very piteously, \& not only wept in fancy, but I wept with my eyes, bathing them with real tears. I imagined that I looked towards the heaven \& I seemed to see a multitude of angels who returned upward, \& had before them a very white little cloud, \& I thought these angels sang gloriously, and the words of their song I seemed to hear were these, Osanna in excelsis. And others heard I none. Then it seemed to me that the heart, where so much love was, said to me, True it is that our lady lies dead; and through this I seemed to go to see the body in which that most noble soul had been, \& so strong was the erroneous fancy that it showed me this lady lying dead, \& I thought that ladies dressed her, her head, namely, with a white veil; And I thought her face had such an aspect of humility, that it seemed to me that it said, “I am to see the beginning of peace.” In this imagination I felt such humility from beholding her, that I called Death, \& said, “Sweetest Death, come to me, and be not rough with me, since thou oughtest to be gentle, seeing where thou hast been. Now come to me who desire thee much. Thou seest that I already wear thy complexion. And when I had seen fulfilled all the doleful mysteries which are used towards the bodies of the dead, I thought I returned to my chamber, \& here I looked towards Heaven, \& so strong was my fancy, that weeping I began to say with true voice, “Oh beautiful soul, how happy is he who sees thee!” And I saying these words with dolorous sobs, and calling death that he should come to me, a young \& gentle lady who was by my bedside believing that my weeping \& my words were only for the pain of my infirmity, began to lament with fear, and other ladies who were near the chamber, having compassion of me who wept, \& of the lamentation which they saw this lady make, causing her to depart from me, (she who was my nearest blood-relation,) they came towards me to wake me, believing that I was dreaming, \& they bade me sleep no more, \& not to disorder myself, \& on their thus speaking to me the strong fantasy ceased at the moment when I would say, “O Beatrice! blessed mayest thou be!”, and I had already said, “O Beatrice!” And recovering myself, I opened my eyes \& saw that I was deceived, and as soon as I had called this name, my voice was so broken with the sob of grief, that these ladies could not understand me, (as I believe.) Add, that I waked, and was much ashamed, although through some admonition of love I turned myself from them, and when they saw me, they began to say, He appears as dead, \& to say apart, Let us devise how to comfort him. Then they said many things to comfort me, \& sometimes they inquired whereof I had had fear; Then I being somewhat reassured, and the imaginary disaster understood by me, I answered them, I will tell you what I have suffered.
\forcelinebreak Then I began from the beginning, \& told them unto the end what I had seen, suppressing the name of this most gentle one. Then afterwards, being healed of this infirmity, I proposed to speak words of this which had befallen me, since it seemed to me an amorous thing to hear, \& so I said it in this canzone.


A gentle dame \& young
\forcelinebreak Well adorned with human gentleness
\forcelinebreak Who was there where I often invoked death
\forcelinebreak Seeing my eyes full of sorrow
\forcelinebreak And hearing my vain words
\forcelinebreak Was moved with fear to tears.
\forcelinebreak And other ladies who were apprised by me
\forcelinebreak For what she lamented with me
\forcelinebreak Made her depart
\forcelinebreak And approached to make me hear
\forcelinebreak One said Do not sleep
\forcelinebreak And one said Why do you grieve
\forcelinebreak Then I left my new fancy
\forcelinebreak Invoking the name of my lady
\forcelinebreak My voice was so mournful
\forcelinebreak So broken with anguish \& tears
\forcelinebreak That I alone heard the name in my heart
\forcelinebreak And with looks of shame
\forcelinebreak That overspread my face
\forcelinebreak Love made me turn towards them
\forcelinebreak And such was my colour
\forcelinebreak As the speaking of the death of others brings.
\forcelinebreak Ah let us comfort this one
\forcelinebreak Said one to the other softly
\forcelinebreak And they said often
\forcelinebreak What seest thou that thou faintest
\forcelinebreak And when I was a little recovered
\forcelinebreak I said, Ladies I will tell it you.
\forcelinebreak While I thought on my frail life
\forcelinebreak And saw how short its term is,
\forcelinebreak Love pitied me in the heart where he dwells,
\forcelinebreak Because my soul was so sad
\forcelinebreak That sighing I said in my thought
\forcelinebreak It will befall that my lady will die.
\forcelinebreak Thence I took such dismay
\forcelinebreak That my eyes closed, being weighed down
\forcelinebreak And my spirits were so discouraged
\forcelinebreak That they went wandering each his way
\forcelinebreak Then given up to imagination
\forcelinebreak Out of knowledge, out of truth,
\forcelinebreak Faces of afflicted ladies appeared to me
\forcelinebreak Who said to me, Thou wilt die, thou wilt die,
\forcelinebreak Then I saw many vague forms
\forcelinebreak In the vain imagination in which I was
\forcelinebreak And I seemed to be I know not where
\forcelinebreak And to see ladies go dishevelled
\forcelinebreak Weeping \& lamenting
\forcelinebreak Who shot up flames of sadness
\forcelinebreak Then methought gradually
\forcelinebreak The sun was darkened \& the moon appeared
\forcelinebreak And they wept, he and she.
\forcelinebreak The birds fell flying thro the air
\forcelinebreak And the earth quaked
\forcelinebreak And a man appeared to me pale \& faint
\forcelinebreak Saying What dost thou knowest thou not
\forcelinebreak Thy lady is dead who was so fair?
\forcelinebreak I lifted my eyes bathed in tears
\forcelinebreak And saw what seemed a shower of manna
\forcelinebreak Angels who returned up into heaven
\forcelinebreak And they bore a little cloud before them
\forcelinebreak After which they cried Hosanna
\forcelinebreak And if they had said more I would tell you
\forcelinebreak Then said Love I hide it from you no more
\forcelinebreak Come \& see thy lady who lies dead.
\forcelinebreak The fallacious imagination
\forcelinebreak Led me to see my dead lady
\forcelinebreak And when I had seen her
\forcelinebreak Methought ladies covered her with a veil
\forcelinebreak And she bore in her looks true lowliness
\forcelinebreak Which seemed to say I am in peace.
\forcelinebreak I became in grief so humble
\forcelinebreak Seeing in her such finished humility
\forcelinebreak That I said Death I hold thee very gentle
\forcelinebreak Thou shouldst ever be a delicate thing
\forcelinebreak Since thou dwellest in my lady
\forcelinebreak And thou oughtest to have pity \& not disdain.
\forcelinebreak See I come to thee with such desire
\forcelinebreak To be of thine that I resemble thee in faith
\forcelinebreak Come since the heart seeks thee
\forcelinebreak Then I departed every grief being fulfilled
\forcelinebreak And when I was alone
\forcelinebreak I said looking towards the other kingdom
\forcelinebreak Blessed, o beautiful soul, is whoever sees thee.
\forcelinebreak Ladies, you called me then, I thank you.


XXIV


After this vain imagination, it happened one day that I sitting thoughtful in some place, felt a quaking commence in my heart as if I had been in the presence of this lady, then I say that there came to me an imagination of Love, who appeared to come from that place where my lady stood, \& I thought that he said in my heart, “See thou bless the day when I took thee, since thou oughtest to do it,” and certainly my heart seemed so glad that it did not appear to me to be my heart, through its new condition; and a little after, these words which my heart said to me with the tongue of love, I saw come towards me a gentle lady who was of famous beauty, and was long since the wife of my first friend (Guido Cavalcanti). The name of this lady was Giovanna, save that through her beauty, as some believe, the name of Primavera (The Spring) was bestowed on her, \& so was she called.


And looking near her, I saw come the wonderful Beatrice. These ladies came near me, one after the other, and I thought that Love spoke in my heart \& said, “This first one is named Primavera, only for this coming of today, since I moved the bestower of her name to call her also Primavera, because prima verra (she shall first see) the day when Beatrice shall show herself according to the imagination of her faithful servant; and if I also wish to consider her name to signify that she is what (the Spring) Primavera is.” And then I thought that I said other words to myself, that “whoever wishes to consider subtilly this Beatrice, would call her Love, through the strong resemblance which she has to me,” whereupon I afterwards musing, proposed to write in rhyme to my first friend, suppressing certain words which it seemed fit to omit, I thinking that also his heart would admire the beauty of that gentle primavera (spring), and I said this sonnet;


I felt awaken within my heart
\forcelinebreak An amorous spirit which slept,
\forcelinebreak Then saw! Love come from far
\forcelinebreak So cheerful that hardly I knew him
\forcelinebreak Saying, Bethink thee to do me honour;
\forcelinebreak And at each word, he smiled;
\forcelinebreak And my lord remaining with me a little while,
\forcelinebreak I looking in that quarter whence he came,
\forcelinebreak Saw Mona Vanna and Mona Bice
\forcelinebreak Come towards that place where I was,
\forcelinebreak The one marvel after the other;
\forcelinebreak It is as if my mind said to me again,
\forcelinebreak Love said to me, This is Primavera,
\forcelinebreak And this is called Love, who so resembles me.


XXV


Could any person capable of clearing up these things, here doubt of that which I say of Love, as if it were a thing by itself, \& not only an intelligent substance, but as if it were a corporeal substance, which in reality is false, since Love is not by itself as a substance but is an accident in a substance, and as I may say of it, as if he were a body, nay, as if he were a man, appears from three things which I say of him. I say that I saw him come; and to come imports locomotion, and, according to the philosopher, body alone can be locomotive. If it appear that I rank Love as a body, I say also of it, that he laughs, \& that he speaks, which things seem to be proper to man, especially laughter, \& therefore it seems I make him a man. To clear this matter, as far as the present necessity requires, we must first understand, that anciently there were no speakers of Love in the vernacular tongue, on the contrary, the speakers of love were certain poets in the Latin tongue, (among us, I say) that happened which happened in other nations, and still happens, that as in Greece not vernacular but lettered poets handled these things, and not many years have passed since those vernacular poets appeared who speak rhyme in the vernacular; so much is to be said of verses in Latin (if with any adequateness \& mark) that there is too little time; and if we wish to regard the Occitan dialect (Langue d’Oc) or the Northern French (Langue d’Oui) we do not find these things before the present time, for five hundred years.
\forcelinebreak And the reason why some conspicuous persons had the fame of knowledge \& poetry is that they were the first (writers) in the Northern French (Langue d’Oui). And the first who began to speak as a vernacular poet, did so, because he wished to make his mistress understand his words, to whom latin verses were not intelligible. And this is against those who rhyme on other than amatory subjects, because that mode of speaking was first used to speak of Love. Therefore, since to poets may be conceded a greater license of speech than to prose speakers, and these speakers in rhyme are nothing else than vernacular poets, it is fit \& reasonable that they should be indulged in a greater liberty of speech than other vernacular speakers. Therefore if any figure or rhetorical trope is conceded to poets, it is conceded to the rhymers. If then we find that the poets have addressed inanimate things as if they had sense or reason, \& have made them speak together \& not only things true, but things not true, that is, have spoken of things which cannot speak, \& have said that many accidents speak, as if they were substances \& men, it is fit that the speaker in rhyme should do the like, not indeed without reason, but with reason, which might be expressed in prose. That the poets have spoken in this manner appears by Virgil, who says that Juno, that is, a goddess unfriendly to the Trojans, spoke to Æolus, lord of the winds, as in the first of the Æneid; Æole namque tibi, \&c and that this lord replied;


Tuus, o regina, quid optes
\forcelinebreak Explorare labor; mihi jussa capessere fas est


In the same poet, an inanimate thing speaks to animated things, in the Second of the Æneid;


Dardanidae duri In Lucan, an animated thing speaks to an inanimate;
\forcelinebreak Multum Roma tamen debes civilibus armis.


In Horace, a man speaks to his own knowledge as to another person, and not only are the words those of Horace, but he speaks them as out of the midst of Homer in his Ars Pôetica;


Dic mihi Musa virum.


In Ovid, Love speaks as if it were a human person, in the beginning of the book called The Remedy of Love;


Bella mihi video, bella parantur, ait.


And hence it is manifest to whosoever hesitates at any part of this my little book, \& provided that some coarse person do not take a license from it, I say that neither the poets speak thus without reason, nor ought the rhymers to speak thus not having some reason in them of that which they say. Since great shame would accrue to him who should rhyme things under the guise of a trope or rhetorical figure, \&, being interrogated, should not know how to strip his words of such a garment in a guise that they should have a true meaning. And this my first friend \& I knew very well those persons who rhymed so absurdly.


XXVI


That most gentle lady of whom we have discoursed in the preceding words, came into so great grace of the people, that when she passed through the street persons ran to see her, whence a miserable joy came to me, and when she was near any one, so much honour came into that person’s heart, that he dared not lift up his eyes nor reply to her salute. And of this, many as witnesses could testify to what was incredible.


She, crowned \& clothed in humility, went showing no glorying in that which she saw or heard. Many said, when she had passed, “This is not a woman, but is like one of the most beautiful angels of heaven.” Others said; “This is a wonder, \& blessed be the Lord who knows how to work so wonderfully.” I say that she showed herself so gentle \& so full of charms, that those who saw her felt in themselves an excellent beauty and so sweet that they did not know how to express nor was there any one who could look at her who at first without sighs. These \& more wonderful things proceeded from her well \& virtuously. Wherefore I thinking thus wishing to take up again the pen in her praise, proposed to speak words in which I should give to understand her wonderful \& excellent works to the end that not only such as could see her with eyes, but also others might know of her what I could make known by words \& then I said this sonnet.


So gentle \& so gracious appears
\forcelinebreak My Lady when she salutes others,
\forcelinebreak That every tongue trembling becomes mute,
\forcelinebreak And the eyes dare not behold her.
\forcelinebreak She goes on hearing herself praised
\forcelinebreak Benignly clothed with humility
\forcelinebreak And it seems that she is something descended
\forcelinebreak From heaven to show a miracle in earth.
\forcelinebreak She shows herself pleasing to whoso beholds her
\forcelinebreak That she sends through his eyes a sweetness to the heart
\forcelinebreak Which none can apprehend who does not taste it;
\forcelinebreak And it seems that from her lips proceeds
\forcelinebreak A soft spirit, full of Love,
\forcelinebreak Which goes to the soul, saying, Sigh.


I say that this my lady came into such grace that not only was she honoured \& praised, but through her were many honoured \& praised. And I seeing that, \& wishing to make it known to such as saw it not, proposed also to speak words in which this should be signified, \& then I said this sonnet.


He sees perfectly all wellbeing
\forcelinebreak Who sees my lady among ladies
\forcelinebreak Those who go with her are holden
\forcelinebreak To render thanks to God for her beautiful grace.
\forcelinebreak And her beauty is of such virtue
\forcelinebreak That no envy proceeds from it to others
\forcelinebreak Rather it makes them go with her clothed
\forcelinebreak With the gentleness of love \& of faith
\forcelinebreak The sight of her makes everything humble
\forcelinebreak And does not make her alone pleasing
\forcelinebreak But each through her receives honour
\forcelinebreak And in her acts she is so gentle
\forcelinebreak That no one can recall her to mind
\forcelinebreak Without sighing in the sweetness of Love.


XXVII


After this I begun to think one day on what I had said of my lady in the two preceding sonnets, \& considering that I had not spoken of that which in the present dme wrought in me it seemed to me that I had spoken the truth defectively, \& therefore I proposed to add words in which I should say how her virtue wrought in me \& not thinking that this could be told in the shortness of a sonnet I begun this canzone.


So long has Love held me
\forcelinebreak And trained me to his lordship
\forcelinebreak That as it was strong in me at first
\forcelinebreak So now it remains sweet at my heart,
\forcelinebreak Therefore when his courage so seizes me,
\forcelinebreak That it seems the spirits flee away,
\forcelinebreak Then my frail soul feels
\forcelinebreak Such sweetness that my face grows pale.
\forcelinebreak Then Love in me takes so much virtue
\forcelinebreak That he makes my spirits go speaking
\forcelinebreak And they issue forth calling
\forcelinebreak My lady to give me more favor;
\forcelinebreak This happens wherever she sees me,
\forcelinebreak And so humble is she that you would not believe it.


XXVIII


How is the populous city become solitary and she is a widow who was queen of nations. I was still in the preparation of this canzone \& had completed this stanza abovewritten when the Lord of justice called this most gentle one to glorify, under the sign of the Queen, the Blessed Mary, Himself, whose name was always in the utmost reverence in the words of this Beatrice. And although it might be grateful here to say somewhat of her departure from us, it is not my design to treat it here for three reasons; first, that such is not the present argument if we will respect the proem which precedes this book. Secondly that even if it were within our present design yet my tongue would not be sufficient to treat that as it ought to be treated; Thirdly, that supposing both the first \& the second, it is not fit that I should treat of that which being treated would require that I should be a praiser of myself, which thing is entirely blameable in whatsoever person.


And therefore I leave such a discourse to another commentator. Nevertheless since several times the number nine has occurred in the foregoing words, whence it seems that it was not without reason \& in her departure that number seems to have had much reason, it may behove us here to say something as far as belongs to the subject. Wherefore I will say first how it had place in her departure \& then will assign some reason why this number was so friendly to her.


XXIX


I say that her soul departed, (according to the time-measure of Italy) in the first hour of the ninth day of the month: and according to the measure of Syria she departed in the ninth month of the year since the first month there is Tismin which with us is October, \& according to our measure, she departed in that year of our era (that is, in that year of the Lord,) in which the perfect number was completed nine times in that century of the world in which she was placed, and she was of the thirteenth century of Christians. And this may be one reason of it. Since according to Ptolemy, \& according to the Christian truth there be nine heavens which revolve, and according to the faith of Astrology these heavens are operative here below according to their united habitude, this number was friendly to her, to give to understand that in her nativity all the nine moveable heavens went perfectly together; this is one reason of that. But more subtilly thinking, according to the ineffable truth, this number was herself, I speak by similitude, \& that I mean thus.


The number three is the root of nine since, without any number, multiplied by itself it makes nine as we see plainly that three times three make nine. Then if three by itself is the factor of nine, and the (factor or) maker of miracles is three, that is, Father, Son, \& Holy Spirit which are three \& one. This lady was accompanied by this number of nine, to give to understand, that she was a nine, that is a miracle, whose root that is of the miracle, is only that wonderful Trinity. Perhaps also by a more subtle person this would appear in more subtle reason; but this is what I see, \& what pleases me more.


XXX


After this most gentle lady had departed from this world this city remained as it were a widow \& despoiled of all dignity. Wherefor I also lamenting in this desolate city wrote to the princes of the land somewhat of her estate. And if any one should blame me that I do not here set down the words which follow what I here quote, I excuse myself because my design was not from the beginning to write otherwise than for the people. Therefore since the words which follow those which are quoted, are all latin, it would be out of my design, if I wrote them and the like intention I know that this my first friend had, to whom I write, this is, since I wrote to him only in the vernacular.


XXXI


After my eyes had for some time wept \& were so wearied that I could not relieve my sadness I thought of relieving it by some sad words \& then I proposed to make a canzone in which lamenting I conversed of her, my grief for whom was made the destroyer of my life, \& I begun


Eyes grieving for pity at heart
\forcelinebreak Have suffered the pain of tears
\forcelinebreak So that they remain vanquished
\forcelinebreak Now if I wish to relieve the woe
\forcelinebreak Which little by little leads me to death
\forcelinebreak It behoves me to speak
\forcelinebreak And because I remember that I spoke
\forcelinebreak Of my lady whilst she lived
\forcelinebreak Gentle ladies willingly with you
\forcelinebreak I will not speak to others
\forcelinebreak Than to a gentle heart which is a lady
\forcelinebreak And I will then say of her weeping
\forcelinebreak That suddenly she has gone to heaven
\forcelinebreak And has left Love grieving with me.
\forcelinebreak Beatrice is gone into high heaven
\forcelinebreak Into realms where the angels have peace
\forcelinebreak And stands with them \& you ladies has she left
\forcelinebreak Not there has the quality of cold rapt her
\forcelinebreak Nor that of heat, as it has rapt others,
\forcelinebreak But it was her great benignity
\forcelinebreak Which shining from her humility
\forcelinebreak Passed the heavens with so much virtue
\forcelinebreak That it made the Eternal Sire wonder
\forcelinebreak So that sweet desire
\forcelinebreak Came to him to summon so much health
\forcelinebreak And made her come to him from here below,
\forcelinebreak Because he saw that this troublesome life
\forcelinebreak Was not worthy of so gentle a being.
\forcelinebreak Parted from her beautiful person
\forcelinebreak Full of grace the gentle soul
\forcelinebreak And mounted glorious into worthy place.
\forcelinebreak Who weeps her not when he speaks of her
\forcelinebreak Has heart of stone, so wicked \& base
\forcelinebreak That a benign spirit could not enter there.
\forcelinebreak There is not in a bad heart so high genius
\forcelinebreak That can imagine anything of her,
\forcelinebreak And therefore such will not weep for her.
\forcelinebreak But sadness \& sobs of grief
\forcelinebreak And a death of sorrow
\forcelinebreak And a life despoiled of all solace
\forcelinebreak Comes to such as at any time saw in thought
\forcelinebreak What she was, and how she is taken.
\forcelinebreak My sighs give me deep anguish
\forcelinebreak When thought in the deep mind
\forcelinebreak Brings to me that which has cut my heart.
\forcelinebreak And often thinking on death
\forcelinebreak Comes to me a desire of it so sweet
\forcelinebreak That it changes the color of my face
\forcelinebreak When the thought of her becomes fixed
\forcelinebreak Pain attacks me from every side
\forcelinebreak That I recover myself through the pain I feel
\forcelinebreak And I become such
\forcelinebreak That shame drives me from the company.
\forcelinebreak Then weeping alone in my sorrow
\forcelinebreak I call Beatrice \& I say Art thou too dead
\forcelinebreak And whilst I call her I am consoled
\forcelinebreak With weeping \& with sighing
\forcelinebreak My heart pines away wherever I am,
\forcelinebreak So that it wearies whoever sees it
\forcelinebreak And what has been my life since
\forcelinebreak My lady went into the new world
\forcelinebreak No tongue can tell
\forcelinebreak And yet, o my Ladies, though I should desire it,
\forcelinebreak I should not know how to tell you what I am
\forcelinebreak Bitter life has so afflicted me
\forcelinebreak And it is so injured
\forcelinebreak That every man seems to say to me, I abandon you
\forcelinebreak Seeing my fainting
\forcelinebreak But be it as it may, my lady sees it,
\forcelinebreak And I hope yet a reward from her
\forcelinebreak My pious canzone now go lamenting
\forcelinebreak And find the dames \& the damsels
\forcelinebreak Unto whom thy sisters
\forcelinebreak Were wont to carry joy
\forcelinebreak And thou who art a daughter of sorrow
\forcelinebreak Go disconsolate \& stand with them
\forcelinebreak Sad that Beatrice more beautiful than all
\forcelinebreak Is gone to the feet of the Lord
\forcelinebreak And has left Love with me lamenting.


XXXII


After this canzone was said, one came to me who in the degrees of friendship is friendly to me, next to the first, and this one was so near in blood to that beautiful person that none was more near than he. And when he conversed with me he prayed me that I would say to him some thing for a lady who was dead and he feigned his words so that it appeared that he spoke of another who was certainly dead, therefore I becoming sensible that this one spoke only of that blessed soul, said that I would do that which he had entreated of me. Therefore then thinking I proposed to make a sonnet in which I bewailed myself \& to give it to this friend so that it appeared that I had made it for him, and thus it was;


O gentle hearts, whom pity desires,
\forcelinebreak Come to hear my sighs,
\forcelinebreak Which disconsolate go their way;
\forcelinebreak And but for them I should die with grief,
\forcelinebreak Because my eyes would be worse than I could bear,
\forcelinebreak Weary of weeping so much for my lady,
\forcelinebreak That they would choak the heart by lamenting.
\forcelinebreak You shall hear them often call
\forcelinebreak My gentle lady who is gone away
\forcelinebreak To the world worthy of her virtue,
\forcelinebreak And despise now this life
\forcelinebreak In the person of the mourning soul
\forcelinebreak Abandoned by her welfare.


XXXIII


After I had spoken this sonnet thinking that this was for him who designed to ask it, as if it were made by him I saw that this service appeared to me poor \& naked for a person so near to this beloved one. And therefore before I gave him the abovewritten sonnet, I said two stanzas of a canzone, the one indeed for him, \& the other for me. And though to one who should not read attentively it might seem that both of them were spoken by one person, yet whoever looks at them attentively will see that different persons, that one does not call his lady and the other does as plainly appears. This canzone \& the abovewritten sonnet I gave to him, saying to him that I had made it for him alone. The canzone begins


How often alas, I remember.


In the first stanza, this my friend and near kinsman of hers, laments himself. In the second, I lament; that is, in the other stanza, which begins,


There is heard in my sighs,


And thus it appears that in this canzone two persons deplore, one complaining as a brother the other as a lover.


How often alas I remember
\forcelinebreak That I may never more
\forcelinebreak Behold the Lady, therefore I go sorrowing thus;
\forcelinebreak My woeworn mind
\forcelinebreak Concentrates so much grief within the heart
\forcelinebreak That I say, My Soul, why dost thou not depart
\forcelinebreak Since the torments which thou shalt carry
\forcelinebreak In the world which is already so troublesome to you
\forcelinebreak Make me pensive with much fear
\forcelinebreak Wherefore, I call on Death
\forcelinebreak As gentle, \& my sweet repose
\forcelinebreak And I say, Come to me, with such love,
\forcelinebreak That I am envious of such as die.


There is heard in my sighs
\forcelinebreak An undertone of pity
\forcelinebreak Which calls on Death continually
\forcelinebreak To it turn all my desires
\forcelinebreak Since my Lady
\forcelinebreak Was reached by his cruelty.
\forcelinebreak Because the pleasure of her beauty
\forcelinebreak Withdrawing itself from our view
\forcelinebreak Becomes spiritual beauty \& grand
\forcelinebreak Which through the heaven expands,
\forcelinebreak The light of Love, which greets the Angels;
\forcelinebreak And makes their high \& subtle intellect
\forcelinebreak Wonder, so gentle it is.


XXXIV


On that day on which the year was completed in which this lady was made one of the citizens of the Eternal Life I sat in a place, where, recollecting myself, I drew an angel on certain tablets, and while I was drawing, I turned my eyes and saw beside me men to whom it behoved that I should do reverence and they saw what I did and according to what was then told me, they had been there for some while, before I had been aware of them. When I saw them, I rose, \& saluting them I said, “I was just now in another place, \& I was thinking of that.” Then these departing and I returning to my work, that is, of drawing, whilst I wrought, the thought came to me of saying words in rhyme as for an Anniversary piece to her, and to write it to them who came to me; \& I said then this sonnet which has two beginnings; one is;


Into my thought had come
\forcelinebreak The gentle Lady who for virtue
\forcelinebreak Was by the most high Lord
\forcelinebreak Placed in the heaven of humility, where is Mary,
\forcelinebreak \&c \&c


The second is;


Into my thought had come
\forcelinebreak That gentle lady whom Love mourns
\forcelinebreak To that degree that her virtue
\forcelinebreak Would draw you to see what I do.
\forcelinebreak Love who in the mind feels her,
\forcelinebreak Was waked in the dissolved heart,
\forcelinebreak And said to my sighs, Go forth
\forcelinebreak For each may go lamenting.
\forcelinebreak Forth issued they from my breast
\forcelinebreak With a voice which often leads
\forcelinebreak Sad tears to my sad eyes
\forcelinebreak But those which go not forth, with greater pain
\forcelinebreak Come saying, O noble mind!
\forcelinebreak Today the year is complete, since thou didst mount to heaven.


XXXV


Then for some time although I was in a place in which I remembered the time past, I remained very thoughtful, \& with painful thoughts so that they made me appear abroad a spectacle of fright. Therefore I becoming sensible of my state, lifted my eyes to see if others saw me. Then I saw that a gentle lady from a window looked at me so piteously that all pity appeared collected in her. Therefore because when the wretched see in others pity for them so much the more they lament as having pity of themselves, I then perceived my eyes begin to wish to weep \& yet fearing to exhibit my vile life I withdrew myself from the eyes of that gentle person \& said to myself “It cannot be that with this pious lady there should not be very noble love” then I proposed to say a sonnet in which I should speak to her, \& I comprised in it all which is narrated in this account, and I began.


My eyes beheld how much compassion
\forcelinebreak Appeared in your figure
\forcelinebreak When you saw the deeds \& the form
\forcelinebreak Which from grief I many times showed
\forcelinebreak Then was I aware that you contemplated
\forcelinebreak The quality of my dark life
\forcelinebreak So that the fear entered my heart
\forcelinebreak Of showing my vileness in your eyes
\forcelinebreak And I took myself from before you, feeling
\forcelinebreak That the tears started from my heart
\forcelinebreak Which were moved by sight of you
\forcelinebreak Then I said in my sad soul
\forcelinebreak Blessed is in that lady the love
\forcelinebreak Which makes me weep thus.


XXXVI


It afterwards happened that whenever this lady saw me she made a piteous face \& of a pale colour, as it were, like that of love. Therefore I often was reminded of my most noble lady who always showed a similar colour, \& truly many times not being able to weep nor to relieve my sadness I went to see this compassionate lady, who seemed to have drawn tears out of my eyes by the sight of her, \& then there came to me the will to say words also, speaking to her, \& I said this sonnet.


Colour of Love and semblances of pity
\forcelinebreak Have never taken so wonderfully
\forcelinebreak The face of the lady


XXXVII


I came so far through the sight of this lady that my eyes begun to delight too much to see her, wherefore often I tormented myself in my heart \& held myself for very vile, \& many times I blasphemed the vanity of my eyes \& said to them in my thought; Now I have accustomed you to cause to weep whosoever saw your sad condition, \& now it appears that you wish to belie it for this lady who looked at you but who would not have looked at you, had not the thought so much weighed on her of the glorious lady whom you were wont to lament. But inasmuch as you can, cause that I remind you of her, O evil eyes! that never until after death your tears shall be restrained. And when I had thus spoken, myself to my eyes, \& the largest sighs assailed me, and painfullest, — to the end that this battle which I had with myself should not remain only by the wretch who felt it I proposed to make a sonnet, \& to comprise in it this horrible condition, \& I said thus;


The bitter tears which ye shed
\forcelinebreak O mine eyes for so long time
\forcelinebreak Made others wonder
\forcelinebreak With pity as ye see
\forcelinebreak Now methinks ye would forget it
\forcelinebreak If I, on my part, were such a felon
\forcelinebreak That I did not disturb you with every reason
\forcelinebreak Reminding you of her whom ye lamented
\forcelinebreak Your vanity makes me think
\forcelinebreak And alarms me so that I vehemently fear
\forcelinebreak The sight of the lady who beholds you;
\forcelinebreak Ye should never until death
\forcelinebreak Forget our lady who is dead;
\forcelinebreak So says my heart, \& then sigheth.


XXXVIII


I recovered then the sight of this lady in so new condition that many times I thought of her as of a person who pleased me too much \& I thought of her thus; This is a gentle fair young \& wise lady, who has appeared perhaps through the will of love in order that my life might repose \& many times I thought more amorously, so that the heart consented in it that is, in its reasoning \& when I had consented so, I reconsidered it as moved by reason, \& I said to myself; Ah! what thought is this, that in so vile mode would console me, \& not let me think otherwise? Then arose another thought \& I said to myself — Now thou hast been in so much tribulation, why wilt thou not withdraw thyself from so much bitterness? Thou seest that this is one breathing which may bring the desires of love forward \& is moved by so gentle a party as that of the eyes of this lady who has shown herself so pitying. Wherefore I having often thus contended with my self yet would not say any words, \& because the battle of thoughts conquered those who spoke for her, methought it behoved me to speak to her \& I said this sonnet, which begins;


Gentle thought which speaks of you
\forcelinebreak Comes often to stay with me
\forcelinebreak And talks of love so softly
\forcelinebreak That it makes the heart consent to him
\forcelinebreak The soul says to the Heart, Who is this
\forcelinebreak Who comes to console our mind?
\forcelinebreak And is its virtue so strong
\forcelinebreak That it will suffer no other thought to abide?
\forcelinebreak He answered her; O thoughtful soul
\forcelinebreak This is a new little-spirit of love
\forcelinebreak Which brings its desires forth to me
\forcelinebreak And its life \& all its strength
\forcelinebreak Is moved by the eyes of this pitying one
\forcelinebreak Who so concerned herself in our sufferings.


And I call that gentle, inasmuch as it speaks of a gentle lady, which, on other grounds, was most vile. I make in this sonnet parties of myself, according as my thoughts were divided in two; the one party I call Heart, that is, appetite; the other I call Soul, that is, reason; and I speak as one speaks to the other. And that it is fit to call the appetite Heart, \& the reason, Soul, is very manifest to those to whom I am pleased that this should appear. It is true that in the preceding sonnet I make the party of the Heart counter to that of the Eyes and this appears contrary to that which I say in the present and therefore I say that there also I design the Heart for the appetite since I had a greater desire to remember that most gentle
\forcelinebreak Lady of mine than to behold this one. Though I had some appetite for this yet it appeared to me slight. Thus it appears that one saying is not contrary to the other.


XXXIX


Against this adversary of the reason arose, one day, as it were in the ninth hour a strong imagination in me that I thought I saw this only Beatrice in those bloodred garments in which she first appeared to my eyes and she seemed youthfill, of the same age as when I first beheld her. Then I began to think of her \& recollecting her in the order of the past time my heart began to repent itself bitterly of the desire to which it had been so basely abandoned for some days, contrary to the constancy of reason. And this mischievous desire being driven out my thoughts turned themselves all to their most gentle Beatrice \& I say, that, from that hour forward I began to think so, with all my heart ashamed, that the spirits manifested this many times because as it were all said in their outgoing that which was thought in the heart, namely, the honour of this most gentle one \& how she had parted from us. And it often happened that some thought had in it so much grief that I forgot it and there where I was by this rekindling of sighs my intermitted weeping was renewed in a manner that my eyes appeared to be two things which desired only to weep \& it often happened that through the long continuing of the weeping a purple colour came out around them which was wont to appear for some witness to others, whence it seemed that they were fitly punished for their vanity. So that thenceforward they could not look at any person who looked at them in a manner to draw them to an understanding. Wherefore I willing that such wicked desire \& vain temptation should appear destroyed, so that the rhymed words which I had before said could not breed any doubt proposed to make a sonnet, in which I should comprise the sense of this state of mind \& I said


Alas, through the force of many sighs
\forcelinebreak Which proceed from the thoughts which are in the heart
\forcelinebreak The eyes are conquered \& have no strength
\forcelinebreak To look at the person who looks at them.
\forcelinebreak And they are come to that, that they seem two desires
\forcelinebreak Of weeping \& of showing grief.
\forcelinebreak And often they so lament, that Love
\forcelinebreak Encircles them with a crown of martyrs.
\forcelinebreak These thoughts \& the sighs which I cast out
\forcelinebreak Become within the heart so bitter
\forcelinebreak That Love there faints and so suffers
\forcelinebreak Because they have in these dolorous (eyes)
\forcelinebreak Written the sweet name of My Lady,
\forcelinebreak And many words, of her death.
\forcelinebreak I said, Alas! so much was I ashamed that my eyes had been thus frivolous.


XL


After this tribulation it happened at that time that many people came to see that Blessed image which Jesus Christ left to us, for the example of his most beautiful figure, my Lady gloriously beholds, that some pilgrims passed by a road which is as it were the midst of the city where was born, lived, \& died the most gentle Lady, and they went (as it appeared to me) very thoughtful. Then I, thinking on them, said to myself, These pilgrims appear to me to come from distant parts, \& — I do not believe that they have even heard speak of this lady, \& they know nothing of her; rather their thoughts are of other things, than of those here; they perhaps are thinking of their distant friends, whom we do not know. Then I said to myself I know that if they were of the neighboring country, they would appear in some sort disturbed passing through the midst of this painful city. Then I said to myself, If I could detain them a little I would make them weep before they go forth of this city, because I would speak words which should cause to weep whoever heard them. Then these having passed out of my sight, I proposed to make a sonnet in which I should signify that which I had said to myself \& to the end that it should appear more piteous I proposed to speak as if I had addressed them, \& I said this sonnet;


Ah Pilgrims who go thoughtful
\forcelinebreak On things perhaps which are not here present,
\forcelinebreak Come ye from so distant a tribe
\forcelinebreak As ye show in your aspect
\forcelinebreak That ye do not weep as ye pass
\forcelinebreak Through the midst of the mourning city,
\forcelinebreak As those persons who seem
\forcelinebreak To know nothing of its woe.
\forcelinebreak If you will stay \& hear it
\forcelinebreak Verily my heart with sighs tells me
\forcelinebreak That ye shall go forth of it with tears
\forcelinebreak It has lost its Beatrice;
\forcelinebreak And the words which man can say of her
\forcelinebreak Have power to make others weep.


I said Pilgrims, in the large sense of the word as pilgrims may be understood in two senses in a liberal \& a strict one, in the one, inasmuch as whosoever goes out of his country is a pilgrim; in the other, one is not a pilgrim unless he goes towards the house of St James, or returns. There are moreover three modes in which those people are properly distinguished who travel in the service of the Most High. They are called
\forcelinebreak Palmers who go beyond sea, whence they often fetch home palms. They are called Pilgrims as many as go to the house of Galizia because the sepulchre of St James was farther from his country than of any other apostle. They are called Romans (Romei) as many as go to Rome, thither, where these whom I call Pilgrims were going.


XLI


Then two gentle ladies sent to me praying me that I would send them some of these my rhymed words; and I considering their nobility, proposed to send them these, and to make something new which I might send them with these, so that I might more honorably fulfil their requests; and I then said a sonnet which tells of my state, \& sent it to them in company with the preceding, \& with another which begins, Come to hear See. The sonnet which I then made, is;


Beyond the hope which goes largest
\forcelinebreak Passes the sigh which comes from my heart,
\forcelinebreak New tidings, that Love weeping placed in it, then draws up again;
\forcelinebreak When he is come there where he would be,
\forcelinebreak He sees a lady who receives honour,
\forcelinebreak And shines so that by her splendour
\forcelinebreak The pilgrim soul beholds her;
\forcelinebreak Sees her such that when he tells me,
\forcelinebreak I understand him not; so subtilly he speaks
\forcelinebreak To the mourning heart that he makes it speak.
\forcelinebreak I know that he speaks of that gentle one,
\forcelinebreak Because often he mentions Beatrice,
\forcelinebreak So that I understand him well, o Ladies dear!


XLII


After this sonnet, appeared to me a wonderful vision, in which I saw things which made me determine to say no more of this Blessed one, until I could more worthily discourse of her; and to come at that, I study to the utmost, as she verily knows. So that, if it shall be the pleasure of Him to whom all things live, that my life should continue for some years, I hope to say of her that which was never said of any one; and then may it please him who is the Lord of courtesy, that my soul, if it be possible, may go to see the glory of Him who is blessed through all ages.


The End of Dante’s New Life.


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\section{Sonnet of Michel Angelo Buonarotti}


Never did sculptor’s dream unfold
\forcelinebreak A form which marble doth not hold
\forcelinebreak In its white block; yet it therein shall find
\forcelinebreak Only the hand secure and bold
\forcelinebreak Which still obeys the mind.
\forcelinebreak So hide in thee, thou heavenly dame,
\forcelinebreak The ill I shun, the good I claim;
\forcelinebreak I alas! not well alive,
\forcelinebreak Miss the aim whereto I strive.
\forcelinebreak Not love, nor beauty’s pride,
\forcelinebreak Nor Fortune, nor thy coldness, can I chide,
\forcelinebreak If, whilst within thy heart abide
\forcelinebreak Both death and pity, my unequal skill
\forcelinebreak Fails of the life, but draws the death and ill.


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\section{The Exile From the Persian of Kermani}


In Farsistan the violet spreads
\forcelinebreak Its leaves to the rival sky;
\forcelinebreak I ask how far is the Tigris flood,
\forcelinebreak And the vine that grows thereby?


Except the amber morning wind,
\forcelinebreak Not one salutes me here;
\forcelinebreak There is no lover in all Bagdat
\forcelinebreak To offer the exile cheer.


I know that thou, O morning wind!
\forcelinebreak O’er Kernan’s meadow blowest,
\forcelinebreak And thou, heart-warming nightingale!
\forcelinebreak My father’s orchard knowest.


The merchant hath stuffs of price,
\forcelinebreak And gems from the sea-washed strand,
\forcelinebreak And princes offer me grace
\forcelinebreak To stay in the Syrian land;


But what is gold for, but for gifts?
\forcelinebreak And dark, without love, is the day;
\forcelinebreak And all that I see in Bagdat
\forcelinebreak Is the Tigris to float me away.


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\section{From Hafiz}


I said to heaven that glowed above,
\forcelinebreak O hide yon sun-filled zone,
\forcelinebreak Hide all the stars you boast;
\forcelinebreak For, in the world of love
\forcelinebreak And estimation true,
\forcelinebreak The heaped-up harvest of the moon
\forcelinebreak Is worth one barley-corn at most,
\forcelinebreak The Pleiads’ sheaf but two.


If my darling should depart,
\forcelinebreak And search the skies for prouder friends,
\forcelinebreak God forbid my angry heart
\forcelinebreak In other love should seek amends.


When the blue horizon’s hoop
\forcelinebreak Me a little pinches here,
\forcelinebreak Instant to my grave I stoop,
\forcelinebreak And go find thee in the sphere.


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\section{Epitaph}


Bethink, poor heart, what bitter kind of jest
\forcelinebreak Mad Destiny this tender stripling played;
\forcelinebreak For a warm breast of maiden to his breast,
\forcelinebreak She laid a slab of marble on his head.


They say, through patience, chalk
\forcelinebreak Becomes a ruby stone;
\forcelinebreak Ah, yes! but by the true heart’s blood
\forcelinebreak The chalk is crimson grown.


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\section{Friendship}


Thou foolish Hafiz! Say, do churls
\forcelinebreak Know the worth of Oman’s pearls?
\forcelinebreak Give the gem which dims the moon
\forcelinebreak To the noblest, or to none.


Dearest, where thy shadow falls,
\forcelinebreak Beauty sits and Music calls;
\forcelinebreak Where thy form and favor come,
\forcelinebreak All good creatures have their home.


On prince or bride no diamond stone
\forcelinebreak Half so gracious ever shone,
\forcelinebreak As the light of enterprise
\forcelinebreak Beaming from a young man’s eyes.


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\section{From Omar Khayyam}


Each spot where tulips prank their state
\forcelinebreak Has drunk the life-blood of the great;
\forcelinebreak The violets yon field which stain
\forcelinebreak Are moles of beauties Time hath slain.


Unbar the door, since thou the Opener art,
\forcelinebreak Show me the forward way, since thou art guide,
\forcelinebreak I put no faith in pilot or in chart,
\forcelinebreak Since they are transient, and thou dost abide.


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\section{From Ali Ben Abu Taleb}


He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
\forcelinebreak And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.


On two days it steads not to run from thy grave,
\forcelinebreak The appointed, and the unappointed day;
\forcelinebreak On the first, neither balm nor physician can save,
\forcelinebreak Nor thee, on the second, the Universe slay.


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\section{From Ibn Jemin}


Two things thou shalt not long for, if thou love a mind serene; —
\forcelinebreak A woman to thy wife, though she were a crowned queen;
\forcelinebreak And the second, borrowed money, — though the smiling lender say
\forcelinebreak That he will not demand the debt until the Judgment Day.


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\section{The Flute From Hilali}


Hark, what, now loud, now low, the pining flute complains,
\forcelinebreak Without tongue, yellow-cheeked, full of winds that wail and sigh;
\forcelinebreak Saying, Sweetheart! the old mystery remains, —
\forcelinebreak If I am I; thou, thou; or thou art I?


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\section{To the Shah From Hafiz}


Thy foes to hunt, thy enviers to strike down,
\forcelinebreak Poises Arcturus aloft morning and evening his spear.


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\section{To the Shah From Enweri}


Not in their houses stand the stars,
\forcelinebreak But o’er the pinnacles of thine!


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\section{To the Shah From Enweri}


From thy worth and weight the stars gravitate,
\forcelinebreak And the equipoise of heaven is thy house’s equipoise.


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\section{Song of Seyd Nimetollah of Kuhistan}


[Among the religious customs of the dervishes is an astronomical dance, in which the dervish imitates the movements of the heavenly bodies, by spinning on his own axis, whilst at the same time he revolves round the Sheikh in the centre, representing the sun; and, as he spins, he sings the Song of Seyd Nimetollah of Kuhistan.]


Spin the ball! I reel, I burn,
\forcelinebreak Nor head from foot can I discern,
\forcelinebreak Nor my heart from love of mine,
\forcelinebreak Nor the wine-cup from the wine.
\forcelinebreak All my doing, all my leaving,
\forcelinebreak Reaches not to my perceiving;
\forcelinebreak Lost in whirling spheres I rove,
\forcelinebreak And know only that I love.


I am seeker of the stone,
\forcelinebreak Living gem of Solomon;
\forcelinebreak From the shore of souls arrived,
\forcelinebreak In the sea of sense I dived;
\forcelinebreak But what is land, or what is wave,
\forcelinebreak To me who only jewels crave?
\forcelinebreak Love is the air-fed fire intense,
\forcelinebreak And my heart the frankincense;
\forcelinebreak As the rich aloes flames, I glow,
\forcelinebreak Yet the censer cannot know.
\forcelinebreak I’m all-knowing, yet unknowing;
\forcelinebreak Stand not, pause not, in my going.


Ask not me, as Muftis can,
\forcelinebreak To recite the Alcoran;
\forcelinebreak Well I love the meaning sweet, —
\forcelinebreak I tread the book beneath my feet.


Lo! the God’s love blazes higher,
\forcelinebreak Till all difference expire.
\forcelinebreak What are Moslems? what are Giaours?
\forcelinebreak All are Love’s, and all are ours.
\forcelinebreak I embrace the true believers,
\forcelinebreak But I reck not of deceivers.
\forcelinebreak Firm to Heaven my bosom clings,
\forcelinebreak Heedless of inferior things;
\forcelinebreak Down on earth there, underfoot,
\forcelinebreak What men chatter know I not.


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\section{The Principle of All Things; Entrails Made}


The principle of all things; entrails made
\forcelinebreak Of smallest entrails; bone, of smallest bone;
\forcelinebreak Blood, of small sanguine drops reduced to one;
\forcelinebreak Gold, of small grains; earth, of small sands compacted;
\forcelinebreak Small drops to water, sparks to fire contracted:


Lucretius


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\section{The Secret That Should Not Be Blown}


The secret that should not be blown
\forcelinebreak Not one of thy nation must know;
\forcelinebreak You may padlock the gate of a town,
\forcelinebreak But never the mouth of a foe.


(Persian)


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\section{On Earth’s Wide Thoroughfares Below}


On earth’s wide thoroughfares below
\forcelinebreak Two only men contented go:
\forcelinebreak Who knows what’s right and what’s forbid,
\forcelinebreak And he from whom is knowledge hid.


Omar Khayyam


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\section{Sunshine Was He}


Sunshine was he
\forcelinebreak In the winter day;
\forcelinebreak And in the midsummer
\forcelinebreak Coolness and shade.


(Arabian)


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\section{Go Boldly Forth, and Feast on Being’s Banquet}


Go boldly forth, and feast on being’s banquet;
\forcelinebreak Thou art the called, — the rest admitted with thee.


(Arabian)


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\section{Color, Taste, and Smell, Smaragdus, Sugar, and Musk}


Color, taste, and smell, smaragdus, sugar, and musk, —
\forcelinebreak Amber for the tongue, for the eye a picture rare, —
\forcelinebreak If you cut the fruit in slices, every slice a crescent fair, —
\forcelinebreak If you leave it whole, the full harvest-moon is there.


Adsched of Meru


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\section{Loose the Knots of the Heart; Never Think on Thy Fate}


Loose the knots of the heart; never think on thy fate:
\forcelinebreak No Euclid has yet disentangled that snarl.


Hafiz


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\section{There Resides in the Grieving}


There resides in the grieving
\forcelinebreak A poison to kill;
\forcelinebreak Beware to go near them
\forcelinebreak ’Tis pestilent still.


Hafiz


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\section{I Will Be Drunk and Down With Wine}


I will be drunk and down with wine;
\forcelinebreak Treasures we find in a ruined house.


Hafiz


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\section{To Be Wise the Dull Brain So Earnestly Throbs}


To be wise the dull brain so earnestly throbs,
\forcelinebreak Bring bands of wine for the stupid head.


Hafiz


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\section{The Builder of Heaven}


The Builder of heaven
\forcelinebreak Hath sundered the earth,
\forcelinebreak So that no footway
\forcelinebreak Leads out of it forth.


On turnpikes of wonder
\forcelinebreak Wine leads the mind forth,
\forcelinebreak Straight, sidewise, and upward,
\forcelinebreak West, southward, and north.


Stands the vault adamantine
\forcelinebreak Until the Doomsday;
\forcelinebreak The wine-cup shall ferry
\forcelinebreak Thee o’er it away.


Hafiz


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\section{I Batter the Wheel of Heaven}


I batter the wheel of heaven
\forcelinebreak When it rolls not rightly by;
\forcelinebreak I am not one of the snivellers
\forcelinebreak Who fall thereon and die.


Hafiz


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\section{Tis Writ on Paradise’s Gate}


’Tis writ on Paradise’s gate,
\forcelinebreak “Wo to the dupe that yields to Fate!”


Hafiz


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\section{The World is a Bride Superbly Dressed}


The world is a bride superbly dressed; —
\forcelinebreak Who weds her for dowry must pay his soul.


Hafiz


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\section{I Am: What I Am}


I am: what I am
\forcelinebreak My dust will be again.


Hafiz


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\section{What Lovelier Forms Things Wear}


What lovelier forms things wear,
\forcelinebreak Now that the Shah comes back!


Hafiz


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\section{Take My Heart in Thy Hand, O Beautiful Boy of Schiraz!}


Take my heart in thy hand, O beautiful boy of Schiraz!
\forcelinebreak I would give for the mole on thy cheek Samarcand and
\forcelinebreak Buchara!


Hafiz


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\section{Out of the East, and Out of the West, No Man Understands Me}


Out of the East, and out of the West, no man understands me;
\forcelinebreak Oh, the happier I, who confide to none but the wind!
\forcelinebreak This morning heard I how the lyre of the stars resounded,
\forcelinebreak “Sweeter tones have we heard from Hafiz!”


Hafiz


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\section{Fit for the Pleiads’ Azure Chord}


Fit for the Pleiads’ azure chord
\forcelinebreak The songs I sung, the pearls I bored.


Hafiz


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\section{I Have No Hoarded Treasure}


I have no hoarded treasure,
\forcelinebreak Yet have I rich content;
\forcelinebreak The first from Allah to the Shah,
\forcelinebreak The last to Hafiz went.


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\section{High Heart, O Hafiz! Though Not Thine}


High heart, O Hafiz! though not thine
\forcelinebreak Fine gold and silver ore;
\forcelinebreak More worth to thee the gift of song,
\forcelinebreak And the clear insight more.


Hafiz


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\section{O Hafiz! Speak Not of Thy Need}


O Hafiz! speak not of thy need;
\forcelinebreak Are not these verses thine?
\forcelinebreak Then all the poets are agreed,
\forcelinebreak No man can less repine.


Hafiz


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\section{Oft Have I Said, I Say It Once More}


Oft have I said, I say it once more,
\forcelinebreak I, a wanderer, do not stray from myself.
\forcelinebreak I am a kind of parrot; the mirror is holden to me;
\forcelinebreak What the Eternal says, I stammering say again.
\forcelinebreak Give me what you will; I eat thistles as roses,
\forcelinebreak And according to my food I grow and I give.
\forcelinebreak Scorn me not, but know I have the pearl,
\forcelinebreak And am only seeking one to receive it.


Hafiz


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\section{The Phoenix}


My phoenix long ago secured
\forcelinebreak His nest in the sky-vault’s cope;
\forcelinebreak In the body’s cage immured,
\forcelinebreak He is weary of life’s hope.


Round and round this heap of ashes
\forcelinebreak Now flies the bird amain,
\forcelinebreak But in that odorous niche of heaven
\forcelinebreak Nestles the bird again.


Once flies he upward, he will perch
\forcelinebreak On Tuba’s golden bough;
\forcelinebreak His home is on that fruited arch
\forcelinebreak Which cools the blest below.


If over this world of ours
\forcelinebreak His wings my phoenix spread,
\forcelinebreak How gracious falls on land and sea
\forcelinebreak The soul-refreshing shade!


Either world inhabits he,
\forcelinebreak Sees oft below him planets roll;
\forcelinebreak His body is all of air compact,
\forcelinebreak Of Allah’s love his soul.


Come! — the palace of heaven rests on aëry pillars, —
\forcelinebreak Come, and bring me wine; our days are wind.
\forcelinebreak I declare myself the slave of that masculine soul
\forcelinebreak Which ties and alliance on earth once forever renounces.
\forcelinebreak Told I thee yester-morn how the Iris of heaven
\forcelinebreak Brought to me in my cup a gospel of joy?
\forcelinebreak O high-flying falcon! the Tree of Life is thy perch;
\forcelinebreak This nook of grief fits thee ill for a nest.
\forcelinebreak Hearken! they call to thee down from the ramparts of heaven;
\forcelinebreak I cannot divine what holds thee here in a net.
\forcelinebreak I, too, have a counsel for thee; oh, mark it and keep it,
\forcelinebreak Since I received the same from the Master above:
\forcelinebreak Seek not for faith or for truth in a world of light-minded girls;
\forcelinebreak A thousand suitors reckons this dangerous bride.
\forcelinebreak This jest of the world, which tickles me, leave to my vagabond self.
\forcelinebreak Accept whatever befalls; uncover thy brow from thy locks;
\forcelinebreak Neither to me nor to thee was option imparted;
\forcelinebreak Neither endurance nor truth belongs to the laugh of the rose.
\forcelinebreak The loving nightingale mourns; — cause enow for mourning; —
\forcelinebreak Why envies the bird the streaming verses of Hafiz?
\forcelinebreak Know that a god bestowed on him eloquent speech.


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\section{By Breath of Beds of Roses Drawn}


By breath of beds of roses drawn,
\forcelinebreak I found the grove in the morning pure,
\forcelinebreak In the concert of the nightingales
\forcelinebreak My drunken brain to cure.


With unrelated glance
\forcelinebreak I looked the rose in the eye;
\forcelinebreak The rose in the hour of gloaming
\forcelinebreak Flamed like a lamp hard-by.


She was of her beauty proud,
\forcelinebreak And prouder of her youth,
\forcelinebreak The while unto her flaming heart
\forcelinebreak The bulbul gave his truth.


The sweet narcissus closed
\forcelinebreak Its eye, with passion pressed;
\forcelinebreak The tulips out of envy burned
\forcelinebreak Moles in their scarlet breast.


The lilies white prolonged
\forcelinebreak Their sworded tongue to the smell;
\forcelinebreak The clustering anemones
\forcelinebreak Their pretty secrets tell.


Hafiz


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\section{All Day the Rain}


All day the rain
\forcelinebreak Bathed the dark hyacinths in vain,
\forcelinebreak The flood may pour from morn till night
\forcelinebreak Nor wash the pretty Indians white.


Hafiz


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\section{O’er the Garden Water Goes the Wind Alone}


O’er the garden water goes the wind alone
\forcelinebreak To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;
\forcelinebreak The fire is quenched on the dear hearth-stone,
\forcelinebreak But it burns again on the tulips brave.


Enweri


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\section{Whilst I Disdain the Populace}


Whilst I disdain the populace,
\forcelinebreak I find no peer in higher place.
\forcelinebreak Friend is a word of royal tone,
\forcelinebreak Friend is a poem all alone.
\forcelinebreak Wisdom is like the elephant,
\forcelinebreak Lofty and rare inhabitant:
\forcelinebreak He dwells in deserts or in courts;
\forcelinebreak With hucksters he has no resorts.


Ibn Jemin


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\section{A Friend is He, Who, Hunted as a Foe}


A friend is he, who, hunted as a foe,
\forcelinebreak So much the kindlier shows him than before;
\forcelinebreak Throw stones at him, or ruder javelins throw,
\forcelinebreak He builds with stone and steel a firmer floor.


Dschami


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\section{The Chemist of Love}


The chemist of love
\forcelinebreak Will this perishing mould,
\forcelinebreak Were it made out of mire,
\forcelinebreak Transmute into gold


Hafiz


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\section{And Since Round Lines Are Drawn}


And since round lines are drawn
\forcelinebreak My darling’s lips about,
\forcelinebreak The very Moon looks puzzled on,
\forcelinebreak And hesitates in doubt
\forcelinebreak If the sweet curve that rounds thy mouth
\forcelinebreak Be not her true way to the South.


Hafiz


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\section{Ah, Could I Hide Me in My Song}


Ah, could I hide me in my song,
\forcelinebreak To kiss thy lips from which it flows!


Hafiz


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\section{Fair Fall Thy Soft Heart}


Fair fall thy soft heart!
\forcelinebreak A good work wilt thou do?
\forcelinebreak Oh, pray for the dead
\forcelinebreak Whom thine eyelashes slew!


Hafiz


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\section{They Strew in the Path of Kings and Czars}


They strew in the path of kings and czars
\forcelinebreak Jewels and gems of price;
\forcelinebreak But for thy head I will pluck down stars,
\forcelinebreak And pave thy way with eyes.


I have sought for thee a costlier dome
\forcelinebreak Than Mahmoud’s palace high,
\forcelinebreak And thou, returning, find thy home
\forcelinebreak In the apple of Love’s eye.


Hafiz


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\section{I Know This Perilous Love-lane}


I know this perilous love-lane
\forcelinebreak No whither the traveller leads,
\forcelinebreak Yet my fancy the sweet scent of
\forcelinebreak Thy tangled tresses feeds.


In the midnight of thy locks,
\forcelinebreak I renounce the day;
\forcelinebreak In the ring of thy rose-lips,
\forcelinebreak My heart forgets to pray.


Hafiz


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\section{Plunge in Yon Angry’ Waves}


Plunge in yon angry’ waves,
\forcelinebreak Renouncing doubt and care;
\forcelinebreak The flowing of the seven broad seas
\forcelinebreak Shall never wet thy hair.


Is Allah’s face on thee
\forcelinebreak Bending with love benign,
\forcelinebreak And thou not less on Allah’s eye
\forcelinebreak O fairest! turnest thine.


Hafiz


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\section{While Roses Bloomed Along the Plain}


While roses bloomed along the plain,
\forcelinebreak The nightingale to the falcon said,
\forcelinebreak “Why, of all birds, must thou be dumb?
\forcelinebreak With closed mouth thou utterest,
\forcelinebreak Though dying, no last word to man.
\forcelinebreak Yet sitt’st thou on the hand of princes,
\forcelinebreak And feedest on the grouse’s breast,
\forcelinebreak Whilst I, who hundred thousand jewels
\forcelinebreak Squander in a single tone,
\forcelinebreak Lo! I feed myself with worms,
\forcelinebreak And my dwelling is the thorn.” —
\forcelinebreak The falcon answered, “Be all ear:
\forcelinebreak I, experienced in affairs,
\forcelinebreak See fifty things, say never one;
\forcelinebreak But thee the people prizes not,
\forcelinebreak Who, doing nothing, say’st a thousand.
\forcelinebreak To me, appointed to the chase,
\forcelinebreak The king’s hand gives the grouse’s breast;
\forcelinebreak Whilst a chatterer like thee
\forcelinebreak Must gnaw worms in the thorn. Farewell!”


Nisami


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\section{Body and Soul}


A painter in China once painted a hall; —
\forcelinebreak Such a web never hung on an emperor’s wall; —
\forcelinebreak One half from his brush with rich colors did run,
\forcelinebreak The other he touched with a beam of the sun;
\forcelinebreak So that all which delighted the eye in one side,
\forcelinebreak The same, point for point, in the other replied.


In thee, friend, that Tyrian chamber is found;
\forcelinebreak Thine the star-pointing roof, and the base on the ground:
\forcelinebreak Is one half depicted with colors less bright?
\forcelinebreak Beware that the counterpart blazes with light!


Enweri


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\section{I Read on the Porch of a Palace Bold}


I read on the porch of a palace bold
\forcelinebreak In a purple tablet letters cast, —
\forcelinebreak “A house, though a million winters old,
\forcelinebreak A house of earth comes down at last;
\forcelinebreak Then quarry thy stones from the crystal All,
\forcelinebreak And build the dome that shall not fall.”


Ibn Jemin


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\section{The Eternal Watcher, Who Doth Wake}


The eternal Watcher, who doth wake
\forcelinebreak All night in the body’s earthen chest,
\forcelinebreak Will of thine arms a pillow make,
\forcelinebreak And a bolster of thy breast.


Feisi


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\section{Poem From “Bird Conversations.”}


The bird-soul was ashamed;
\forcelinebreak Their body was quite annihilated;
\forcelinebreak They had cleaned themselves from the dust,
\forcelinebreak And were by the light ensouled.
\forcelinebreak What was, and was not, — the Past, —
\forcelinebreak Was wiped out from their breast.
\forcelinebreak The sun from near-by beamed
\forcelinebreak Clearest light into their soul;
\forcelinebreak The resplendence of the Simorg beamed
\forcelinebreak As one back from all three.
\forcelinebreak They knew not, amazed, if they
\forcelinebreak Were either this or that.
\forcelinebreak They saw themselves all as Simorg,
\forcelinebreak Themselves in the eternal Simorg.
\forcelinebreak When to the Simorg up they looked,
\forcelinebreak They beheld him among themselves;
\forcelinebreak And when they looked on each other,
\forcelinebreak They saw themselves in the Simorg.
\forcelinebreak A single look grouped the two parties,
\forcelinebreak The Simorg emerged, the Simorg vanished,
\forcelinebreak This in that, and that in this,
\forcelinebreak As the world has never heard.
\forcelinebreak So remained they, sunk in wonder,
\forcelinebreak Thoughtless in deepest thinking,
\forcelinebreak And quite unconscious of themselves.
\forcelinebreak Speechless prayed they to the Highest
\forcelinebreak To open this secret,
\forcelinebreak And to unlock Thou and We.
\forcelinebreak There came an answer without tongue. —
\forcelinebreak “The Highest is a sun-mirror;
\forcelinebreak Who comes to Him sees himself therein,
\forcelinebreak Sees body and soul, and soul and body:
\forcelinebreak When you came to the Simorg,
\forcelinebreak Three therein appeared to you,
\forcelinebreak And, had fifty of you come,
\forcelinebreak So had you seen yourselves as many.
\forcelinebreak Him has none of us yet seen.
\forcelinebreak Ants see not the Pleiades.
\forcelinebreak Can the gnat grasp with his teeth
\forcelinebreak The body of the elephant?
\forcelinebreak What you see is He not;
\forcelinebreak What you hear is He not.
\forcelinebreak The valleys which you traverse,
\forcelinebreak The actions which you perform,
\forcelinebreak They lie under our treatment
\forcelinebreak And among our properties.
\forcelinebreak You as three birds are amazed,
\forcelinebreak Impatient, heartless, confused:
\forcelinebreak Far over you am I raised,
\forcelinebreak Since I am in act Simorg.
\forcelinebreak Ye blot out my highest being,
\forcelinebreak That ye may find yourselves on my throne;
\forcelinebreak Forever ye blot out yourselves,
\forcelinebreak As shadows in the sun. Farewell!”


Ferideddin Attar


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\section{Tis Heavy Odds}


’Tis heavy odds
\forcelinebreak Against the gods,
\forcelinebreak When they will match with myrmidons.
\forcelinebreak We spawning, spawning myrmidons,
\forcelinebreak Our turn to-day! we take command,
\forcelinebreak Jove gives the globe into the hand
\forcelinebreak Of myrmidons, of myrmidons.


Pierre Jean de Béranger


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\section{At the Last Day, Men Shall Wear}


At the last day, men shall wear
\forcelinebreak On their heads the dust,
\forcelinebreak As ensign and as ornament
\forcelinebreak Of their lowly trust.


Hafiz


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\section{Fooled Thou Must Be, Though Wisest of the Wise}


Fooled thou must be, though wisest of the wise:
\forcelinebreak Then be the fool of virtue, not of vice.


(Persian)


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\section{Alms}


The beggar begs by God’s command,
\forcelinebreak And gifts awake when givers sleep.
\forcelinebreak Swords cannot cut the giving hand,
\forcelinebreak Nor stab the love that orphans keep.


Hafiz


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\section{No. 13 Hymn Written in Concord Sept. 1814}


Come heavenly Muse my voice inspire
\forcelinebreak Teach me to tune the poet’s lyre
\forcelinebreak In feeble notes that I may sing
\forcelinebreak And let Religion guide the string.
\forcelinebreak The works of God demand a song
\forcelinebreak From spirits and the angelic throng
\forcelinebreak O then let mortals also raise
\forcelinebreak In humbler strains their songs of praise
\forcelinebreak My soul O look around and see
\forcelinebreak How many things are made for thee
\forcelinebreak For thee the fields are cover’d o’er,
\forcelinebreak For thee the harvest yields its store,
\forcelinebreak Speech, reason, sight, and every sense
\forcelinebreak Is given thee by Providence
\forcelinebreak God’s praise is sung by every rill
\forcelinebreak O then let not my tongue be still
\forcelinebreak Let morn, and noon, and shady night
\forcelinebreak Hear praise to him who made the light
\forcelinebreak And to his Son who willing came
\forcelinebreak To save mankind from death and shame.


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\section{On the Death of Mr. John Haskins}


See the calm exit of the aged Saint,
\forcelinebreak Without a murmur, and without complaint,
\forcelinebreak Whil’st round him gathered his dear children stand
\forcelinebreak And some one holds his withered pallid hand.
\forcelinebreak He bids them trust in God, nor mourn nor weep;
\forcelinebreak He breathes Religion, and then falls asleep.
\forcelinebreak Then on angelic wings he flies to God,
\forcelinebreak Rejoiced to leave this earthly mortal clod.
\forcelinebreak His head is covered with a crown of gold.
\forcelinebreak A golden harp his hands immortal hold.


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\section{Lines on the Death of Miss. M. B. Farnham}


Come heavenly Muse a suppliant asks thine aid,
\forcelinebreak No common theme his feeble pen pursues,
\forcelinebreak Where the blue grave-stone marks the silent dead,
\forcelinebreak There would he go and there in silence muse.


Here let unhallowed feet ne’er bend their way,
\forcelinebreak Here where decaying, youth \& Beauty sleeps,
\forcelinebreak Here where cold Death holds his imperious sway,
\forcelinebreak And fond affection clad in mourning weeps.


Lowly beneath this green and nameless sod,
\forcelinebreak Rests the frail body of departed worth;
\forcelinebreak Her happy soul has mounted to her god,
\forcelinebreak And gone forever from this narrow Earth.


Her’s was the brightness of the noonday Sun
\forcelinebreak Her fancy brilliant as his golden rays,
\forcelinebreak Judgement \& Reason, mounted on the throne,
\forcelinebreak And pure Religion shone in all her ways.


Long as the life blood flows within the veins,
\forcelinebreak Long as the throbbing heart persists to move,
\forcelinebreak So long shall thought of Mary lessen pains,
\forcelinebreak And bring to Memory all her cares, and love.


Her brilliant taste, and manners well refined,
\forcelinebreak Shone with bright splendor on this lower earth,
\forcelinebreak Her graceful form, and modesty combined,
\forcelinebreak Proclaimed her value, excellence, and worth.


Farewel thou dear departed! ah farewel,
\forcelinebreak Peace to thine ashes in their clay cold bed,
\forcelinebreak Till the last trump shalt burst thy narrow cell,
\forcelinebreak And bid thee leave the mansions of the dead.


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\section{Poem on Eloquence by R. W. Emerson}


When oer the world the son of genius rose
\forcelinebreak And woke mankind from indolent repose
\forcelinebreak When Science first diffused her genial rays
\forcelinebreak And Learning fair enlightened elder days
\forcelinebreak Then Eloquence descending from above
\forcelinebreak Left the high palace of Olympian Jove
\forcelinebreak To earth’s fair field she bent her airy way
\forcelinebreak Guided by Hermes from the realms of day
\forcelinebreak Thrice happy Greece her lighting footsteps bore
\forcelinebreak When first the Goddess on earthly shore
\forcelinebreak In thy fair realm Polymnia fix’d her throne
\forcelinebreak And raised her sacred fane, — nor there alone —
\forcelinebreak Where to bright knowledge Ignorance gave way
\forcelinebreak Where Superstition fled the dawn of day
\forcelinebreak There in the temple of the Muses shone
\forcelinebreak Polymnia star by radiant lustre known.
\forcelinebreak First mid the band that sought her courts for fame
\forcelinebreak Stood cloth’d in light the great Athenian name
\forcelinebreak Hail great Demosthenes! thine ardent soul
\forcelinebreak Could nature’s arts and nature’s self controul
\forcelinebreak Thy speech inspired with accents clear and loud
\forcelinebreak Flash’d like the lightning from the thunder cloud
\forcelinebreak As the fierce flame that rends the rumbling ground
\forcelinebreak With sudden blaze throws dire destruction round
\forcelinebreak From Etna’s top with mad resistless force
\forcelinebreak In liquid fire precipitates its course
\forcelinebreak Nor shepherd’s hut nor prince’s stately tower
\forcelinebreak Can save the tenant from the torrents power
\forcelinebreak Thus from thy lips the fire of Hermes flow’d
\forcelinebreak And from a mortal almost made a God
\forcelinebreak Gave thee the power the hearts of men to bind
\forcelinebreak The magic springs to know that actuate the mind
\forcelinebreak The strong in war thy strength resist in vain
\forcelinebreak The great and brave obey thy guiding vein
\forcelinebreak Twas with that power endued each sep’rate clause
\forcelinebreak Drew from the listening crowds the loud applause.
\forcelinebreak When Freedom from thy lips in thunder spoke
\forcelinebreak And all her spirit flash’d in every look.
\forcelinebreak When Phillip vainly tried each subtle art
\forcelinebreak To tempt with venal gold each patriot’s heart
\forcelinebreak Rous’d by their “last great man” they tried the field
\forcelinebreak But not those Greeks unknowing how to yield —
\forcelinebreak One mercy more oh! had the Gods bestow’d
\forcelinebreak Courage on him whose lips with ardour glow’d
\forcelinebreak Then had led their armies to the plain
\forcelinebreak And falling Greece had conquered once again
\forcelinebreak The dubious field of battle’s strife been won
\forcelinebreak And set majestic had their falling sun
\forcelinebreak But time forbids that more the muse should name
\forcelinebreak Of Grecian orators well known to fame
\forcelinebreak Farewell to Greece of liberal arts the nurse
\forcelinebreak Turn now Oh Muse to Rome direct thy course
\forcelinebreak See where with awful majesty arise
\forcelinebreak Her mighty leaders eloquent \& wise
\forcelinebreak See great Hortentius to a greater yield
\forcelinebreak And stript of laurels quit the long-fought field


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\section{Original— “Apropos.”}


Night slowly stretches o’er the changing skies
\forcelinebreak And killing darkness shrouds the rolling Earth
\forcelinebreak Up to her well-known rock the night-owl hies
\forcelinebreak And wizard hags begin their cursed mirth.


A misty cloud bedims the rising moon
\forcelinebreak Few are the stars that cheer the evening sky
\forcelinebreak And dark and gloomy is the night; and soon
\forcelinebreak The light that issues from those stars will die.


This night, I deem, the moon is in her spell
\forcelinebreak And fiends have mutter’d incantations dire
\forcelinebreak This night in revelry, the hags of hell
\forcelinebreak Dance in deep cave, around th’infernal fire


Ah! bleakly blows the Ocean’s stormy blast
\forcelinebreak Grim Water-Sprites bestride the foaming wave,
\forcelinebreak Woe to the hapless bark, the towering mast
\forcelinebreak The careworn sailor finds tonight his Grave!


On Ballans lonely moor what sounds were heard!
\forcelinebreak When the chill night brought on the darkness drear
\forcelinebreak And in thy lofty towers lone Villagird!
\forcelinebreak What startling noise came sudden on the ear.


I passed at eve the foot of Ben-lide’s hill
\forcelinebreak I heard a voice as the sad breeze blew by
\forcelinebreak Starting I listened — all again was still
\forcelinebreak Nought through the mist could mortal sight descry.


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\section{William Does Thy Frigid Soul}


William does thy frigid soul,
\forcelinebreak The charms of poetry deny,
\forcelinebreak And think thy heart beyond controul,
\forcelinebreak Of each Parnassian Deity?


This I suspect from that cold look,
\forcelinebreak Quenching like ice Apollo’s fire,
\forcelinebreak With which each vagrant verse you took,
\forcelinebreak When offer’d from my humble lyre.


Not that in truth I mean to say,
\forcelinebreak I ever had a lyre — not I —
\forcelinebreak Rhymers you know have got a way,
\forcelinebreak To Tell a bumper, alias lie. —


— I love quotations — Dr Gibbs —
\forcelinebreak Or some one else perhaps — has said,
\forcelinebreak — Poets have leave to publish fibs,
\forcelinebreak And t’is a portion of their trade —


But to return — ti’s wrong to say,
\forcelinebreak That I should not have leave to write,
\forcelinebreak My maxim is — write while it’s day, —
\forcelinebreak For soon, forsooth it will be night,


That is — poor Ralph must versify,
\forcelinebreak Through College like a thousand drums
\forcelinebreak But when well through then then oh my
\forcelinebreak The dark dull night of Business comes


While this my letter you peruse,
\forcelinebreak Frown no long-faced apostrophe,
\forcelinebreak Dare not to blame the wayward muse,
\forcelinebreak Nor scowl the scroflous brow at me —


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\section{Song: Shout for Those Whose Course is Done}


Tune “Scots wha hue wi’ Wallace bled.”


Shout for those whose course is done, —
\forcelinebreak Bow you to their setting sun,
\forcelinebreak — Souls of patriots who won
\forcelinebreak Noble Liberty.


Fell Brittania’s tyrant power
\forcelinebreak Quailed in combats fearful hour;
\forcelinebreak Lowly did the Lion cower
\forcelinebreak To their victory.


Stars of Freedom’s spangled banner!
\forcelinebreak Burst ye forth in loud hosanne,
\forcelinebreak While the morning breezes fan her
\forcelinebreak Passing cheerfully.


Celebrate with song today,
\forcelinebreak Feats of eras far away
\forcelinebreak Ruin to the British sway
\forcelinebreak O’er Columbia


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\section{Perhaps Thy Lot in Life is Higher}


Perhaps thy lot in life is higher
\forcelinebreak Than the fates assign to me
\forcelinebreak While they fulfil thy large desire
\forcelinebreak And bid my hopes as visions flee
\forcelinebreak But grant me still in joy or sorrow
\forcelinebreak In grief or hope to claim thy heart
\forcelinebreak And I will then defy the morrow
\forcelinebreak Whilst I fulfil a loyal part.


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\section{Valedictory Poem}


Gambol and song and jubilee are done,
\forcelinebreak Life’s motley pilgrimage must be begun; —
\forcelinebreak Another scene is crowding on the last, —
\forcelinebreak Perhaps a darkened picture of the past;
\forcelinebreak And we, who leave Youth’s fairy vales behind,
\forcelinebreak Where Joy hath hailed us on the summer wind,
\forcelinebreak Would fain, with fond delay, prolong the hour,
\forcelinebreak Which sternly strikes at Friendship’s golden power.
\forcelinebreak Then chide us not, though idly we may strew
\forcelinebreak Some blooming chaplets in the way we view.
\forcelinebreak We cannot weep — while Hope is dancing nigh, —
\forcelinebreak We may not smile at Sorrow’s withering eye.
\forcelinebreak On Youth’s last threshold, while we doubtful stand,
\forcelinebreak What crowded scenes of various hues expand, —
\forcelinebreak A thousand fears the fields of Time deform,
\forcelinebreak Hope’s gilded rainbows resting on the storm.


Oh long ago, while Freedom yet was young,
\forcelinebreak Her wreaths ungathered, and her praise unsung,
\forcelinebreak While Europe languished in barbaric night,
\forcelinebreak And young Columbus kindled life and light, —
\forcelinebreak Fate’s finger pointed to the brooding cloud
\forcelinebreak Which wrapped a new world in its ponderous shroud.


On three full ages has the seal been set
\forcelinebreak Since, o’er this land, Fate’s awful Angels met; —
\forcelinebreak This land, — the scene of glory unrevealed,
\forcelinebreak Pregnant with powers her Genius woke to wield.
\forcelinebreak Here stood those Angels, on our mountain strand,
\forcelinebreak And looked through Time, and waved their charmed wand.
\forcelinebreak Hailed the full hour when God proclaims its birth,
\forcelinebreak A new and blissful paradise on earth.
\forcelinebreak Thrice oer the clime they flapped their dusky wings,
\forcelinebreak To lodge rich virtues in its secret springs,
\forcelinebreak And ere its gale and mortal banner furled,
\forcelinebreak Charm bound its shores, the asylum of the World.
\forcelinebreak Then bade the breezes waft Columbus on,
\forcelinebreak To crown the triumph which the hero won.
\forcelinebreak Columbus comes; — far land bedims the sky,
\forcelinebreak And rapture kindled in his eagle eye.
\forcelinebreak With awe struck soul, the trembling sailor feels
\forcelinebreak What man dishonoured, \& what God reveals;
\forcelinebreak Found the first Eden’s pomp of hills and woods,
\forcelinebreak Lost in vast Ocean’s watery solitudes.
\forcelinebreak Like that rare bird the enamoured Ethiop praised
\forcelinebreak Whose peerless beauty all unworshipped blazed,
\forcelinebreak Gift of the Sun, his golden plumage shone,
\forcelinebreak In Afric’s boundless solitudes, — alone.


Back to the crowded multitudes of men,
\forcelinebreak Swelled with glad tidings, came the sail again;
\forcelinebreak Europe’s loud welcome bade the wanderers hail,
\forcelinebreak Delighted Wonder listened to their tale.
\forcelinebreak The eyes of men were fastened on the scene,
\forcelinebreak Whose distant beauty charmed with light serene.
\forcelinebreak Adventurous hosts, from Europe’s tower-crowned shore,
\forcelinebreak Claimed boundless realms unvisited before;
\forcelinebreak But ‘mid the shouts of rushing nations, — came,
\forcelinebreak And louder than the trumpet voice of fame,
\forcelinebreak Prophetic sounds, in solemn murmur heard,
\forcelinebreak The oracles of Fate breathed out the thrilling word.


— ‘When dying Europe mourns her lost renown,
\forcelinebreak ‘Her wasted honour, and her broken crown;
\forcelinebreak ‘When Vice and Ruin rend the earth with sin,
\forcelinebreak ‘And pour the deluge of destruction in,
\forcelinebreak ‘Corruption scorches with his tainted breath,
\forcelinebreak ‘And hundred-handed Havoc rides on death; —
\forcelinebreak ‘Be thou — fair land! their refuge, and their stay,
\forcelinebreak ‘The pillared gate to Glory’s narrow way.
\forcelinebreak The sound had ceased, the unearthly host retired
\forcelinebreak Dark in the North, — and men, with awe, admired.


Time rolls away, but Nature stands the same;
\forcelinebreak Her starry host, her mountain wrapped in flame,
\forcelinebreak Earth, air, and heaven, which smiled benignant then
\forcelinebreak On those far travellers from the haunts of men,
\forcelinebreak With equal lustre now look calmly on
\forcelinebreak This youthful band, — this goal which they have won;
\forcelinebreak Perhaps bear with them, in their counsels high,
\forcelinebreak The near fulfilment of old prophecy;
\forcelinebreak And we, perchance, may claim with joy to be
\forcelinebreak The Ministers of Fate, the priests of Destiny.


Here, in the halls of Fate, we proudly stand,
\forcelinebreak Youth’s holy fires by Hope’s broad pinion fanned;
\forcelinebreak And while we wait what Destiny betides,
\forcelinebreak Gaze on the forms which fairy Fancy guides;
\forcelinebreak Bright apparitions floating on the air,
\forcelinebreak Which soft approaching claim a guardian care.
\forcelinebreak Shall I see FORTUNE wave her silken robe,
\forcelinebreak Or strong AMBITION comprehend the globe?
\forcelinebreak Shall warbling MUSES steal the soul away
\forcelinebreak To the rich stores of legendary lay?
\forcelinebreak Shall HONOUR trace the heraldry of Fame,
\forcelinebreak Or BEAUTY come, as Cleopatra came? —
\forcelinebreak — Not to dull sense shall forms like these appear,
\forcelinebreak But conscious feeling finds them hovering near.
\forcelinebreak These are the living principles, which weave


Lifes treacherous web, to flatter and deceive;
\forcelinebreak Through every age, they lead the lot of life,
\forcelinebreak And grasp the Urn with human fortunes rife
\forcelinebreak The early minstrel, when his kindling eye
\forcelinebreak Marked the bright stars illuminate the sky,
\forcelinebreak Saw these wild phantoms, in those planets, roll
\forcelinebreak The tides of fortune to their fearful goal.
\forcelinebreak There, robed in light, the Genii of the stars
\forcelinebreak Launch, in refulgent space, their diamond cars;
\forcelinebreak Or, in pavilions of celestial pride,
\forcelinebreak Serene above all influence beside,
\forcelinebreak Vent the bold joy, which swells the glorious soul,
\forcelinebreak Rich with the rapture of secure controul.
\forcelinebreak They read the silent mysteries of fate,
\forcelinebreak The slow revealings of the future state;
\forcelinebreak Trace the colossal shades of coming time,
\forcelinebreak Pregnant with unknown prodigies of crime,
\forcelinebreak While passing on, to ill-omened birth,
\forcelinebreak Low in the hapless atmosphere of earth.
\forcelinebreak — These were proud visions, and though part were feigned,
\forcelinebreak Enough of Truth’s sweet union remained.


We may not stoop dull folly’s round to creep,
\forcelinebreak And we must climb Ambitions rugged steep;
\forcelinebreak What though the toil should vex the soul with pain, —
\forcelinebreak Beyond its woes, there is a crown to gain.
\forcelinebreak We look for days of joy, and groves of peace,
\forcelinebreak Where all the turmoils of ambition cease;
\forcelinebreak We love that garland, which the scholar wears,
\forcelinebreak Who wreaths new blossoms with successive years,
\forcelinebreak Crouched in his cot, amid romantic bowers,
\forcelinebreak Domestic visions wing the happy hours,
\forcelinebreak When mellow eve shall paint the saffron sky,
\forcelinebreak And light the star of Hesperus on high,
\forcelinebreak Hush the wild warble of the lonely grove,
\forcelinebreak And charm the hamlet with the tales of love,
\forcelinebreak Then, the glad sire shall gather round his door,
\forcelinebreak His ruddy boys, to list his fairy lore;
\forcelinebreak By every soothing spell to Nature known
\forcelinebreak She courts him willing to her sylvan throne;


While, oer his sense, her bright enchantment steals,
\forcelinebreak Enamoured Memory all her stores reveals;
\forcelinebreak The star oft seen in youth’s rejoicing prime
\forcelinebreak Rolls back his soul along the tides of time;
\forcelinebreak Recalls the spring-time of his health and pride,
\forcelinebreak His gay companions bounding at his side;
\forcelinebreak The reckless shout which shook the college hall, —
\forcelinebreak The classic lesson potent to appal, —
\forcelinebreak The gorgeous dreams which ardent fancy wove
\forcelinebreak To gild the blushing morning of his love; —
\forcelinebreak All these shall rise for Memory’s brilliant theme,
\forcelinebreak And float in beauty, like an angel’s dream.
\forcelinebreak The old man’s fearless gaze salutes the sky,
\forcelinebreak Ere savage death hath shut his glazing eye.
\forcelinebreak When the grave closed oer Athens’ laurelled son,
\forcelinebreak The fair-haired Muses wept in Helicon;
\forcelinebreak Be our’s that tear, — fair Nature’s holiest gem,
\forcelinebreak That song, for aye, shall be our requiem.


But let not eager fancy roam so far,
\forcelinebreak Whose tale should now remind us what we are.
\forcelinebreak In this bright age, with seeds of glory sown,
\forcelinebreak The hand of fate hath placed us, — not our own.
\forcelinebreak When the old world is crumbling with decay,
\forcelinebreak And empires unregarded, pass away,
\forcelinebreak When the world’s days of infancy are told,
\forcelinebreak And Nature’s crowded destinies unfold,
\forcelinebreak Perhaps tis our’s — when strength and grandeur fail,
\forcelinebreak And pride and power confess that man is frail,
\forcelinebreak When vanquished Virtue’s reign is fully past,
\forcelinebreak And stern Corruption climbs the throne at last,
\forcelinebreak And men kneel down beneath that wasting sway, —
\forcelinebreak Perhaps tis our’s to rend the veil away;
\forcelinebreak To bid men see their honour, and their bliss,
\forcelinebreak The proud connection of that world and this;
\forcelinebreak To shew the triumphs of a loftier scene,
\forcelinebreak Than on this humble ball hath ever been,
\forcelinebreak Ourselves, heavens honoured instruments prepared,
\forcelinebreak Whose little band even savage Death has spared.


Let not the censure of presumption blot
\forcelinebreak The venial boldness of aspiring thought;
\forcelinebreak For proudest deeds, the lowliest means are made,
\forcelinebreak Where the dark schemes of Providence are laid,
\forcelinebreak So when, of old, to strike a lawless sway,
\forcelinebreak The arm of Nemesis was shrined in clay,
\forcelinebreak When the black host of earthborn giants strove
\forcelinebreak To rend Olympus from the might of Jove,
\forcelinebreak When Terror reddened on the Almighty’s cheek,
\forcelinebreak And even Jove’s thunders whispered they were weak,
\forcelinebreak Then was the might, which blessed high heaven with peace,
\forcelinebreak Found in the arm of youthful Hercules;
\forcelinebreak So heaven may bid this young unhonoured land
\forcelinebreak Lead the long changes which mankind demand.


I seek no pardon if my wayward lays
\forcelinebreak Flow too profusely with my country’s praise;
\forcelinebreak Shall a vain taunt proscribe my love of home,
\forcelinebreak Bid the heart sicken, sacred feeling roam?
\forcelinebreak Shall paltry ridicule assail the name,
\forcelinebreak Which twines its honours with Columbia’s fame?
\forcelinebreak The man whose soul, with patriot ardor thrills
\forcelinebreak To scorn the proud world from his native hills?


But what be these but idle dreams of hope
\forcelinebreak Which soon shall fade, and leave the blind to grope?
\forcelinebreak Ah! what be these, amid the night of life,
\forcelinebreak The certain, near, inevitable strife?
\forcelinebreak We stand on slippery paths; the Ocean’s roar
\forcelinebreak Is loud around us, — and the world, before; —
\forcelinebreak Thousands have crossed the gulf, — but few can tell
\forcelinebreak Of all that countless multitude — how well.
\forcelinebreak No glorious lustre gathers round their name,
\forcelinebreak Or gives their virtues to the trump of Fame.
\forcelinebreak As if men bless them with a brief renown,
\forcelinebreak Oh think how sadly purchased was that crown,
\forcelinebreak How malice blights the name it would destroy,
\forcelinebreak — Think on Columbus chained, — canst thou be crowned with joy?


When mighty thoughts come crowding on the soul,
\forcelinebreak And Fancy’s dreams in sparkling lustre roll,
\forcelinebreak Let not the dreamer heed her baneful charms,
\forcelinebreak Perfidious smiles and Folly’s winning arms;
\forcelinebreak Fancy and Hope in chill Despair shall end,
\forcelinebreak He clasps a viper whom he thought a friend,
\forcelinebreak And when he finds the rapture of renown,
\forcelinebreak — That crown of glory is a thorny crown.


We meet to part; then haste, no more delay
\forcelinebreak To bid farewell, and stretch our sail away;
\forcelinebreak And if a kindred sympathy shall rise
\forcelinebreak Here in the hearts, and friendships, which we prize,
\forcelinebreak Our heartfelt wish shall gratefully respond,
\forcelinebreak And God will sanction this fraternal bond.
\forcelinebreak And we shall cherish long this parting day,
\forcelinebreak When Beauty smiled to cheer us on our way.
\forcelinebreak Think not that heart, and feeling’s vital glow
\forcelinebreak Part from the little pageant which we show, —
\forcelinebreak No; brightly shrined in Memory’s hallowed cell,
\forcelinebreak All that we leave, and weep to leave, shall dwell.
\forcelinebreak One debt of gratitude remains unpaid
\forcelinebreak To those who led us through Minerva’s shade;
\forcelinebreak The thanks we offer, not by words expressed,
\forcelinebreak Let future years of grateful toil attest;
\forcelinebreak Be this our pride and boast to offer here
\forcelinebreak A freewill homage, grateful \& sincere.


There is no joy to tear ourselves away
\forcelinebreak From scenes endeared by life’s young holiday.
\forcelinebreak When many days have dimmed the eye with tears,
\forcelinebreak And darkening round, the sky of life appears,
\forcelinebreak How will our hearts rejoice to look behind
\forcelinebreak On these old halls, and call the past to mind.
\forcelinebreak Spots, where while studies, friends, \& pleasures bless,
\forcelinebreak We dreamed the dreams of youthful happiness;
\forcelinebreak Or learned to venerate the guardian care
\forcelinebreak Enthroned in Learning’s consecrated Chair;
\forcelinebreak Where ancient Science, with a frown severe,
\forcelinebreak Appalled the trifler, as he ventured near;


Here where we learned to wield the gun and quill,
\forcelinebreak Recite in sections, and in sections drill:
\forcelinebreak Here where we learned, still studious to excel
\forcelinebreak In arts and arms, to cheer, and to rebel;
\forcelinebreak Recall the pleasant faces which we knew,
\forcelinebreak Which oft put on a sombre colouring too;
\forcelinebreak The strange vicissitudes of life, which speak
\forcelinebreak In anxious paleness, on the sufferer’s cheek,
\forcelinebreak Who, while cold terror shakes his frame throughout,
\forcelinebreak Asks, with a ghastly smile, ‘Are the parts out?’


And many a one, whose sorrow, \& whose fears,
\forcelinebreak Like Arethusa, melt himself to tears,
\forcelinebreak Short youth; disaster trembles in his eye,
\forcelinebreak An inch too short to join “the Company.”
\forcelinebreak In whom both art \& nature joined to strive
\forcelinebreak To reach the lofty limit,— “five feet, five”;
\forcelinebreak Perchance, in Commons Hall too sparely fed,
\forcelinebreak His hopes, alas! proved higher than his head.


Enough; — Affection may not linger here,
\forcelinebreak Repeating fond farewells, and vows sincere;
\forcelinebreak Impatient Time doth knit his sullen brow,
\forcelinebreak Gird up your loins for fates dread mandate now!
\forcelinebreak May Glory wait you on your proudest ways,
\forcelinebreak The wise applaud you, while the world obeys,
\forcelinebreak May Joy attend the journey which we fear,
\forcelinebreak And may God speed our perilous career!


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\section{From Frodmer’s Drama “The Friends.”}


Malcolm, I love thee more than women love
\forcelinebreak And pure and warm and equal is the feeling
\forcelinebreak Which binds us and our destinies forever
\forcelinebreak But there are seasons in the change of times
\forcelinebreak When strong excitement kindles up the light
\forcelinebreak Of ancient memories


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\section{Dedication}


Quem fugis? Aut quis te nostris complexibus arcet?
\forcelinebreak Haec memorans, cinerem et sopitos suscitât ignes.
\forcelinebreak Virgilian lot.


This song to one whose unimproved talents and unattained friendship have interested the writer in his character \& fate.
\forcelinebreak By the unacknowledged tie
\forcelinebreak Which binds us to each other
\forcelinebreak By the pride of feeling high
\forcelinebreak Which friendship’s name can smother


By the cold encountering eyes
\forcelinebreak Whose language deeply thrilling
\forcelinebreak Rebelled against the prompt surmise
\forcelinebreak Which told the heart was willing;


By all which you have felt and feel
\forcelinebreak My eager gaze returning
\forcelinebreak I offer to this silent zeal
\forcelinebreak On youthful altars burning,


All the classic hours which fill
\forcelinebreak This little urn of honour;
\forcelinebreak Minerva guide \& pay the pen
\forcelinebreak Your hand conferred upon her.


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\section{Idealism}


Deep in the soul a strong delusion dwells,
\forcelinebreak A curious round of fairly fashioned dreams;
\forcelinebreak Yet quietly, the pleasant vision swells
\forcelinebreak Its gay proportions far around; the streams
\forcelinebreak Of the wide universe their wealth supply,
\forcelinebreak Their everlasting sources furnish forth
\forcelinebreak The fabled splendours, whose immortal dye
\forcelinebreak Colours the scene with hues which mock the summer sky
\forcelinebreak And oh how sweetly, in youth’s seraph soul,
\forcelinebreak That vision, like the light of heaven, doth rest
\forcelinebreak Its name is Life; its Hours their circle roll
\forcelinebreak Like angels in the robes of morning drest;
\forcelinebreak And every phantom of the train is blest
\forcelinebreak Who shakes his plumes upon the odorous air,
\forcelinebreak Or lights a star upon his azure crest
\forcelinebreak And while the lovely beam reposes there
\forcelinebreak Joy in the guileless heart his welcome will prepare


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\section{I Spread My Gorgeous Sail}


I spread my gorgeous sail
\forcelinebreak Upon a starless sea
\forcelinebreak And oer the deep with a chilly gale
\forcelinebreak My painted bark sailed fast \& free —


Old Ocean shook his waves
\forcelinebreak Beneath the roaring wind,
\forcelinebreak But the little keel of the mariner braves
\forcelinebreak The foaming abyss, \& the midnight blind.


The firmament darkened overhead,
\forcelinebreak Below, the surges swelled, —
\forcelinebreak My bark ran low in the watery bed,
\forcelinebreak As the tempest breath its course compelled.


I took my silver lyre,
\forcelinebreak And waked its voice on high; —
\forcelinebreak The wild blasts were hushed to admire,
\forcelinebreak And the stars looked out from the charmed sky.


Bear me then, ye wild waters,
\forcelinebreak To Apollo’s Delphian isle,
\forcelinebreak My name is Music, in Castalie known,
\forcelinebreak Where bowers of joy the Nine beguile. —


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\section{A Shout to the Shepherds}


Freshly, gaily, the rivulet flows
\forcelinebreak Beside its emerald bank
\forcelinebreak Each silver bubble in beauty goes
\forcelinebreak Adown the stream \& briefly glows
\forcelinebreak Till it reach the broad flags \& the alders dank.
\forcelinebreak Shepherds, who love the lay
\forcelinebreak Of untaught bards in oaken shades
\forcelinebreak Brighteyed Apollos of the forest glades
\forcelinebreak Hither, hither, turn your way.
\forcelinebreak Come to the grassy border of the brook
\forcelinebreak Here where the ragged hawthorn dips
\forcelinebreak His prickly buds of perfume in the wave
\forcelinebreak And thence again a costly fragrance sips
\forcelinebreak Drinking with each balmy floweret’s lips
\forcelinebreak Pure from the Naiad’s welling urn
\forcelinebreak While overhead the embowering elms
\forcelinebreak Bow their broad branches \& keep out the day.
\forcelinebreak Hither, hither, turn your way.
\forcelinebreak Good bye.


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\section{I Wear No Badge; No Tinsel Star}


I wear no badge; no tinsel star
\forcelinebreak Glitters upon my breast;
\forcelinebreak Nor jewelled crown nor victor’s car
\forcelinebreak Rob me of rest.


I am not poor, but I am proud
\forcelinebreak Of one inalienable right,
\forcelinebreak Above the envy of the crowd —
\forcelinebreak Thought’s holy light.


Better it is than gems or gold,
\forcelinebreak And oh! it cannot die,
\forcelinebreak But thought will glow when the Sun grows cold,
\forcelinebreak And mix with Deity.


I love thy music, mellow bell,
\forcelinebreak I love thine iron chime,
\forcelinebreak To life or death, to heaven or hell,
\forcelinebreak Which calls the Sons of Time.


Thy voice upon the deep
\forcelinebreak The homebound sea-boy hails,
\forcelinebreak It charms his cares to sleep,
\forcelinebreak It cheers him as he sails.


To house of God \& heavenly joys
\forcelinebreak Thy summons called our sires,
\forcelinebreak And good men thought thy sacred voice
\forcelinebreak Disarmed the thunder’s fires.


And soon thy music, sad death-bell!
\forcelinebreak Shall lift its notes once more,
\forcelinebreak And mix my requiem with the wind
\forcelinebreak That sweeps my native shore.


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\section{I Rake No Coffined Clay, Nor Publish Wide}


I rake no coffined clay, nor publish wide
\forcelinebreak The resurrection of departed pride
\forcelinebreak Safe in their ancient crannies dark \& deep
\forcelinebreak Let kings \& conquerors saints \& soldiers sleep.
\forcelinebreak Late in the world too late perchance for fame
\forcelinebreak Just late enough to reap abundant blame
\forcelinebreak I choose a novel theme, a bold abuse
\forcelinebreak Of critic charters, an unlaurelled muse.


Old mouldy men \& books \& names \& lands
\forcelinebreak Disgust my reason \& defile my hands
\forcelinebreak I had as lief respect an ancient shoe
\forcelinebreak As love Old things for age, \& hate the new.
\forcelinebreak I spurn the Past, my mind disdains its nod
\forcelinebreak Nor kneels in homage to so mean a god.
\forcelinebreak I laugh at those who while they — \& gaze
\forcelinebreak The bald antiquity of China praise.
\forcelinebreak Youth is (whatever Cynic tubs pretend)
\forcelinebreak The fault that boys \& nations soonest mend.


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\section{O What Have I to Do}


O What have I to do
\forcelinebreak With merriment \& jollities
\forcelinebreak Youths golden hair \& sparkling eyes?
\forcelinebreak And deafening games that children prize


I am not made to tune a lute
\forcelinebreak Nor amble in a soft saloon
\forcelinebreak Nor mine the grace of kind salute
\forcelinebreak To mien of pride \& heart of stone


My pulse is slow my blood is cold
\forcelinebreak My stammering tongue is rudely tuned


I care not who shall kiss the cup
\forcelinebreak That Fashion holds to Beauty up
\forcelinebreak Nor who shall slip thro’ the smiling throng
\forcelinebreak With honied lyes upon his tongue
\forcelinebreak The swift hours that go singing by
\forcelinebreak Tell not the triflers they must die


Man to his work the merry to their wine
\forcelinebreak Friend to his friend folly to festivals
\forcelinebreak All hopes \& humors to their several ends
\forcelinebreak Sages to schools, young Passion to its love
\forcelinebreak Ambition to its task and me to mine.
\forcelinebreak I am not charged with dallying messages
\forcelinebreak That thus I mingle in this glittering crowd
\forcelinebreak Seeing with strange eyes their buffooneries


I am not tangled in the cobweb net
\forcelinebreak That wanton Beauty weaves for youth so knit
\forcelinebreak To some fair maid he follows with his eye
\forcelinebreak A sterner errand to the silken troop
\forcelinebreak Has quenched the uneasy blush that warmed my cheek
\forcelinebreak I am commissioned in my day of joy
\forcelinebreak To leave my woods \& streams \& the sweet sloth
\forcelinebreak Of prayer \& song that were my dear delight
\forcelinebreak To leave the rudeness of my woodland life
\forcelinebreak Sweet twilight walks and midnight solitude
\forcelinebreak And kind acquaintance with the morning stars
\forcelinebreak \& the smooth passage of my household hours
\forcelinebreak The innocent mirth which sweetens daily bread
\forcelinebreak Railing in love at those who rail again by mind’s industry sharpening the love of life
\forcelinebreak Books, Muses, study, fireside, friends, \& love,
\forcelinebreak I loved ye with true love, so fare ye well.


I was a boy; boyhood slid gaily by
\forcelinebreak And the impatient years that trod on it
\forcelinebreak Taught me new lessons in the lore of life.


I’ve learned the burthen of that sad history
\forcelinebreak All woman born do know, that hoped for days
\forcelinebreak Days that come dancing on fraught with delights
\forcelinebreak Dash our blown hopes as they limp heavily by
\forcelinebreak But I — the banding of a country Muse
\forcelinebreak Abandon all those toys with speed to obey
\forcelinebreak The King whose meek ambassador I go.


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\section{Have Ye Seen the Caterpillar}


Have ye seen the caterpillar
\forcelinebreak Foully warking in his nest?
\forcelinebreak Tis the poor man getting siller,
\forcelinebreak Without cleanness, without rest.
\forcelinebreak Have you seen the butterfly
\forcelinebreak In braw claithing drest?
\forcelinebreak Tis the poor man gotten rich,
\forcelinebreak In rings \& painted vest.
\forcelinebreak The poor man crawls in web of rags,
\forcelinebreak And sore bested with woes,
\forcelinebreak But when he flees on riches’ wings,
\forcelinebreak He laugheth at his foes.


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\section{The Panoply of Paradise is Mine}


The panoply of Paradise is mine
\forcelinebreak No armourer wrought it on Eteian forge
\forcelinebreak No dear luxurious maiden brought the gift
\forcelinebreak By lying bards profanely deemed divine
\forcelinebreak I am clad in mail of celestial proof
\forcelinebreak I brandish Michael’s sword of flame
\forcelinebreak And I come to quell the pride of the world
\forcelinebreak But avaunt these toys of poesy Why wrap
\forcelinebreak The fiery truths in riddles dark
\forcelinebreak Truth treads on the pride of Plato
\forcelinebreak Truth treads on lovesick rhymes
\forcelinebreak The fashion of riddling priests
\forcelinebreak The trick of Delphos \& Dodona
\forcelinebreak The cunning of Homer \& Hesiod
\forcelinebreak Mischievous polytheists who deceived mankind
\forcelinebreak These delusions are overpast.
\forcelinebreak The altar of the Capitoline god is crushed
\forcelinebreak The spindle of ancient Fate is broken
\forcelinebreak The sisters do not spin the eternal thread
\forcelinebreak There is no fire glowing on Persic mountains
\forcelinebreak Where the sun was greeted with fragrant spikenard
\forcelinebreak The Nile breeds crocodiles in his slime
\forcelinebreak And the pyramids are by great Alcairo
\forcelinebreak But the swarthy votary will not adore the reptile
\forcelinebreak And the dead oppressor is not entombed in the piles
\forcelinebreak The immortal Gods are deceased
\forcelinebreak Go let your fabled muses chant their obituary.
\forcelinebreak Do you see how the world slides away
\forcelinebreak How its huge pomps dwindle to unsubstantial things
\forcelinebreak Tho’ they were dear to the heart \& solid to the eye
\forcelinebreak There is a sentence on the lip of Tully
\forcelinebreak That Truth shall last tho’ the fabrics of imagination decay.
\forcelinebreak Many incidents up \& down in the world shall verify
\forcelinebreak The simple oracle.
\forcelinebreak The proud hieroglyphic shall be the child’s bauble alphabet
\forcelinebreak The spectral tale that blanched the forefather’s cheek
\forcelinebreak Makes merriment for vermillion maids.
\forcelinebreak Fools judge by outside show, for while
\forcelinebreak The champion vanquishes in vain
\forcelinebreak And armed kings are met unprofitably
\forcelinebreak (Great things that have no harvest home)
\forcelinebreak The unconscious wit scratches his paper in a corner
\forcelinebreak And the words that are writ
\forcelinebreak Burn like pains in ten thousand memories
\forcelinebreak And are chanted in thunder to the four winds.
\forcelinebreak And the pillars of social fabrics are shaken at the sound like bulrushes.


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\section{No Fate, Save by the Victim’s Fault, is Low}


No fate, save by the victim’s fault, is low,
\forcelinebreak For God hath writ all dooms magnificent,
\forcelinebreak So guilt not traverses his tender will.


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\section{When Success Exalts Thy Lot}


When success exalts thy lot
\forcelinebreak God for thy virtue lays a plot;
\forcelinebreak And all thy life is for thy own
\forcelinebreak Then for mankind’s instruction shewn;
\forcelinebreak And, tho’ thy knees were never bent,
\forcelinebreak To heaven thy hourly prayers are sent,
\forcelinebreak And whether formed for good or ill,
\forcelinebreak Are registered \& answered still.


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\section{The Spirits of the Wise, Sit on the Clouds}


The spirits of the wise, sit on the clouds
\forcelinebreak And mock the ambition of man
\forcelinebreak For his breath is vapour; his beauty the colour of a cloud
\forcelinebreak And his body \& soul are parted by a sun, a storm
\forcelinebreak Or the feeble fork of a poor worm
\forcelinebreak And who shall tell his household
\forcelinebreak Whither the soul of the dead man is gone.
\forcelinebreak Is it gone to live in torture
\forcelinebreak Enduring a dread resurrection into pain
\forcelinebreak And perceive mortal plagues in an immortal body
\forcelinebreak Sighing to the heavy centuries, that bring
\forcelinebreak No light no hope in their immeasurable train?
\forcelinebreak Is it gone to farther regions of unequal lot
\forcelinebreak To a land where the colours of love \& disgust
\forcelinebreak Are blended anew in the texture of the web
\forcelinebreak And the web is stained with black \& bloody clouds.
\forcelinebreak Is it gone to harmonies of joy
\forcelinebreak To the ardour of virtue \& the wealth of truth
\forcelinebreak Is it gone to blank oblivion
\forcelinebreak The mockery of hope \& virtue \& the death of God.
\forcelinebreak Alas! Alas! Alas!
\forcelinebreak Wo is me! for the sad survivor
\forcelinebreak Tho’ Fortune threw good not evil in his way
\forcelinebreak Showering the roses of pleasure \& the laurel of Fame
\forcelinebreak Whilst his brother breasted the driving snows
\forcelinebreak Alas for the sad survivor.
\forcelinebreak He walks the long streets of his native City
\forcelinebreak But the peopled street is like the desolate sea.
\forcelinebreak Men study his face and its lofty lines
\forcelinebreak And love the graceful tones of pride \& power
\forcelinebreak Rolled with rich thunder of eloquent words.
\forcelinebreak In the bosom of his own land.
\forcelinebreak They love him and they honour him
\forcelinebreak And they think his heart leaps at the voice of their praise.
\forcelinebreak But their thoughts are dark \& their eyes are dim
\forcelinebreak And they cannot see that a noble nature
\forcelinebreak Must pine or be matched with noble things.
\forcelinebreak It is ill with the living, it is well with the dead.
\forcelinebreak It is better with the dead who live
\forcelinebreak Than it is with the living who die daily.
\forcelinebreak Oh Life, thou art a house wherein Fears inhabit
\forcelinebreak And when Man, poor pilgrim, enters the doors
\forcelinebreak They flock unto him with icy hands
\forcelinebreak They lead him in their shivering company
\forcelinebreak And if he come to a shining room
\forcelinebreak They tell him it leads to a dungeon tower.


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\section{Let Not Conceited Sages Laugh Aloud}


Let not conceited sages laugh aloud
\forcelinebreak Because another ventures from the crowd
\forcelinebreak And all unblushing in the sun assumes
\forcelinebreak The bard’s derided bays — ridiculous to grooms.
\forcelinebreak I know a rabble of misguided men
\forcelinebreak Have seized with untaught hand the poet’s pen
\forcelinebreak And alien born to morals \& to mind
\forcelinebreak Usurped the laureate pomp \& mocked mankind.
\forcelinebreak I know the Muses kept their shells unstrung
\forcelinebreak And hid their starcrowned heads while Dulness sung
\forcelinebreak Men of vain hearts but uninstructed souls
\forcelinebreak Talk out the madness of their midnight bowls


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\section{My Days Roll by Me Like a Train of Dreams}


My days roll by me like a train of dreams
\forcelinebreak A host of joyless undistinguished forms
\forcelinebreak Cloud after cloud my firmament deforms
\forcelinebreak While the sweet Eye of Heaven his purple gleams
\forcelinebreak Pour in rich rivers of Promethean beams
\forcelinebreak On all his ample family beside
\forcelinebreak On me on me the day forgets to dawn
\forcelinebreak Encountering darkness clasps me like a bride
\forcelinebreak Tombs rise around and from each cell forlorn
\forcelinebreak Starts with an ominous cry some ghastly child
\forcelinebreak Of death \& darkness, summoning me to mourn
\forcelinebreak Companion of the clod brother of worms —
\forcelinebreak The future has no hope and memory mild
\forcelinebreak Gives not the blessed light that once my woes beguiled.


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\section{One Hand Washes the Other}


One hand washes the other.
\forcelinebreak I’ll not pilfer a victory.
\forcelinebreak I’ll not be a moth of peace
\forcelinebreak I’ll turn my plumed helm into a skillet.


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\section{Whoso Alas is Young}


Whoso alas is young
\forcelinebreak And being young is wise
\forcelinebreak And deaf to saws of gray advice
\forcelinebreak Hath listened when the Muses sung
\forcelinebreak And heard with joy when on the wind the shell of Clio rung


In tender youth if he was proud
\forcelinebreak Nor would his gentle soul profane
\forcelinebreak And loathed the arts of gain
\forcelinebreak Assorted with the rabble crowd
\forcelinebreak But shared his soul with few, or sauntered lone \& proud


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\section{When Thy Soul}


When thy soul
\forcelinebreak Is filled with a just image fear not thou
\forcelinebreak Lest halting rhymes or unharmonious verse
\forcelinebreak Cripple the fair Conception Leave the heart
\forcelinebreak Alone to find its language. In all tongues
\forcelinebreak It hath a sovereign instinct that doth teach
\forcelinebreak An eloquence which rules can never give.
\forcelinebreak In the high hour when Destiny ordains
\forcelinebreak That thou bear testimony to its dooms
\forcelinebreak That hour a guiding spirit shall impart
\forcelinebreak The fervid utterance art could never find
\forcelinebreak Wait then, stern friend, wait in majestic peace.


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\section{The Blackbird’s Song the Blackbird’s Song}


The blackbird’s song the blackbird’s song
\forcelinebreak Still still it warbles in my ear
\forcelinebreak Tho’ I have travelled many a mile
\forcelinebreak From the sweet woods where the bird is found.


The sound rings shrilly in my ear
\forcelinebreak It vibrates strong on every nerve
\forcelinebreak Impels the blood in a swifter tide
\forcelinebreak And riots thro’ all the house of life.


It hurries me back my sense my eye
\forcelinebreak My ear, my heart, to the dusky lake
\forcelinebreak Whose silent margin I trod alone
\forcelinebreak When the morn sent me on my way.


The sun was veiled in summer clouds
\forcelinebreak Nor spared one beam to welcome me
\forcelinebreak The wind in the chambers of the mount
\forcelinebreak Lay couched nor breathed his gay good morrow.


But where the chestnut \& the oak
\forcelinebreak Fringed the smooth lake with leaves
\forcelinebreak And on the slender boughs of the birch
\forcelinebreak And amid the berries of the cedar tree


There tilting \& shaking down the dew
\forcelinebreak Sang his good song the merry blackbird
\forcelinebreak Quoth he, I hope you like music young man —
\forcelinebreak For I’m determined to be heard.


And straightway as he sang, the sound
\forcelinebreak Woke every bird in the silent woods
\forcelinebreak On a thousand sprays, above around
\forcelinebreak They poured their notes to the sylvan gods.


Then the shy ducks that were swimming there
\forcelinebreak Skirred along the lake to a distant cove
\forcelinebreak And the pelican started from the reeds
\forcelinebreak And poised his broad wings on the morning air.


And I am here
\forcelinebreak On the green earth contemplating the moon
\forcelinebreak Much marvelling what may betide tomorrow
\forcelinebreak I love my life


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\section{I Am an Exile From My Home; Heavily}


I am an exile from my home; heavily
\forcelinebreak And all alone I walk the long sea shore
\forcelinebreak And find no joy. The trees the bushes talk to me
\forcelinebreak And the small fly that whispers in my ear.
\forcelinebreak Ah me I do not love the look
\forcelinebreak Of foreign men
\forcelinebreak And we is me that I forsook
\forcelinebreak My little home my lamp my book
\forcelinebreak To find across the foaming seas
\forcelinebreak This cheerless fen.


He must have
\forcelinebreak Droll fancies sometimes cross his quiet thoughts,
\forcelinebreak Who in my vagrant verse shall look to find
\forcelinebreak A holiday from study or from toil,
\forcelinebreak And consolation to his mortal care.
\forcelinebreak Such idler will not be a man of name,
\forcelinebreak But must be, \& therein resembles me,
\forcelinebreak A little liable to ridicule,
\forcelinebreak Because he cares a particle too much
\forcelinebreak For the opinion of the fickle world;
\forcelinebreak And notes how Merit does not swim to place
\forcelinebreak In th’ tides of this world, — \& feels the scandal oft
\forcelinebreak Of low salute to men of meaner mould;
\forcelinebreak And yet has felt, albeit with scorn the while,
\forcelinebreak A kind of justice in the Seneschal,
\forcelinebreak The uncivil fate, that made his fortunes vile.
\forcelinebreak I am frank, my friend, your eye has found
\forcelinebreak A gipsy muse that reads your lineaments
\forcelinebreak To tell the faithful fortunes of your life.
\forcelinebreak Go to, I’ll feed my humour to the full,
\forcelinebreak And still expand the pleasant commentary.
\forcelinebreak Who loves my verse is one whose roving eye
\forcelinebreak Detects more beauty than his tongue will own
\forcelinebreak In art \& nature. Nay his traitor tongue
\forcelinebreak Sometimes consenting to the coxcomb’s jest,
\forcelinebreak Derides the beauty which delights his soul.
\forcelinebreak He is a man, who, though he told it not,
\forcelinebreak Mourned in the hour of manhood whilst he saw
\forcelinebreak The rich imagination which had tinged
\forcelinebreak Each earthly thing with hues from paradise
\forcelinebreak Forsake forever his instructed eye,
\forcelinebreak Bewailed its loss \& felt how dearly bought
\forcelinebreak Is wisdom at the price of happiness.
\forcelinebreak Ah me, sometimes in
\forcelinebreak And sometimes when the dainty southwind blew
\forcelinebreak Its soft luxurious airs, \& called the clouds
\forcelinebreak Mustering their hosts from all the sunny bays, —
\forcelinebreak Then when the piping wind \& sounding sea
\forcelinebreak And tossing boughs combined their cadences,
\forcelinebreak The sweet \& solemn melody they made
\forcelinebreak Enticed him oft in heady wantonness
\forcelinebreak To scoff at knowledge, mock the forms of life,
\forcelinebreak Cast off his years \& be a boy again.
\forcelinebreak Then has he left his books, \& vulgar cares,
\forcelinebreak And sallied forth across the freshened fields
\forcelinebreak With all the heart of highborn cavalier
\forcelinebreak In quest of forest glades hid from the sun,
\forcelinebreak And dim enchantments that therein abide.


I had rather follow him than talk to him;
\forcelinebreak Fast fast he leaves the villages behind,
\forcelinebreak As one who loathed them, yet he loathes them not,
\forcelinebreak And snuffs the scents which on the dallying gale
\forcelinebreak The woods send out as gentle harbingers
\forcelinebreak Bro’t from their inmost glens to lure the step
\forcelinebreak Of the pleased pilgrim to their alleys green.
\forcelinebreak I know the pleasures of this humour well
\forcelinebreak And, please you, reader, I’ll remember them.
\forcelinebreak First the glad sense of solitude, the sure
\forcelinebreak The absolute deliverance from the yoke
\forcelinebreak Of social forms, that are as tedious
\forcelinebreak Oft to a fretful \& romantic man
\forcelinebreak As a musquito’s song at summer eve.
\forcelinebreak In the wood he is alone, \& for the hollow chat
\forcelinebreak Of men that do not love, \& will not think,
\forcelinebreak He has the unpretending company
\forcelinebreak Of birds \& squirrels \& the fine race of flowers.
\forcelinebreak He forms his friendships with the flowers
\forcelinebreak Whose habits or whose hue may please him best,
\forcelinebreak Goes by the red \& yellow populace
\forcelinebreak That with their vulgar beauty spot the plain
\forcelinebreak To find the honoured orchis — seldom seen,
\forcelinebreak The low pyrola with a lilac’s smell,
\forcelinebreak Or the small cinque-foil, the wild strawberry’s friend.
\forcelinebreak He speculates with love on Natures forms
\forcelinebreak Admires a calyx much as Winkelmann
\forcelinebreak The architecture of a Doric Pile
\forcelinebreak Not more he doated on the [ ]Of frieze or triglyph or on architrave,
\forcelinebreak Than doth this dreamer, on the slender shaft
\forcelinebreak With awns \& stipules graced, that lifts in air
\forcelinebreak The lily or the loosestrife, tapestried with leaves.
\forcelinebreak And close below
\forcelinebreak The faithful capsule to transmit its race
\forcelinebreak Like from its like to another year of flowers,
\forcelinebreak Once more to be the food of tuneful bird
\forcelinebreak Low stooping on swift wing, or busy bee,
\forcelinebreak Or the small nameless eaters that can find
\forcelinebreak A country in a leaf. —


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\section{St. Augustine}


For fifteen winter days
\forcelinebreak I sailed upon the deep, \& turned my back
\forcelinebreak Upon the Northern lights, \& burning Bear,
\forcelinebreak On the twin Bears fast tethered to the Pole
\forcelinebreak And the cold orbs that hang by them in heaven,
\forcelinebreak Till star by star they sank into the sea.
\forcelinebreak Full swelled the sail before the driving wind,
\forcelinebreak Till the stout pilot turned his prow to land,
\forcelinebreak Where peered, mid orange groves \& citron boughs,
\forcelinebreak The little city of Saint Augustine.


Slow slid the vessel to the fragrant shore,
\forcelinebreak Loitering along Matanzas’ sunny waves,
\forcelinebreak And under Anastasia’s verdant isle.
\forcelinebreak I saw Saint Mark’s grim bastions, piles of stone
\forcelinebreak Planting their deep foundations in the sea,
\forcelinebreak And speaking to the eye a thousand things
\forcelinebreak Of Spain, a thousand heavy histories.
\forcelinebreak Under these bleached walls of old renown
\forcelinebreak Our ship was moored.


— An hour of busy noise,
\forcelinebreak And I was made a quiet citizen,
\forcelinebreak Pacing my chamber in a Spanish street.
\forcelinebreak An exile’s bread is salt, his heart is sad, —
\forcelinebreak Happy, he saith, the eye that never saw
\forcelinebreak The smoke ascending from a stranger’s fire!


Yet much is here
\forcelinebreak Than can beguile the months of banishment
\forcelinebreak To the pale travellers whom Disease hath sent
\forcelinebreak Hither for genial air from Northern homes.
\forcelinebreak Oh many a tragic story can be read, —
\forcelinebreak Dim vestiges of a romantic past,
\forcelinebreak Within the small peninsula of sand.
\forcelinebreak Here is the old land of America
\forcelinebreak And in this sea-girt nook, the infant steps
\forcelinebreak First foot-prints of that Genius giant-grown
\forcelinebreak That daunts the nations with his power today.


Inquisitive of such, I walk alone
\forcelinebreak Along the narrow streets, unpaved \& old,
\forcelinebreak Among few dwellers, and the jealous doors
\forcelinebreak And windows barred upon the public way.


I explored
\forcelinebreak The castle \& the ruined monastery
\forcelinebreak Unpeopled town, ruins of streets of stone,
\forcelinebreak Pillars upon the margin of the sea,
\forcelinebreak With worn inscriptions oft explored in vain,
\forcelinebreak Then with a keener scrutiny, I marked
\forcelinebreak The motley population. Hither come
\forcelinebreak The forest families, timid \& tame
\forcelinebreak Not now as once with stained tomahawk
\forcelinebreak The restless red man left his council fire,
\forcelinebreak Or when, with Mexique art, he painted haughtily
\forcelinebreak On canvas woven in his boundless woods
\forcelinebreak His simple symbols for his foes to read.
\forcelinebreak Not such an one is yon poor vagabond
\forcelinebreak Who in unclean \& sloven apathy
\forcelinebreak Brings venison from the forest, — silly trade.
\forcelinebreak Alas! red men are few, red men are feeble,
\forcelinebreak They are few \& feeble, \& must pass away. —
\forcelinebreak — And here,
\forcelinebreak The dark Minorcan, sad \& separate,
\forcelinebreak Wrapt in his cloak, strolls with unsocial eye:
\forcelinebreak By day, basks idle in the sun, then seeks his food
\forcelinebreak All night upon the waters, stilly plying
\forcelinebreak His hook \& line in all the moonlit bays.
\forcelinebreak Here steals the sick man with uncertain gait
\forcelinebreak Looks with a feeble spirit at things around
\forcelinebreak As if he sighing said, “What is’t to me?
\forcelinebreak “I dwell afar; — far from this cheerless fen
\forcelinebreak “My wife, my children strain their eyes to me
\forcelinebreak “And oh! in vain. Wo, we is me! I feel
\forcelinebreak “In spite of hope, these wishful eyes no more
\forcelinebreak “Shall see New England’s wood-crowned hills again.”
\forcelinebreak X X X X X
\forcelinebreak (Here is a chasm very much to be regretted in the original manuscript.)
\forcelinebreak X X X X X X
\forcelinebreak There liest thou, little city of the deep,
\forcelinebreak And alway hearest the unceasing sound
\forcelinebreak By day \& night in summer \& in frost,
\forcelinebreak The roar of waters on thy coral shore.
\forcelinebreak But softening southward in thy gentle clime
\forcelinebreak Even the rude sea relents to clemency,
\forcelinebreak Feels the kind ray of that benignant sun
\forcelinebreak And pours warm billows up the beach of shells.
\forcelinebreak Farewell; \& fair befall thee, gentle town!
\forcelinebreak The prayer of those who thank thee for their life,
\forcelinebreak The benison of those thy fragrant airs,
\forcelinebreak And simple hospitality hath blest,
\forcelinebreak Be to thee ever as the rich perfume
\forcelinebreak Of a good name, \& pleasant memory!


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\section{Awed I Behold Once More}


Awed I behold once more
\forcelinebreak My old familiar haunts; here the blue river
\forcelinebreak The same blue wonder that my infant eye
\forcelinebreak Admired, sage doubting whence the traveller came, —
\forcelinebreak Whence brought his sunny bubbles ere he washed
\forcelinebreak The fragrant flag roots in my father’s fields,
\forcelinebreak And where thereafter in the world he went.


Look, here he is unaltered, save that now
\forcelinebreak He hath broke his banks \& flooded all the vales
\forcelinebreak With his redundant waves.


Here is the rock where yet a simple child
\forcelinebreak I caught with bended pin my earliest fish,
\forcelinebreak Much triumphing, — And these the fields
\forcelinebreak Over whose flowers I chased the butterfly,
\forcelinebreak A blooming hunter of a fairy fine.
\forcelinebreak And hark! where overhead the ancient crows
\forcelinebreak Hold their sour conversation in the sky.
\forcelinebreak These are the same, but I am not the same
\forcelinebreak But wiser than I was, \& wise enough
\forcelinebreak Not to regret the changes, tho’ they cost
\forcelinebreak Me many a sigh. Oh call not Nature dumb;
\forcelinebreak These trees \& stones are audible to me,
\forcelinebreak These idle flowers, that tremble in the wind,
\forcelinebreak I understand their faery syllables,
\forcelinebreak And all their sad significance. This wind,
\forcelinebreak That rustles down the well-known forest road —
\forcelinebreak It hath a sound more eloquent than speech.
\forcelinebreak The stream, the trees, the grass, the sighing wind,
\forcelinebreak All of them utter sounds of admonishment
\forcelinebreak And grave parental love.


They are not of our race, they seem to say,
\forcelinebreak And yet have knowledge of our moral race,
\forcelinebreak And somewhat of majestic sympathy,
\forcelinebreak Something of pity for the puny clay,
\forcelinebreak That holds \& boasts the immeasureable mind.


I feel as if I were welcome to these trees
\forcelinebreak After long months of weary wandering,
\forcelinebreak Acknowledged by their hospitable boughs;
\forcelinebreak They know me as their son, for side by side,
\forcelinebreak They were coeval with my ancestors,
\forcelinebreak Adorned with them my country’s primitive times,
\forcelinebreak And soon may give my dust their funeral shade.


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\section{An Ancient Lady Who Dwelt in Rome}


An ancient lady who dwelt in Rome
\forcelinebreak Bro’t Tarquin the King her Album from home
\forcelinebreak Nine ponderous volumes conveyed in a cart
\forcelinebreak And mentioned that this was only a part
\forcelinebreak And requested the monarch to buy the nine tomes
\forcelinebreak At a price he thought might buy nine Romes.
\forcelinebreak The unmannerly king refused to buy
\forcelinebreak A lady’s Album appraised so high,
\forcelinebreak And she, to show her honest ire,
\forcelinebreak Threw the three first volumes into the fire,
\forcelinebreak And offered the king the rest of her lore
\forcelinebreak At the price she had fixed for the nine before.
\forcelinebreak The king was amazed at the lady’s story,
\forcelinebreak But the argument now was an a fortiori,
\forcelinebreak And he flatly refused to redeem the volumes,
\forcelinebreak Whatever might be or might not in their columns.
\forcelinebreak The lady departed, \& straightway burned
\forcelinebreak Three more of the six, \& then returned


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\section{Be of Good Cheer, Brave Spirit; Steadfastly}


Be of good cheer, brave spirit; steadfastly
\forcelinebreak Serve that low whisper thou hast served; for know,
\forcelinebreak God hath a select family of Sons
\forcelinebreak Now scattered wide thro’ earth, \& each alone,
\forcelinebreak Who are thy spiritual kindred, \& each one
\forcelinebreak By constant service to that inward law,
\forcelinebreak Is rearing the sublime proportions
\forcelinebreak Of a true monarch’s soul. Beauty \& Strength


The riches of a spotless memory,
\forcelinebreak The eloquence of truth, the wisdom got
\forcelinebreak By searching of a clear \& loving eye
\forcelinebreak That seeth as God seeth These are their gifts
\forcelinebreak And Time who keeps God’s word brings on the day
\forcelinebreak To seal the marriage of these minds with thine
\forcelinebreak Thine everlasting lovers. Ye shall be
\forcelinebreak The salt of all the elements, world of the world


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\section{The Winds Are Cold, the Days Are Dark}


The winds are cold, the days are dark,
\forcelinebreak In this unlovely land
\forcelinebreak The East wind rises with the tide
\forcelinebreak To chill the populous strand


Above me shines no Syrian moon
\forcelinebreak With warm luxurious glow,
\forcelinebreak Nor golden orange groves at noon
\forcelinebreak Perfume the world below.


Yet more I prize this frozen land,
\forcelinebreak This iron soil of ours,
\forcelinebreak Than fields by Indian breezes fanned
\forcelinebreak And crimsoned oer with flowers


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\section{Written in Sickness}


I bear in youth the sad infirmities
\forcelinebreak That use to undo the limb \& sense of age:
\forcelinebreak It hath pleased Heaven to break the dream of bliss
\forcelinebreak Which lit my onward way with bright presage,
\forcelinebreak And my unserviceable limbs forego
\forcelinebreak The sweet delight I found in fields \& farms,
\forcelinebreak On windy hills, whose tops with morning glow,
\forcelinebreak And lakes, smooth mirrors of Aurora’s charms.
\forcelinebreak Yet I think on them in the silent night,
\forcelinebreak Still breaks that morn, though dim, to Memory’s eye
\forcelinebreak And the firm soul does the pale train defy
\forcelinebreak Of grim Disease, that would her peace affright.
\forcelinebreak Please God, I’ll wrap me in mine innocence
\forcelinebreak And bid each awful Muse drive the damned harpies hence.


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\section{Oil \& Wine}


Oil \& Wine,
\forcelinebreak Sparkling gems, \& rich attire,
\forcelinebreak House \& lands that men desire,
\forcelinebreak — Ye may seek at Plutus’ shrine.


High renown,
\forcelinebreak Plaudits from desiring throngs,
\forcelinebreak Echoed far by poets songs
\forcelinebreak Are dowry to the Victors crown.


Royal state,
\forcelinebreak Diamond star, \& cap of gold,
\forcelinebreak Bedizened throne, how hard to hold!
\forcelinebreak — Are got by force, or fraud, or fate.


Man must learn — .
\forcelinebreak In haunts of care, in fields of strife,
\forcelinebreak Are bought the glittering goods of life,
\forcelinebreak These to ashes turn.


But go thou home,
\forcelinebreak Home to the mansion of the mind,
\forcelinebreak If solid good thy search would find,
\forcelinebreak In the bright bower of Joy, \& Thought’s immortal dome.


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\section{All That Thy Virgin Soul Can Ask Be Thine}


All that thy virgin soul can ask be thine
\forcelinebreak Beautiful Ellen Let this prayer be mine
\forcelinebreak The first devotion that my soul has paid
\forcelinebreak To mortal grace it pays to thee fair maid
\forcelinebreak I am enamoured of thy loveliness
\forcelinebreak Lovesick with thy sweet beauty which shall bless
\forcelinebreak With its glad light my path of life around
\forcelinebreak Which now is joyless where thou art not found
\forcelinebreak Now am I stricken with the sympathy
\forcelinebreak That binds the whole world in electric tie
\forcelinebreak I hail love’s birth within my hermit breast
\forcelinebreak And welcome the bright ordinance to be blest
\forcelinebreak I was a hermit whom the lone Muse cheers,
\forcelinebreak I sped apart my solitary years,
\forcelinebreak I found no joy in woman’s meaning eye
\forcelinebreak When Fashion’s merry mob were dancing by;
\forcelinebreak Yet had I read the law all laws above,
\forcelinebreak — Great Nature hath ordained the heart to love —
\forcelinebreak Yet had I heard that in this mortal state
\forcelinebreak To every mind exists its natural mate,
\forcelinebreak That God at first did marry soul to soul
\forcelinebreak Tho’ lands divide \& seas between them roll.
\forcelinebreak Then eagerly I searched each circle round
\forcelinebreak I panted for my mate, but no mate found
\forcelinebreak I saw bright eyes, fair forms, complexions fine,
\forcelinebreak But not a single soul that spoke to mine.
\forcelinebreak At last the star broke thro’ the hiding cloud,
\forcelinebreak At last I found thee in the silken crowd
\forcelinebreak I found thee, Ellen, born to love \& shine,
\forcelinebreak And I who found am blessed to call thee mine.


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\section{That Wandering Fire to Me Appears}


That wandering fire to me appears
\forcelinebreak Albeit a tiny spark
\forcelinebreak Older than the oldest spheres
\forcelinebreak That glow in the heavens dark


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\section{Though Her Eye Seek Other Forms}


Though her eye seek other forms
\forcelinebreak And a glad delight below
\forcelinebreak Yet the love the world that warms
\forcelinebreak Bids for me her bosom glow


She must love me till she find
\forcelinebreak Another heart as large \& true
\forcelinebreak Her soul like mine is unconfined
\forcelinebreak And the world has only two


If Nature hold another heart
\forcelinebreak That knows a purer flame than we
\forcelinebreak I too therein would challenge part
\forcelinebreak And learn of love a new degree


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\section{Dear Ellen, Many a Golden Year}


Dear Ellen, many a golden year
\forcelinebreak May ripe, then dim, thy beauty’s bloom
\forcelinebreak But never shall the hour appear
\forcelinebreak In sunny joy, in sorrow’s gloom,
\forcelinebreak When aught shall hinder me from telling
\forcelinebreak My ardent love, all loves excelling.


The spot is not in the rounded earth,
\forcelinebreak In cities vast, in islands lone,
\forcelinebreak Where I will not proclaim thy worth,
\forcelinebreak And glory that thou art mine own;
\forcelinebreak Will you, nill you, I’ll say I love thee,
\forcelinebreak Be the moon of June or of March above thee.


And when this porcelain clay of thine
\forcelinebreak Is laid beneath the cold earth’s flowers,
\forcelinebreak And close beside reposes mine,
\forcelinebreak Prey to the sun \& air \& showers,
\forcelinebreak I’ll find thy soul in the upper sphere,
\forcelinebreak And say I love thee in Paradise here.


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\section{I Call Her Beautiful; — She Says}


I call her beautiful; — she says
\forcelinebreak Go to; your words are idle;
\forcelinebreak My lips began to speak her praise,
\forcelinebreak My lips she tried to bridle.
\forcelinebreak But, Ellen, I must tell you this,
\forcelinebreak Your prohibition wasted is,
\forcelinebreak Unless among your things you find
\forcelinebreak A little jail to hold the mind;
\forcelinebreak If you should dazzle out mine eyes,
\forcelinebreak As dimmer suns sometimes have done,
\forcelinebreak My sleepless ears, those judges wise,
\forcelinebreak Would say, Tis the voice of the Peerless one.
\forcelinebreak And if your witchery decree
\forcelinebreak That my five senses closed should be,
\forcelinebreak The little image in my soul
\forcelinebreak Is Ellen out of Ellen’s controul,
\forcelinebreak And whilst I live in the Universe
\forcelinebreak I will say tis my beauty, for better, for worse.


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\section{I’ve Found the Dainty Malice Out}


I’ve found the dainty malice out
\forcelinebreak Of Ellen’s hypocritic eye
\forcelinebreak She’s wound her gipsy nets about


I thought it was no harm to watch
\forcelinebreak The features of an artless maid


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\section{And Do I Waste My Time}


And do I waste my time
\forcelinebreak Scribbling of love to my beautiful queen
\forcelinebreak And is it idle to talk in prose \& rhyme
\forcelinebreak Of one who at midnight \& morning’s prime
\forcelinebreak In daylight is fancied, in visions seen?
\forcelinebreak And do I forget the burning crown
\forcelinebreak That Glory should weave of light for me


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\section{And Though He Dearly Prized the Bards of Fame}


And though he dearly prized the bards of fame
\forcelinebreak His sweetest poem was one maiden’s name


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\section{And Ellen, When the Greybeard Years}


And Ellen, when the greybeard years
\forcelinebreak Have brought us to life’s Evening hour
\forcelinebreak And all the crowded Past appears
\forcelinebreak A tiny scene of sun \& shower. —


Then, if I read the page aright
\forcelinebreak Where Hope the soothsayer reads our lot,
\forcelinebreak Thyself shalt own the page was bright
\forcelinebreak Well that we loved we had we not.


When Mirth is dumb \& Flattery’s fled
\forcelinebreak And thy mute music’s dearest tone
\forcelinebreak When all but Love itself is dead,
\forcelinebreak And all but deathless Reason gone


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\section{The Brave Empedocles Defying Fools}


The brave Empedocles defying fools
\forcelinebreak Pronounced the word that mortals hate to hear
\forcelinebreak “I am divine I am not mortal made
\forcelinebreak I am superior to my human weeds.”
\forcelinebreak Not sense but Reason is the Judge of truth
\forcelinebreak Reason’s twofold; part human part divine
\forcelinebreak That human part may be described \& taught
\forcelinebreak The other portion language cannot speak


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\section{Dear Brother, Would You Know the Life}


Dear brother, would you know the life
\forcelinebreak Please God, that I would lead?
\forcelinebreak On the first wheels that quit this weary town
\forcelinebreak Over yon western bridges I would ride
\forcelinebreak And with a cheerful benison forsake
\forcelinebreak Each street \& spire \& roof incontinent.
\forcelinebreak Then would I seek where God might guide my steps,
\forcelinebreak Deep in a woodland tract, a sunny farm,
\forcelinebreak Amid the mountain counties, Hants Franklin Berks,
\forcelinebreak Where down the rock ravine a river roars,
\forcelinebreak Even from a brook, \& where old woods
\forcelinebreak Not tamed \& cleared, cumber the ample ground
\forcelinebreak With their centennial wrecks.
\forcelinebreak Find me a slope where I can feel the sun
\forcelinebreak And mark the rising of the early stars.
\forcelinebreak There will I bring my books, my household gods,
\forcelinebreak The reliquaires of my dead saint, \& dwell
\forcelinebreak In the sweet odor of her memory.
\forcelinebreak There, in the uncouth solitude, unlock
\forcelinebreak My stock of art, plant dials, in the grass,
\forcelinebreak Hang in the air a bright thermometer,
\forcelinebreak And aim a telescope at the inviolate Sun.


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\section{Dost Thou Not Hear Me Ellen}


Dost thou not hear me Ellen
\forcelinebreak Is thy ear deaf to me
\forcelinebreak Is thy radiant eye
\forcelinebreak Dark that it cannot see


In yonder ground thy limbs are laid
\forcelinebreak Under the snow
\forcelinebreak And earth has no spot so dear above
\forcelinebreak As that below


And there I know the heart is still
\forcelinebreak And the eye is shut \& the ear is dull


But the spirit that dwelt in mine
\forcelinebreak The spirit wherein mine dwelt
\forcelinebreak The soul of Ellen the thought divine
\forcelinebreak From God, that came — for all that felt


Does it not know me now
\forcelinebreak Does it not share my thought
\forcelinebreak Is it prisoned from Waldo’s prayer
\forcelinebreak Is its glowing love forgot


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\section{Teach Me I Am Forgotten by the Dead}


Teach me I am forgotten by the dead
\forcelinebreak And that the dead is by herself forgot
\forcelinebreak And I no longer would keep terms with me.
\forcelinebreak I would not murder, steal, or fornicate,
\forcelinebreak Nor with ambition break the peace of towns
\forcelinebreak But I would bury my ambition
\forcelinebreak The hope \& action of my sovereign soul
\forcelinebreak In miserable ruin. Not a hope
\forcelinebreak Should ever make a holiday for me
\forcelinebreak I would not be the fool of accident
\forcelinebreak I would not have a project seek an end
\forcelinebreak That needed aught
\forcelinebreak Beyond the handful of my present means
\forcelinebreak The sun of Duty drop from his firmament
\forcelinebreak To be a rushlight for each petty end
\forcelinebreak I would not harm my fellow men
\forcelinebreak On this low argument, ’twould harm myself


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\section{Why Should I Live}


Why should I live
\forcelinebreak The future will repeat the past
\forcelinebreak Yet cannot give
\forcelinebreak Again the Vision beautiful too beautiful to last
\forcelinebreak And o perhaps the welcome stroke
\forcelinebreak That severs forever this fleshly yoke
\forcelinebreak Shall restore the vision to the soul
\forcelinebreak In the great Vision of the Whole.


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\section{Shall the Muse Sing for Thousands \& Not Sing}


Shall the Muse sing for thousands \& not sing
\forcelinebreak For thee a Muse thyself of sweetest lay
\forcelinebreak I would forget my
\forcelinebreak What is life for \& what is Memory
\forcelinebreak If it wants room for thee Is it a curse
\forcelinebreak Can it contain all painful circumstance
\forcelinebreak Each dull degrading fact \& make life stale
\forcelinebreak With its street calendar its tavern roll
\forcelinebreak And can it not sanctify itself with thee
\forcelinebreak Yea fill the soul with odoriferous thought
\forcelinebreak By limning there thy lineaments in the serene
\forcelinebreak \& Spiritual beauty God drest thee withal
\forcelinebreak And write the story of an angel’s life
\forcelinebreak And all thy ministry to thine \& mine
\forcelinebreak And me


Shalt thou go to thy grave unsung
\forcelinebreak Shall no flower be plucked for thee
\forcelinebreak Shall no rites be paid no death bell rung
\forcelinebreak When the desire of all eyes is gone


’Tis well for we
\forcelinebreak Are on the outside of that world
\forcelinebreak Wherein thou enterest fair \& free
\forcelinebreak And all the rites we pay
\forcelinebreak Are symbols bodily
\forcelinebreak Gropings in the dark
\forcelinebreak Around the door


Thou art gone in to God
\forcelinebreak Thou walkest in heaven’s day
\forcelinebreak Thou talkest with the seraphim
\forcelinebreak The select sons of truth
\forcelinebreak Thou addest a verse to their hymn
\forcelinebreak And curious speculation occupies
\forcelinebreak Thy radiant eyes
\forcelinebreak Every thought fresh wonders brings
\forcelinebreak On his planetary wings
\forcelinebreak And every thought is a chapel where
\forcelinebreak Thou perfumest heaven with prayer
\forcelinebreak And the eldest born of Godhead say
\forcelinebreak What star beams new on us today
\forcelinebreak And yet thou hast a bond on earth
\forcelinebreak Which thou wilt keep in heaven
\forcelinebreak The nearer to the throne thou goest
\forcelinebreak The more place it will have in thy holy breast.


For I know that the Universe cannot blot
\forcelinebreak From a holy soul its true record
\forcelinebreak And so on a cherub’s wings I fly
\forcelinebreak To the Holy of Holies of the Lord


If the heart is raised by heavenly choirs
\forcelinebreak That which here made heaven is not lost
\forcelinebreak And so I rise on her risen desires
\forcelinebreak Amid the pure martyrs’ host.


If there is joy when a sinner comes
\forcelinebreak There’s sympathy when
\forcelinebreak The dust lies on thy head
\forcelinebreak In the dark sepulchre
\forcelinebreak Thou hast gone alone to thy bed
\forcelinebreak Peace calm peace to her,
\forcelinebreak But oh what funeral is thine
\forcelinebreak My holy wife
\forcelinebreak Sad thoughts in every kindred breast
\forcelinebreak That knew thou hadst passed from life
\forcelinebreak And in the breast you loved


In the Soul that was dear to you
\forcelinebreak Dark hopeless visions roved
\forcelinebreak And a perpetual yew


And every day renews
\forcelinebreak The unrepaired regret


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\section{What From This Barren Being Do We Reap}


What from this barren being do we reap
\forcelinebreak And what shall hinder the wise
\forcelinebreak From lying down to sleep in the earth
\forcelinebreak The innocent child is dead
\forcelinebreak The blushing cheek of youth is cold
\forcelinebreak Genius hath untimely fled
\forcelinebreak Nor hath the world a face
\forcelinebreak To fill thy vacant place
\forcelinebreak O radiant daughter of light \& love
\forcelinebreak Too rich in the graces that dwell above
\forcelinebreak To be lent long to the sinful earth
\forcelinebreak God had garnished with thy birth.
\forcelinebreak Thou wert pure as they are not
\forcelinebreak Who dwell upon this murky spot
\forcelinebreak And every thing that’s fair below.


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\section{Dust Unto Dust! And Shall No More Be Said}


Dust unto dust! and shall no more be said
\forcelinebreak Ellen for thee, and shall a common fate
\forcelinebreak Blend thy last hour with the last hours of all?
\forcelinebreak Of thee my wife, my undefiled, my dear?
\forcelinebreak The muse thy living beauty could inspire
\forcelinebreak Shall spare one verse to strew thy urn
\forcelinebreak Or be forever silent. Ellen is dead
\forcelinebreak She who outshone all beauty yet knew not
\forcelinebreak That she was beautiful, she who was fair


After another mould than flesh \& blood.
\forcelinebreak Her beauty was of God — The maker’s hand
\forcelinebreak Yet rested on his work,
\forcelinebreak And cast an atmosphere of sanctity
\forcelinebreak Around her steps that pleased old age \& youth.
\forcelinebreak Yea that not won the eye, but did persuade
\forcelinebreak The soul by realizing human hopes,
\forcelinebreak Teaching that faith \& love were not a dream,
\forcelinebreak Teaching that purity had yet a shrine,
\forcelinebreak And that the innocent \& affectionate thoughts
\forcelinebreak That harbour in the bosom of a child
\forcelinebreak Might live embodied in a riper form,
\forcelinebreak And dwell with wisdom never bought by sin.
\forcelinebreak Blessed, sweet singer, were the ears that heard
\forcelinebreak To her, the eye that saw, bare witness.
\forcelinebreak The holy light of her eye did prophesy
\forcelinebreak The impatient heaven that called her hence.


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\section{The Days Pass Over Me}


The days pass over me,
\forcelinebreak And I am still the same;
\forcelinebreak The aroma of my life is gone
\forcelinebreak With the flower with which it came.


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\section{Why Fear to Die}


Why fear to die
\forcelinebreak And let thy body lie
\forcelinebreak Under the flowers of June
\forcelinebreak Thy body food
\forcelinebreak For the groundworm’s brood
\forcelinebreak And thy grave smiled on by the visiting moon


Amid great Nature’s halls,
\forcelinebreak Girt in by mountain walls,
\forcelinebreak And washed with waterfalls,


It would please me to die,
\forcelinebreak Where every wind that sweeps my tomb
\forcelinebreak Goes loaded with a free perfume,
\forcelinebreak Dealt out with a God’s charity.


I should like to lie in sweets,
\forcelinebreak A hill’s leaves for winding sheets,
\forcelinebreak And the searching sun to see
\forcelinebreak That I’m laid with decency
\forcelinebreak And the commissioned wind to sing
\forcelinebreak His mighty Psalm from fall to spring
\forcelinebreak And annual tunes commemorate
\forcelinebreak Of nature’s child the common fate.


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\section{I Am Alone. Sad is My Solitude}


I am alone. Sad is my solitude.
\forcelinebreak O thou sweet daughter of God, my angel wife,
\forcelinebreak Why dost thou leave me thus in the great stranger world
\forcelinebreak Without one sign or token, one remembrancer
\forcelinebreak Sent o’er the weary lands that sunder us
\forcelinebreak To say I greet thee with a beating heart.
\forcelinebreak Does thy heart beat with mine? does thy blue eye
\forcelinebreak Ever look northward with desire, O do thy prayers
\forcelinebreak Remember me when thou hallowest thy maker’s name,
\forcelinebreak Remember him
\forcelinebreak Who never failed to grace his orison
\forcelinebreak With thy dear name, believes it acceptable
\forcelinebreak And prays, that he may pray for thee —


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\section{On Thee Has God Conferred}


On thee has God conferred
\forcelinebreak A bodily presence mean as Paul’s
\forcelinebreak Yet made thee bearer of a word
\forcelinebreak That sleepy nations as with trumpet calls


O noble heart accept
\forcelinebreak With equal thanks the talent \& disgrace
\forcelinebreak The splendid town unwept
\forcelinebreak Nourish thy power in a private place.


Think not that unattended
\forcelinebreak By heavenly Powers thou steal’st to solitude
\forcelinebreak Nor even on earth all unbefriended
\forcelinebreak Tho no sweet rabble shouts on thee intrude


Let Webster’s lofty face
\forcelinebreak Ever on thousands shine
\forcelinebreak A beacon set that Freedoms race
\forcelinebreak Might gather omens from that radiant sign.


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\section{All the Great \& Good}


All the great \& good,
\forcelinebreak And all the fair,
\forcelinebreak As if in a disdainful mood,
\forcelinebreak Forsake the world, \& to the grave repair.


Is there a sage
\forcelinebreak Needed to curb the unruly times; —
\forcelinebreak He hastes to quit the stage,
\forcelinebreak And blushing leaves his country to its crimes.


Is there an angel drest
\forcelinebreak In weeds of mortal beauty, whom high Heaven
\forcelinebreak With all sweet perfections doth invest; —
\forcelinebreak It hastes to take what it hath given.


And, as the delicate snow
\forcelinebreak Which latest fell, the thieving wind first takes
\forcelinebreak So thou, dear wife, must go,
\forcelinebreak As frail, as spotless, as those new fallen flakes.


Let me not fear to die,
\forcelinebreak But let me live so well,
\forcelinebreak As to win this mark of death from on high,
\forcelinebreak That I with God, \& thee, dear heart, may dwell.


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\section{Seemed to Me — Never Maid}


Seemed to me — never maid
\forcelinebreak Wore the poor weeds of hapless womanhood
\forcelinebreak With such a brave sustained purity.
\forcelinebreak She felt no shame that she was mortal


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\section{Where Art Thou}


Where art thou
\forcelinebreak Thou beautiful dream
\forcelinebreak Whom every grace \& every joy
\forcelinebreak Clothed in sunbeams dearest, best
\forcelinebreak Whom every fleeting hour in new graces drest
\forcelinebreak And every wondering eye that saw thee blest


Where art thou now
\forcelinebreak Sad I miss thy beaming brow
\forcelinebreak I miss thy radiant eye
\forcelinebreak The joyful noon of my life is past
\forcelinebreak My sun is set my moon is gone
\forcelinebreak Each star of hope sunk one by one
\forcelinebreak And in this cold, damp, silent eve of life
\forcelinebreak I walk alone oh Ellen, oh my wife.


One by one those graces come
\forcelinebreak Day by day to memory’s eye
\forcelinebreak Which thou worest as a robe
\forcelinebreak And I live over thy history
\forcelinebreak Thy thots were wove in beauty
\forcelinebreak Wisdom drest in dewbright flowers;
\forcelinebreak And sad \& sportive hours
\forcelinebreak Had swelled alike the potent melody


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\section{I Live Among Ideal Men}


I live among ideal men
\forcelinebreak I know graces
\forcelinebreak I cannot find in human faces
\forcelinebreak And I would gladly know
\forcelinebreak Where I got my vision,
\forcelinebreak If the earth does not hold its archetype


With open eye \& ear
\forcelinebreak I move thro all this world of men
\forcelinebreak And well their various gifts discern
\forcelinebreak What I cannot do, they do
\forcelinebreak If I do not covet their powers
\forcelinebreak Not less do I mark \& prize them


Yet still from all its journeys wide
\forcelinebreak The eye comes back unsatisfied
\forcelinebreak No living man can yet pretend
\forcelinebreak To earn the sacred name of Friend.


And that wherein alike all fail
\forcelinebreak Is the easiest part of virtue
\forcelinebreak To wit, simplicity \& truth
\forcelinebreak The native ornaments of human youth.


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\section{What Avails It Me}


What avails it me
\forcelinebreak That I have many friends
\forcelinebreak If when my walking ends
\forcelinebreak I come back to a lonely house


What boots it that I dwell
\forcelinebreak In a city free and rich and old
\forcelinebreak If the long streets never hold
\forcelinebreak The only form I love


What avails it I have bread
\forcelinebreak Raiment and books and leisure
\forcelinebreak Access to wisdom and to pleasure
\forcelinebreak If Ellen still is dead


In my chamber she is not
\forcelinebreak From my parlour joy is gone
\forcelinebreak Round the house I roam and groan
\forcelinebreak The glory of my house is fled


What avails it me
\forcelinebreak That I have many thoughts
\forcelinebreak That the nimble brain can run
\forcelinebreak Through all lands that see the sun
\forcelinebreak Hath a record of each race
\forcelinebreak That have had a dwelling place


If only I have right of seeing
\forcelinebreak In this wilderness of being
\forcelinebreak And from the vision glorious
\forcelinebreak Must come back to my lonely house.


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\section{She Never Comes to Me}


She never comes to me
\forcelinebreak She promised me a thousand times
\forcelinebreak That she would dearly dearly love me
\forcelinebreak That in sickness \& in health
\forcelinebreak Others present others absent
\forcelinebreak Whilst air was round \& heaven above me
\forcelinebreak She would be present as my life
\forcelinebreak My holy gentle tender wife


She promised in my secret ear
\forcelinebreak When none but God \& I could hear
\forcelinebreak That she would cleave to me forever


There was one will between us
\forcelinebreak There was one heart within us
\forcelinebreak And God upon his children smiled
\forcelinebreak As we the hours with love beguiled


And now I am alone
\forcelinebreak Unheard I moan
\forcelinebreak She never comes to me
\forcelinebreak Sits never by my side
\forcelinebreak I never hear her voice
\forcelinebreak She comes not even to my dreams
\forcelinebreak O Ellen


And comes she not
\forcelinebreak Ask thy heart, Waldo.
\forcelinebreak Doth she break her word
\forcelinebreak Doth not her love embrace thee yet
\forcelinebreak Even from the Spirits’ land?


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\section{Leave Me, Fear! Thy Throbs Are Base}


Leave me, Fear! thy throbs are base,
\forcelinebreak Trembling for the body’s sake.
\forcelinebreak Come, Love! who dost the spirit raise,
\forcelinebreak Because for others thou dost wake.
\forcelinebreak O it is beautiful in death
\forcelinebreak To hide the shame of human nature’s end
\forcelinebreak In sweet \& wary serving of a friend.
\forcelinebreak Love is true Glory’s field, where the last breath
\forcelinebreak Expires in troops of honorable cares.
\forcelinebreak The wound of Fate the hero cannot feel
\forcelinebreak Smit with the heavenlier smart of social zeal.
\forcelinebreak It draws immortal day
\forcelinebreak In soot \& ashes of our clay.
\forcelinebreak It is the virtue that enchants it.
\forcelinebreak It is the face of God that haunts it.


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\section{If Thou Canst Bear}


If thou canst bear
\forcelinebreak Strong meat of simple truth
\forcelinebreak If thou durst my words compare
\forcelinebreak With what thou thinkest in the soul’s free youth


Then take this fact unto thy soul —
\forcelinebreak God dwells in thee. —
\forcelinebreak It is no metaphor nor parable
\forcelinebreak It is unknown to thousands \& to thee
\forcelinebreak Yet there is God.


He is in thy world
\forcelinebreak But thy world knows him not
\forcelinebreak He is the mighty Heart
\forcelinebreak From which life’s varied pulses part


Clouded \& shrouded there doth sit
\forcelinebreak The Infinite
\forcelinebreak Embosomed in a man
\forcelinebreak And thou art stranger to thy guest
\forcelinebreak And know’st not what thou dost invest.
\forcelinebreak The clouds that veil his light within
\forcelinebreak Are thy thick woven webs of sin
\forcelinebreak Which his glory struggling through
\forcelinebreak Darkens to thine evil hue


Then bear thyself, o man!
\forcelinebreak Up to the scale \& compass of thy guest
\forcelinebreak Soul of thy soul.
\forcelinebreak Be great as doth beseem
\forcelinebreak The ambassador who bears
\forcelinebreak The royal presence where he goes.
\forcelinebreak Give up to thy soul —
\forcelinebreak Let it have its way —
\forcelinebreak It is, I tell thee, God himself,
\forcelinebreak The selfsame One that rules the Whole
\forcelinebreak Tho’ he speaks thro’ thee with a stifled voice
\forcelinebreak And looks thro’ thee shorn of his beams


But if thou listen to his voice
\forcelinebreak If thou obey the royal thought
\forcelinebreak It will grow clearer to thine ear
\forcelinebreak More glorious to thine eye
\forcelinebreak The clouds will burst that veil him now
\forcelinebreak And thou shalt see the Lord.


Therefore be great
\forcelinebreak Not proud, too great to be proud
\forcelinebreak Let not thine eyes rove
\forcelinebreak Peep not in corners; let thine eyes
\forcelinebreak Look straight before thee as befits
\forcelinebreak The simplicity of Power.
\forcelinebreak And in thy closet carry state
\forcelinebreak Filled with light walk therein
\forcelinebreak And as a King
\forcelinebreak Would do no treason to his own empire
\forcelinebreak So do not thou to thine.


This is the reason why thou dost recognize
\forcelinebreak Things now first revealed
\forcelinebreak Because in thee resides
\forcelinebreak The Spirit that lives in all
\forcelinebreak And thou canst learn the laws of Nature
\forcelinebreak Because its author is latent in thy breast.
\forcelinebreak And in the Word
\forcelinebreak A wise man, Daniel, is the man
\forcelinebreak In whom the Spirit of the mighty gods abides
\forcelinebreak His goodness doth permit the deity within
\forcelinebreak To appear in his own light


Therefore o happy youth
\forcelinebreak Happy if thou dost know \& love this truth
\forcelinebreak Thou art unto thyself a law
\forcelinebreak And since the Soul of things is in thee
\forcelinebreak Thou needest nothing out of thee.
\forcelinebreak The law, the gospel, \& the Providence,
\forcelinebreak Heaven, Hell, the Judgment, \& the stores
\forcelinebreak Immeasurable of Truth \& Good
\forcelinebreak All these thou must find


Within thy single mind
\forcelinebreak Or never find.
\forcelinebreak Thou art the law.;
\forcelinebreak The gospel has no revelation
\forcelinebreak Of peace or hope until there is response
\forcelinebreak From the deep chambers of thy mind thereto
\forcelinebreak The rest is straw
\forcelinebreak It can reveal no truth unknown before.
\forcelinebreak The Providence
\forcelinebreak Thou art thyself that doth dispense
\forcelinebreak Wealth to thy work Want to thy sloth
\forcelinebreak Glory to goodness to Neglect the Moth
\forcelinebreak Thou sow’st the wind, the whirlwind reapest
\forcelinebreak Thou payest the wages
\forcelinebreak Of thy own work, through all ages.
\forcelinebreak The almighty energy within
\forcelinebreak Crowneth Virtue curseth Sin
\forcelinebreak Virtue sees by its own light
\forcelinebreak Stumbleth Sin in selfmade night.


Who approves thee doing right?
\forcelinebreak God in thee
\forcelinebreak Who condemns thee doing wrong?
\forcelinebreak God in thee
\forcelinebreak Who punishes thine evil deed?
\forcelinebreak God in thee
\forcelinebreak What is thine evil meed?
\forcelinebreak Thy worse mind, with error blind
\forcelinebreak And more prone to evil
\forcelinebreak That is, the greater hiding of the God within
\forcelinebreak The loss of peace
\forcelinebreak The terrible displeasure of this inmate
\forcelinebreak And next the consequence
\forcelinebreak More faintly as more distant wrought
\forcelinebreak Upon our outward fortunes
\forcelinebreak Which decay with vice
\forcelinebreak With virtue rise.


The selfsame God
\forcelinebreak By the same law


Makes the souls of angels glad
\forcelinebreak And the souls of devils sad


There is nothing else but God
\forcelinebreak Where e’er I look
\forcelinebreak All things hasten back to him
\forcelinebreak Light is but his shadow dim.


Shall I ask wealth or power of God who gave
\forcelinebreak An image of himself to be my Soul
\forcelinebreak As well might swilling Ocean ask a wave
\forcelinebreak Or the starred firmament a dying coal
\forcelinebreak For that which is in me lives in the whole


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\section{A Dull Uncertain Brain}


A dull uncertain brain
\forcelinebreak But gifted yet to know
\forcelinebreak That God has Seraphim who go
\forcelinebreak Singing an immortal strain
\forcelinebreak Immortal here below
\forcelinebreak I know the mighty bards
\forcelinebreak I listen when they sing
\forcelinebreak And more I know
\forcelinebreak The Secret store
\forcelinebreak Which these explore
\forcelinebreak When they with torch of genius pierce
\forcelinebreak The tenfold clouds that cover
\forcelinebreak The riches of the Universe
\forcelinebreak From God’s adoring lover.
\forcelinebreak And if to me it is not given
\forcelinebreak To bring one ingot thence
\forcelinebreak Of that unfading gold of heaven
\forcelinebreak His merchants may dispense
\forcelinebreak Yet well I know the royal mine
\forcelinebreak And know the sparkle of its ore
\forcelinebreak Celestial truths from lies that shine
\forcelinebreak Explored they teach us to explore.


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\section{There is in All the Sons of Men}


There is in all the sons of men
\forcelinebreak A love that in the spirit dwells
\forcelinebreak That panteth after things unseen
\forcelinebreak And tidings of the Future tells


And God hath built his altar here
\forcelinebreak To keep this fire of faith alive
\forcelinebreak And set his priests in holy fear
\forcelinebreak To speak the truth — for truth to survive.


And hither come the pensive train
\forcelinebreak Of rich \& poor of young \& old,
\forcelinebreak Of ardent youths untouched by pain
\forcelinebreak Of thoughtful maids \& manhood bold


They seek a friend to speak the word
\forcelinebreak Already trembling on their tongue
\forcelinebreak To touch with prophet’s hand the Chord
\forcelinebreak Which God in human hearts hath strung


To speak the plain reproof of sin
\forcelinebreak That sounded in the soul before
\forcelinebreak And bid them let the angels in
\forcelinebreak That knock at humble Sorrow’s door.


They come to hear of faith \& hope
\forcelinebreak That fill the exulting soul
\forcelinebreak They come to lift the curtain up
\forcelinebreak That hides the mortal goal


O thou sole source of hope assured
\forcelinebreak O give thy servant power
\forcelinebreak So shall he speak to us the word
\forcelinebreak Thyself dost give forevermore


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\section{I Will Not Live Out of Me}


I will not live out of me
\forcelinebreak I will not see with others’ eyes
\forcelinebreak My good is good, my evil ill
\forcelinebreak I would be free — I cannot be
\forcelinebreak While I take things as others please to rate them
\forcelinebreak I dare attempt to lay out my own road
\forcelinebreak That which myself delights in shall be Good
\forcelinebreak That which I do not want, — indifferent,
\forcelinebreak That which I hate is Bad. That’s flat
\forcelinebreak Henceforth, please God, forever I forego
\forcelinebreak The yoke of men’s opinions. I will be
\forcelinebreak Lighthearted as a bird \& live with God.
\forcelinebreak I find him in the bottom of my heart
\forcelinebreak I hear continually his Voice therein
\forcelinebreak And books, \& priests, \& worlds, I less esteem
\forcelinebreak Who says the heart’s a blind guide? It is not.
\forcelinebreak My heart did never counsel me to sin
\forcelinebreak I wonder where it got its wisdom
\forcelinebreak For in the darkest maze amid the sweetest baits
\forcelinebreak Or amid horrid dangers never once
\forcelinebreak Did that gentle Angel fail of his oracle
\forcelinebreak The little needle always knows the north
\forcelinebreak The little bird remembereth his note
\forcelinebreak And this wise Seer never errs
\forcelinebreak I never taught it what it teaches me
\forcelinebreak I only follow when I act aright.
\forcelinebreak Whence then did this Omniscient Spirit come?
\forcelinebreak From God it came. It is the Deity.


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\section{Hard is it to persuade the public mind of its plain duty \& true interest}


Hard is it to persuade the public mind of its plain duty \& true interest
\forcelinebreak And hard to find a straight road to renown
\forcelinebreak And hard for young men to get honest gold
\forcelinebreak And hard to find a perfect wife
\forcelinebreak And mid the armies of imperfect men
\forcelinebreak To find a friend hardest of all
\forcelinebreak All good is hard to come by
\forcelinebreak Yet all these are easilier done
\forcelinebreak Than to live well one day — to be a Man.
\forcelinebreak Who speaks the truth outspeaks our Everett
\forcelinebreak Who acts his thought takes place of Washington
\forcelinebreak And who prefers music of his Reason
\forcelinebreak Above the thunder of all men’s example
\forcelinebreak Embraces the beatitude of God.
\forcelinebreak Alas! that evermore the worldly hands
\forcelinebreak Hang back behind the charitable Will.


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\section{Always Day \& Night}


Always day \& night
\forcelinebreak Day before me
\forcelinebreak Night behind me


This I penned
\forcelinebreak Sitting on two stakes
\forcelinebreak Under the apple tree
\forcelinebreak Down in the swamp
\forcelinebreak To guard a friend


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\section{Hearst Thou, Sweet Spirit, Thou Hast Heard Before}


Hearst thou, sweet spirit, thou hast heard before —
\forcelinebreak In heaven perchance
\forcelinebreak The heavy tidings had a golden sound
\forcelinebreak Thy dear sister, sharer of thy thots
\forcelinebreak While yet, dear Ellen, thou didst linger here,
\forcelinebreak Meekly receives the death blows, one by one,
\forcelinebreak And as thou, blessed wife, didst wither once in February’s cold eye,
\forcelinebreak From month to month,
\forcelinebreak Passing from earth an angel into heaven
\forcelinebreak So, in her turn, she hastes upon thy steps,
\forcelinebreak And leaves two mourners following presently.


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\section{None Spares Another Yet It Pleases Me}


None spares another yet it pleases me
\forcelinebreak That none to any is indifferent
\forcelinebreak No heart in all this world is separate
\forcelinebreak But all are cisterns of one central sea
\forcelinebreak All are mouthpieces of the Eternal Word


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\section{Written in Naples, March, 1833}


We are what we are made; each following day
\forcelinebreak Is the Creator of our human mould
\forcelinebreak Not less than was the first; the all wise God
\forcelinebreak Gilds a few points in every several life
\forcelinebreak And as each flower upon the fresh hill-side,
\forcelinebreak And every coloured petal of each flower,
\forcelinebreak Is sketched and dyed each with a new design,
\forcelinebreak Its spot of purple, \& its streak of brown,
\forcelinebreak So each man’s life shall have its proper lights,
\forcelinebreak And a few joys, a few peculiar charms,
\forcelinebreak For him round in the melancholy hours,
\forcelinebreak And reconcile him to the common days.
\forcelinebreak Not many men see beauty in the fogs
\forcelinebreak Of close low pine-woods in a river town:
\forcelinebreak Yet unto me not morn’s magnificence,
\forcelinebreak Nor the red rainbow of a summer eve,
\forcelinebreak Nor Rome, nor joyful Paris, nor the halls
\forcelinebreak Of rich men blazing hospitable light,
\forcelinebreak Nor wit, nor eloquence, no, nor even the song
\forcelinebreak Of any woman that is now alive,
\forcelinebreak Hath such a soul, such divine influence,
\forcelinebreak Such resurrection of the happy past,
\forcelinebreak As is to me when I behold the morn
\forcelinebreak Ope in such low moist road-side, \& beneath
\forcelinebreak Peep the blue violets out of the black loam,
\forcelinebreak Pathetic silent poets that sing to me
\forcelinebreak Thine elegy, sweet singer, sainted wife!


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\section{What is It to Sail}


What is it to sail
\forcelinebreak Upon the calm blue sea
\forcelinebreak To ride as a cloud
\forcelinebreak Over the purple floor
\forcelinebreak With golden mists for company?


And Day \& Night are drest
\forcelinebreak Ever in their jocund vest,
\forcelinebreak And the water is warm to the hands,
\forcelinebreak And far below you see motes of light
\forcelinebreak By day, \& streams of fire by night.


What is it to sail
\forcelinebreak Upon the stormy sea,
\forcelinebreak To drive with naked spars
\forcelinebreak Before the roaring gale,
\forcelinebreak Hemmed round with ragged clouds,
\forcelinebreak Foaming \& hissing \& thumping waves
\forcelinebreak The reeling cabin is cold \& wet,
\forcelinebreak The masts are strained, \& the sail is torn,
\forcelinebreak The gale blows fiercer as the night sets in
\forcelinebreak Scarce can the seaman aloft master his struggling reef,
\forcelinebreak Even the stout captain in his coat of storms
\forcelinebreak Sighs as he glances astern at the white, white combs


And the passenger sits unsocial
\forcelinebreak And puts his book aside
\forcelinebreak And leans upon his hand.
\forcelinebreak Yet is the difference less
\forcelinebreak Between this gray sea \& that golden one
\forcelinebreak Than twixt the moods of the man that sails upon it
\forcelinebreak Today \& yesterday.


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\section{Alone in Rome! Why Rome is Lonely Too}


Alone in Rome! Why Rome is lonely too,
\forcelinebreak Virtue alone is sweet society.
\forcelinebreak It keeps the key to all heroic hearts,
\forcelinebreak And opens you a welcome when you dare.
\forcelinebreak You must be like them, if you challenge them,
\forcelinebreak Scorn trifles, \& embrace a better aim
\forcelinebreak Than wine, or sleep, or praise,
\forcelinebreak Hunt knowledge, as the lover woos a maid,
\forcelinebreak And ever, in the strife of your own tho’ts,
\forcelinebreak Obey the nobler impulse. That is Rome.
\forcelinebreak That shall command a senate to your side
\forcelinebreak For there is no force in the universe
\forcelinebreak That can contend with love.
\forcelinebreak Wait then, sad friend, wait in majestic peace
\forcelinebreak The hour of Heaven


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\section{At Sea, September 1833}


Oft as I paced the deck,
\forcelinebreak My thought recurred on the uncertain sea
\forcelinebreak To what is faster than the solid land.
\forcelinebreak My Country! can the heart clasp realm so vast
\forcelinebreak As the broad oceans that wash thee inclose?
\forcelinebreak Is not the charity ambitious
\forcelinebreak That meets its arms about a continent?
\forcelinebreak And yet the sages praise the preference
\forcelinebreak Of my own cabin to a baron’s hall.
\forcelinebreak Chide it not then, but count it honesty
\forcelinebreak The insidious love \& hate that curl the lip
\forcelinebreak Of the frank Yankee in the tenements
\forcelinebreak Of ducal \& of royal rank abroad;
\forcelinebreak His supercilious ignorance
\forcelinebreak Of lordship, heraldry, \& ceremony;
\forcelinebreak Nor less, his too tenacious memory,
\forcelinebreak Amid the particolored treasuries
\forcelinebreak That deck the Louvre \& the Pitti House,
\forcelinebreak Of the brave steamboats puffing by New York,
\forcelinebreak Boston’s half-island, \& the Hadley Farms
\forcelinebreak Washed by Connecticut’s psalm-loving stream.
\forcelinebreak Yea, if the ruddy Englishman speak true,
\forcelinebreak In Rome’s basilica, and underneath
\forcelinebreak The frescoed sky of its audacious dome,
\forcelinebreak Dauntless Kentucky chews, \& counts the cost,
\forcelinebreak And builds the shrine with dollars in his head.
\forcelinebreak Arrived in Italy, his first demand, —
\forcelinebreak ‘Has the star-bearing squadron left Leghorn?’


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\section{I Will Not Hesitate to Speak the Word}


I will not hesitate to speak the word
\forcelinebreak Committed to me. It is not of men
\forcelinebreak It is not of myself — no vain discourse
\forcelinebreak Empty oration, tinkling soulless talk
\forcelinebreak My heart lies open to the Universe
\forcelinebreak I read only what there is writ I speak
\forcelinebreak The sincere word that’s whispered in my ear
\forcelinebreak I am an organ in the mouth of God
\forcelinebreak My prophecy the music of his lips.
\forcelinebreak Tho’ harsh in evil ears ’tis harmony
\forcelinebreak To patient wise \& faithful hearts whose love
\forcelinebreak Cooperates with his
\forcelinebreak Concord of heaven \& earth. Author divine
\forcelinebreak Of what I am \& what I say, vouchsafe
\forcelinebreak To cleanse me that my folly may not hide
\forcelinebreak Thy truth nor my infirmity disguise
\forcelinebreak The Omnipotence that animates my clay.
\forcelinebreak Thou Lord dost clothe thy attributes with flesh
\forcelinebreak And named it man a morning spectacle
\forcelinebreak Unto the universe exhibiting
\forcelinebreak A manifold \& mystic lesson


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\section{The Sun is the Sole Inconsumable Fire}


The Sun is the sole inconsumable fire
\forcelinebreak And God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.


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\section{Poem, Spoken Before the Society, August, 1834}


Is not this house a harp whose living chords,
\forcelinebreak Touched by a Poet with electric words,
\forcelinebreak Would vibrate with a harmony more true
\forcelinebreak Than Handel’s married thunders ever knew?
\forcelinebreak But I, — mere lover of the Bards’ sweet speech,
\forcelinebreak A simple seeker of the truth they teach,
\forcelinebreak Having no skill to play, must touch a string
\forcelinebreak That even to fumbling hands may music bring.
\forcelinebreak For who can love AMERICA, but seems
\forcelinebreak Clothed with some favor from its woods and streams?


His hand who hung in space this sun-burnt ball
\forcelinebreak Made Man the Heart in harmony with all
\forcelinebreak And each man to his native country tied
\forcelinebreak With the twin ligaments of love \& pride.
\forcelinebreak And shall it be by antique men alone
\forcelinebreak In petty states can patriot zeal be shown
\forcelinebreak They vaunt their pastures at a kingdom’s worth
\forcelinebreak And we be dumb, whose lands balance the earth.


What purpose to man friendly hid so long
\forcelinebreak Columbia from the subtle \& the strong,
\forcelinebreak Almost from pole to pole its green extent
\forcelinebreak Yet measured — only by the firmament.
\forcelinebreak Along the enormous tract in every belt
\forcelinebreak Of latitude, a several climate felt:
\forcelinebreak Under the arctic morn, red snow and moss,
\forcelinebreak Flora’s cold elements, the rocks emboss.
\forcelinebreak Southward, the rose, the apple, and the corn,
\forcelinebreak Thank the sweet influence of night and morn;
\forcelinebreak The palm-tree shakes its feathers on the Line,
\forcelinebreak And round the cane and plantain, curls the vine.


Thou shalt not covet; leave those lands alone,
\forcelinebreak Content to speculate within thine own.
\forcelinebreak As the stars shine in heaven, so genial shine
\forcelinebreak Thy stars, my country, to all lands a sign!
\forcelinebreak The little traveller from Britain’s isle
\forcelinebreak Lost in these far-spread states, may chirp and smile
\forcelinebreak At unbred men; because his dinner cools,
\forcelinebreak The country’s naught, — the countrymen are fools.
\forcelinebreak For him an ill-served soup hath disenchanted
\forcelinebreak The mighty hemisphere his fathers planted;
\forcelinebreak He sees not, by the famous pilgrims won,
\forcelinebreak A hundred Englands opening to the sun.


These northern fields, once the bear’s range and den
\forcelinebreak Bread, iron, oak, and coal, they yield to men.
\forcelinebreak Richer than purple hills of oil \& wine,
\forcelinebreak Our barren mountains give their son, the Pine;
\forcelinebreak Borne on whose planks, the hardy fishers float
\forcelinebreak Round earth, wherever waves will bear a boat.


Angels might lean to see man going forth
\forcelinebreak With axe \& plough to tame the savage earth;
\forcelinebreak The builder’s saw and hammer never rest;
\forcelinebreak A village climbs each hill with whitening crest;
\forcelinebreak Lowell, Bangor, \& Rochester express
\forcelinebreak To pleased God the redeemed wilderness:
\forcelinebreak See the green line of culture westward run


Oer hill, swamp, prairie, to the setting sun:
\forcelinebreak Yon wagon, disappearing in the woods,
\forcelinebreak Transplants the Saxon germ to lovelier solitudes,
\forcelinebreak Bearing the wife, the babes, — basket \& store —
\forcelinebreak To greet with English tongue Pacific’s shore.
\forcelinebreak What’s Italy? What’s England; Flanders France
\forcelinebreak That may compare with this inheritance
\forcelinebreak Prisons of cooped up millions born too late
\forcelinebreak Whose loss were gain to the oerburdened state
\forcelinebreak Here shall a man be rated at his worth
\forcelinebreak And nature’s freshest roses hail his birth.


Best name that Time can in his annals find
\forcelinebreak Columbia styled the Asylum of mankind
\forcelinebreak Blest office! to the exile to dispense
\forcelinebreak With open hand a God’s munificence
\forcelinebreak Say to him there is room for us and him
\forcelinebreak In the deep woods \& by the Ocean’s brim;
\forcelinebreak Yes greet sad Europe’s exile to your shores
\forcelinebreak Let love unbar to him the mountain doors
\forcelinebreak Bid homeless Poland prove this side the main
\forcelinebreak The freedom she hath perilled all to gain
\forcelinebreak Give Erin’s starving outcast, wholesome meat;
\forcelinebreak And England’s haggard weaver slumber sweet.


Ah thou poor orphan! did the pitiless bed
\forcelinebreak Of feudal earth that bare thee grudge thee bread?
\forcelinebreak Was man so cheap in yon preserves of game
\forcelinebreak That thou must bend thy body as in shame
\forcelinebreak At being man; in Want, did life begin;
\forcelinebreak Thy only happiness the joys of sin;
\forcelinebreak Was it thine added crime some shame to feel,
\forcelinebreak To be for life the treadle of a wheel?
\forcelinebreak Come, clear thy brow; the hospitable Hours
\forcelinebreak Shall weave thy future web with healing flowers.
\forcelinebreak Welcome! in this continent thou shalt see
\forcelinebreak God’s blessing broad enough to cover thee.
\forcelinebreak Come, teach thy lip to smile; that hopeless brow
\forcelinebreak I’ll fits the firmament that shades thee now.
\forcelinebreak Go climb the Allegany’s strait defiles;


Speed up Missouri twice a thousand miles,
\forcelinebreak Traverse the unplanted forest floor, whereon
\forcelinebreak The allseeing sun for ages hath not shone;
\forcelinebreak Build where thou wilt thy home in Freedoms soil,
\forcelinebreak And bare thy strong arms to a freeman’s toil;
\forcelinebreak Plenty shall fill for thee her laughing horn,
\forcelinebreak And fields be jocund when thy son is born;
\forcelinebreak Go rear, — for truth the British gibe prevents, —
\forcelinebreak A race of captains, judges, presidents.


Small praise I deem it that this continent
\forcelinebreak Provides the beggar bread, clothing, content;
\forcelinebreak But greater praise no lands have claimed or can
\forcelinebreak Than this, — we make the vagabond a man.
\forcelinebreak Him for whom Thought \& Freedom were but words
\forcelinebreak Whose substance was monopolized by lords
\forcelinebreak Open in him that inward eye whose view
\forcelinebreak Doth re-create the Universe anew
\forcelinebreak Is the rose fair? behold it glows for him;
\forcelinebreak For him the sea shells blush; the dolphins swim;
\forcelinebreak The perfumed morning sheds her diamond dews;
\forcelinebreak All sights and sounds in him their spirit infuse;
\forcelinebreak The keen October’s air, when trees are gay
\forcelinebreak With rainbow plumage, deepening day by day;
\forcelinebreak The midnights pomp when yonder horned moon
\forcelinebreak Rivals days golden with a silver moon;
\forcelinebreak But more than all, he was for Virtue born,
\forcelinebreak Though thrown neglected on his country’s scorn
\forcelinebreak And every gift benignant heaven let fall
\forcelinebreak On Man, the exile here is heir of all.


Yes, ope the hospitable forest wide
\forcelinebreak Unto poor men from all the realms of pride
\forcelinebreak So shall the New World pay the old its debt
\forcelinebreak For the great pair, — Columbus, — Lafayette;
\forcelinebreak From yon serene heaven leaning they shall see
\forcelinebreak The land which one would find, and one would free.


Alas for France! her truest heart is fled:
\forcelinebreak Her long-descended noble lieth dead
\forcelinebreak — The best of heroes in the worst of times
\forcelinebreak His spotless life relieves his country’s crimes
\forcelinebreak Permit the vagrant muse to grace her verse
\forcelinebreak Borrowing a garland from his recent hearse


Ten years are flown since this great heir of fame
\forcelinebreak Stood here among us — to his children came
\forcelinebreak In his clear atmosphere of honor stood
\forcelinebreak And warmed us with the glory of the good
\forcelinebreak You know Who knows it not in any clime
\forcelinebreak The jubilee \& triumph of that time
\forcelinebreak The nation followed him with eyes of love
\forcelinebreak As if he were some Genius from above
\forcelinebreak Uprose the farmer by his apple-tree
\forcelinebreak Tarried the sailor ere he put to sea.
\forcelinebreak The story of his life through all mouths ran
\forcelinebreak And swelling crowds hemmed in the heroic man
\forcelinebreak They pored insatiate on his seamed face
\forcelinebreak As if to search therein the spirit’s grace
\forcelinebreak In calm simplicity the old man stood
\forcelinebreak As one on sights of joy unused to brood
\forcelinebreak Seemed his great heart more easily would brave
\forcelinebreak A martyr for man’s liberty — the grave
\forcelinebreak He wore no badge — no mark the eye could see
\forcelinebreak Adorned only with his history.


So seemed to us; but envious Carlists prate
\forcelinebreak He was a good man but was never great;
\forcelinebreak His simple figure in the rich saloons
\forcelinebreak And halting foot displeased the court buffoons
\forcelinebreak He had a fixed smile, a farmers face,
\forcelinebreak Nor looked like marquis of the ancient race.
\forcelinebreak Ah! could these worshippers of ribbons read
\forcelinebreak In mortal features an immortal meed!
\forcelinebreak That smile has braved Bourbon’s \& Orleans’ frown,
\forcelinebreak That farmer’s face outfaced Napoleon.
\forcelinebreak That patient worshipper of right was known
\forcelinebreak Where gayer lineaments might not be shown


In war’s red lines, \& in the popular shock
\forcelinebreak When foaming thousands bellowed, ‘To the block!’
\forcelinebreak A tower immovable in Factions sea,
\forcelinebreak The patriarch, ‘mid the nations, of the free.
\forcelinebreak Smile did he? twas for Freedoms livelong hope
\forcelinebreak When all but he quailed at her horoscope;
\forcelinebreak Write on his tomb— ‘He never failed to smile
\forcelinebreak Gainst death, for freedom \& for man the while.’
\forcelinebreak But when a man to noble place pretends
\forcelinebreak Take the old touchstone Judge him by his friends
\forcelinebreak There were two men in this our latter age
\forcelinebreak Might challenge greatness on a Roman page
\forcelinebreak One had a patriot’s, one a monarch’s heart, —
\forcelinebreak Both soldiers — Washington and Bonaparte.
\forcelinebreak On Lafayette in arms leaned Washington,
\forcelinebreak — When saw the world such pair? — father and son.
\forcelinebreak Napoleon, when all Europe knelt around him,
\forcelinebreak Sought Lafayette, — fain with his love had bound him,
\forcelinebreak And he whom Europe served, proud of its chain,
\forcelinebreak Sued to the great republican in vain.


Rich is the living map the eagle sees
\forcelinebreak Sailing oer Auburn in the harvest breeze;
\forcelinebreak Bright streams, white towns, \& man sustaining farms,
\forcelinebreak And Boston folded in the Ocean’s arms;
\forcelinebreak — O’er town \& suburb broods her public dome,
\forcelinebreak And speaks to coundess eyes of Law \& Home. —
\forcelinebreak And farther than that wind-borne eagle flies
\forcelinebreak Beyond the Southern Horn, or northern ice,
\forcelinebreak The errands of the pleasant land are done,
\forcelinebreak As shod with winds oer seas her envoys run.
\forcelinebreak Fair heritage! only by Virtue strong,
\forcelinebreak Be thou the tower of right, abolisher of wrong.
\forcelinebreak What charms the man that views from hill or tower
\forcelinebreak These gathered symbols of a people’s power.
\forcelinebreak Is it that round him six score thousand men
\forcelinebreak Feed fat each day to sleep out night again.
\forcelinebreak If there to grudge, to rob, to mob, they dwell,
\forcelinebreak The wolf, the wild cat might be there as well.


If ancient Virtue’s fire is gone \& spent,
\forcelinebreak Perish these piles of Art \& ornament!
\forcelinebreak Burn church \& schoolhouse, which our license mock,
\forcelinebreak And let the gallant vessel rot in the dock.
\forcelinebreak The world-encircling merchant sink his goods
\forcelinebreak And with his babes pick berries in the woods:
\forcelinebreak Nay let the rotten land suck in the seas,
\forcelinebreak And the whales pasture mid our college trees!


But if the children of New England feel
\forcelinebreak With their high lifted fate an even zeal
\forcelinebreak If to be native of this law-ruled earth
\forcelinebreak Shall be in the world synonimous with worth;
\forcelinebreak Who eats his bread by Massachusett’ streams
\forcelinebreak Shall steadfast aim to be the thing he seems
\forcelinebreak Shall love the country that him bore \& bred
\forcelinebreak Revere the memory of her worthy dead
\forcelinebreak Feel his heart beat with throbs no sneer withstands
\forcelinebreak At Concord, Bunker’s height, and Plymouth sands
\forcelinebreak And, his debt owned to God \& to good men,
\forcelinebreak Cannot lay down his dust in dust again
\forcelinebreak Till he, by studious thought, or deed of love,
\forcelinebreak Have sealed his kindred with the blest above;
\forcelinebreak — Enamoured of such worthiness shall Fate
\forcelinebreak Concede the commonwealth a longer date.
\forcelinebreak And when remotest times together view
\forcelinebreak Acts of the elder England \& the New
\forcelinebreak One self same genius shall shine through them all
\forcelinebreak From ancient Runnimede to Faneuil Hall.


That genius is the Saxon love of Law
\forcelinebreak And Freedom, whence our daily peace we draw.
\forcelinebreak For see how Heaven preserves us; when, of late,
\forcelinebreak Ill omened birds screamed shipwreck to the state,
\forcelinebreak Then, to redeem the law from the law’s foes,
\forcelinebreak An unexpected strength at once arose;
\forcelinebreak Thundered from lips long silent, voices wise,
\forcelinebreak And patriot anger flamed in quiet eyes.


Ill fits the abstemious muse a crown to weave
\forcelinebreak For living brows; — ill fits them to receive:
\forcelinebreak And yet, if Virtue abrogate the law,
\forcelinebreak One portrait, — fact or fancy — we may draw:
\forcelinebreak A form which nature cast in the heroic mould
\forcelinebreak Of them who rescued liberty of old;
\forcelinebreak He, when the rising storm of party roared,
\forcelinebreak Brought his great forehead to the council board:
\forcelinebreak There, when hot heads perplexed with fears the state,
\forcelinebreak Calm as the morn, the manly patriot sate;
\forcelinebreak Seemed, when at last his clarion accents broke,
\forcelinebreak As if the conscience of the country spoke.
\forcelinebreak Not on its base Monadnoc surer stood
\forcelinebreak Than he to common sense and common good
\forcelinebreak No mimic; — from his breast his counsel drew
\forcelinebreak Believed the eloquent was aye the true;
\forcelinebreak He bridged the gulf from the alway good \& wise,
\forcelinebreak To that within the vision of small eyes.
\forcelinebreak Self centred; when he launched the genuine word
\forcelinebreak It shook or captivated all who heard;
\forcelinebreak Ran from his mouth to mountains \& the sea,
\forcelinebreak And burned in noble hearts proverb \& prophecy.
\forcelinebreak Not old but wise, — for justice born to strive, —
\forcelinebreak God keep New England’s WEBSTER long alive!


Yet even this day of hope may be o’ercast
\forcelinebreak And future months resemble months now past
\forcelinebreak O countrymen! though every cheek may burn
\forcelinebreak With crimson shame from time this lesson learn
\forcelinebreak The towers that generations did combine
\forcelinebreak To build \& grace, a rat may undermine.


I speak unto the generous \& the good
\forcelinebreak Unto New England’s choicest brotherhood
\forcelinebreak Trust not the guarding sea, the fertile land
\forcelinebreak Nor fleets, nor hosts, nor law’s unsure command;
\forcelinebreak Build in the soul your citadel apart, —
\forcelinebreak The true New England is the patriots heart.
\forcelinebreak The day of elder states may come to us
\forcelinebreak When public faith shall be ridiculous.


When times are changed, and the old cement gone,
\forcelinebreak Nor longer laws can yield protection;
\forcelinebreak Even then, when justice is put up to sale,
\forcelinebreak Shall one resource redress the unequal scale
\forcelinebreak For, the true man, as long as earth shall stand,
\forcelinebreak Is to himself a state, a law, a land;
\forcelinebreak In his own breast shall read the righteous laws,
\forcelinebreak His own heart argue injured Virtues cause,
\forcelinebreak With cheerful brow undauntedly shall face
\forcelinebreak Or frowning kings, or roaring populace;
\forcelinebreak And, spending in man’s cause his latest breath,
\forcelinebreak Shall greet with joy sublime the Angel Death.


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\section{O What is Heaven but the Fellowship}


O what is Heaven but the fellowship
\forcelinebreak Of minds that each can stand against the world,
\forcelinebreak By its own meek but incorruptible will?


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\section{Ah Strange Strange Strange}


Ah strange strange strange
\forcelinebreak The Dualism of man
\forcelinebreak That he can enlist
\forcelinebreak But half his being in his act


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\section{See Yonder Leafless Trees Against the Sky}


See yonder leafless trees against the sky,
\forcelinebreak How they diffuse themselves into the air,
\forcelinebreak And ever subdividing separate,
\forcelinebreak Limbs into branches, branches into twigs,
\forcelinebreak As if they loved the element, \& hasted
\forcelinebreak To dissipate their being into it.


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\section{Do That Which You Can Do}


Do that which you can do
\forcelinebreak The world will feel its need of you.


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\section{Few Are Free}


Few are free
\forcelinebreak All might be
\forcelinebreak Tis the height
\forcelinebreak Of the soul’s flight


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\section{Van Buren}


The towers that generations did combine
\forcelinebreak To build \& grace, a rat may undermine.


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\section{The Future}


How many big events to shake the earth,
\forcelinebreak Lie packed in silence waiting for their birth.


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\section{Rex}


The bard \& mystic held me for their own
\forcelinebreak I filled the dream of sad poetic maids
\forcelinebreak I took the friendly noble by the hand
\forcelinebreak I was the trustee of the handcartman
\forcelinebreak The brother of the fisher, porter, swain, —
\forcelinebreak And these from the crowd’s edge well pleased beheld
\forcelinebreak The honor done to me as done to them.


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\section{Written in a Volume of Goethe}


Six thankful weeks, — \& let it be
\forcelinebreak A metre of prosperity, —
\forcelinebreak In my coat I bore this book,
\forcelinebreak And seldom therein could I look,
\forcelinebreak Each morning brought too much to think,
\forcelinebreak Heaven \& earth to eat \& drink.
\forcelinebreak Is he hapless, who can spare
\forcelinebreak In his plenty things so rare?


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\section{I Left My Dreamy Page \& Sallied Forth}


I left my dreamy page \& sallied forth
\forcelinebreak Received the fair inscriptions of the night
\forcelinebreak The moon was making amber of the world
\forcelinebreak Glittered with silver every cottage pane
\forcelinebreak The trees were rich yet ominous with gloom the meadows broad
\forcelinebreak From ferns \& grasses \& from folded flowers
\forcelinebreak Sent a nocturnal fragrance the harlot flies
\forcelinebreak Flashed their small fires in air or held their court
\forcelinebreak In fairy groves of herds grass


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\section{S. R.}


Demure apothecary
\forcelinebreak Whose early reverend genius my young eye
\forcelinebreak With wonder followed, \& undoubting joy,
\forcelinebreak Believing in that cold \& modest form


Brooded alway the everlasting mind.
\forcelinebreak And that thou faithful didst obey the soul,
\forcelinebreak So should the splendid favour of the God
\forcelinebreak From thine observed lips shower words of fire,
\forcelinebreak Pictures that cast before the common eye,


I know for mine, \& all men know for theirs.
\forcelinebreak How is the fine gold dim! the lofty low!
\forcelinebreak And thou, reputed speaker for the soul,
\forcelinebreak Forgoest the matchless benefit, \& now,
\forcelinebreak Sleek deacon of the New Jerusalem,


Thou hast defied the offering world to be
\forcelinebreak A blind man’s blind man.
\forcelinebreak Was it not worth ambition
\forcelinebreak To be the bard of nature to these times
\forcelinebreak With words like things,


An universal speech that did present
\forcelinebreak All natural creatures, and the eye beheld
\forcelinebreak A lake, a rose tree, when he named their names?


And better was it to cower before the phantoms
\forcelinebreak One self deceiving mystic drew in swarms
\forcelinebreak Wherever rolled his visionary eye,
\forcelinebreak The Swedish Pluto of a world of ghosts,
\forcelinebreak Eyes without light, men without character,
\forcelinebreak Nature a cave of theologions? —


And lo! the young men of the land
\forcelinebreak Decline the strife of virtue, fail to be
\forcelinebreak The bringers of glad thought, preferring Ease
\forcelinebreak Ease \& irresolution \& the wine
\forcelinebreak Of placid rich men, they consent to be
\forcelinebreak Danglers \& dolls. With these, not thou, not thou,
\forcelinebreak O noblest youth, not thou wilt there remain!
\forcelinebreak Up! for thy life, \& for thy people’s life!
\forcelinebreak And be the sun’s light \& the rainbow’s glow,
\forcelinebreak And by the power of picture, to the eye
\forcelinebreak Show wherefore it was made. Unlock
\forcelinebreak The world of sound to the astonished ear,
\forcelinebreak And thus by thee shall man be twice a man.
\forcelinebreak Were it not better than to boast thyself
\forcelinebreak Father of fifty sons, flesh of thy flesh,
\forcelinebreak Rather to live earth’s better bachelor
\forcelinebreak Planting ethereal seed in souls,


Spreading abroad thy being in the being
\forcelinebreak Of men whom thou dost foster \& inform,
\forcelinebreak Fill with new hopes, \& shake with grand desire?


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\section{Philosophers Are Lined With Eyes Within}


Philosophers are lined with eyes within
\forcelinebreak And being so the sage unmakes the man
\forcelinebreak He is in love he cannot therefore cease his trade
\forcelinebreak Scarce the first blush has overspread his cheek
\forcelinebreak He feels it, introverts his learned eye
\forcelinebreak To catch the unconscious heart in the very act
\forcelinebreak His mother died, the only friend he had
\forcelinebreak Some tears escaped but his philosophy
\forcelinebreak Couched like a cat sat watching close behind
\forcelinebreak And throttled all his passion. Is’t not like
\forcelinebreak That devil-spider that devours her mate
\forcelinebreak Scarce freed from her embraces


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\section{The Simple People Each With Basket or Tool}


The simple people each with basket or tool
\forcelinebreak Had left the young \& resolute to rule
\forcelinebreak But strange disorder in the councils crept
\forcelinebreak Whilst they in farm \& orchard toiled \& slept
\forcelinebreak The farmer \& the merchant missed their mart
\forcelinebreak And no reward attends the craftsman’s art
\forcelinebreak Awaking from their lethargy they hear
\forcelinebreak Rude words which neither land nor sea will bear
\forcelinebreak A great concourse surrounds a single man
\forcelinebreak And waits obsequious
\forcelinebreak Watches his words, \& predicates his will
\forcelinebreak Uprose the farmer by his apple tree
\forcelinebreak Tarried the sailor ere he put to sea
\forcelinebreak And who is he \& who are ye he said
\forcelinebreak And what care I if ye are tail or head
\forcelinebreak Shall I who know not of the trade of state
\forcelinebreak Who know not, care not for the statesmans fate
\forcelinebreak Scarce hold the name of parties \& of banks
\forcelinebreak Measures or leaders, officers or ranks
\forcelinebreak Shall I descend so low to ask or hear
\forcelinebreak What one man does or says with hope or fear
\forcelinebreak Follow the chance direction of his eye
\forcelinebreak Find his smile Fortune his frown poverty
\forcelinebreak God made these eyes: fear’s watch they cannot keep
\forcelinebreak God made this frame erect, it cannot creep.


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\section{On Bravely Through the Sunshine \& the Showers}


On bravely through the sunshine \& the showers
\forcelinebreak Time hath his work to do \& we have Ours.


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\section{Let Me Go Where E’er I Will}


Let me go where e’er I will
\forcelinebreak I hear a skyborn music still
\forcelinebreak It sounds from all things old
\forcelinebreak It sounds from all things young
\forcelinebreak From all that’s fair from all that’s foul
\forcelinebreak Peals out a cheerful song
\forcelinebreak It is not only in the Rose
\forcelinebreak It is not only in the bird
\forcelinebreak Not only where the Rainbow glows
\forcelinebreak Nor in the song of woman heard
\forcelinebreak But in the darkest meanest things
\forcelinebreak Theres alway alway something sings.


Tis not in the high stars alone
\forcelinebreak Nor in the cups of budding flowers
\forcelinebreak Nor in the redbreast’s mellow tone
\forcelinebreak Nor in the bow that smiles in showers
\forcelinebreak But in the mud \& scum of things
\forcelinebreak Theres alway alway something sings.


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\section{And When I Am Entombed in My Place}


And when I am entombed in my place,
\forcelinebreak Be it remembered of a single man,
\forcelinebreak He never, though he dearly loved his race,
\forcelinebreak For fear of human eyes, swerved from his plan.


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\section{Bard or Dunce is Blest, but Hard}


Bard or dunce is blest, but hard
\forcelinebreak Is it to be half a bard.


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\section{It Takes Philosopher or Fool}


It takes philosopher or fool
\forcelinebreak To build a fire or keep a school.


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\section{Tell Men What They Knew Before}


Tell men what they knew before
\forcelinebreak Paint the prospect from their door.


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\section{I Use the Knife}


I use the knife
\forcelinebreak To save the life.


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\section{There is No Evil but Can Speak}


There is no evil but can speak,
\forcelinebreak If the wheel want oil t’will creak.


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\section{The Sea Reflects the Rosy Sky}


The sea reflects the rosy sky,
\forcelinebreak The sky doth marry the blue main.


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\section{In This Sour World, O Summerwind}


In this sour world, o summerwind
\forcelinebreak Who taught thee sweet to blow
\forcelinebreak Who should not love me, summerwind,
\forcelinebreak If thou canst flatter so


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\section{Look Danger in the Eye It Vanishes}


Look danger in the eye it vanishes
\forcelinebreak Anatomize that roaring populace
\forcelinebreak Big dire \& overwhelming as they seem
\forcelinebreak Piecemeal t’is nothing. Some of them scream
\forcelinebreak Fearing the others some are lookers on
\forcelinebreak One of them hectic day by day consumes
\forcelinebreak And one will die tomorrow of the flux
\forcelinebreak One of them has already changed his mind
\forcelinebreak And falls out with the ringleader and one
\forcelinebreak Has seen his creditor amidst the crowd
\forcelinebreak And flees. And there are heavy eyes
\forcelinebreak That miss their sleep \& meditate retreat.
\forcelinebreak A few malignant heads keep up the din
\forcelinebreak The rest are idle boys.


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\section{As I Walked in the Wood}


As I walked in the wood
\forcelinebreak The silence into music broke
\forcelinebreak Sang the thrush in the dark oak
\forcelinebreak I unwilling to intrude
\forcelinebreak Slink into nigh solitude
\forcelinebreak Till warned by a scout of a jay
\forcelinebreak That flying courier so gay
\forcelinebreak That he sees me if I see not him
\forcelinebreak His eyes are bright if mine are dim


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\section{I Sat Upon the Ground}


I sat upon the ground
\forcelinebreak I leaned against an ancient pine
\forcelinebreak The pleasant breeze
\forcelinebreak Shook the forest tops like waves of ocean
\forcelinebreak I felt of the trunk the gentle motion


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\section{Good Charles the Springs Adorer}


Good Charles the springs adorer
\forcelinebreak True worshipper of Flora
\forcelinebreak Knows’t thou the gay Rhodora
\forcelinebreak That blossoms in the May
\forcelinebreak It blooms in dark nooks
\forcelinebreak By the wood loving brooks
\forcelinebreak And makes their twilight gay


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\section{Around the Man Who Seeks a Noble End}


Around the man who seeks a noble end
\forcelinebreak Not angels but divinities attend.


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\section{In the Deep Heart of Man a Poet Dwells}


In the deep heart of man a poet dwells
\forcelinebreak Who all the day of life his summer story tells
\forcelinebreak Scatters on every eye dust of his spells
\forcelinebreak Scent form \& color to the flowers \& shells
\forcelinebreak Wins the believing child with wondrous tales
\forcelinebreak Touches a cheek with colors of romance
\forcelinebreak And crowds a history into a glance
\forcelinebreak Gives beauty to the lake \& fountain
\forcelinebreak Spies over sea the fires of the mountain
\forcelinebreak When thrushes ope their throat, tis he that sings
\forcelinebreak And he that paints the oriole’s fiery wings
\forcelinebreak The little Shakspeare in the maidens heart
\forcelinebreak Makes Romeo of a ploughboy on his cart
\forcelinebreak Opens the eye to Virtues starlike meed
\forcelinebreak And gives persuasion to a gentle deed.


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\section{O What Are Heroes Prophets Men}


O what are heroes prophets men
\forcelinebreak But pipes through which the breath of Pan doth blow
\forcelinebreak A momentary music. Being’s tide
\forcelinebreak Swells hitherward \& myriads of forms
\forcelinebreak Live, robed with beauty, painted by the Sun:
\forcelinebreak Their dust pervaded by the nerves of God
\forcelinebreak Throbs with an overmastering energy
\forcelinebreak Knowing \& doing. Ebbs the tide, they lie
\forcelinebreak White hollow shells upon the desart shore.
\forcelinebreak But not the less the eternal wave rolls on
\forcelinebreak To animate new millions, \& exhale
\forcelinebreak Races \& planets its enchanted foam.


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\section{Yet Sometime to the Sorrow Stricken}


Yet sometime to the sorrow stricken
\forcelinebreak Shall his own sorrow seem impertinent
\forcelinebreak A thing that takes no more root in the world
\forcelinebreak Than doth the traveller’s shadow on the rock


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\section{When Thou Sittest Moping}


When thou sittest moping
\forcelinebreak Nor seeing nor hoping
\forcelinebreak Thy thought is none
\forcelinebreak But being freed
\forcelinebreak By action \& deed
\forcelinebreak Thy thoughts come in bands
\forcelinebreak Sisters hand in hand
\forcelinebreak Them thou canst not dispart
\forcelinebreak From the worlds that be
\forcelinebreak They reach to the stars
\forcelinebreak From the bed of the sea.


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\section{Woods}


A Prose Sonnet


Wise are ye, O ancient woods! wiser than man. Whoso goeth in your paths or into your thickets where no paths are, read-eth the same cheerful lesson whether he be a young child or a hundred years old. Comes he in good fortune or bad, ye say the same things, \& from age to age. Ever the needles of the pine grow \& fall, the acorns on the oak, the maples redden in autumn, \& at all times of the year the ground pine \& the pyrola bud \& root under foot. What is called fortune \& what is called Time by men — ye know them not. Men have not language to describe one moment of your eternal life. This I would ask of you, o sacred Woods, when ye shall next give me somewhat to say, give me also the tune wherein to say it.
\forcelinebreak Give me a tune of your own like your winds or rains or brooks or birds; for the songs of men grow old when they have been often repeated, but yours, though a man have heard them for seventy years, are never the same, but always
\forcelinebreak new, like time itself, or like love.


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\section{I Have Supped With the Gods Tonight}


I have supped with the gods tonight
\forcelinebreak Shall I come under wooden roofs?
\forcelinebreak As I walked on the hills
\forcelinebreak The great stars did not shine aloof
\forcelinebreak But they hurried down from their deep abodes
\forcelinebreak And hemmed me in their glittering troop


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\section{Once the Priest}


Once the priest
\forcelinebreak Lived in an age
\forcelinebreak Of narrow \& strait experience
\forcelinebreak Narrow \& strait it cut his cowl
\forcelinebreak Narrow \& strait it pinched his soul
\forcelinebreak The times are changed, the ball is known
\forcelinebreak The lands are found, the forest shown,
\forcelinebreak The woods are felled, the cities rise,
\forcelinebreak Swift fly the ships, the letter flies,
\forcelinebreak The train along the railroad skates
\forcelinebreak It leaves the land behind like ages past
\forcelinebreak The foreland flows to it in river fast
\forcelinebreak Missouri is the merchant’s mart
\forcelinebreak Iowa learns the Saxon Art
\forcelinebreak What should the old priest in a world like this
\forcelinebreak The new time will have a new priest I wis
\forcelinebreak He must know the house where he belongs
\forcelinebreak His ear must catch its many tongues
\forcelinebreak On the Bourse in Louvre walk
\forcelinebreak In Lloyd’s in Wall Street talk
\forcelinebreak His fine ear judge in the theater
\forcelinebreak In Caucus know the ballots go
\forcelinebreak And what the Barroom gossips so
\forcelinebreak What books the people write \& read
\forcelinebreak What Reforms the restless breed
\forcelinebreak What the loghut thinks of the White House


He should know all things, all things see
\forcelinebreak And present at their secret be


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\section{Natures Web Star Broidered}


Natures web star broidered
\forcelinebreak Of animated fibre woven


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\section{For That a Man is a Mark}


For that a man is a mark
\forcelinebreak Shows not that he has done
\forcelinebreak What he is charged withal;
\forcelinebreak But that some flaw
\forcelinebreak The censurer knows not what
\forcelinebreak Has cracked his crystal vase


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\section{The Bohemian Hymn}


In many forms we try
\forcelinebreak To utter God’s infinity
\forcelinebreak But the boundless hath no form
\forcelinebreak And the Universal Friend
\forcelinebreak Doth as far transcend
\forcelinebreak An angel as a worm.


The great Idea baffles wit
\forcelinebreak Language falters under it
\forcelinebreak It leaves the learned in the lurch
\forcelinebreak Nor art nor power nor toil can find
\forcelinebreak The measure of the eternal Mind
\forcelinebreak Nor hymn nor prayer nor church.


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\section{Kind \& Holy Were the Words}


Kind \& holy were the words —
\forcelinebreak O how trustingly they fell!
\forcelinebreak Music wants such sweet accords —
\forcelinebreak Sister, this thy perfect spell.
\forcelinebreak All the woman now was dropt,
\forcelinebreak All the friend came forth to me,
\forcelinebreak The beauty I had pictured oft
\forcelinebreak Was vanished utterly
\forcelinebreak Before the dearer emanation
\forcelinebreak Of undefiled affection,
\forcelinebreak Of earnest, wistful, ancient love,
\forcelinebreak With clear \& liquid eye,
\forcelinebreak Older than the gods above,
\forcelinebreak Fountain of their deity.
\forcelinebreak Yet thou showed me no love
\forcelinebreak For the sake of love,
\forcelinebreak That for meaner souls was made
\forcelinebreak To whom passion is their bread.
\forcelinebreak Thou didst wrap thy love in thought
\forcelinebreak It to me in wisdom taught
\forcelinebreak In the rapid utterance
\forcelinebreak Of thy noble aim \& hope
\forcelinebreak In the clear deliverance
\forcelinebreak Of the will’s \& wisdoms scope.
\forcelinebreak Now pleasant fall the blinding snows,
\forcelinebreak And gay to me the darkest night,
\forcelinebreak A merry catch the cold wind blows,
\forcelinebreak And Pain can yield its own delight,
\forcelinebreak Whilst thou to me \& I to thee belong
\forcelinebreak By the high kin of thought, O Sister of my song!


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\section{Bluebeard. Let the Gentle Wife Prepare}


Bluebeard. Let the gentle wife prepare
\forcelinebreak With housewife’s pride her utmost feast
\forcelinebreak I know with granite glance
\forcelinebreak And one or two bitter words
\forcelinebreak How to spoil her relish for it.


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\section{Divine Inviters! I Accept}


Divine Inviters! I accept
\forcelinebreak The courtesy ye have shown \& kept
\forcelinebreak From ancient ages for the bard,
\forcelinebreak To modulate
\forcelinebreak With finer fate
\forcelinebreak A fortune harsh \& hard.
\forcelinebreak With aim like yours
\forcelinebreak I watch your course,
\forcelinebreak Who never break your lawful dance
\forcelinebreak By error or intemperance.
\forcelinebreak O birds of ether without wings!
\forcelinebreak O heavenly ships without a sail!
\forcelinebreak O fire of fire! o best of things!
\forcelinebreak O mariners who never fail!
\forcelinebreak Sail swiftly through your amber vault
\forcelinebreak An animated law, a presence to exalt


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\section{Go if Thou Wilt Ambrosial Flower}


Go if thou wilt ambrosial Flower
\forcelinebreak Go match thee with thy seeming peers
\forcelinebreak I will wait Heaven’s perfect hour
\forcelinebreak Through the innumerable years


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\section{In Walden Wood the Chickadee}


In Walden wood the chickadee
\forcelinebreak Runs round the pine \& maple tree,
\forcelinebreak Intent on insect slaughter:
\forcelinebreak O tufted entomologist!
\forcelinebreak Devour as many as you list,
\forcelinebreak Then drink in Walden Water.


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\section{Star Seer Copernicus}


Star seer Copernicus
\forcelinebreak Only could earn a curse
\forcelinebreak A slip of a fellow to show men the stars
\forcelinebreak What a scandalous slip of a fellow was he
\forcelinebreak Presuming to show what men wished not to see
\forcelinebreak Misunderstood — Misunderstood
\forcelinebreak How dared the old graybeard be misunderstood


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\section{At Last the Poet Spoke}


At last the poet spoke
\forcelinebreak The richest gifts are vain
\forcelinebreak As lightning in yon dark clouds grain
\forcelinebreak A poison in the worlds veins creeps
\forcelinebreak A devil in celestial deeps


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\section{The Discontented Poet: a Masque}


Lonely he sat, the men were strange
\forcelinebreak The women all forbidden
\forcelinebreak Too closely pent in narrow range
\forcelinebreak Between two sleeps a short day’s stealth
\forcelinebreak Mid many ails a brittle health
\forcelinebreak Counts his scant stock of native wealth
\forcelinebreak By conscience sorely chidden


His loves were sharp sharp pains
\forcelinebreak Outlets to his thoughts were none
\forcelinebreak A wandering fire within his veins
\forcelinebreak His soul was smouldered \& undone
\forcelinebreak A cripple of God, half true, half formed,
\forcelinebreak And by great sparks Promethean warmed


Constrained by impotence to adjourn
\forcelinebreak To infinite time his eager turn,
\forcelinebreak His lot of action from the Urn.


He by false usage pinned about
\forcelinebreak No breath therein, no passage out,
\forcelinebreak Cast wishful glances at the stars
\forcelinebreak And wishful hailed the Ocean stream,
\forcelinebreak “Merge me in the brute Universe
\forcelinebreak Or lift to some diviner dream.”


Beside him sat enduring love:
\forcelinebreak Upon him noble eyes did rest,
\forcelinebreak Which for the genius that there strove
\forcelinebreak The follies bore that it invest:
\forcelinebreak They spoke not: for their earnest sense
\forcelinebreak Outran the craft of eloquence:


The holy lovers peaceful sate
\forcelinebreak Through extacy inanimate
\forcelinebreak As marble statues in a hall,
\forcelinebreak Yet was their silence musical;
\forcelinebreak The only plaints, the sole replies,
\forcelinebreak Were those long looks of liquid eyes.


Chorus Yon waterflags, yon sighing osier,
\forcelinebreak A drop can shake, a breath can fan
\forcelinebreak Maidens laugh \& weep: Composure
\forcelinebreak Is the pudency of man.


Chorus Means, — dear brother, ask them not;
\forcelinebreak Soul’s desire is means enow;
\forcelinebreak Pure content is angels lot;
\forcelinebreak Thine own theatre art thou.


Poet I see your forms with deep content
\forcelinebreak I know that ye are excellent;
\forcelinebreak But will ye stay?
\forcelinebreak I hear the rustle of wings
\forcelinebreak Ye meditate what to say
\forcelinebreak When ye go to quit me forever \& aye.


Chorus Brother, we are no phantom band,
\forcelinebreak Brother accept this fatal hand
\forcelinebreak Aches thy unbelieving heart
\forcelinebreak With the fear that we must part?
\forcelinebreak See all we are rooted here
\forcelinebreak By one thought to one same sphere;
\forcelinebreak From thyself thou canst not flee,
\forcelinebreak From thyself no more can we.


Poet Suns \& stars their courses keep,
\forcelinebreak But not angels of the deep;
\forcelinebreak Day \& night their turn observe,
\forcelinebreak But the day of day may swerve.
\forcelinebreak Is there warrant that the waves
\forcelinebreak Of thought from their mysterious caves
\forcelinebreak Will heap in me their highest tide
\forcelinebreak In me therewith beatified?
\forcelinebreak Unsure the ebb \& flow of thought, —
\forcelinebreak The moon comes back, the spirit not.


Chorus Brother, sweeter is the Law
\forcelinebreak Than all the grace Love ever saw
\forcelinebreak We are its suppliants. By it we
\forcelinebreak Draw the breath of eternity:
\forcelinebreak Serve thou it not for daily bread
\forcelinebreak Serve it for pain \& fear \& dread.
\forcelinebreak Love it, though it hide its light;
\forcelinebreak By love behold the Sun at night;
\forcelinebreak If the Law should thee forget,
\forcelinebreak More enamoured serve it yet:
\forcelinebreak Though it hate thee, — suffer long, —
\forcelinebreak Put the Spirit in the wrong, —
\forcelinebreak That were a deed to sing in Eden,
\forcelinebreak By the waters of life to Seraphs heeding.


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\section{Love}


Asks nought his brother cannot give
\forcelinebreak Asks nothing but does all receive
\forcelinebreak Love calls not to his aid events
\forcelinebreak He to his wants can well suffice
\forcelinebreak Asks not of others soft consents
\forcelinebreak Nor kind Occasion without eyes
\forcelinebreak Nor plots to ope or bolt a gate
\forcelinebreak Nor heeds Condition’s iron walls
\forcelinebreak Where he goes, goes before him Fate;
\forcelinebreak Whom he uniteth God instals;
\forcelinebreak Instant \& perfect his access
\forcelinebreak To the dear object of his thought,
\forcelinebreak Though foes \& lands \& seas between
\forcelinebreak Himself \& his love intervene.


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\section{Hold of the Maker, Not the Made}


Hold of the Maker, not the made,
\forcelinebreak Sit with the Cause, or grim or glad.


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\section{He Walked the Streets of Great New York}


He walked the streets of great New York
\forcelinebreak Full of men, the men were full of blood
\forcelinebreak Signs of power, signs of worth,
\forcelinebreak Yet all seemed trivial
\forcelinebreak As the ceaseless cry
\forcelinebreak Of the newsboys in the street
\forcelinebreak Now men do not listen after
\forcelinebreak The voice in the breast
\forcelinebreak Which makes the thunder mean
\forcelinebreak But the Great God hath departed
\forcelinebreak And they listen after Scott \& Byron
\forcelinebreak I met no gods — I harboured none,
\forcelinebreak As I walked by noon \& night alone
\forcelinebreak The crowded ways
\forcelinebreak And yet I found in the heart of the town
\forcelinebreak A few children of God nestling in his bosom
\forcelinebreak Not detached as all the crowd appeared
\forcelinebreak each one a sutlers boat
\forcelinebreak Cruising for private gain
\forcelinebreak But these seemed undetached united
\forcelinebreak Lovers of Love, of Truth,
\forcelinebreak And as among Indians they say
\forcelinebreak The One the One is known
\forcelinebreak So under the eaves of Wall Street
\forcelinebreak Brokers had met the Eternal
\forcelinebreak In the city of surfaces
\forcelinebreak Where I a swain became a surface
\forcelinebreak I found \& worshipped Him.
\forcelinebreak Always thus neighbored well
\forcelinebreak The two contemporaries dwell
\forcelinebreak The World which by the world is known
\forcelinebreak And Wisdom seeking still its own
\forcelinebreak I walked with men
\forcelinebreak Who seemed as if they were chairs or stools
\forcelinebreak Tables or shopwindows or champagne baskets
\forcelinebreak For these they loved \& were if truly seen
\forcelinebreak I walked with others of their wisdom gave me proof
\forcelinebreak Who brought the starry heaven
\forcelinebreak As near as the house roof


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\section{The Archangel Hope}


The Archangel Hope
\forcelinebreak Looks to the azure cope
\forcelinebreak Waits through dark ages for the morn
\forcelinebreak Defeated day by day but unto victory born


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\section{Atom From Atom Yawns as Far}


Atom from atom yawns as far
\forcelinebreak As moon from earth, or star from star.


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\section{I Grieve That Better Souls Than Mine}


I grieve that better souls than mine
\forcelinebreak Docile read my measured line
\forcelinebreak High destined youths \& holy maids
\forcelinebreak Hallow these my orchard shades
\forcelinebreak Environ me \& me baptize
\forcelinebreak With light that streams from gracious eyes,
\forcelinebreak I dare not be beloved or known,
\forcelinebreak I ungrateful, I alone.


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\section{Nantasket}


Lobster-car, boat, or fishbasket,
\forcelinebreak Peeps, noddies, oldsquaws, or quail,
\forcelinebreak To Musketaquid what from Nantasket,
\forcelinebreak What token of greeting \& hail?


Can we tie up \& send you our thunder, —
\forcelinebreak Pulse-beat of the sea on the shore?
\forcelinebreak Or our Rainbow, the daughter of Wonder,
\forcelinebreak Our rock Massasoit’s palace-door.


White pebbles from Nantasket beach,
\forcelinebreak Whereon to write the maiden’s name;
\forcelinebreak Shells, sea-eggs, sea flowers, could they teach
\forcelinebreak Thee the fair haunts from whence they came!


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\section{Water}


The Water understands
\forcelinebreak Civilization well —
\forcelinebreak It wets my foot, but prettily,
\forcelinebreak It chills my life, but wittily,
\forcelinebreak It is not disconcerted,
\forcelinebreak It is not broken-hearted,
\forcelinebreak Well used, it decketh joy,
\forcelinebreak Adorneth, doubleth joy;
\forcelinebreak Ill-used it will destroy
\forcelinebreak In perfect time and measure,
\forcelinebreak With a face of golden pleasure,
\forcelinebreak Elegantly destroy.


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\section{Where the Fungus Broad \& Red}


Where the fungus broad \& red
\forcelinebreak Lifts its head
\forcelinebreak Like poisoned loaf of elfin bread
\forcelinebreak Where the aster grew
\forcelinebreak With the social goldenrod
\forcelinebreak In a chapel which the dew
\forcelinebreak Made beautiful for God
\forcelinebreak The maple street
\forcelinebreak In the houseless wood
\forcelinebreak O what would nature say
\forcelinebreak She spared no speech today
\forcelinebreak The fungus \& the bulrush spoke
\forcelinebreak Answered the pinetree \& the oak
\forcelinebreak The wizard South blew down the glen
\forcelinebreak Filled the straits \& filled the wide,
\forcelinebreak Each maple leaf turned up its silver side.
\forcelinebreak All things shine in his damp ray
\forcelinebreak And all we see are pictures high
\forcelinebreak Many a high hill side
\forcelinebreak Which oaks of pride
\forcelinebreak Climb to their tops
\forcelinebreak And boys run out upon their leafy ropes


In the houseless wood
\forcelinebreak Voices followed after
\forcelinebreak Every shrub \& grapeleaf
\forcelinebreak Rang with fairy laughter
\forcelinebreak I have heard them fall
\forcelinebreak Like the strain of all
\forcelinebreak King Oberons minstrelsy
\forcelinebreak Would hear the everlasting
\forcelinebreak And know the only strong
\forcelinebreak You must worship fasting
\forcelinebreak You must listen long
\forcelinebreak Words of the air
\forcelinebreak Which birds of the air
\forcelinebreak Carry aloft below around
\forcelinebreak To the isles of the deep
\forcelinebreak To the snow capped steep
\forcelinebreak To the thundercloud
\forcelinebreak To the loud bazaar
\forcelinebreak To the haram of Caliph \& Kremlin of Czar
\forcelinebreak Is the verse original
\forcelinebreak Let its numbers rise \& fall
\forcelinebreak As the winds do when they call
\forcelinebreak One to another


Come search the wood for flowers
\forcelinebreak Wild tea \& wild pea
\forcelinebreak Grape vine \& succory
\forcelinebreak Coreopsis
\forcelinebreak And liatris
\forcelinebreak Flaunting in their bowers
\forcelinebreak Grass with greenflag halfmast high
\forcelinebreak Succory to match the sky
\forcelinebreak Columbine with horn of honey
\forcelinebreak Scented fern \& agrimony
\forcelinebreak Forest full of essences


Fit for fairy presences,
\forcelinebreak Peppermint \& sassafras
\forcelinebreak Sweet fern, mint, \& vernal grass,
\forcelinebreak Panax, black birch, sugar maple,
\forcelinebreak Sweet \& scent for Dian’s table,
\forcelinebreak Elder-blow, sarsaparilla,
\forcelinebreak Wild-rose, lily, dry vanilla.


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\section{The Skeptic}


Madness, madness,
\forcelinebreak Madness from the gods!
\forcelinebreak To every brain a several vein
\forcelinebreak Of madness from the gods!
\forcelinebreak Their heads they toss each one aloft
\forcelinebreak They toss their heads with pride,
\forcelinebreak Though to break free they struggle oft
\forcelinebreak And shoulder each aside
\forcelinebreak What boots it, though their arms stretch out,
\forcelinebreak And wings behind their shoulders sprout,
\forcelinebreak If as at first, also at last,
\forcelinebreak Their planted feet like trees are fast,
\forcelinebreak Rooted in the slime of Fate,
\forcelinebreak Sepulchre predestinate:
\forcelinebreak As if their feet were flint, \& soon
\forcelinebreak All the trunk will grow to stone.
\forcelinebreak Not one has surmounted
\forcelinebreak The Destiny yet:
\forcelinebreak Not one has accounted
\forcelinebreak To Conscience his debt.
\forcelinebreak Many in the dark have groped,
\forcelinebreak Many for the dawn have hoped,
\forcelinebreak And some more brave, or else more blind,
\forcelinebreak The freedom all desire, pretend to find.
\forcelinebreak Of all past men
\forcelinebreak Not one has snapped the chain
\forcelinebreak All enter life, each one the dupe
\forcelinebreak Of the arch-deceiver Hope:
\forcelinebreak Each hears the Siren whisper; ‘he,
\forcelinebreak Though first of men, shall yet be free;’
\forcelinebreak That one of their own stem,
\forcelinebreak Man of Ur, or Bethlehem,
\forcelinebreak Jove or Alcides,
\forcelinebreak Mahmoud or Moses,
\forcelinebreak From their eye shall pluck the beam
\forcelinebreak And their heart from death redeem.
\forcelinebreak But Destiny sat still,
\forcelinebreak And had her will.
\forcelinebreak Know thou surely
\forcelinebreak That there is yet no prophet’s ken,
\forcelinebreak No seer in the sons of men,
\forcelinebreak Those in whom thou dost confide,
\forcelinebreak Whom thy love has deified,
\forcelinebreak With a superabundant trust, —
\forcelinebreak Their words are wind, their forms are dust.
\forcelinebreak O thousand blossomed but barren tree!
\forcelinebreak Much-pretending, helped they thee?
\forcelinebreak Merchant \& statesman
\forcelinebreak Poet \& craftsman
\forcelinebreak Prophet \& judge
\forcelinebreak Pirate \& drudge
\forcelinebreak One fortune levels
\forcelinebreak Human angels human devils
\forcelinebreak For ever when a human brain
\forcelinebreak Its perfect purpose will attain
\forcelinebreak Then suddenly the pitiless
\forcelinebreak Performance-hating Nemesis
\forcelinebreak Withdraws the prize like a painted slide
\forcelinebreak And a new bauble is supplied
\forcelinebreak He that threatens is threatened
\forcelinebreak Who terrifieth is afraid


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\section{When Jane Was Absent Edgar’s Eye}


When Jane was absent Edgar’s eye
\forcelinebreak Roved to the door incessantly
\forcelinebreak But when she came he went away
\forcelinebreak For the poor youth could nothing say
\forcelinebreak Yet hated to appear unwise
\forcelinebreak Before those beatific eyes


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\section{I Have Found a Nobler Love}


I have found a nobler love
\forcelinebreak Than the sordid world doth know
\forcelinebreak Above its envy or belief
\forcelinebreak My flames of passion glow


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\section{Fine Presentiments Controlled Him}


Fine presentiments controlled him,
\forcelinebreak As one who knew a day was great,
\forcelinebreak And freighted with a friendly fate,
\forcelinebreak Ere whispered news or couriers told him;
\forcelinebreak When first at morn he read the face
\forcelinebreak Of Nature from his resting place
\forcelinebreak He the coming day inspired
\forcelinebreak Was with its rare genius fired,
\forcelinebreak And, in his bearing \& his gait,
\forcelinebreak Calm expectancy did wait


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\section{We Sauntered Amidst Miracles}


We sauntered amidst miracles
\forcelinebreak We were the fairies in the bells
\forcelinebreak The summer was our quaint bouquet
\forcelinebreak The winter eve our Milky Way
\forcelinebreak We played in turn with all the slides
\forcelinebreak In Natures lamp of suns \& tides
\forcelinebreak We pierced all books with criticism
\forcelinebreak We plied with doubts the Catechism
\forcelinebreak The Christian Fold
\forcelinebreak The Bible Old


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\section{This World is Tedious}


This world is tedious
\forcelinebreak Shingled with lies
\forcelinebreak Reform’s as bad as vice
\forcelinebreak Reformer as complier
\forcelinebreak And I as much a coward
\forcelinebreak As any he I blame


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\section{What Are All the Flowers}


What are all the flowers
\forcelinebreak And all the rainbows of the skies
\forcelinebreak To the lights that rain from Eva’s eyes
\forcelinebreak She turned on me those azure orbs
\forcelinebreak And steeped me in their lavish light
\forcelinebreak All thot, all things, that joy absorbs.
\forcelinebreak Yet had no hint of vain delight
\forcelinebreak Yet the I spend my days in love
\forcelinebreak I never have known aught good thereof


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\section{A Pair of Crystal Eyes Will Lead Me}


A pair of crystal eyes will lead me
\forcelinebreak All about the rounded globe
\forcelinebreak Averted oft, if once they heed me
\forcelinebreak I will follow follow follow
\forcelinebreak To kiss the hem of her robe


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\section{Knows He Who Tills This Lonely Field}


Knows he who tills this lonely field
\forcelinebreak To reap its scanty corn
\forcelinebreak What mystic fruit his acres yield
\forcelinebreak At midnight \& at morn


That field by spirits bad \& good
\forcelinebreak By Hell \& Heaven is haunted
\forcelinebreak And every rood in the hemlock wood
\forcelinebreak I know is ground enchanted


In the long sunny afternoon
\forcelinebreak The plain was full of ghosts
\forcelinebreak I wandered up I wandered down
\forcelinebreak Beset by pensive hosts


For in those lonely grounds the sun
\forcelinebreak Shines not as on the town
\forcelinebreak In nearer arcs his journeys run
\forcelinebreak And nearer stoops the moon


There in a moment I have seen
\forcelinebreak The buried Past arise
\forcelinebreak The fields of Thessaly grew green
\forcelinebreak Old gods forsook the skies


I cannot publish in my rhyme
\forcelinebreak What pranks the greenwood played
\forcelinebreak It was the Carnival of time
\forcelinebreak And Ages went or stayed


To me that spectral nook appeared
\forcelinebreak The mustering Day of doom
\forcelinebreak And round me swarmed in shadowy troop
\forcelinebreak Things past \& things to come


The darkness haunteth me elsewhere
\forcelinebreak There I am full of light
\forcelinebreak In every whispering leaf I hear
\forcelinebreak More sense than sages write


There is no mystery
\forcelinebreak But tis figured in the flowers
\forcelinebreak There is no history
\forcelinebreak But tis calendared in the bowers


Underwoods were full of pleasance
\forcelinebreak All to each in kindness bend
\forcelinebreak And every flower made obeisance
\forcelinebreak As a man unto his friend.


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\section{Far Seen the River Glides Below}


Far seen the river glides below
\forcelinebreak Tossing one sparkle to the eyes
\forcelinebreak I catch thy meaning wizard wave
\forcelinebreak The River of my Life replies


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\section{From the Stores of Eldest Matter}


From the stores of eldest Matter
\forcelinebreak The deepeyed flame obedient water
\forcelinebreak Transparent air allfeeding earth
\forcelinebreak He took the flower of all their worth
\forcelinebreak And best with best in sweet consent
\forcelinebreak Combined a new temperament


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\section{And the Best Gift of God}


And the best gift of God
\forcelinebreak Is the love of superior souls


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\section{Stout Sparta Shrined the God of Laughter}


Stout Sparta shrined the god of Laughter
\forcelinebreak In a niche below the rafter,
\forcelinebreak Visible from every seat
\forcelinebreak Where the young men carve their meat.


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\section{Brother, No Decrepitude}


Brother, no decrepitude
\forcelinebreak Cramps the limbs of Time;
\forcelinebreak As fleet his feet, his hands as good,
\forcelinebreak His vision as sublime.
\forcelinebreak As when at first Jehovah hurled
\forcelinebreak The Sun \& each revolving world.


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\section{Who Knows This or That}


Who knows this or that
\forcelinebreak Hark in the wall to the rat
\forcelinebreak Since the world was, he has gnawed;
\forcelinebreak Of his wisdom of his fraud
\forcelinebreak What dost thou know
\forcelinebreak In the wretched little beast
\forcelinebreak Is life \& heart
\forcelinebreak Child \& parent
\forcelinebreak Not without relation
\forcelinebreak To fruitful field \& sun \& moon
\forcelinebreak What art thou? his wicked eye
\forcelinebreak Is cruel to thy cruelty


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\section{Saadi Loved the New \& Old}


Saadi loved the new \& old
\forcelinebreak The near \& far the town \& wold
\forcelinebreak Him when Genius urged to roam
\forcelinebreak Stronger Custom brot him home


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\section{But if Thou Do Thy Best}


But if thou do thy best
\forcelinebreak Without remission without rest
\forcelinebreak And invite the sunbeam
\forcelinebreak And abhor to feign or seem
\forcelinebreak Even to those who thee shd love
\forcelinebreak And thy behavior approve
\forcelinebreak If thou go in thine own likeness
\forcelinebreak Be it health or be it sickness
\forcelinebreak If thou go as thy fathers son
\forcelinebreak If thou wear no mask or lie
\forcelinebreak Dealing purely \& nakedly


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\section{An Ancient Drop of Feudal Blood}


An ancient drop of feudal blood
\forcelinebreak From the high line of Bulkeley-Mere
\forcelinebreak Mixed with the democratic flood
\forcelinebreak Of sires to Yankee freedom dear.


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\section{These Trees Like Tho’ts That to Visions Congeal}


These trees like tho’ts that to visions congeal
\forcelinebreak Gleamed out on my sight like the gleaming of steel
\forcelinebreak These woodlands how grand \& how sacred they seem
\forcelinebreak And the air of my house but a pestilent steam
\forcelinebreak My eyes were bewitched O Nature but thou
\forcelinebreak Hast with woodland perfumes disenchanted them now


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\section{Vain Against Him Were Hostile Blows}


Vain against him were hostile blows
\forcelinebreak He did their weapons decompose
\forcelinebreak Aimed at him the blushing blade
\forcelinebreak Healed as fast the wounds it made
\forcelinebreak On whomsoever fell his gaze
\forcelinebreak Power it had to blind \& craze


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\section{Like Vaulters in the Circus Round}


Like vaulters in the circus round
\forcelinebreak Who step from horse to horse but never touch the ground


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\section{If He Go Apart}


If he go apart
\forcelinebreak And tear the foible from his heart
\forcelinebreak And with himself content
\forcelinebreak Live in the deed \& not the event
\forcelinebreak He shall thus himself erect
\forcelinebreak Into a tower of intellect
\forcelinebreak Farseen farseeing circumspect
\forcelinebreak Star specular high \& clear
\forcelinebreak And to thyself more justly dear
\forcelinebreak Than if thy heart with soft alarms
\forcelinebreak Did palpitate within his arms


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\section{Nature Will Not Lose}


Nature will not lose
\forcelinebreak In any ends she doth propose
\forcelinebreak But if thou thy debt decline
\forcelinebreak Will mulct thee with a fine
\forcelinebreak If thou refuse to bring forth men


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\section{The Crowning Hour When Bodies Vie With Souls}


The crowning hour when bodies vie with souls
\forcelinebreak And bifold essence rushes to its poles


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\section{And as the Light Divided the Dark}


And as the light divided the dark
\forcelinebreak Thorough with living swords
\forcelinebreak So shalt thou pierce the distant age
\forcelinebreak With adamantine words.


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\section{When Devils Bite}


When devils bite
\forcelinebreak A damned parasite
\forcelinebreak Strikes at their throat \& stings them home


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\section{Comfort With a Purring Cat}


Comfort with a purring cat
\forcelinebreak Prosperity in a white hat


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\section{I Cannot Find a Place So Lonely}


I cannot find a place so lonely
\forcelinebreak To harbour thee \& me only
\forcelinebreak I cannot find a nook so deep
\forcelinebreak So sheltered may suffice to keep
\forcelinebreak The ever glowing festival
\forcelinebreak When thou \& I to each are all


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\section{He Whom God Had Thus Preferred}


He whom God had thus preferred
\forcelinebreak To whom sweet angels ministered
\forcelinebreak Wrapped him in love as in a cloud
\forcelinebreak Their gifts bestowed, their love avowed,
\forcelinebreak Saluted him each morn as Brother to each other


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\section{Bended to Fops Who Bent to Him}


Bended to fops who bent to him
\forcelinebreak Surface with surfaces did swim
\forcelinebreak And in the fashionable crowd
\forcelinebreak None more obsequious heartless bowed
\forcelinebreak “Sorrow! Sorrow!” the Angels cried
\forcelinebreak “Is this dear nature’s manly pride!
\forcelinebreak Call hither thy mortal enemy
\forcelinebreak Make him glad thy fall to see.”


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\section{On That Night the Poet Went}


On that night the poet went
\forcelinebreak From the lighted halls
\forcelinebreak Beneath the darkling firmament
\forcelinebreak To the sea shore to the old sea walls
\forcelinebreak Dark was night upon the seas
\forcelinebreak Darker was the poet’s mind
\forcelinebreak For his shallow suppleness
\forcelinebreak Black abyss of penitence
\forcelinebreak The wind blew keen, the poet threw
\forcelinebreak His cloak apart to feel the cold
\forcelinebreak The wind he said is free \& true
\forcelinebreak But I am mean and sold.
\forcelinebreak Out shone a star between the clouds
\forcelinebreak The constellation glittered soon,
\forcelinebreak “You have no lapse! so have ye glowed
\forcelinebreak But once in your dominion.
\forcelinebreak And I to whom your light has spoke
\forcelinebreak I pining to be one of you
\forcelinebreak I fall, my faith is broken
\forcelinebreak Ye scorn me from your deeps of Blue
\forcelinebreak And yet dear stars I know ye shine
\forcelinebreak Only by needs \& loves of mine
\forcelinebreak Light loving light asking Life in me
\forcelinebreak Feeds those eternal lamps I see


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\section{Ye Have Grace}


Ye have Grace
\forcelinebreak With swiftness to abolish space
\forcelinebreak Alike your tiny arrows work
\forcelinebreak On Schiraz Cairo \& New York


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\section{The Dervish Whined to Said}


The Dervish whined to Said,
\forcelinebreak “Thou didst not tarry while I prayed.”
\forcelinebreak Beware the fires which Eblis burned.
\forcelinebreak But Saadi coldly thus returned,
\forcelinebreak “Once, with manlike love \& fear,
\forcelinebreak I gave thee for an hour my ear,
\forcelinebreak I kept the sun \& stars at bay,
\forcelinebreak And love, for words thy tongue could say;
\forcelinebreak I cannot sell my heaven again
\forcelinebreak For all that rattles in thy brain.


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\section{Life is Great}


Life is great
\forcelinebreak Men are small
\forcelinebreak Were it not for the Power
\forcelinebreak To which each testifies
\forcelinebreak We could not suppress a titter.
\forcelinebreak The Soul is in eternity.
\forcelinebreak As a man stands in the landscape
\forcelinebreak He is very small,
\forcelinebreak But he is apprised that the other is large
\forcelinebreak And being so apprized
\forcelinebreak Partakes of its scope.
\forcelinebreak When once he has believed
\forcelinebreak And become doubly alive
\forcelinebreak Threescore \& ten orbits of the sun
\forcelinebreak To him short term appears
\forcelinebreak And he finds it not unworthy
\forcelinebreak To live long only for a few lessons
\forcelinebreak Assured he shall pass through a million forms
\forcelinebreak And in each acquire the appropriate facts
\forcelinebreak So that one day he will emerge
\forcelinebreak Armed at all points a god,
\forcelinebreak A demigod, a chrystal soul
\forcelinebreak Sphered \& concentred to the whole.


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\section{The Husband Has the Nearest Acres}


The husband has the nearest acres
\forcelinebreak The poet has the far


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\section{From a Far Mountain Creeping Down}


From a far mountain creeping down
\forcelinebreak Music floats up from the town
\forcelinebreak As we nearer come
\forcelinebreak We hear only noise \& hum


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\section{In Dreamy Woods, What Forms Abound}


In dreamy woods, what forms abound
\forcelinebreak That elsewhere never poet found!
\forcelinebreak Here voices ring, \& pictures burn,
\forcelinebreak And grace on grace, wheree’er I turn.


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\section{But O to See His Solar Eyes}


But O to see his solar eyes
\forcelinebreak Like meteors which chose their way
\forcelinebreak And rived the dark like a new day
\forcelinebreak Not lazy gazing on all they saw
\forcelinebreak Each chimney pot \& cottage door
\forcelinebreak Farmgear \& every picket fence
\forcelinebreak But feeding on magnificence
\forcelinebreak They bounded to the horizon’s edge
\forcelinebreak And searched with the sun’s privilege
\forcelinebreak Landward they reached the mountains old
\forcelinebreak Where pastoral tribes the flocks infold
\forcelinebreak Saw rivers run seaward from forest high
\forcelinebreak And the seas wash the low hung sky
\forcelinebreak Saw the endless rack of the firmament
\forcelinebreak And the sailing moon where the cloud was rent
\forcelinebreak And thro’ man \& woman \& sea \& star
\forcelinebreak Saw the dance of nature go
\forcelinebreak Thro’ worlds \& races \& terms \& times
\forcelinebreak Saw musical order \& pairing rhymes.


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\section{Who Saw the Hid Beginnings}


Who saw the hid beginnings
\forcelinebreak When Chaos \& Order strove?
\forcelinebreak Or who can date the morning prime
\forcelinebreak And purple flame of love?


I saw the hid beginnings
\forcelinebreak When Chaos \& Order strove,
\forcelinebreak And I can date the morning prime
\forcelinebreak And purple flame of Love.


Song breather from all the forest,
\forcelinebreak The total air was fame;
\forcelinebreak It seemed the world was all torches
\forcelinebreak That suddenly caught the flame.


Is there never a retroscope mirror
\forcelinebreak In the realms \& corners of space,
\forcelinebreak That can give us a glimpse of the battle
\forcelinebreak And the soldiers face to face?


Sit here on the basalt ranges,
\forcelinebreak Where twisted hills betray
\forcelinebreak The feet of the world-old Forces
\forcelinebreak Who wrestled here on a day.


When the purple flame shoots up,
\forcelinebreak And Love ascends his throne,
\forcelinebreak I cannot hear your songs, o birds,
\forcelinebreak For the witchery of my own.


And every human heart
\forcelinebreak Still keeps that golden day,
\forcelinebreak And rings the bells of jubilee
\forcelinebreak On its own First of May.


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\section{What Never Was Not, \& Still Will Be}


What never was not, \& still will be,
\forcelinebreak Weighs in sand, grows in tree
\forcelinebreak Burns in fire primaeval Force
\forcelinebreak Lodged they say in Chaos once
\forcelinebreak Shooting thence it runs its course
\forcelinebreak Filling Space with moons \& suns
\forcelinebreak Now it binds, \& now it rives,
\forcelinebreak Feigns to perish yet revives
\forcelinebreak To bud \& breed, to cling \& hold,
\forcelinebreak Never wanes by waxing old,
\forcelinebreak The decaying of the fruit
\forcelinebreak Feeding fat the younger root
\forcelinebreak Nor less in souls
\forcelinebreak The subtle potentate controls
\forcelinebreak Pours thro mans tyrannic will
\forcelinebreak Fatal streams of empire still


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\section{Enough is Done Highminded Friend Go Sleep}


Enough is done highminded friend go sleep
\forcelinebreak And leave me here to weep
\forcelinebreak With joy \& envy at thy vestibule
\forcelinebreak And kneel to be admitted of thy school
\forcelinebreak Go sleep serene, for now thy deeds will wake
\forcelinebreak And other slumberers will rudely shake
\forcelinebreak Sleep, for thy deed will answer for thee loud
\forcelinebreak And crown thee absent to the wishful crowd
\forcelinebreak Actions are sons \& daughters. O who need
\forcelinebreak In action sweat who’s father to a deed?
\forcelinebreak Who longer pines or hoards, that once hath won
\forcelinebreak Engine or art a frigate or a town?
\forcelinebreak Thy genius which still drave thee as a ghost
\forcelinebreak Comes forth in actions that are uppermost
\forcelinebreak And that which rent thee with unkindly throes
\forcelinebreak Born is more sweet than apple or the rose
\forcelinebreak Henceforth our easy faith will grant thee all
\forcelinebreak Undone as done will thee the Master call
\forcelinebreak In thee the arts revive; the spritely seer
\forcelinebreak That looked thro Phidias has found a peer
\forcelinebreak We shall not fear the loss of arts again
\forcelinebreak Forgive us bards of Judah \& of Greece
\forcelinebreak If we seem heedless of your memories
\forcelinebreak He has reinstated man on his own heart
\forcelinebreak And we shall rightly read the hint you gave
\forcelinebreak And henceforth leave your graveclothes in the grave


Cheered us with plenty
\forcelinebreak For now we see the niggard cowardice
\forcelinebreak Ended so quick the inventory of arts
\forcelinebreak And six or seven branches could comprize
\forcelinebreak All the fine arts all the humanities


On a few plants \& stones our commerce waits
\forcelinebreak Corn cotton cane vine iron opium wheat
\forcelinebreak Hemp flax as these grow or fade
\forcelinebreak The wealth of states is stablished or unmade
\forcelinebreak There’s not a weed waves in the wind
\forcelinebreak But is the girdle that will empires bind
\forcelinebreak As many arts \& circles radiant
\forcelinebreak Of handmaid crafts \& callings adjutant
\forcelinebreak With all their pensioners \& appanage
\forcelinebreak As are the stuffs our chemistry engage


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\section{Thou Shalt Make Thy House}


Thou shalt make thy house
\forcelinebreak The temple of a nation’s vows
\forcelinebreak Spirits of a higher strain
\forcelinebreak Who sought thee once shall seek again
\forcelinebreak I detected many a god
\forcelinebreak Forth already on the road
\forcelinebreak Ancestors of beauty come
\forcelinebreak In thy breast to make a home


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\section{The Gods Walk in the Breath of the Woods}


The gods walk in the breath of the woods
\forcelinebreak They walk by the sounding pine,
\forcelinebreak And fill the long reach of the old seashore
\forcelinebreak With colloquy divine
\forcelinebreak And the poet who overhears
\forcelinebreak Each random word they say
\forcelinebreak Is the prophet without peers
\forcelinebreak Whom kings \& lords obey.


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\section{Would You Know What Joy is Hid}


Would you know what joy is hid
\forcelinebreak In our green Musketaquid
\forcelinebreak And for travelled eyes what charms
\forcelinebreak Draw us to these meadow farms
\forcelinebreak Come \& I will show you all
\forcelinebreak Makes each day a festival
\forcelinebreak Stand upon this pasture hill
\forcelinebreak Face the eastern star until
\forcelinebreak The slow eye of heaven shall show
\forcelinebreak The world above the world below
\forcelinebreak The mottled clouds like scraps of wool
\forcelinebreak Steeped in the light are beautiful
\forcelinebreak And what majestic stillness broods
\forcelinebreak Over those colored solitudes
\forcelinebreak Sleeps the vast East in pleased peace
\forcelinebreak Whilst up behind yon mountain walls
\forcelinebreak The silent river flows


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\section{Tell Me Maiden Dost Thou Use}


Tell me maiden dost thou use
\forcelinebreak Thyself thro nature to diffuse
\forcelinebreak All the angles of the coast
\forcelinebreak Were tenanted by thy sweet ghost
\forcelinebreak Bore thy colours every flower
\forcelinebreak Thine each leaf \& berry bore
\forcelinebreak All wore thy badges \& thy favours
\forcelinebreak In their scent or in their savours
\forcelinebreak Every moth with painted wing
\forcelinebreak Every bird in caroling
\forcelinebreak The woodboughs with thy manners waved
\forcelinebreak The rocks uphold thy name engraved
\forcelinebreak The sod throbbed friendly to my feet
\forcelinebreak And the sweet air with thee was sweet
\forcelinebreak The saffron cloud that floated warm
\forcelinebreak Studied thy motion, took thy form,
\forcelinebreak And in his airy road benign
\forcelinebreak Recalled thy skill in bold design
\forcelinebreak Or seemed to use his privilege
\forcelinebreak To gaze over the horizon’s edge
\forcelinebreak To search where now thy beauty glowed
\forcelinebreak Or made what other purlieus proud?


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\section{I Have No Brothers \& No Peers}


I have no brothers \& no peers
\forcelinebreak And the dearest interferes
\forcelinebreak When I would spend a lonely day
\forcelinebreak Sun \& moon are in my way


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\section{Solar Insect on the Wing}


Solar insect on the wing
\forcelinebreak In the garden murmuring
\forcelinebreak Soothing with thy summer horn
\forcelinebreak Swains by winter pinched \& worn


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\section{And Man of Wit \& Mark}


And man of wit \& mark
\forcelinebreak Repair to men of wit
\forcelinebreak It cannot be society
\forcelinebreak In one saloon to sit.


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\section{I Know the Appointed Hour}


I know the appointed hour,
\forcelinebreak I greet my office well,
\forcelinebreak Never faster, never slower
\forcelinebreak Revolves the fatal wheel.


I am neither faint nor weary, —
\forcelinebreak Fill thy will, O faultless Heart!
\forcelinebreak Here from youth to age I tarry,
\forcelinebreak Count it flight of bird or dart.


My heart at the heart of things
\forcelinebreak Heeds no longer lapse of time,
\forcelinebreak Ages vainly fan their wings,
\forcelinebreak Me shall keep thy love sublime.


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\section{You Shall Not Love Me for What Daily Spends}


You shall not love me for what daily spends,
\forcelinebreak You shall not know me in the noisy street
\forcelinebreak Where I as others follow petty ends,


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\section{Nor When in Fair Saloons We Chance to Meet}


Nor when in fair saloons we chance to meet,
\forcelinebreak Nor when I’m jaded, sick, perplexed, or mean:
\forcelinebreak But love me then \& only when you know
\forcelinebreak Me for the channel of the rivers of God,
\forcelinebreak From deep, ideal, fontal heavens that flow,
\forcelinebreak Making the shores, making their beauty broad,
\forcelinebreak Which birds \& cattle drink, drink too the roots of the grove,
\forcelinebreak And animating all it feeds with love.


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\section{Elizabeth Hoar}


Almost I am tempted to essay
\forcelinebreak For sympathetic eyes the portraiture
\forcelinebreak Of the good angels that environ me.
\forcelinebreak My sister is a Greek in mind \& face
\forcelinebreak And well embodies to these latest years
\forcelinebreak The truth of those high sculptors old who drew
\forcelinebreak In marble or in bronze, on vase or frieze
\forcelinebreak The perfect forms of Pallas or the Muse;
\forcelinebreak Forms in simplicity complete
\forcelinebreak And beauty of the soul disdaining art.
\forcelinebreak So bright, so positive, so much itself,
\forcelinebreak Yet so adapted to the work it wrought
\forcelinebreak It drew true love, but was complete alone.
\forcelinebreak She seemed to commune with herself, \& say,
\forcelinebreak I cannot stoop to custom \& the crowd,
\forcelinebreak For either I will marry with a star,
\forcelinebreak Or I will pick threads in a factory.
\forcelinebreak So perfect in her action, one would say,
\forcelinebreak She condescended if she added speech.
\forcelinebreak Her look was sympathy, \& though she spoke
\forcelinebreak Better than all the rest, she did not speak
\forcelinebreak Worthy of her. She read in many books,
\forcelinebreak And loved the Greek as t’were her mother tongue
\forcelinebreak She knew the value of the passing day
\forcelinebreak Thought it no mark of virtue to be scornful
\forcelinebreak Or cry for better company, but held


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\section{Each Day a Solid Good; Never Mistook}


Each day a solid good; never mistook
\forcelinebreak The fashionable judgment for her own.
\forcelinebreak So keen perception that no judge or scribe
\forcelinebreak Could vie with her unerring estimate.
\forcelinebreak When through much silence \& delay she spoke,
\forcelinebreak It was the Mind’s own oracle, through joy
\forcelinebreak And love of truth or beauty so perceived:
\forcelinebreak Never a poor return on self.


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\section{Proteus}


Poet bred in Saadi’s school
\forcelinebreak Can wind the world off any spool,
\forcelinebreak Knows the lore of more \& less.
\forcelinebreak Brahma stooped from the sky
\forcelinebreak \& made the sun of the slime.
\forcelinebreak He made, of a toad, an archangel,
\forcelinebreak Of bats \& bugs, a god as well,
\forcelinebreak If he should wash your eyes with rue,
\forcelinebreak You would remember
\forcelinebreak How hated were the forms you clasp,
\forcelinebreak And that once you adored the mummies,
\forcelinebreak Trust nothing that you see
\forcelinebreak It changes while you look
\forcelinebreak Do not think him a dunce
\forcelinebreak Who wore bells \& foolscap once
\forcelinebreak He is the teacher of ages
\forcelinebreak For there is no wise man
\forcelinebreak Men are vascular only,
\forcelinebreak Constructive men only,
\forcelinebreak Pipes or channels, clay or crystal
\forcelinebreak Thro’ them rolls the stream today
\forcelinebreak To roll tomorrow otherwheres
\forcelinebreak And leave these dry \& mean
\forcelinebreak As high as thy perception goes,
\forcelinebreak Thou canst not overpraise the great
\forcelinebreak Yet grander heroes shine beyond.
\forcelinebreak We tread the ladder’s lowest round
\forcelinebreak And before the Deity
\forcelinebreak Thy gods are pismires


Flow flow the waves hated
\forcelinebreak Accursed adored!
\forcelinebreak The waves of mutation;
\forcelinebreak No anchorage is.
\forcelinebreak Sleep is not, death is not,
\forcelinebreak Who seem to die, live.
\forcelinebreak House you were born in
\forcelinebreak Friends of your youth
\forcelinebreak Old man \& young maid
\forcelinebreak Early toil \& its gains
\forcelinebreak They are all vanishing
\forcelinebreak Fleeing to fables
\forcelinebreak Cannot be moored
\forcelinebreak See the stars through them,
\forcelinebreak The treacherous marbles
\forcelinebreak Know, the stars yonder
\forcelinebreak The stars everlasting
\forcelinebreak Are fugitive also
\forcelinebreak And emulate, vaulted,
\forcelinebreak The passing heat-lightning
\forcelinebreak or fireflys flight


When thou dost return
\forcelinebreak On the wave’s circulation
\forcelinebreak Beholding the shimmer
\forcelinebreak The wild dissipation,
\forcelinebreak And out of endeavor
\forcelinebreak To change \& to flow,
\forcelinebreak The gas become solid
\forcelinebreak And phantasms \& nothings
\forcelinebreak Return to be things
\forcelinebreak And endless imbroglio
\forcelinebreak Is law \& the world,
\forcelinebreak Then first shalt thou know
\forcelinebreak That in the wild turmoil
\forcelinebreak Horsed on the Proteus
\forcelinebreak Only canst thou ride to power.
\forcelinebreak And to Endurance.


Much thou must suffer
\forcelinebreak Be shocked \& derided
\forcelinebreak Lose faith to gain faith,
\forcelinebreak Ah worse! must I say it?
\forcelinebreak Lose thy virtue, lose thy soul,
\forcelinebreak To gain the incorruptible.
\forcelinebreak The scale in this world
\forcelinebreak Of greatness \& height
\forcelinebreak Is reversed in the other.
\forcelinebreak Crown of power, is fashioned
\forcelinebreak Of dust of abasement.


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\section{To Every Creature}


To every creature
\forcelinebreak Adam gave its name
\forcelinebreak Let each to all unmask its feature
\forcelinebreak And cognizance
\forcelinebreak Moth or bug or worm or snail
\forcelinebreak Mite or fly or atomy
\forcelinebreak Nor each nor any fail
\forcelinebreak Its lineage to proclaim
\forcelinebreak Not a plant obscure
\forcelinebreak But some bright morn its flowers unfold
\forcelinebreak And tell the Universe
\forcelinebreak Its family \& fame.
\forcelinebreak No fly or aphis bites the leaf
\forcelinebreak But comes a chance
\forcelinebreak When egg or fretted path betray
\forcelinebreak The petty thief,
\forcelinebreak And his small malfaisance.
\forcelinebreak Many things the garden shows
\forcelinebreak And pleased I stray
\forcelinebreak From tree to tree
\forcelinebreak Watching the white pear bloom
\forcelinebreak Bee infested quince or plum.
\forcelinebreak I could walk days, years, away
\forcelinebreak Till the slow ripening secular tree
\forcelinebreak Had reached its fruiting time
\forcelinebreak Nor think it long


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\section{Cloud Upon Cloud}


Cloud upon cloud
\forcelinebreak The world is a seeming,
\forcelinebreak Feigns dying, but dies not,
\forcelinebreak Corpses rise ruddy,
\forcelinebreak Follow their funerals.
\forcelinebreak Seest thou not brother
\forcelinebreak Drops hate detachment,
\forcelinebreak And atoms disorder,
\forcelinebreak How they run into plants,
\forcelinebreak And grow into beauties.
\forcelinebreak The darkness will glow,
\forcelinebreak The solitude sing


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\section{Since the Devil Hopping on}


Since the devil hopping on
\forcelinebreak From bush to vine from man to dame
\forcelinebreak Marshals temptations
\forcelinebreak A million deep
\forcelinebreak And ever new beauties rise
\forcelinebreak And with what faults soever
\forcelinebreak The stock of illusion
\forcelinebreak Is inexhaustible
\forcelinebreak I meantime depreciate
\forcelinebreak Every hour in the market
\forcelinebreak But the wares I would buy
\forcelinebreak Are enhanced every hour
\forcelinebreak I see no other way
\forcelinebreak Than to run violently from the market


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\section{Samson Stark at Dagon’s Knee}


Samson stark at Dagon’s knee
\forcelinebreak Gropes for column strong as he
\forcelinebreak When his ringlets grew \& curled
\forcelinebreak Groped for axle of the world


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\section{Pour the Wine! Pour the Wine!}


Pour the wine! pour the wine!
\forcelinebreak As it changes to foam,
\forcelinebreak So flashes the day-god
\forcelinebreak Rushing abroad,
\forcelinebreak Ever new \& unlooked for,
\forcelinebreak In furthest \& smallest
\forcelinebreak Comes royally home.
\forcelinebreak In spider wise
\forcelinebreak Will again geometrize,
\forcelinebreak Will in bee \& gnat keep time
\forcelinebreak With the annual solar chime;
\forcelinebreak Aphides like emperors
\forcelinebreak Sprawl \& play their pair of hours


For Fancys gift
\forcelinebreak Can mountains lift;
\forcelinebreak The Muse can knit
\forcelinebreak What is past \& what is done
\forcelinebreak With the web that’s just begun,
\forcelinebreak Making free with time \& size,
\forcelinebreak Dwindles here, there magnifies
\forcelinebreak Swells a rain-drop to a tun;
\forcelinebreak So to repeat
\forcelinebreak No word or feat,
\forcelinebreak Crowds in a day the sum of ages,
\forcelinebreak And blushing Love outwits the sages.


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\section{Heartily Heartily}


Heartily heartily
\forcelinebreak Nothing be false
\forcelinebreak Men ocular jocular
\forcelinebreak Work with the fingertips
\forcelinebreak Speak no deeper than the lips
\forcelinebreak Blow, good northwind, I grow nervous
\forcelinebreak Good wind, blow away all trace
\forcelinebreak Of the spectral populace.


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\section{Poets Are Colorpots}


Poets are colorpots
\forcelinebreak Dovesnecks \& opaline
\forcelinebreak Exquisite daintiness
\forcelinebreak Vapors of wine
\forcelinebreak Delicate gloom
\forcelinebreak Barrel of opium
\forcelinebreak Blowing simoom
\forcelinebreak Cloud-collecting, dissipating
\forcelinebreak Brain relaxing enervating
\forcelinebreak Put your body on your word
\forcelinebreak Man \& sonnet at accord
\forcelinebreak Set your foot upon the scales
\forcelinebreak My foot weighs just a pound
\forcelinebreak Said the cruel Yankee captain
\forcelinebreak Trucking for his precious bales
\forcelinebreak Of ermine skin \& silver fur
\forcelinebreak With the painted islander.


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\section{Thanks to Those Who Go \& Come}


Thanks to those who go \& come
\forcelinebreak Bringing Hellas, Thebes, \& Rome,
\forcelinebreak As near to me as is my home:
\forcelinebreak Careful husbands of the mind
\forcelinebreak Who keep decaying history good,
\forcelinebreak And do not suffer Tyre or Troy
\forcelinebreak To know decrepitude.


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\section{Is Jove Immortal}


Is Jove immortal
\forcelinebreak So is Cerberus at his portal
\forcelinebreak Nothing but lying is mean
\forcelinebreak Never let thy banner down
\forcelinebreak Rat \& worm \& wolverine
\forcelinebreak Have the old dazzle of God’s crown
\forcelinebreak And in the Zodiack are seen
\forcelinebreak Health \& Power become the wise
\forcelinebreak Fill the gaps with charities
\forcelinebreak Scatter this vetch everywhere
\forcelinebreak It will take root in the air
\forcelinebreak But he the dreaded Fates will please
\forcelinebreak Who has no eye or time for pease
\forcelinebreak God having shaped him like a wedge
\forcelinebreak And driven him to his forepledge
\forcelinebreak Forth as from a gun.


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\section{Heartily Heartily Sing}


Heartily heartily sing
\forcelinebreak Ever be true in town or grove
\forcelinebreak Bears \& men must have their swing
\forcelinebreak Of berries, \& honey, \& love.
\forcelinebreak There’s no ideot like the wise
\forcelinebreak And most virtue’s cowardice
\forcelinebreak What each is born to let him do
\forcelinebreak Let the devil himself be true
\forcelinebreak And he has an open track
\forcelinebreak And all planets at his back
\forcelinebreak Bare good meaning is an ass
\forcelinebreak Virtue brings its will to pass
\forcelinebreak He is wise who marries his end
\forcelinebreak Makes heaven \& earth \& hell his friend
\forcelinebreak Rushes to his deed
\forcelinebreak Will crack nature or succeed
\forcelinebreak Values in the issue had
\forcelinebreak Tis all one
\forcelinebreak What feat is done
\forcelinebreak Alike to build an iron way
\forcelinebreak From Montreal to Boston Bay
\forcelinebreak Or make a shanty glad.


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\section{Thank the Gods Thy Governors}


Thank the gods thy governors
\forcelinebreak Many painful ancestors
\forcelinebreak Wore away successive lives
\forcelinebreak To sun \& mellow a stock
\forcelinebreak Which neither Rome nor Antioch
\forcelinebreak China nor Egypt could forestal
\forcelinebreak Ripe in thee now last of all.


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\section{If Thy Body Pine}


If thy body pine,
\forcelinebreak Tis the Genius’s retreat
\forcelinebreak To the chambers from the street,
\forcelinebreak Magnifying the coming vaunt
\forcelinebreak Of his flowering aloe plant
\forcelinebreak Starves the florets due today


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\section{Scholar is a Ball Thats Spent}


Scholar is a ball thats spent,
\forcelinebreak Or the barrel that it sent,
\forcelinebreak Twas fired ere he came into hall,
\forcelinebreak Here is neither charge nor ball.


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\section{Ask Not Treasures From His Store}


Ask not treasures from his store, —
\forcelinebreak For he lies in wait for more;
\forcelinebreak Nor what dawneth in his brain, —
\forcelinebreak That to whisper were profane.


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\section{King. If Farmers Make My Land Secure}


King. If farmers make my land secure,
\forcelinebreak If pedlers use their craft for me,
\forcelinebreak How can I other than endure
\forcelinebreak Once in a year their company


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\section{Intellect}


Rule which by obeying grows
\forcelinebreak Knowledge not its fountain knows
\forcelinebreak Wave removing whom it bears
\forcelinebreak From the shores which he compares
\forcelinebreak Adding wings thro things to range
\forcelinebreak Makes him to his own blood strange


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\section{Chladni Strewed on Glass the Sand}


Chladni strewed on glass the sand
\forcelinebreak Then struck the glass its music sweet
\forcelinebreak The sand flew into symmetry
\forcelinebreak Then with altered hand
\forcelinebreak drew discords, \& the sand scattered formless,
\forcelinebreak We cannot find a foreign land
\forcelinebreak Into new laws we never come
\forcelinebreak Tho we run along the diameter
\forcelinebreak Of sidereal space.
\forcelinebreak Sing, \& the rock will crystallize
\forcelinebreak Sing, \& the plant will grow.


Obey one law above, below,
\forcelinebreak light, heat, \& sound, each a liquid wave
\forcelinebreak And Beauty for the guide I gave
\forcelinebreak To lead where you should go.


The motes of the stream shall prate
\forcelinebreak Of the current that floats them on.


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\section{I Must Not Borrow Light}


I must not borrow light
\forcelinebreak From history trite
\forcelinebreak But from friends whom God gave
\forcelinebreak And the destiny I have


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\section{Go Into the Garden}


Go into the garden,
\forcelinebreak Feed thine eyes \& ears,
\forcelinebreak And every sense;
\forcelinebreak But do not touch a weed,
\forcelinebreak nor cut off a twig
\forcelinebreak Be not tempted.
\forcelinebreak If thou wilt not be a garden tool


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\section{But as This Fugitive Sunlight}


But as this fugitive sunlight
\forcelinebreak Arrested \& fixed
\forcelinebreak And with the primal atoms mixed
\forcelinebreak Is plant \& man \& rock
\forcelinebreak So a fleeing thought
\forcelinebreak Taken up in act \& wrought
\forcelinebreak Makes the air \& the sun
\forcelinebreak And hurls new systems out to run


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\section{Comrade of the Snow \& Wind}


Comrade of the snow \& wind
\forcelinebreak He left each civil scale behind
\forcelinebreak Him woodgods fed with honey wild
\forcelinebreak And of his memory beguiled
\forcelinebreak In caves \& hollow trees he crept
\forcelinebreak And near the wolf \& panther slept
\forcelinebreak He came to the green ocean’s rim
\forcelinebreak And saw the sea birds skim
\forcelinebreak Summer \& winter oer the wave
\forcelinebreak Like creatures made of skiey mould
\forcelinebreak Impassible to heat or cold.
\forcelinebreak He stood beside the main
\forcelinebreak Beautiful but insane
\forcelinebreak He felt himself as if the sky walked
\forcelinebreak Or the son of the wind
\forcelinebreak There was no man near
\forcelinebreak To mete himself withal


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\section{God Only Knew How Saadi Dined}


God only knew how Saadi dined
\forcelinebreak Roses he ate, \& drank the wind


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\section{Friends to Me Are Frozen Wine}


Friends to me are frozen wine
\forcelinebreak I wait the sun shall on them shine


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\section{That Each Should in His House Abide}


That each should in his house abide,
\forcelinebreak Therefore was the world so wide


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\section{New England Capitalist}


What are his machines
\forcelinebreak Of steel, brass, leather, oak, \& ivory,
\forcelinebreak But manikins \& miniatures,
\forcelinebreak Dwarfs of one faculty, measured from him,
\forcelinebreak As nimbly he applies his bending self
\forcelinebreak Unto the changing world, thus making that
\forcelinebreak Another weapon of his conquering will?
\forcelinebreak He built the mills, \& by his polities, made
\forcelinebreak The arms of millions turn them.


Stalwart New Hampshire, mother of men,
\forcelinebreak Sea-dented Maine, reluctant Carolina,
\forcelinebreak Must drag his coach, \& by arts of peace
\forcelinebreak He, in the plenitude of love \& honor,
\forcelinebreak Eats up the poor, — poor citizen poor state.
\forcelinebreak Much has he done,
\forcelinebreak Has made his telegraph,
\forcelinebreak Propeller, car, postoffice, phototype,
\forcelinebreak His coast survey, vote by majority,
\forcelinebreak His life assurance, \& star registry,
\forcelinebreak Preludes \& hints of what he meditates; —
\forcelinebreak Now let him make a harp!


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\section{On a Raisin Stone}


On a raisin stone
\forcelinebreak The wheels of nature turn,
\forcelinebreak Out of it the fury comes
\forcelinebreak Wherewith the spondyls burn.
\forcelinebreak And, because the seed of the vine
\forcelinebreak Is creation’s heart,
\forcelinebreak Wash with wine those eyes of thine
\forcelinebreak To know the hidden part.
\forcelinebreak Wine is translated wit,
\forcelinebreak Wine is the day of day,
\forcelinebreak Wine from the veiled secret
\forcelinebreak Tears the veil away.


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\section{Go Out Into Nature and Plant Trees}


Go out into Nature and plant trees
\forcelinebreak That when the southwind blows
\forcelinebreak You shall not be warm in your own limbs
\forcelinebreak but in ten thousand limbs \& ten million leaves
\forcelinebreak Of your blossoming trees of orchard \& forest


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\section{But God Will Keep His Promise Yet}


But God will keep his promise yet
\forcelinebreak Trees \& clouds are prophets sure
\forcelinebreak And new \& finer forms of life
\forcelinebreak Day by day approach the pure.


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\section{Poet of Poets}


Poet of poets
\forcelinebreak Is Time, the distiller,
\forcelinebreak Chemist, refiner:
\forcelinebreak Time hath a vitriol
\forcelinebreak Which can dissolve
\forcelinebreak Towns into melody,
\forcelinebreak Rubbish to gold.
\forcelinebreak Burn up the libraries!
\forcelinebreak Down with the colleges!
\forcelinebreak Raze the foundations!
\forcelinebreak Drive out the doctors!
\forcelinebreak Rout the philosophers!
\forcelinebreak Exile the critics!
\forcelinebreak Men of particulars,
\forcelinebreak Narrowing niggardly
\forcelinebreak Something to nothing.
\forcelinebreak All their ten thousand ways
\forcelinebreak End in the Néant.


All through the countryside
\forcelinebreak Rush locomotives:
\forcelinebreak Prosperous grocers
\forcelinebreak Poring on newspapers
\forcelinebreak Over their shop fires
\forcelinebreak Settle the State.
\forcelinebreak But, for the Poet, —
\forcelinebreak Seldom in centuries
\forcelinebreak Comes the well-tempered
\forcelinebreak Musical man.
\forcelinebreak He is the waited-for,
\forcelinebreak He is the complement,
\forcelinebreak One man of all men.
\forcelinebreak The random wayfarer
\forcelinebreak Counts him of his kin.
\forcelinebreak This is he that should come
\forcelinebreak The tongue of the secret,
\forcelinebreak The key of the casket,
\forcelinebreak Of Past \& of Future.
\forcelinebreak Sudden the lustre
\forcelinebreak That hovered round cities,
\forcelinebreak Round bureaus of Power,
\forcelinebreak Or Chambers of Commerce,
\forcelinebreak Round banks, or round beauties,
\forcelinebreak Or state-rending factions,
\forcelinebreak Has quit them, \& perches
\forcelinebreak Well pleased on his form.
\forcelinebreak True bard never cared
\forcelinebreak To flatter the princes
\forcelinebreak Costs time to live with them.
\forcelinebreak Ill genius affords it,
\forcelinebreak Preengaged to the skies.
\forcelinebreak Foremost of all men
\forcelinebreak The Poet inherits
\forcelinebreak Badge of nobility,
\forcelinebreak Charter of Earth;
\forcelinebreak Free of the city,
\forcelinebreak Free of the meadows,
\forcelinebreak Knight of each order,
\forcelinebreak Sworn of each guild,
\forcelinebreak Fellow of monarchs,
\forcelinebreak And, what is better,
\forcelinebreak Mate of all men.


Pan’s paths are wonderful.
\forcelinebreak Subtile his counsel.
\forcelinebreak Wisdom needs circumstance,
\forcelinebreak Many concomitants,


Goes not in purple,
\forcelinebreak Steals along secretly,
\forcelinebreak Shunning the eye;
\forcelinebreak Has the dominion
\forcelinebreak Of men \& the planet,
\forcelinebreak On this sole condition, —
\forcelinebreak She shall not assume it.
\forcelinebreak When the crown first incloses
\forcelinebreak The brows of her son,
\forcelinebreak The Muse him deposes
\forcelinebreak From kingdom \& throne.


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\section{See the Spheres Rushing}


See the spheres rushing, —
\forcelinebreak Poet that tracks them
\forcelinebreak With emulous eye,
\forcelinebreak What lovest thou?
\forcelinebreak Planet, or orbit?
\forcelinebreak Whether the pipe,
\forcelinebreak Or the lay, it discourses?
\forcelinebreak In heaven, up yonder,
\forcelinebreak All the astronomy,
\forcelinebreak Sun-dance \& star blaze,
\forcelinebreak Is Emblem of love.


Nought is of worth
\forcelinebreak In earth or in sky
\forcelinebreak But Love \& Thought only.
\forcelinebreak Fast perish the mankind,
\forcelinebreak Firm bideth the thought,
\forcelinebreak Clothes it with Adam-kind,
\forcelinebreak Puts on a new suit
\forcelinebreak Of earth \& of stars.
\forcelinebreak He will come one day
\forcelinebreak Who can articulate
\forcelinebreak That which unspoken
\forcelinebreak Vaults itself over us,
\forcelinebreak Globes itself under us,
\forcelinebreak Looks out of lovers’ eyes,
\forcelinebreak Dies, \& is born again; —
\forcelinebreak He who can speak well;
\forcelinebreak Men hearing delighted
\forcelinebreak Shall say, ‘that is ours
\forcelinebreak Trees hearing shall blossom,
\forcelinebreak Rocks hearing shall tremble,
\forcelinebreak And range themselves dreamlike
\forcelinebreak In new compositions,
\forcelinebreak Architecture of thought.
\forcelinebreak Then will appear
\forcelinebreak What the old centuries,
\forcelinebreak Aeons were groping for,
\forcelinebreak Times of discomfiture,
\forcelinebreak Bankrupt millenniums.


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\section{The Patient Pan}


The patient Pan,
\forcelinebreak Drunken with nectar
\forcelinebreak Sleeps or feigns slumber
\forcelinebreak Drowsily humming
\forcelinebreak Music to the march of Time.
\forcelinebreak This poor tooting creaking cricket,
\forcelinebreak Pan half asleep, rolling over
\forcelinebreak His great body in the grass,
\forcelinebreak Tooting, creaking,
\forcelinebreak Feigns to sleep, sleeping never:
\forcelinebreak Tis his manner,
\forcelinebreak Well he knows his own affair,
\forcelinebreak Piling mountain-chains of phlegm
\forcelinebreak On the nervous brain of man,
\forcelinebreak As he holds down central fires
\forcelinebreak Under Alps \& Andes cold.
\forcelinebreak Haply else we could not live
\forcelinebreak Life would be too wild an ode
\forcelinebreak Sun \& planet would explode
\forcelinebreak Ah! the poor Adamkind
\forcelinebreak Fault of supplies
\forcelinebreak From the fire fountains
\forcelinebreak We busybodies
\forcelinebreak Ever experiment
\forcelinebreak See what will come of it
\forcelinebreak Prove the quaint substances
\forcelinebreak Prove our bodies, prove our essence
\forcelinebreak Fortunes, genius, elements,
\forcelinebreak Try a foot, try a hand,
\forcelinebreak Then plunge the body in
\forcelinebreak Then our wits characters
\forcelinebreak And our gods if we can
\forcelinebreak Analysing analysing
\forcelinebreak As the chemist his new stone
\forcelinebreak Puts to azote, puts to chlorine,
\forcelinebreak Puts to vegetable blues.
\forcelinebreak Ah my poor apothecaries,
\forcelinebreak Can ye never wiselier sit,
\forcelinebreak Meddle less \& more accept,
\forcelinebreak With dignity not overstepped
\forcelinebreak Skies have their etiquette


We are faithful to time
\forcelinebreak Time measured in moments
\forcelinebreak Only so many
\forcelinebreak Share of Methusalem
\forcelinebreak Share of the babe
\forcelinebreak Hundredhanded, hundredeyed,
\forcelinebreak Fussy \& anxious
\forcelinebreak We would so gladly
\forcelinebreak Serve an apprenticeship
\forcelinebreak Day by day faithfully
\forcelinebreak Learn the use of Adam’s tools
\forcelinebreak Fire \& water, azote, carbon,
\forcelinebreak Gravity levity
\forcelinebreak Hatred attraction
\forcelinebreak Animals chemistry
\forcelinebreak Botany land
\forcelinebreak Have a right to our flesh
\forcelinebreak Know the honest earth by heart


Do the feat of Archimedes
\forcelinebreak If the earth reject her sons
\forcelinebreak Till theyve learned her alphabeta
\forcelinebreak None but Hooke \& Newton dare
\forcelinebreak Cross the threshold when it thunders.
\forcelinebreak Life is all too short for farming
\forcelinebreak All too short for architecture
\forcelinebreak All too short to learn the tongues
\forcelinebreak And for philosophy
\forcelinebreak Life’s done ere weve begun to think.
\forcelinebreak Solid farming haw \& geeing
\forcelinebreak Drive uphill the loaded team
\forcelinebreak Bud the pear \& dig potatoes
\forcelinebreak What time Lyra’s in the Zenith
\forcelinebreak That is wholesome as it makes
\forcelinebreak Man as massive as the glebe
\forcelinebreak Pricks dropsical pretension
\forcelinebreak Tames the infinite romance
\forcelinebreak Underpins the falcon turrets
\forcelinebreak High as fly falcons, fancy builds


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\section{To Transmute Crime to Wisdom, \& to Stem}


To transmute crime to wisdom, \& to stem
\forcelinebreak The vice of Japhet by the thought of Shem.


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\section{Pale Genius Roves Alone}


Pale Genius roves alone,
\forcelinebreak No scout can track his way,
\forcelinebreak None credits him till he have shown
\forcelinebreak His diamonds to the day.


Not his the feaster’s wine,
\forcelinebreak Nor land, nor gold, nor power,
\forcelinebreak By want \& pain God screeneth him
\forcelinebreak Till his elected hour.


Go, speed the stars of Thought
\forcelinebreak On to their shining goals; —
\forcelinebreak The sower scatters broad his seed,
\forcelinebreak The wheat thou strew’st be souls.


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\section{Burn Your Literary Verses}


Burn your literary verses
\forcelinebreak Give us rather the glib curses
\forcelinebreak Of the truckmen in the street
\forcelinebreak Songs of the forecastle
\forcelinebreak To the caboose


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\section{Intellect}


Intellect
\forcelinebreak Gravely broods apart on joy,
\forcelinebreak And truth to tell, amused by pain


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\section{What All the Books of Ages Paint, I Have}


What all the books of ages paint, I have.
\forcelinebreak What prayers \& dreams of youthful genius feign,
\forcelinebreak I daily dwell in, \& am not so blind
\forcelinebreak But I can see the elastic tent of day
\forcelinebreak Belike has wider hospitality
\forcelinebreak Than my few needs exhaust, \& bids me read
\forcelinebreak The quaint devices on its mornings gay.
\forcelinebreak Yet nature will not be in full possessed,
\forcelinebreak And they who trueliest love her, heralds are
\forcelinebreak And harbingers of a majestic race,
\forcelinebreak Who, having more absorbed, more largely yield,
\forcelinebreak And walk on earth as the sun walks in the sphere.


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\section{The Civil World Will Much Forgive}


The civil world will much forgive
\forcelinebreak To bards who from its maxims live
\forcelinebreak But if, grown bold, the poet dare
\forcelinebreak Bend his practice to his prayer,
\forcelinebreak And, following his mighty heart
\forcelinebreak Shame the time, \& live apart,
\forcelinebreak Vae solis!
\forcelinebreak I found this, —
\forcelinebreak That of goods I could not miss
\forcelinebreak If I fell within the line,
\forcelinebreak Once a member, all was mine,
\forcelinebreak Houses, banquets, gardens, fountains,
\forcelinebreak Fortune’s delectable mountains;
\forcelinebreak But if I would walk alone,
\forcelinebreak Was neither cloak nor crumb my own


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\section{Mask Thy Wisdom With Delight}


Mask thy wisdom with delight,
\forcelinebreak Toy with the bow, yet hit the white.
\forcelinebreak The lesson which the Muses say
\forcelinebreak Was sweet to hear \& to obey.
\forcelinebreak He loved to round a verse, \& play,
\forcelinebreak Without remoter hope, or fear,
\forcelinebreak Or purpose, than to please his ear.
\forcelinebreak And all the golden summer-time
\forcelinebreak Rung out the hours with happy rhyme.
\forcelinebreak Meantime every cunning word
\forcelinebreak Tribes \& ages overheard:
\forcelinebreak Those idle catches told the laws
\forcelinebreak Holding nature to her Cause.


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\section{Roomy Eternity}


Roomy Eternity
\forcelinebreak Casts her schemes rarely,
\forcelinebreak And an aeon allows
\forcelinebreak For each quality and part
\forcelinebreak In the multitudinous
\forcelinebreak And many-chambered heart.


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\section{Dark Flower of Cheshire Garden}


Dark Flower of Cheshire garden
\forcelinebreak Red Evening duly dyes
\forcelinebreak Thy sombre head with rosy hues
\forcelinebreak To fix fargazing eyes.
\forcelinebreak Well the planter knew how strongly
\forcelinebreak Works thy form on human thought:
\forcelinebreak I muse what secret purpose had he
\forcelinebreak To draw all fancies to this spot.


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\section{Terminus}


For thought \& not praise;
\forcelinebreak Thought is the wages
\forcelinebreak For which I sell days,
\forcelinebreak Will gladly sell ages,
\forcelinebreak And willing grow old,
\forcelinebreak Deaf, \& dumb, \& blind, \& cold,
\forcelinebreak Melting matter into dreams,
\forcelinebreak Panoramas which I saw
\forcelinebreak And whatever glows or seems
\forcelinebreak Into substance into Law


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\section{I to My Garden Went}


I to my garden went
\forcelinebreak To the unplanted woods


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\section{More Sweet Than My Refrain}


More sweet than my refrain
\forcelinebreak Was the first drop of April rain


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\section{Wisp \& Meteor Nightly Falling}


Wisp \& meteor nightly falling
\forcelinebreak But the stars of God remain.


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\section{God the Lord Save Massachusetts}


God The Lord save Massachusetts
\forcelinebreak Without chivalry or slave
\forcelinebreak We are ignorant of stealing
\forcelinebreak Quite too stupid to be knave
\forcelinebreak And to perjure and to poison
\forcelinebreak Not our way our souls to save


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\section{A Poet is at Home}


A poet is at home
\forcelinebreak He does not follow the old \& dead
\forcelinebreak Ruins \& mummies
\forcelinebreak But cities \& heroes come to him
\forcelinebreak One [ ] will serve
\forcelinebreak As well as another
\forcelinebreak For he fills them
\forcelinebreak From his own winepress
\forcelinebreak In the village he can find.


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\section{O Boston City Lecture-hearing}


O Boston city lecture-hearing,
\forcelinebreak O Unitarian God-fearing,
\forcelinebreak But more, I fear, bad men-revering;
\forcelinebreak Too civil by half, thine evil guest
\forcelinebreak Makes thee his byword \& his jest,
\forcelinebreak And scorns the men that honeyed the pest,
\forcelinebreak Piso \& Atticus, with the rest.
\forcelinebreak Thy fault is much civility,
\forcelinebreak Thy bane, respectability.
\forcelinebreak And thou hadst been as wise, \& wiser,
\forcelinebreak Lacking the Daily Advertiser.
\forcelinebreak Ah, gentlemen, — for you are gentle, —
\forcelinebreak And mental maids, not sentimental.


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\section{A Patch of Meadow \& Upland}


A patch of meadow \& upland
\forcelinebreak Reached by a mile of road,
\forcelinebreak Soothed by the voice of waters,
\forcelinebreak With birds \& flowers bestowed.


This is my book of Chronicles,
\forcelinebreak Code, Psalter, lexicon,
\forcelinebreak My Genesis \& calendar
\forcelinebreak I read it as I run.


It is my consolation
\forcelinebreak In mild or poignant grief,
\forcelinebreak My park \& my gymnasium,
\forcelinebreak My out-of-door relief.


I come to it for strength,
\forcelinebreak Which it can well supply,
\forcelinebreak For Love draws might from terrene force
\forcelinebreak And potences of sky.


The tremulous battery, earth,
\forcelinebreak Responds to touch of man,
\forcelinebreak It thrills to the antipodes,
\forcelinebreak From Boston to Japan.


The planets’ child the planet knows
\forcelinebreak And to his joy replies;
\forcelinebreak To the lark’s trill unfolds the rose,
\forcelinebreak Clouds flush their gayest dyes.


When Ali prayed \& loved
\forcelinebreak Where Syrian waters roll,
\forcelinebreak Upward the ninth heaven thrilled \& moved
\forcelinebreak At the tread of the jubilant soul.


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\section{And He Like Me is Not Too Proud}


And he like me is not too proud
\forcelinebreak To be the poet of the crowd


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\section{Parks \& Ponds Are Good by Day}


Parks \& ponds are good by day,
\forcelinebreak But where’s the husband doth delight
\forcelinebreak In black acres of the night?
\forcelinebreak Not my unseasoned step disturbs
\forcelinebreak The sleeps of trees or dreams of herbs


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\section{Cloud Upon Cloud}


Cloud upon cloud.
\forcelinebreak Clouds after rain
\forcelinebreak Value standeth in success,
\forcelinebreak But the same value
\forcelinebreak Hideth in failure,
\forcelinebreak In poverty, mourning,
\forcelinebreak In solitude, crime;
\forcelinebreak The value adhesive
\forcelinebreak Sticks to them all
\forcelinebreak Refuses to sunder
\forcelinebreak From man, from man.
\forcelinebreak Differ servitude \& rank
\forcelinebreak As chains that clank not, chains that clank


The last shall be first
\forcelinebreak The first be postponed
\forcelinebreak The latest promoted
\forcelinebreak At the end of the day
\forcelinebreak It first will appear
\forcelinebreak Who never surrendered
\forcelinebreak Who combated stoutly,
\forcelinebreak Where God was the while
\forcelinebreak We strutted we coxcombs
\forcelinebreak So condescendingly
\forcelinebreak Bowing \& giving
\forcelinebreak Affecting to give
\forcelinebreak Virtue is a cockney grown


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\section{For Lyra Yet Shall Be the Pole}


For Lyra yet shall be the pole
\forcelinebreak And grass grow in the Capitol


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\section{A Score of Airy Miles Will Smooth}


A score of airy miles will smooth
\forcelinebreak Rough Monadnock to a gem.


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\section{All Things Rehearse}


All things rehearse
\forcelinebreak The meaning of the universe


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\section{Webster}


Why did all manly gifts in Webster fail?
\forcelinebreak He wrote on Nature’s grandest brow, For Sale.


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\section{The Atom Displaces All Atoms Beside}


The atom displaces all atoms beside
\forcelinebreak And Genius unspheres all souls that abide


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\section{I Have an Arrow That Can Find Its Mark}


I have an arrow that can find its mark,
\forcelinebreak A mastiff that will bite without a bark.


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\section{From High to Higher Forces}


From high to higher forces
\forcelinebreak The scale of power uprears,
\forcelinebreak The heroes on their horses,
\forcelinebreak The gods upon the spheres.


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\section{All Day the Waves Assailed the Rock}


All day the waves assailed the rock,
\forcelinebreak I heard no church-bell chime;
\forcelinebreak The sea-beat scorns the minster clock,
\forcelinebreak And breaks the glass of Time.


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\section{Honor Bright O Muse}


Honor bright o muse
\forcelinebreak Muses keep your faith with me
\forcelinebreak Give me some audacious hours
\forcelinebreak Draw to a just close
\forcelinebreak The poem ye begun


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\section{Such Another Peerless Queen}


Such another peerless queen
\forcelinebreak Only could her mirror show


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\section{See How Romance Adheres}


See how Romance adheres
\forcelinebreak To the deer, the lion,
\forcelinebreak and every bird,
\forcelinebreak Because they are free
\forcelinebreak And have no master but Law
\forcelinebreak On the wild ice in depths of sea
\forcelinebreak On Alp or Andes side
\forcelinebreak In the vast abyss of air
\forcelinebreak The bird, the flying cloud,
\forcelinebreak The fire the wind the element
\forcelinebreak These have not manners coarse or cowed
\forcelinebreak And no borrowed will
\forcelinebreak But graceful as cloud \& flame
\forcelinebreak All eyes with pleasure fill


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\section{With the Key of the Secret He Marches Faster}


With the key of the secret he marches faster
\forcelinebreak From strength to strength, and for night brings day,
\forcelinebreak While classes or tribes too weak to master
\forcelinebreak The flowing conditions of life give way.


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\section{For What Need I of Book or Priest}


For what need I of book or priest
\forcelinebreak Or Sibyls from the mummied East
\forcelinebreak When every star is Bethlehem’s star
\forcelinebreak I count as many as there are
\forcelinebreak Cinquefoils or violets in the grass;
\forcelinebreak So many saints \& saviors,
\forcelinebreak So many high behaviors,
\forcelinebreak Salute the boy of years thrice five
\forcelinebreak Who only sees what he doth give


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\section{And Rival Coxcombs With Enamored Stare}


And rival Coxcombs with enamored stare
\forcelinebreak Perused the mysteries of her coiled hair


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\section{For Joy \& Beauty Planted It}


For joy \& beauty planted it
\forcelinebreak With faerie lustres cheered,
\forcelinebreak And boding Fancy haunted it,
\forcelinebreak With men \& women weird.


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\section{Papas Blondine}


Papas Blondine
\forcelinebreak Grew tall \& wise
\forcelinebreak Eschewing vanities
\forcelinebreak And loved the truth
\forcelinebreak Can Truth suffice?
\forcelinebreak The years shall show:
\forcelinebreak Truth is put upon its trial
\forcelinebreak Her judgment will not brook denial
\forcelinebreak In her large memory
\forcelinebreak Is never fact forgotten
\forcelinebreak And she will know
\forcelinebreak If Truth’s as true as she
\forcelinebreak In action \& in word
\forcelinebreak If the false world can afford
\forcelinebreak That any sterling be


And if it prove that things are rotten
\forcelinebreak She will frankly call them so
\forcelinebreak She who is real,
\forcelinebreak She who cannot aught conceal,
\forcelinebreak She that hypocrisy disdains,
\forcelinebreak Never palters, never feigns,
\forcelinebreak But well believes
\forcelinebreak That she may dare
\forcelinebreak Confess her faith in any air
\forcelinebreak That honest meaning will not fail
\forcelinebreak Over falsehood to prevail
\forcelinebreak She will launch her thought nor fear it
\forcelinebreak Speak the truth to who will hear it.
\forcelinebreak But still as now
\forcelinebreak With pure good will


And Bounty sculptured on thy brow
\forcelinebreak Give the downhearted world
\forcelinebreak Hints of Eternal cheer.


Brave maid obey thy heart
\forcelinebreak Accept what rule it shall impart
\forcelinebreak Nor heed one word of all the voices gay
\forcelinebreak Which in their manifolded quire
\forcelinebreak Stoop to Fashion \& stoop to please
\forcelinebreak Flatter worthless ease


In every house a welcome guest
\forcelinebreak For her good heart \& searching eye
\forcelinebreak Though she bring this sunlike test
\forcelinebreak In lieu of a polished lie.
\forcelinebreak She can weave \& embroider
\forcelinebreak Can write \& draw
\forcelinebreak And like a mirror report
\forcelinebreak Orderly beautiful all she sees
\forcelinebreak But when she signs her name
\forcelinebreak With plain verity content
\forcelinebreak Never prefixed a compliment
\forcelinebreak And in whatever circle came
\forcelinebreak Never stooped to utter one
\forcelinebreak Who if polite society
\forcelinebreak Did not exist, would it invent,
\forcelinebreak By her practice show its laws,
\forcelinebreak Grace without compliment.
\forcelinebreak Grace that grows from pure intent
\forcelinebreak Grace that fascinates \& draws
\forcelinebreak Advance life as now
\forcelinebreak Bearer of good news
\forcelinebreak Or if disaster come
\forcelinebreak Evil news were not allowed
\forcelinebreak To dim her eye, her aspect cloud
\forcelinebreak Or choke her cheerful voice
\forcelinebreak Tell ill news as thou tellest good
\forcelinebreak Nor mar thy quiet in the broil
\forcelinebreak Adorn thy self with hardihood
\forcelinebreak With ice bath fortify the blood,
\forcelinebreak arctic winds blew round her bed
\forcelinebreak Hard fare \& charitable toil


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\section{The Asmodaean Feat Be Mine}


The Asmodaean feat be mine
\forcelinebreak To spin my sand heaps into twine.


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\section{A Puff of Air or Dry or Damp}


A puff of air or dry or damp
\forcelinebreak Shall burn the town or quench the lamp
\forcelinebreak As the babe to the mothers breast
\forcelinebreak We are tied to the element
\forcelinebreak By hands no Will can circumvent
\forcelinebreak Through the world east \& west
\forcelinebreak Pupils \& children of the wind
\forcelinebreak Since our forefather Adam sinned
\forcelinebreak And as sinks or mounts the song
\forcelinebreak We are impotent or strong
\forcelinebreak A whiff of air will make the odds
\forcelinebreak Between the victim \& the gods
\forcelinebreak As blows from divers points the gale
\forcelinebreak The man shall prosper or shall fail


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\section{Coin the Daydawn Into Lines}


Coin the daydawn into lines
\forcelinebreak In which its proper splendor shines;
\forcelinebreak Coin the moonlight into verse
\forcelinebreak Which all its marvels shall rehearse


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\section{He Loved to Watch \& Wake}


He loved to watch \& wake
\forcelinebreak When the wing of the southwind whipt the lake
\forcelinebreak And the glassy surface in ripples brake
\forcelinebreak And fled in pretty darkness away
\forcelinebreak Like the flitting boreal lights
\forcelinebreak Rippling roses in northern nights
\forcelinebreak Or like the thrill of Aeolian strings
\forcelinebreak On which the sudden wind-god rings


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\section{She Walked in Flowers Around My Field}


She walked in flowers around my field
\forcelinebreak As June herself around the sphere


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\section{The Bird Was Gone the Ghastly Trees}


The bird was gone the ghastly trees
\forcelinebreak Heard the wind sing with in the breeze
\forcelinebreak Was this her funeral that I see
\forcelinebreak Did that asking eye ask me?


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\section{Pedants All}


Pedants all
\forcelinebreak They would be original
\forcelinebreak The mute pebble shames their wit
\forcelinebreak The echo is ironical
\forcelinebreak And wiser silence swallows speech


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\section{If Bright the Sun, He Tarries}


If bright the sun, he tarries;
\forcelinebreak All day his song is heard;
\forcelinebreak And when he goes, he carries
\forcelinebreak No more baggage than a bird.


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\section{Teach Me Your Mood, O Patient Stars!}


Teach me your mood, O patient stars!
\forcelinebreak Who climb each night the ancient sky,
\forcelinebreak Leaving on space no shade, no scars,
\forcelinebreak No trace of age, no fear to die.


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\section{O Sun! Take Off Thy Hood of Clouds}


O sun! take off thy hood of clouds,
\forcelinebreak O land! take off thy chain,
\forcelinebreak And fill the world with happy mood
\forcelinebreak And love from main to main.


Ye shall not on this charter day
\forcelinebreak Disloyally withhold
\forcelinebreak Their household rights from captive men
\forcelinebreak By pirates bought \& sold.


Ah little knew the innocent
\forcelinebreak In throes of birth forlorn,
\forcelinebreak That wolves \& foxes waited for
\forcelinebreak Their victim to be born.


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\section{As the Drop Feeds Its Fated Flower}


As the drop feeds its fated flower,
\forcelinebreak As finds its Alp the snowy shower,
\forcelinebreak Child of the omnific Need
\forcelinebreak Hurled into life to do a deed,
\forcelinebreak Man drinks the water, drinks the light


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\section{I Leave the Book, I Leave the Wine}


I leave the book, I leave the wine,
\forcelinebreak I breathe freer by the pine:
\forcelinebreak In houses, I am low \& mean,
\forcelinebreak Mountain waters wash me clean,
\forcelinebreak And by the seawaves I am strong,
\forcelinebreak I hear their medicinal song,
\forcelinebreak No balsam but the breeze I crave,
\forcelinebreak And no physician but the wave.


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\section{Gentle Spring Has Charmed the Earth}


Gentle Spring has charmed the earth
\forcelinebreak Where an April sunbeam fell,
\forcelinebreak Let no glacier from the north
\forcelinebreak Floating by undo the spell.


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\section{The Coral Worm Beneath the Sea}


The coral worm beneath the sea
\forcelinebreak Mason planter spreads
\forcelinebreak Its rock vegetable threads
\forcelinebreak Foundation of the isles to be
\forcelinebreak His colossal flowers
\forcelinebreak Home of imperial powers
\forcelinebreak And nobler life


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\section{Easy to Match What Others Do}


Easy to match what others do,
\forcelinebreak Perform the feat as well as they;
\forcelinebreak Hard to outdo the wise, the true,
\forcelinebreak And find a loftier way.
\forcelinebreak The school decays, the learning spoils,
\forcelinebreak Because of the sons of wine: —
\forcelinebreak How snatch the stripling from their toils?
\forcelinebreak Yet can one ray of truth divine
\forcelinebreak The banquet’s blaze outshine.


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\section{If Wishes Would Carry Me Over the Land}


If wishes would carry me over the land,
\forcelinebreak I would ride with free bridle today,
\forcelinebreak I would greet every tree with a grasp of my hand,
\forcelinebreak I would drink of each river, \& swim in each bay.


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\section{Maia}


Illusion works impenetrable,
\forcelinebreak Weaving webs innumerable,
\forcelinebreak Her gay pictures never fail,
\forcelinebreak Crowds each on other, veil on veil,
\forcelinebreak Charmer who will be believed
\forcelinebreak By Man who thirsts to be deceived.


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\section{Seyd Planted Where the Deluge Ploughed}


Seyd planted where the deluge ploughed,
\forcelinebreak His hired hands were wind \& cloud
\forcelinebreak His eyes could spy the gods concealed
\forcelinebreak In each hummock of the field


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\section{For Every God}


For every god
\forcelinebreak Obeys the hymn, obeys the ode,
\forcelinebreak Obeys the holy ode.


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\section{For Genius Made His Cabin Wide}


For Genius made his cabin wide
\forcelinebreak And Love brought gods therein to bide
\forcelinebreak Better he thought no god could bring
\forcelinebreak And basked in friendship all the days of Spring.
\forcelinebreak And though he found his friendships meet
\forcelinebreak His quarrels too had somewhat sweet.


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\section{He Lives Not Who Can Refuse Me}


He lives not who can refuse me,
\forcelinebreak All my force saith, ‘Come \& use me.’
\forcelinebreak A little sun, a little rain,
\forcelinebreak And all the zone is green again


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\section{Forbore the Ant Hill, Shunned to Tread}


Forbore the ant hill, shunned to tread,
\forcelinebreak In mercy, on one little head


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\section{By Art, by Music, Overthrilled}


By art, by music, overthrilled
\forcelinebreak The wine cup shakes, the wine is spilled


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\section{Borrow Urania’s Subtile Wings}


Borrow Urania’s subtile wings
\forcelinebreak Chasing with words fast-flowing things:
\forcelinebreak Cling to the sacred fact, nor try
\forcelinebreak To plant thy shrivelled pedantry
\forcelinebreak On the shoulders of the sky.


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\section{The Comrade or the Book is Good}


The comrade or the book is good
\forcelinebreak That puts me in a working mood:
\forcelinebreak Unless to thought be added will,
\forcelinebreak Apollo is an imbecile.
\forcelinebreak What parts, what truth, what fancies shine!
\forcelinebreak — Ah! but I miss the just design.


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\section{Is the Pace of Nature Slow?}


Is the pace of nature slow?
\forcelinebreak Why not from strength to strength
\forcelinebreak From miracle to miracle
\forcelinebreak And not as now with retardation
\forcelinebreak As with sprained foot


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\section{Why Honor the New Men}


Why honor the new men
\forcelinebreak Who never understood the old


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\section{I Never Knew but One}


I never knew but one
\forcelinebreak Could do what thou hast done
\forcelinebreak Give me back the song of birds
\forcelinebreak Into plainest English words
\forcelinebreak Or articulate
\forcelinebreak The sough of the wind as I sate


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\section{Think Not the Gods Receive Thy Prayer}


Think not the gods receive thy prayer
\forcelinebreak In ear \& heart, but find it there.


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\section{Turtle in Swamp}


Turtle in swamp
\forcelinebreak wader on beaches
\forcelinebreak camel in sand
\forcelinebreak goat on mountain
\forcelinebreak fish in sea
\forcelinebreak eyes in light
\forcelinebreak Every Zone its flora \& fauna
\forcelinebreak animals hybernate, or wake when dinner is ready
\forcelinebreak food, parasite, enemy, census,
\forcelinebreak Same fitness between a man \& his time \& event
\forcelinebreak Man comes when world is ready for him.
\forcelinebreak And things ripen, new men
\forcelinebreak Hercules comes first, \& St John afterwards.
\forcelinebreak \& Shakspeare at last.


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\section{Inspired We Must Forget Our Books}


Inspired we must forget our books,
\forcelinebreak To see the landscape’s royal looks.


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\section{She Had Wealth of Mornings in Her Year}


She had wealth of mornings in her year
\forcelinebreak And planets in her sky,
\forcelinebreak She chose the best thy heart to cheer
\forcelinebreak Thy beauty to supply. —
\forcelinebreak Now younger lovers find the stream
\forcelinebreak The willow \& the vine
\forcelinebreak But aye to me the happiest seem
\forcelinebreak To draw the dregs of wine


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\section{When Wrath \& Terror Changed Jove’s Regal Port}


When wrath \& terror changed Jove’s regal port,
\forcelinebreak And the rashleaping thunderbolt fell short.


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\section{Softens the Air So Cold \& Rude}


Softens the air so cold \& rude
\forcelinebreak What can the heart do less?
\forcelinebreak If Earth puts off her savage mood,
\forcelinebreak We should learn gentleness.


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\section{Spices in the Plants That Run}


Spices in the plants that run
\forcelinebreak To bring their firstfruits to the sun
\forcelinebreak Earliest heats that follow frore
\forcelinebreak Nerved leaf of hellebore
\forcelinebreak Sweet willow, checkerberry red,
\forcelinebreak With its savory leaf for bread
\forcelinebreak Silver birch \& black
\forcelinebreak With the selfsame spice
\forcelinebreak Found in polygala root \& rind
\forcelinebreak Sassafras \& fern
\forcelinebreak Benzoin
\forcelinebreak Mouse ear cowslip wintergreen
\forcelinebreak Which by aroma may compel
\forcelinebreak The frost to spare what scents so well


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\section{She Paints With White \& Red the Moors}


She paints with white \& red the moors
\forcelinebreak To draw the nations out of doors


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\section{The Earth}


Our eyeless bark sails free
\forcelinebreak Tho’ rough with boom \& spar
\forcelinebreak — Andes, Alp or Himmalee, —
\forcelinebreak Strikes never moon or star


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\section{The Sun Athwart the Cloud Thought It No Sin}


The sun athwart the cloud thought it no sin
\forcelinebreak To use my land to put his rainbow in.


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\section{October Woods, Wherein}


October woods, wherein
\forcelinebreak The boy’s dream comes to pass,
\forcelinebreak And nature squanders on the boy her pomp
\forcelinebreak And crowns him with a more than royal crown
\forcelinebreak And unimagined splendor waits his steps
\forcelinebreak The urchin walks thro tents of gold
\forcelinebreak Thro crimson chambers porphyry \& pearl
\forcelinebreak Pavilion on pavilion garlanded
\forcelinebreak Incensed \& starred with lights \& airs \& shapes
\forcelinebreak And sounds, music
\forcelinebreak Beyond the best conceit of pomp or power


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\section{How Drearily in College Hall}


How drearily in College hall
\forcelinebreak The Doctor stretched the hours!
\forcelinebreak But in each pause we heard the call
\forcelinebreak Of robins out of doors.


The air is wise, the wind thinks well,
\forcelinebreak And all through which it blows,
\forcelinebreak If plant or brain, if egg or cell,
\forcelinebreak To joyful beauty grows.


And oft at home ‘mid tasks I heed
\forcelinebreak I heed how wears the day —
\forcelinebreak We must not halt while fiercely speed
\forcelinebreak The spans of life away.


Who asketh here of Thebes or Rome
\forcelinebreak Or lands of eastern day?
\forcelinebreak In forests joy is still at home,
\forcelinebreak And there I cannot stray.


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\section{If Curses Be the Wage of Love}


If curses be the wage of love
\forcelinebreak Hide in thy skies thou fruitless Jove
\forcelinebreak Not to be named
\forcelinebreak It is clear
\forcelinebreak Why the gods will not appear
\forcelinebreak They are ashamed


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\section{The Land Was All Electric}


The land was all electric
\forcelinebreak There was no need of trumpets
\forcelinebreak As they float by coast \& crag
\forcelinebreak There was no need of banners
\forcelinebreak Every zephyr was a bugle
\forcelinebreak Every maple was a flag
\forcelinebreak Each steeple was a rallying sign
\forcelinebreak The tocsin was its bell
\forcelinebreak Sharp steel was the lieutenant
\forcelinebreak And powder was his men.


The mountain echoes roar,
\forcelinebreak Every crutch became a pike,
\forcelinebreak The woods \& meadows murmured war,
\forcelinebreak And the valleys shouted, Strike!


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\section{For Nature True \& Like in Every Place}


For Nature true \& like in every place
\forcelinebreak Will hint her secret in a garden patch,
\forcelinebreak or in lone corners of a doleful heath,
\forcelinebreak As in the Andes watched by fleets at sea
\forcelinebreak or the sky-piercing horns of Himmaleh
\forcelinebreak or Europe’s pilgrims at Niagara
\forcelinebreak And when I would recall the scenes I dreamed
\forcelinebreak On Adirondac steeps I know
\forcelinebreak Small need have I of Turner or Daguerre,
\forcelinebreak Assured to find the token once again
\forcelinebreak In silver lakes that unexhausted gleam,
\forcelinebreak And peaceful woods beside my cottage door.


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\section{History \& Prophecy Are Alike}


History \& prophecy are alike
\forcelinebreak It matters little if thou read
\forcelinebreak Backward or forth a frivolous creed
\forcelinebreak Alike unworthy thou hast learned
\forcelinebreak The world was drowned \& shall be burned
\forcelinebreak As if man’s Spirit were some cat
\forcelinebreak Loved its old barn to end with that


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\section{The Coil of Space the Cones of Light}


The coil of space the cones of light
\forcelinebreak Starry orbits
\forcelinebreak Where they end, begin \& enlarge
\forcelinebreak And the worlds of God
\forcelinebreak Are a dot on its marge


Ah waste \& ocean, fold on fold,
\forcelinebreak And doubled ever more by Thought
\forcelinebreak Which nothing bounds which all can hold


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\section{The Heavy Blue Chain}


The heavy blue chain
\forcelinebreak Of the boundless main
\forcelinebreak Lock up their prison door,
\forcelinebreak And the cannon’s wrath
\forcelinebreak Forbid their path
\forcelinebreak On Ocean’s azure floor.


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\section{This Shining Hour is an Edifice}


This shining hour is an edifice
\forcelinebreak Which the Omnipotent cannot rebuild


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\section{He Could Condense Cerulean Ether}


He could condense cerulean ether
\forcelinebreak Into the very best sole leather


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\section{The Sparrow is Rich in Her Nest}


The sparrow is rich in her nest
\forcelinebreak The bee has her desire
\forcelinebreak The lover in his love is blest
\forcelinebreak The poet in his brain of fire


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\section{James Russell Lowell}


As I left my door,
\forcelinebreak The muse came by,
\forcelinebreak Said, “Whither away?”
\forcelinebreak I, well-pleased to praise myself,
\forcelinebreak And in such presence raise myself,
\forcelinebreak Replied, ‘To keep thy bards birthday’
\forcelinebreak — “O happy morn! o happy eve!” —
\forcelinebreak The muse rejoined, “And dost thou weave
\forcelinebreak For noble night a noble rhyme,
\forcelinebreak And up to song through friendship climb?
\forcelinebreak For every guest
\forcelinebreak Ere he can rest
\forcelinebreak Plucks for my son or flower or fruit
\forcelinebreak In sign of Nature’s glad salute.”


— ‘Alas! thou know’st,
\forcelinebreak Dearest muse, I cannot boast
\forcelinebreak Of any grace from thee:
\forcelinebreak To thy spare bounty, queen, thou ow’st,
\forcelinebreak No verse will flow from me.
\forcelinebreak Beside, the bard himself, profuse
\forcelinebreak In thy accomplishment,
\forcelinebreak Does Comedy \& Lyric use,
\forcelinebreak And to thy sisters all too dear,
\forcelinebreak Too gifted, than that he can chuse
\forcelinebreak To raise an eyebrow’s hint severe
\forcelinebreak On the toiling good intention
\forcelinebreak Of ill-equipped incomprehension.’


“The bard is loyal,”
\forcelinebreak Said the queen
\forcelinebreak With haughtier mien,
\forcelinebreak “And hear thou this, my mandate royal:
\forcelinebreak Instant to the Sibyl’s chair,
\forcelinebreak To the Delphic maid repair,
\forcelinebreak He has reached the middle date
\forcelinebreak Stars tonight that culminate
\forcelinebreak Shed beams fair \& fortunate:
\forcelinebreak Go inquire his horoscope,
\forcelinebreak Half of memory, half of hope.”


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\section{From Paques to Noel}


From Paques to Noel,
\forcelinebreak Prophets \& Bards,
\forcelinebreak Merlin, Llewellyn,
\forcelinebreak Highborn Hoel,
\forcelinebreak Wellborn Lowell,
\forcelinebreak What said the Sibyl?
\forcelinebreak What was the fortune
\forcelinebreak She sung for him? —
\forcelinebreak “Strength for the hour.”


Man of marrow, man of mark,
\forcelinebreak Virtue lodged in sinew stark,
\forcelinebreak Rich supplies \& never stinted,
\forcelinebreak More behind at need is hinted,
\forcelinebreak Never cumbered with the morrow,
\forcelinebreak Never knew corroding sorrow,
\forcelinebreak Too well gifted to have found
\forcelinebreak Yet his opulence’s bound,


Most at home in mounting fun,
\forcelinebreak Broadest joke, \& luckiest pun,
\forcelinebreak Masking in the mantling tones
\forcelinebreak Of his rich laugh-loving voice,
\forcelinebreak In speeding troops of social joys,
\forcelinebreak And in volleys of wild mirth,
\forcelinebreak Purer metal, rarest worth,
\forcelinebreak Logic, passion, cordial zeal,
\forcelinebreak Such as bard \& hero feel.


Strength for the hour, —
\forcelinebreak For the day sufficient power,
\forcelinebreak Well advised, too easily great
\forcelinebreak His large fleece to antedate.


But, if another temper come,
\forcelinebreak If on the sun shall creep a gloom,
\forcelinebreak A time \& tide too exigent,
\forcelinebreak When the old mounds are torn \& rent,
\forcelinebreak More proud, more strong competitiors
\forcelinebreak Marshal the lists for Emperors,
\forcelinebreak — Then, the pleasant bard will know
\forcelinebreak To put this frolic masque behind him,
\forcelinebreak Like an old summer cloak,
\forcelinebreak And in sky-born mail to bind him,
\forcelinebreak And single-handed cope with Time,
\forcelinebreak And parry \& deal the thunderstroke.


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\section{Ever the Rock of Ages Melts}


Ever the Rock of Ages melts
\forcelinebreak Into the mineral air,
\forcelinebreak To be the quarry whence is built
\forcelinebreak Thought \& its mansion fair.


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\section{But Never Yet the Man Was Found}


But never yet the man was found
\forcelinebreak Who could the mystery expound
\forcelinebreak Tho’ Adam born when oaks were young
\forcelinebreak Endured, the Bible says, as long,
\forcelinebreak But when at last the patriarch died
\forcelinebreak The Gordian noose was not untied.
\forcelinebreak He left, though goodly centuries old,
\forcelinebreak Meek natures secret still untold.


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\section{From Nature’s Beginning}


From Nature’s beginning
\forcelinebreak Sin blunders \& brags,
\forcelinebreak True making, true winning
\forcelinebreak Go hidden in rags.


Wit has the creation
\forcelinebreak Of worlds \& their fame
\forcelinebreak On one stipulation,
\forcelinebreak — Renouncing the same.


What wilt thou? the Forces?
\forcelinebreak Or skies which they breed?
\forcelinebreak The strain it discourses
\forcelinebreak Or Pan? or his reed?


If the crown once incloses
\forcelinebreak The brows of her son,
\forcelinebreak The Muse him deposes
\forcelinebreak From kingdom \& throne


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\section{A Queen Rejoices in Her Peers}


A queen rejoices in her peers,
\forcelinebreak And wary Nature knows her own,
\forcelinebreak By court \& city, dale \& down,
\forcelinebreak And like a lover volunteers,
\forcelinebreak And to her son will treasures more
\forcelinebreak And more to purpose freely pour
\forcelinebreak In one woodwalk than learned men
\forcelinebreak Will find with glass in ten times ten.


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\section{By Kinds I Keep My Kinds in Check}


By kinds I keep my kinds in check,
\forcelinebreak I plant the oak, the rose I deck.


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\section{But Nature Whistled With All Her Winds}


But Nature whistled with all her winds,
\forcelinebreak Did as she pleased, \& went her way.


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\section{Dear Are the Pleasant Memories}


Dear are the pleasant memories
\forcelinebreak Of unreturning years,
\forcelinebreak And griefs recalled delight not less, —
\forcelinebreak Youth’s terrors \& its tears


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\section{The Genial Spark the Poet Felt}


The genial spark the poet felt
\forcelinebreak Flamed till every barrier melt,
\forcelinebreak He poured his heart out like a bird,
\forcelinebreak And as he spoke, so was he heard.


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\section{One Night He Dreamed of a Palace Fair}


One night he dreamed of a palace fair, —
\forcelinebreak Next year, it stood in marble strong,
\forcelinebreak Sheltered a nation’s proudest throne,
\forcelinebreak There sate the fathers of the state,
\forcelinebreak There echoed freedom’s shrill debate
\forcelinebreak A thousand years it will stand the same
\forcelinebreak Enacting laws \& breathing Fame.


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\section{The Low December Vault in June Be Up-lifted High}


The low December vault in June be up-lifted high
\forcelinebreak And largest clouds be flakes of down in that enormous sky.


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\section{At Plymouth in the Friendly Crowd}


At Plymouth in the friendly crowd
\forcelinebreak Mamma was not a little proud
\forcelinebreak To see her beaming candlesticks
\forcelinebreak Almost outshine their lighted wicks
\forcelinebreak Why not? since shafts of solid silver
\forcelinebreak Might tempt the Plymouth saints to pilfer
\forcelinebreak But Time, a more relentless thief
\forcelinebreak Betrayed Mamma \& these to grief
\forcelinebreak He stole the silver grain by grain
\forcelinebreak Nothing but copper would remain
\forcelinebreak But when Aladdin came to town
\forcelinebreak Hiding his famed lamp in his gown
\forcelinebreak Touched the old sticks with fingers new
\forcelinebreak As if with starshine riddled through
\forcelinebreak And now they beam like her own feats
\forcelinebreak Of mercy in the Concord streets.


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\section{Old Age}


The brook sings on the selfsame strain
\forcelinebreak But finds no echo in my brain


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\section{To the Clock}


Hail requiem of departed time
\forcelinebreak Never was richman’s funeral
\forcelinebreak Followed behind the pall
\forcelinebreak By the heir’s eager feet,
\forcelinebreak With resignation more complete
\forcelinebreak Yet not his hope is mine


Thou diggst the grave of each day
\forcelinebreak Not mine, Dig it thou shalt;
\forcelinebreak I defy thee to forbear it


O Time thou loiterer
\forcelinebreak Thou whose might
\forcelinebreak Laid low Enceladus \& crushed the moth
\forcelinebreak Rest on thy hoary throne forgetting
\forcelinebreak Alike thy agitations \& thy graves


Arachnean webs decoying \& destroying
\forcelinebreak Webs whereat the Gorgons ply
\forcelinebreak But lo! thy web’s motheaten
\forcelinebreak The shuttles quiver as the loom’s beams are shaken


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\section{Nature Says}


Nature says,
\forcelinebreak These craggy hills that front the dawn
\forcelinebreak Man-bearing granite of the North
\forcelinebreak Shall fiercer forms \& races spawn
\forcelinebreak Charged with my genius forth


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\section{Shun Passion, Fold the Hands of Thrift}


Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift,
\forcelinebreak Sit still, and Truth is near;
\forcelinebreak Suddenly it will uplift
\forcelinebreak Your eye-lids to the sphere,
\forcelinebreak Wait a little, you shall see
\forcelinebreak The portraiture of things to be.


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\section{To the Mizen, the Main, \& the Fore}


To the mizen, the main, \& the fore,
\forcelinebreak Up with it once more,
\forcelinebreak The old tricolor,
\forcelinebreak The ribbon of power,
\forcelinebreak The white, blue, \& red, which the nations adore.


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\section{The Rules to Men Made Evident}


The rules to men made evident
\forcelinebreak By Him who built the day,
\forcelinebreak The columns of the firmament
\forcelinebreak Not firmer based than they.


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\section{Too Late the Anxious Fire Came}


Too late the anxious fire came
\forcelinebreak The Express had mounted his pot of flame
\forcelinebreak No gift tho’ urged by Ediths voice
\forcelinebreak No bugler can the rider bring
\forcelinebreak Only this paper scrap can make amends
\forcelinebreak Tomorrow rides with equal fire
\forcelinebreak And brings the haughty horseman home
\forcelinebreak He well can wait
\forcelinebreak This horse forever bounds
\forcelinebreak This horn to fancy ever sounds
\forcelinebreak The warcloud hints what bursts behind


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\section{His Instant Thought the Poet Spoke}


His instant thought the Poet spoke
\forcelinebreak And filled the age his fame;
\forcelinebreak An inch of earth the wild bolt strook
\forcelinebreak But lit the sky with flame.


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\section{Try the Might the Muse Affords}


Try the might the Muse affords,
\forcelinebreak And the balm of thoughtful words.
\forcelinebreak Bring music to the desolate
\forcelinebreak Hang roses on the stony fate


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\section{Saadi Held the Muse in Awe}


Saadi held the Muse in awe
\forcelinebreak She was his mistress \& his law
\forcelinebreak A twelvemonth he could silence hold
\forcelinebreak Nor ran to speak till she him told
\forcelinebreak He felt the flame, the fanning wings,
\forcelinebreak Nor offered words till they were things.
\forcelinebreak Glad when the solid mountain swims
\forcelinebreak In Music \& uplifting hymns


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\section{No Song So Tuneful, Quoth the Fox}


No song so tuneful, quoth the fox,
\forcelinebreak As the rich crowing of the cocks.


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\section{Life}


A train of gay and clouded days
\forcelinebreak Dappled with joy and grief \& praise,
\forcelinebreak Beauty to fire us, saints to save,
\forcelinebreak Escort us to a little grave.


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\section{Song of Taliesin}


Vain Bards! I can discover all,
\forcelinebreak What befel or shall befal.
\forcelinebreak I come seeking what is lost,
\forcelinebreak And my aim shall not be crossed.
\forcelinebreak Strong am I who this demand,
\forcelinebreak More strong my tongue than Arthur’s hand
\forcelinebreak Three hundred potent songs \& more
\forcelinebreak Are hidden in the strain I pour:
\forcelinebreak No foemen in these mountains dwell
\forcelinebreak On whom I cannot cast a spell;
\forcelinebreak Nor stone nor brass, nor iron ring
\forcelinebreak Can fetter Elphin when I sing;
\forcelinebreak All that I seek this hand can find,
\forcelinebreak All Gates unbar, all bonds unbind.


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\section{Seemed, Tho’ the Soft Sheen All Enchants}


Seemed, tho’ the soft sheen all enchants,
\forcelinebreak Cheers the rough crag \& mournful dell,
\forcelinebreak As if on such stern forms \& haunts,
\forcelinebreak A wintry storm more fitly fell.


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\section{Nature Saith}


Nature saith,
\forcelinebreak I am not infinite,
\forcelinebreak But imprisoned \& bound,
\forcelinebreak Tool of mind,
\forcelinebreak Tool of the being I feed \& adorn.


Twas I did soothe
\forcelinebreak Thy thorny youth;
\forcelinebreak I found thee placed
\forcelinebreak In my most leafless waste;
\forcelinebreak I comforted thy little feet


On the forlorn errand bound;
\forcelinebreak I fed thee, with my mallows fed,
\forcelinebreak On the first day of failing bread.


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\section{Illusions Like the Tints of Pearl}


Illusions like the tints of pearl,
\forcelinebreak Or changing colors of the sky,
\forcelinebreak Or ribbons of a dancing girl
\forcelinebreak That mend her beauty to the eye.


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\section{Inscription on a Well in Memory}


of the Martyrs of the War
\forcelinebreak Fall stream from Heaven to bless: return as well;
\forcelinebreak So did our sons; Heaven met them as they fell.


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\section{Letters}


My tongue is prone to lose the way,
\forcelinebreak Not so my pen, for in a letter
\forcelinebreak We have not better things to say,
\forcelinebreak But surely put them better.


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\section{May}


When all their blooms the meadows flaunt
\forcelinebreak To deck the morning of the year,
\forcelinebreak Why tinge thy lustres jubilant
\forcelinebreak With forecast or with fear?


Softens the air so sharp and rude,
\forcelinebreak What can the heart do less?
\forcelinebreak If Earth put off her savage mood,
\forcelinebreak Let us learn gentleness.


The purple flame all bosoms girds,
\forcelinebreak And Love ascends his throne;
\forcelinebreak I cannot hear your songs, O birds!
\forcelinebreak For the witchery of my own.


Each human heart this tide makes free
\forcelinebreak To keep the golden day,
\forcelinebreak And ring the bells of jubilee
\forcelinebreak On its own First of May.


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\section{The Miracle}


I have trod this path a hundred times
\forcelinebreak With idle footsteps, crooning rhymes,
\forcelinebreak I know each nest \& web-worms tent;
\forcelinebreak The fox-hole which the woodchucks rent
\forcelinebreak Maple \& oak, the old “divan,”
\forcelinebreak Self-planted twice like the banian;
\forcelinebreak I know not why I came again
\forcelinebreak Unless to learn it ten times ten.
\forcelinebreak To read the sense the woods impart,
\forcelinebreak You must bring the throbbing heart;
\forcelinebreak Love is aye the counterforce,
\forcelinebreak Terror, \& Hope, \& wild Remorse.
\forcelinebreak Newest knowledge, fiery thought,
\forcelinebreak Or Duty to grand purpose wrought.


Wandering yester-morn the brake,
\forcelinebreak I reached the margin of the lake,
\forcelinebreak And oh! the wonder of the power,
\forcelinebreak The deeper secret of the hour! —
\forcelinebreak Nature, the supplement of Man,
\forcelinebreak His hidden sense interpret can, —
\forcelinebreak What friend to friend cannot convey
\forcelinebreak Shall the dumb bird instructed say.
\forcelinebreak Passing yonder oak, I heard
\forcelinebreak Sharp accents of my woodland bird, —
\forcelinebreak I watched the singer with delight, —
\forcelinebreak But mark what changed my joy to fright,
\forcelinebreak When that bird sang, I gave the theme, —
\forcelinebreak That wood-bird sang my last night’s dream,
\forcelinebreak A brown wren was the Daniel
\forcelinebreak That pierced my trance its drift to tell;
\forcelinebreak It knew my quarrel, how and why,
\forcelinebreak Published it to lake and sky, —
\forcelinebreak Told every word and syllable
\forcelinebreak In his flippant chirping babble,
\forcelinebreak All my wrath, \& all my shames,
\forcelinebreak Nay, Heaven be witness, — gave the names.


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\section{A Dangerous Gift \& Grace is Mine}


A dangerous gift \& grace is mine
\forcelinebreak Closely dame your ear incline
\forcelinebreak A word my merits shall unlock
\forcelinebreak Behold me here a whispering clock
\forcelinebreak I both time \& silence keep
\forcelinebreak Will not wake you when you sleep
\forcelinebreak Yet count as true the balmy hours
\forcelinebreak As truly as
\forcelinebreak The thunderer from the steeple towers


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\section{And Hungry Debt Beseiged My Door}


And hungry Debt beseiged my door
\forcelinebreak And still held out his hundred hands


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\section{Use Will in Man New Grace Reveal}


Use will in man new grace reveal
\forcelinebreak The gleam which Labor adds to steel.


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\section{Put in, Drive Home the Sightless Wedges}


Put in, drive home the sightless wedges,
\forcelinebreak Exploding burst the crystal ledges.


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\section{What Flowing Central Forces, Say}


What flowing central forces, say,
\forcelinebreak Make up thy splendor, matchless day!


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\section{The Best of Life is Presence of a Muse}


The best of life is presence of a muse
\forcelinebreak Who does not wish to wander, comes by stealth,
\forcelinebreak Divulging to the heart she sets a flame
\forcelinebreak No popular tale, no bauble for the mart.
\forcelinebreak When the wings grow that draw the gazing crowd,
\forcelinebreak Ofttimes poor Genius fluttering near the earth
\forcelinebreak Is wrecked upon the turrets of the town:
\forcelinebreak But, lifted till he meets the steadfast gales
\forcelinebreak Calm blowing from the Everlasting West


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\section{The Pilgrims}


Behold I make partition
\forcelinebreak In this new world I have built,
\forcelinebreak For slavery differs from freedom
\forcelinebreak As honor is wide from guilt.


Lo now to Freedom I assign
\forcelinebreak And make partition fair,
\forcelinebreak All space above the waterline
\forcelinebreak All ground below the air.


And what’s beside may slavery claim
\forcelinebreak Her residue \& share,
\forcelinebreak Within the earth to hide her shame,
\forcelinebreak Or climb above the air.


Firm to the pole he knots the cord,
\forcelinebreak And to the tropics drew,
\forcelinebreak About the round globe’s quarter broad,
\forcelinebreak Along the welkin blue.


Hills clapped their hands, the rivers shined,
\forcelinebreak The seas applauding roar,
\forcelinebreak The elements were of one mind,
\forcelinebreak As they had been of yore.


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\section{I Care Not Whither I May Go}


I care not whither I may go,
\forcelinebreak Or if my task be high or low,
\forcelinebreak Work to hide or proudly show,
\forcelinebreak Or if my mates shall be my peers
\forcelinebreak Or only rare-met travellers,
\forcelinebreak Whether I pace the shop-lined street
\forcelinebreak And scan the city at my feet
\forcelinebreak With secret pride to rule the town
\forcelinebreak And shire on which the dome looks down.


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\section{I Am Not Black in My Mind}


I am not black in my mind
\forcelinebreak But born to make black fair:
\forcelinebreak On the battlefield my master find, —
\forcelinebreak His white corpse taints the air.
\forcelinebreak Eve roved in Paradise, I’ve heard,
\forcelinebreak With no more baggage than a bird;
\forcelinebreak Exiled, she soon found necessary
\forcelinebreak More garments than she liked to carry;
\forcelinebreak Adam devised valise \& sack,
\forcelinebreak And trunk \& tray her weeds to pack,
\forcelinebreak But when the hatbox he invented,
\forcelinebreak Dear Eve declared herself contented;
\forcelinebreak Eden was well — Angels prefer it —
\forcelinebreak She thought the outworld had its merit;
\forcelinebreak And now transmits to Ellen dear
\forcelinebreak This sable cube of comfort here.


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\section{Trimountain}


Sicut cum patribus sit Deus nobis


The land that has no song
\forcelinebreak Shall have a song today,
\forcelinebreak The granite ledge is dumb too long,
\forcelinebreak The vales have much to say.
\forcelinebreak Its men can teach the lightning speech,
\forcelinebreak And round the globe their voices reach.


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\section{The Rocky Nook With Hilltops Three}


The rocky Nook with hilltops three
\forcelinebreak Looked eastward from the farms,
\forcelinebreak And twice a day the flowing sea
\forcelinebreak Took Boston in its arms:
\forcelinebreak The men of yore were stout \& poor,
\forcelinebreak And sailed for bread to every shore.


The waves that rocked them on the deep
\forcelinebreak To them their secret told,
\forcelinebreak Said the winds that sung the lads to sleep,
\forcelinebreak “Like us be free \& bold.
\forcelinebreak The honest waves refuse to slaves
\forcelinebreak The empire of the Ocean caves.”


And where they went, on trade intent,
\forcelinebreak They did what freemen can;
\forcelinebreak Their dauntless ways did all men praise,
\forcelinebreak The merchant was a man.
\forcelinebreak The world was made for honest trade,
\forcelinebreak To plant \& eat be none afraid.


Old Europe groans with palaces
\forcelinebreak Has lords enough \& more
\forcelinebreak We plant \& build by foaming seas
\forcelinebreak A city of the poor.
\forcelinebreak For what avail the plough \& sail,
\forcelinebreak Or land, or life, if freedom fail?


The noble craftsman we promote,
\forcelinebreak Disown the knave \& fool;
\forcelinebreak Each honest man shall have his vote,
\forcelinebreak Each child shall have his school.


We grant no dukedoms to the few,
\forcelinebreak We hold like rights \& shall,
\forcelinebreak Equal on Sunday in the pew,
\forcelinebreak On Monday in the mall.


Fair rose the planted hills behind
\forcelinebreak The good town on the Bay,
\forcelinebreak And where the western slopes declined
\forcelinebreak The prairie stretched away.


Out from the many-fountained earth
\forcelinebreak The rivers gushed \& foamed,
\forcelinebreak Sweet airs from every forest forth
\forcelinebreak Around the mountains roamed.


What rival towers majestic soar
\forcelinebreak Along the stormy coast, —
\forcelinebreak Penn’s town, New York, \& Baltimore,
\forcelinebreak If Boston knew the most!


They laughed to know the world so wide,
\forcelinebreak The mountains said, “Good-day!
\forcelinebreak We greet you well, you Saxon men,
\forcelinebreak Up with your towns, \& stay.”


“For you,” they said, “no barriers be,
\forcelinebreak For you no sluggard’s rest;
\forcelinebreak Each street leads downward to the Sea,
\forcelinebreak Or land-ward to the West.”


The townsmen braved the English King,
\forcelinebreak Found friendship in the French,
\forcelinebreak And Honor joined the patriot ring
\forcelinebreak Low on their wooden bench.


O bounteous seas that never fail!
\forcelinebreak O day remembered yet!
\forcelinebreak O happy port that spied the sail
\forcelinebreak Which wafted Lafayette!
\forcelinebreak Abdiel bright, in Europe’s night,
\forcelinebreak That never faltered from the right.


O pity that I pause, —
\forcelinebreak The song disdaining shuns
\forcelinebreak To name the noble sires, because
\forcelinebreak Of the unworthy sons:
\forcelinebreak For what avail the plough \& sail,
\forcelinebreak Or land, or life, if freedom fail?


But there was chaff within the flour,
\forcelinebreak And one was false in ten;
\forcelinebreak And reckless clerks in lust of power
\forcelinebreak Forgot the rights of men;
\forcelinebreak Cruel \& blind did file their mind,
\forcelinebreak And sell the blood of human kind.


Your town is full of gentle names
\forcelinebreak By patriots once were watchwords made;
\forcelinebreak Those war-cry names are muffled shames
\forcelinebreak On recreant sons mislaid.
\forcelinebreak What slave shall dare a name to wear
\forcelinebreak Once Freedom’s passport everywhere?


O welaway! if this be so,
\forcelinebreak And man cannot afford the right,
\forcelinebreak And if the wage of love is woe,
\forcelinebreak And honest dealing yield despite.
\forcelinebreak For what avail the plough \& sail,
\forcelinebreak Or land, or life, if freedom fail?


Hie to the woods, sleek citizen!
\forcelinebreak Back to the sea, go landsmen down!
\forcelinebreak Climb the White Hills, sleek aldermen,
\forcelinebreak And vacant leave the town:
\forcelinebreak Ere these echoes be choked with snows,
\forcelinebreak Or over the roofs blue Ocean flows.


The sea returning day by day
\forcelinebreak Restores the world-wide mart,
\forcelinebreak So let each dweller on the Bay
\forcelinebreak Fold Boston in his heart.
\forcelinebreak For what avail the plough \& sail,
\forcelinebreak Or land or life, if freedom fail?


Let the blood of her hundred thousands
\forcelinebreak Throb in each manly vein
\forcelinebreak And the wit of all her wisest
\forcelinebreak Make sunshine in his brain.
\forcelinebreak A union then of honest men,
\forcelinebreak Or Union nevermore again.


And each shall care for other,
\forcelinebreak And each to each shall bend,
\forcelinebreak To the poor a noble brother,
\forcelinebreak To the good an equal friend.


A blessing through the ages thus
\forcelinebreak Shield all thy roofs \& towers!
\forcelinebreak God with the fathers, So with us!
\forcelinebreak Thou darling town of ours!


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\section{For Lucifer, That Old Athlete}


For Lucifer, that old athlete,
\forcelinebreak Tho’ flung from Heaven falls on his feet


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\section{Traitors Tho’ Plumed \& Steel Equipped}


Traitors tho’ plumed \& steel equipped
\forcelinebreak Are born to be betrayed \& whipped
\forcelinebreak Born to be caught \& to be whipped


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\section{The Muse}


The Muse
\forcelinebreak Can at pleasure use
\forcelinebreak Every syllable men have heard
\forcelinebreak And can move with every word
\forcelinebreak Need not mimic, plot or veer
\forcelinebreak But speak right onward without fear
\forcelinebreak She need not turn aside
\forcelinebreak Or half convey \& half suppress
\forcelinebreak New meaning in a worn-out phrase
\forcelinebreak She will not walk in crooked ways
\forcelinebreak But bend the language to her
\forcelinebreak Make the language bend to her
\forcelinebreak Not unable not afraid
\forcelinebreak To say what never yet was said
\forcelinebreak She need not stray from her path
\forcelinebreak To find the words of love or wrath
\forcelinebreak The world is as rich in nouns \& verbs
\forcelinebreak As in sea sand or in herbs


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\section{In My Garden Three Ways Meet}


In my garden three ways meet,
\forcelinebreak Thrice the spot is blest;
\forcelinebreak Hermit thrush comes there to build
\forcelinebreak Carrier doves to rest.


The broad armed oaks, the copse’s maze
\forcelinebreak The cold sea-wind detain;
\forcelinebreak And sultry summer overstays
\forcelinebreak When autumn chills the plain.


Self-sown my stately garden grows,
\forcelinebreak The winds and wind-blown seed,
\forcelinebreak Cold April rain, and colder snows
\forcelinebreak My hedges plant and feed.


From mountains far and valleys near,
\forcelinebreak The harvests sown to-day,
\forcelinebreak Thrive in all weathers without fear, —
\forcelinebreak Wild planters plant away!


In cities high the careful crowd
\forcelinebreak Of woe-worn mortals darkling go,
\forcelinebreak But in these sunny solitudes
\forcelinebreak My quiet roses blow.


Methought the sky looked scornful down
\forcelinebreak On all was base in man,
\forcelinebreak And airy tongues did taunt the town,
\forcelinebreak Achieve our peace who can!


What need I holier dew
\forcelinebreak Than Walden’s haunted wave,
\forcelinebreak Distilled from heaven’s alembic blue,
\forcelinebreak Steeped in each forest cave.


If Thought unlock her mysteries,
\forcelinebreak If Friendship on me smile,
\forcelinebreak I walk in marble galleries,
\forcelinebreak I talk with kings the while.


And chiefest thou, whom Genius loved,
\forcelinebreak Daughter of sounding seas,
\forcelinebreak Whom Nature pampered in these groves,
\forcelinebreak And lavished all to please.


What wealth of mornings in her year,
\forcelinebreak What planets in her sky!
\forcelinebreak She chose her best thy heart to cheer,
\forcelinebreak Thy beauty to supply.


Now younger pilgrims find the stream,
\forcelinebreak The willows and the vine,
\forcelinebreak But aye to me the happiest seem
\forcelinebreak To draw the dregs of wine.


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\section{Thermometer}


Mine to watch the sun at work
\forcelinebreak Or if he hide in clouds \& shirk
\forcelinebreak I test the force of wood \& bark,
\forcelinebreak And keep the pitcoal to the mark
\forcelinebreak On my white enamelled scale
\forcelinebreak The warning numbers never fail
\forcelinebreak From sixty up to seventy one
\forcelinebreak The grades of household comfort run
\forcelinebreak If they climb a hairsbreadth higher
\forcelinebreak Fling wide the door, put out the fire,
\forcelinebreak Each year will have its holidays
\forcelinebreak Which I report nor blame nor praise
\forcelinebreak Twice I dive twenty below zero
\forcelinebreak Twice climb to heat would blacken Nero
\forcelinebreak But health \& heart will prosper more
\forcelinebreak At the mean point of 54


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\section{Nature}


Day by day for her darlings to her much she added more,
\forcelinebreak In her hundred-gated Thebes every chamber was a door,
\forcelinebreak A door to something grander, — loftier walls, \& vaster floor.


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\section{Seashore}


Here chimes no clock, no pedant calendar,
\forcelinebreak My waves abolish time, dwarf days to hours,
\forcelinebreak And give my guest eternal afternoon.


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\section{Things Oft Miscalling, as the Hen}


Things oft miscalling, as the hen-
\forcelinebreak Fever raged not in fowls but men.


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\section{On the Chamber, on the Stairs}


On the chamber, on the stairs,
\forcelinebreak Lurking dumb,
\forcelinebreak Go and come
\forcelinebreak The Lemurs and the Lars.


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\section{Ah! Not to Me These Dreams Belong}


Ah! not to me these dreams belong,
\forcelinebreak A better voice sings through my song.


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\section{For Deathless Powers to Verse Belong}


“For deathless powers to verse belong
\forcelinebreak And they like demigods are strong
\forcelinebreak On whom the Muses smile.”


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\section{Upon a Rock Yet Uncreate}


Upon a rock yet uncreate
\forcelinebreak Amid a Chaos inchoate
\forcelinebreak An uncreated being sate
\forcelinebreak Beneath him rock
\forcelinebreak Above him cloud
\forcelinebreak And the cloud was rock
\forcelinebreak And the rock was cloud
\forcelinebreak The rock then growing soft \& warm
\forcelinebreak The cloud began to take a form
\forcelinebreak A form chaotic vast \& vague
\forcelinebreak Which issued in the cosmic egg
\forcelinebreak Then the being uncreate
\forcelinebreak Upon the egg did incubate
\forcelinebreak And thus became an incubator
\forcelinebreak And of the egg did allegate
\forcelinebreak And thus became an alligator
\forcelinebreak And the incubate was potentate
\forcelinebreak But the alligator was potentator


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\section{Alas, Alas, That I Am Betrayed}


Alas, Alas, that I am betrayed
\forcelinebreak By my flying days, it is then the looking glass,
\forcelinebreak Not the mind, if self love do not tarnish it
\forcelinebreak Alas that he who foolish frets in desire
\forcelinebreak Not heeding the flying time
\forcelinebreak Finds himself, like me, at one instant, old.
\forcelinebreak Nor know I how to repent, nor do I make myself ready,
\forcelinebreak Nor advise myself with death at the door.
\forcelinebreak Enemy of myself
\forcelinebreak Vainly I pour out plaints \& sighs
\forcelinebreak Since there is no harm equal to lost time


Michelangelo


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\section{Wo is Me Woe’s Me When I Think}


Wo is me woe’s me when I think
\forcelinebreak Of my spent years I find not one
\forcelinebreak Among so many days; not one was mine.
\forcelinebreak Hopes which betrayed me, vain longing,
\forcelinebreak Tears, love, fiery glow, \& sigh,
\forcelinebreak For not one mortal affection is longer new to me
\forcelinebreak Held me fast, \& now, I know it, \& learn it,
\forcelinebreak And from goodness \& truth ever severed,
\forcelinebreak Go I forth, from day to day, further;
\forcelinebreak Ever the shadows grow longer; ever deeper
\forcelinebreak Sinks for me the sun;
\forcelinebreak And I am ready to fall infirm \& outworn.


Michelangelo


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\section{Sweet, Sweet, is Sleep, — Ah! Sweeter, to Be Stone}


Sweet, sweet, is sleep, — Ah! sweeter, to be stone,
\forcelinebreak Whilst wrong \& shame exist \& grow;
\forcelinebreak Not to see, not to feel, is a boon;
\forcelinebreak Then, not to wake me, pray speak low!


Michelangelo


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\section{The Power of a Beautiful Face Lifts Me to Heaven}


The power of a beautiful face lifts me to heaven
\forcelinebreak Since else in earth is none that delights me
\forcelinebreak And I mount living among the elect souls,
\forcelinebreak A grace which seldom falls to a mortal.


So well with its Maker the work consents,
\forcelinebreak That I rise to him through divine conceptions
\forcelinebreak And here I shape all thoughts \& words,
\forcelinebreak Burning, loving, through this gentle form:


Whence, if ever from two beautiful eyes
\forcelinebreak I know not how to turn my look, I know in them
\forcelinebreak The light which shows me the way which guides me to God.


And if, kindled at their light, I burn,
\forcelinebreak In my noble flame sweedy shines
\forcelinebreak The eternal joy which smiles in heaven.


Michelangelo


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\section{Boy Bring the Bowl Full of Wine}


Boy bring the bowl full of wine
\forcelinebreak Bring me two bowls of the purest wine
\forcelinebreak I take wine to be the love-potion
\forcelinebreak This stuff for old \& young, bring
\forcelinebreak Sun \& moon are the wine \& the glass
\forcelinebreak In the midst of the moon bring me the sun
\forcelinebreak How the understanding strives so earnestly
\forcelinebreak Bring bands made of wine for the stupid head
\forcelinebreak Fan this dissolving glow,
\forcelinebreak That is, instead of water bring wine
\forcelinebreak Goes the rose by, say gladly:
\forcelinebreak Nectar of pearls \& blood of the rose, bring.
\forcelinebreak Sounds not the nightingale it is right
\forcelinebreak Sound of glass \& sound of wine, bring.
\forcelinebreak Mourn for nothing, since past is past
\forcelinebreak Harp \& lute tones therefore bring
\forcelinebreak Only in dreams enjoy I my love
\forcelinebreak Then bring wine for wine brings sleep
\forcelinebreak Am I drunken What is to do
\forcelinebreak That I may be well drunken bring one glass more
\forcelinebreak One two cups bring to Hafiz
\forcelinebreak Be it now well or ill done, bring.


Hafiz


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\section{Who Royally Bedded}


Who royally bedded
\forcelinebreak On ermine lies
\forcelinebreak Knows not the stone pillow
\forcelinebreak Of the pilgrims thorn bed


Hafiz


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\section{Desire No Bread, Forsake the Guest Hall of the Earth}


Desire no bread, forsake the guest hall of the earth,
\forcelinebreak The earth is a host who murders his guests


Hafiz


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\section{The Red Rose Blooms}


The red rose blooms
\forcelinebreak The nightingale is drunken
\forcelinebreak Now leave free course to drinking
\forcelinebreak Ye reverencers of wine


The building of Sorrow it seemed so firm
\forcelinebreak Piled of granite gray
\forcelinebreak O see how the crystal glass
\forcelinebreak Has already shattered it \& broke


Bring wine; before the Throne
\forcelinebreak Which hears our wishes
\forcelinebreak Drunkard \& sage are one
\forcelinebreak And prince \& groom


Since I must one day leave
\forcelinebreak This two-ported guest house
\forcelinebreak It is all one whether my lifes course
\forcelinebreak Be high or humble


It is not possible without sorrow
\forcelinebreak And without grief to live
\forcelinebreak Since on the day of Destiny was
\forcelinebreak Sorrow assigned to us


For being \& not-being cumber thee not
\forcelinebreak Be ever of glad heart
\forcelinebreak The end of every excellence
\forcelinebreak Is the Chaos \& the Night


Pomp, Asaph, the East-wind-horse,
\forcelinebreak The knowledge of the bird language,
\forcelinebreak Is all gone to the winds
\forcelinebreak And profits not the king


Mount not from the straight way
\forcelinebreak In to the air with wings
\forcelinebreak The arrow flies into the air \& falls
\forcelinebreak Again to earth


How can the tongue of thy quill
\forcelinebreak Thank Hafiz therefor
\forcelinebreak That thy words steadily from mouth
\forcelinebreak to mouth fly.


Hafiz


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\section{Many Our Needs, Yet We Spare Prayers}


Many our needs, yet we spare prayers
\forcelinebreak Since thro’ thy nature have we no need of praying
\forcelinebreak The Nature of my beloved is the world-showing mirror
\forcelinebreak Ah it has taught me that thy need is no need
\forcelinebreak Long time I endured the torments of the ship
\forcelinebreak Since the pearls are mine, what do I want of the sea
\forcelinebreak Beggar! the soul-squandering life of the beloved
\forcelinebreak Knows thy petition. She has no need of explanation
\forcelinebreak Prince of beauty, by God! I am burned up by love.
\forcelinebreak Ask me finally still, Have the beggars really need?
\forcelinebreak Thou importunate flee I have nothing to do with thee
\forcelinebreak My friends are there Is there need of enemies
\forcelinebreak Thy word conquers Hafiz, of itself appears virtue
\forcelinebreak Envy \& empty strife with the adversary are not needful


Hafiz


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\section{Early After the Night Long Revel}


Early after the night long revel
\forcelinebreak Took I lyre plectrum \& bowl
\forcelinebreak Bridled the horse of Reason
\forcelinebreak Drove it with spurrs to the town of revellers


See the host flatters me
\forcelinebreak That I fear not the blinding of Destiny
\forcelinebreak Thou the aim of the arrow of speech
\forcelinebreak Said the host with bows of brows


Little profits it thee
\forcelinebreak Tho thou embrace me like a belt
\forcelinebreak Spread the net for others
\forcelinebreak Over the net the Auka soars


Host \& trusted are one
\forcelinebreak Every difference is only a pretence
\forcelinebreak Reach us the boats of Sohra
\forcelinebreak That we save us out of these waters


Ah how enjoyed the Shah
\forcelinebreak Who in himself is constantly enamoured
\forcelinebreak All is riddle Hafiz
\forcelinebreak To explain it to us is mere talk.


Hafiz


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\section{Thou Who With Thy Long Hair}


Thou who with thy long hair
\forcelinebreak As with thy chains art come
\forcelinebreak Thine be opportunity
\forcelinebreak Since to capture slaves thou comest


O show thyself benign
\forcelinebreak And change thy mood
\forcelinebreak Since they to resign
\forcelinebreak Thou to ask \& claim comest


Be it in peace be it in war
\forcelinebreak To yield to thee it is my doom
\forcelinebreak Since in every event thou art
\forcelinebreak With entrancing kisses come


Fire \& water mingled are
\forcelinebreak In thy swelling ruby lip
\forcelinebreak Evil eyes be far!
\forcelinebreak As a juggler thou art come


Honor to thy soft heart
\forcelinebreak And a good work wouldst thou do
\forcelinebreak Pray for all the dead
\forcelinebreak Whom thine eyelashes slew


Say what boots my virtue
\forcelinebreak Since thou intent to steal the heart’s treasures
\forcelinebreak All drunken \& confused
\forcelinebreak To my still chamber art come


See Hafis said he to me
\forcelinebreak Thy coat with spots soiled
\forcelinebreak Wert thou safe from this company
\forcelinebreak Once home again?


Hafiz


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\section{Art Thou Wise, Four Things Resign}


Art thou wise, four things resign, —
\forcelinebreak Love, \& loneness, sloth, and wine.


Hafiz


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\section{Knowst Thou the Luck the Friends Face to See}


Knowst thou the luck the friends face to see
\forcelinebreak Rather to beg near him than a prince to bee
\forcelinebreak Tis easy out of the soul to banish lust
\forcelinebreak Not easy the friend from the soul to thrust
\forcelinebreak With my own heart go I like a flower
\forcelinebreak There tear I the garment of good name
\forcelinebreak Now kiss I secretly with the roses, as the East wind,
\forcelinebreak Now hearken I the secrets of the nightingale
\forcelinebreak Kiss the friends lips when thou canst
\forcelinebreak Otherwise wilt thou in the lips bite full of sorrow
\forcelinebreak Seize the chance of talking with thy friend
\forcelinebreak Who knows if we meet again on the way.


Hafiz


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\section{Untruth is Become the Mode}


Untruth is become the mode
\forcelinebreak And no man knows of friendship \& truth
\forcelinebreak The worthy nears now the worthless
\forcelinebreak And stretch out their hands for a gift
\forcelinebreak Whoso in the world is virtuous \& wise
\forcelinebreak Is no moment free from care \& sorrow
\forcelinebreak On the other side the dunce lives in plenty
\forcelinebreak With gold \& honour overlaid
\forcelinebreak And if a poet fluent as water
\forcelinebreak Full of heart speaking to mind \& to soul
\forcelinebreak So yields him avarice no shilling
\forcelinebreak Tho his songs were worthy of Abusina
\forcelinebreak Yesterday said Reason to the Understanding
\forcelinebreak Go forth suffer \& complain not
\forcelinebreak In satisfaction seek thy kingdom
\forcelinebreak And drink wine instead of other potions
\forcelinebreak Hafiz follow thou this good counsel
\forcelinebreak Then the thy foot fall thy head shall rise


Hafiz


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\section{Novice, Hear Me What I Say}


Novice, hear me what I say
\forcelinebreak So shalt thou be purified
\forcelinebreak Whilst thou dost not tread the way,
\forcelinebreak Thou canst not be a guide.


Pride of the gazing school,
\forcelinebreak Lord of thy companions,
\forcelinebreak Mark, hear boy thou too shalt be
\forcelinebreak One day the sire of sons


Sleeping, eating, drinking,
\forcelinebreak The spark of love withstood,
\forcelinebreak Eat not, sleep not, love in thinking
\forcelinebreak Will come rushing like a flood.


A beam of the love of Allah
\forcelinebreak Once fall thy soul upon,
\forcelinebreak By God I know thou then wilt be
\forcelinebreak More brilliant than the sun.


As learned magians do,
\forcelinebreak Thy hand from brass withhold,
\forcelinebreak That thou in life true alchemist
\forcelinebreak May turn all stones to gold.


From thy footsole to thy head
\forcelinebreak A beam of God thou burnest,
\forcelinebreak So [ ]thout foot or head
\forcelinebreak To the hest of God thou turnest


Go leap into the waves,
\forcelinebreak And have no doubt or care,
\forcelinebreak And the flowing of the seven broad seas
\forcelinebreak Shall never wet thy hair.


If Allah’s face on thee
\forcelinebreak Look down with love benign,
\forcelinebreak Who disbelieves that thou also
\forcelinebreak To his face turnest thine?


And though thy form \& fortune
\forcelinebreak Were broken waste \& void
\forcelinebreak Dream not of thy eternal root
\forcelinebreak A fibre is destroyed


Hafiz


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\section{Lament Not, O Hafiz, the Distribution}


Lament not, o Hafiz, the distribution
\forcelinebreak Thy nature \& thy verse, which flow like water, let them
\forcelinebreak content you.


Hafiz


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\section{Hafiz Thou Art From Eternity}


Hafiz thou art from Eternity
\forcelinebreak By God created for a man
\forcelinebreak Who abhors hypocrisy


Hafiz


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\section{Hafiz Since on the World}


Hafiz since on the world
\forcelinebreak Sorrows \& joys pass away
\forcelinebreak So it is better that thou ever
\forcelinebreak Of glad spirit art


Hafiz


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\section{I Said to the East Wind}


I said to the East wind
\forcelinebreak On the tulip-enriched plain,
\forcelinebreak Of what martyrs are these the bloody corpse-cloths?
\forcelinebreak He said, Dear Hafiz, to you \& me
\forcelinebreak Has no one told this.
\forcelinebreak Tell thou of wine-ruby, of silver-chin,
\forcelinebreak Seize the skirt of thy friend,
\forcelinebreak Care not for the enemy,
\forcelinebreak Be God’s man \& fear not the Devil.


Hafiz


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\section{We Wish Like the Glass}


We wish like the glass
\forcelinebreak All clean to be; who wishes it not
\forcelinebreak The East wind breathes out in scents
\forcelinebreak Spices \& perfumes
\forcelinebreak Why changes not the inner mind
\forcelinebreak Violet earth into musk?


Hafiz


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\section{When in Eternity the Light}


When in eternity the light
\forcelinebreak Of thy beauty glistened, Love was,
\forcelinebreak Which set the worlds on fire
\forcelinebreak Beams trickled from thy cheeks,
\forcelinebreak Angels saw them \& remained cold
\forcelinebreak Indignant turned they then to men
\forcelinebreak See, the Understanding prayed
\forcelinebreak for a spark his light to kindle.
\forcelinebreak Jealousy was the dazzling spark


Hafiz


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\section{Secretly to Love \& to Drink, What is It? Tis a Dissolute}


Secretly to love \& to drink, what is it? tis a dissolute
\forcelinebreak day’s work.
\forcelinebreak I side with the open drunkards, be it as it may.
\forcelinebreak Loose the knots of the heart \& cumber thee no farther
\forcelinebreak for the lot
\forcelinebreak No geometer has yet disentangled this confusion.
\forcelinebreak At the trade \& changes of Time wonder not;
\forcelinebreak The like enchantments keeps Destiny ready.
\forcelinebreak Hold the glass discreetly, it was put together
\forcelinebreak Of the skulls of Jamschid, Keikobad, \& Behmen,
\forcelinebreak Who teaches us where Kai was \& Nimrod are gone
\forcelinebreak How the throne of Jamschid fell in pieces at last
\forcelinebreak See Ferhad, how he longs for the lips of Schirin
\forcelinebreak Out of the flood of tears sprang tulips before him.
\forcelinebreak Come I will be riotous \& wasted by wine
\forcelinebreak Who knows but I shall find treasures in a desolate
\forcelinebreak house


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\section{This Effervescing Gentleman Who Despises a Secret}


This effervescing gentleman who despises a secret
\forcelinebreak Scorns me since I am riotous \& enamoured,
\forcelinebreak Look at the virtues of lovers not at their faults
\forcelinebreak Since who is not virtuous himself, sees faults.


People of heart have the key to the treasure of the heart
\forcelinebreak Let none henceforth doubt of this refined truth
\forcelinebreak Shepherd in the vale of Rest thy wish will then be first
\forcelinebreak fulfilled.
\forcelinebreak When thou several years hast served the Jethro of the heart
\forcelinebreak Blood trickles from the eye of Hafiz as if he were enchanted
\forcelinebreak When he as old man remembers the days of youth


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\section{Stand Up, That We May Sacrifice the Soul}


Stand up, that we may sacrifice the soul
\forcelinebreak Before the pencil of the Master
\forcelinebreak Who the picture of this world
\forcelinebreak So masterly has painted


Hafiz


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\section{O Friend Blame Not Hafiz}


O friend blame not Hafiz,
\forcelinebreak While his glances so follow you,
\forcelinebreak I have in him all the time
\forcelinebreak Only your friend seen.


Hafiz


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\section{The Way of Love is Unlimited}


The way of love is unlimited
\forcelinebreak The soul is there sacrificed
\forcelinebreak There is no other way.


Scare me not with reason
\forcelinebreak Bring wine. Since Reason as watchman
\forcelinebreak Has nothing here to do


When thou givest thy heart to love
\forcelinebreak Tis good time tis a good thing
\forcelinebreak Use no counsel first


Who smote me? Ask thine eye,
\forcelinebreak O sweet child, let this not lie
\forcelinebreak As guilt against my Destiny


As the new moon needs a sharp eye
\forcelinebreak So thou an intelligent one; not every one
\forcelinebreak Sees the young crescent


Use drinking with wisdom
\forcelinebreak The way to it as to a treasure is not
\forcelinebreak Open to every man


Hafiz


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\section{His Learning Truly Lifted Hafiz to Heaven}


His learning truly lifted Hafiz to Heaven
\forcelinebreak But his love of thee has brot him to the dust


Hafiz


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\section{Thousand Dangers of Ruin Has the Street of Love}


Thousand dangers of ruin has the street of love
\forcelinebreak Believe not that death frees thee from all


Hafiz


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\section{Bring Wine Release Me}


Bring wine release me
\forcelinebreak From care
\forcelinebreak Only with wine they drive
\forcelinebreak Sorrow away


There are no other lamps
\forcelinebreak In society
\forcelinebreak Than wine \& the face
\forcelinebreak Of the handsome cupbearer


Be not proud of the Enchantment
\forcelinebreak Of thy eyelashes
\forcelinebreak Since pride profits not
\forcelinebreak Oft have I proved.


Master thou oft well advisest me
\forcelinebreak Not to love
\forcelinebreak But this lesson is
\forcelinebreak No law for me


Love befouls only the heart
\forcelinebreak Of great men
\forcelinebreak Since thou hast no love
\forcelinebreak Thou art excused


To a wink sacrificed I
\forcelinebreak My virtue
\forcelinebreak Ah therein is all my store
\forcelinebreak Of good works


The luck of enjoyment is there
\forcelinebreak Bating separation
\forcelinebreak And the land of the heart is now
\forcelinebreak Again arable


Hafiz


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\section{Blame Me Not Thou Hoarse Preacher}


Blame me not thou hoarse preacher
\forcelinebreak Did not the Creator know
\forcelinebreak Who set me on fire with this flame
\forcelinebreak Whom I ought to love?


Hafiz


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\section{I Never Went Out of My Country}


I never went out of my country
\forcelinebreak In all my life


Hafiz


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\section{For His Constant Dwelling Place Has Hafiz}


For his constant dwelling place has Hafiz
\forcelinebreak Once for all chosen the wine-house
\forcelinebreak So chooses the lion the wood for his abode
\forcelinebreak And the bird the plain


Hafiz


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\section{Our Shah’s Counsel is the Efflux}


Our Shah’s counsel is the efflux
\forcelinebreak Of higher light
\forcelinebreak See thou have, if thou draw nigh him,
\forcelinebreak Clear vision.
\forcelinebreak Take the wish for his greatness
\forcelinebreak Into thy prayer
\forcelinebreak Since the ear of his heart
\forcelinebreak Converses with angels


Hafiz


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\section{If Thy Darling Favor Thee}


If thy darling favor thee
\forcelinebreak Both worlds thou mayest defy
\forcelinebreak Let fortune stand thy friend
\forcelinebreak Armies encamp against thee in vain


Hafiz


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\section{No Physician Has a Balsam for My Wo}


No physician has a balsam for my wo
\forcelinebreak I am only sound or sick thro my friend


Hafiz


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\section{Spare Thou Neither Time Nor Blood for Thy Friend}


Spare thou neither time nor blood for thy friend
\forcelinebreak Sacrifice also a hundred souls for one drink


Hafiz


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\section{It is Certain That Who His Mind}


It is certain that who his mind
\forcelinebreak In his friend concentered has
\forcelinebreak Has good luck to his handmaid
\forcelinebreak Higher than the Understanding
\forcelinebreak Is the cabinet of love,
\forcelinebreak Who has his soul in his own sleeve
\forcelinebreak Kisses only the door.
\forcelinebreak The mouth of the friend perchance
\forcelinebreak Is the seal of Solomons hand
\forcelinebreak Which under the power of a ruby
\forcelinebreak Has the world at command
\forcelinebreak My friend has a musk down
\forcelinebreak And lips like fireglow
\forcelinebreak I will flatter the beauty finely
\forcelinebreak Who has this \& that.
\forcelinebreak As long as thou art in the earth
\forcelinebreak Use occasion, work \& climb
\forcelinebreak Since the Grave has a plenty
\forcelinebreak of unprofitable time.
\forcelinebreak Happy who sees the poor
\forcelinebreak Without contempt
\forcelinebreak While the first place of honour
\forcelinebreak Has many poor sitters
\forcelinebreak It screens from harms body \& soul
\forcelinebreak The hearts prayer of the poor;
\forcelinebreak Whilst he who is ashamed of the poor
\forcelinebreak Has no good end.


Hafiz


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\section{Who Dedicates Himself to the Glass}


Who dedicates himself to the glass
\forcelinebreak Wherein the world mirrors itself
\forcelinebreak Lifts securely the veil
\forcelinebreak Which separates the worlds


Hafiz


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\section{Wine Resembles the Lord Jesus}


Wine resembles the Lord Jesus
\forcelinebreak It wakes the dead to life


Hafiz


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\section{Drink Till the Turbans Are All Unbound}


Drink till the turbans are all unbound
\forcelinebreak Drink till the house like the world turns round


Hafiz?


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\section{So Long as There’s a Trace}


So long as there’s a trace
\forcelinebreak Of wine \& banquet house
\forcelinebreak My head will lie in the dust
\forcelinebreak Of the threshold of the winehouse
\forcelinebreak Ask thou for grace hereafter
\forcelinebreak At my gravestone
\forcelinebreak That will be the pilgrim city
\forcelinebreak Of all the drinkers of wine
\forcelinebreak The ring of mine host hangs
\forcelinebreak Forever in my ear.
\forcelinebreak I am; what I was
\forcelinebreak My dust will be again.
\forcelinebreak Go, blind hermit, go,
\forcelinebreak Since to thee \& me alike
\forcelinebreak The secret is hidden,
\forcelinebreak And always will be.
\forcelinebreak My well beloved went
\forcelinebreak Abroad today to hunt
\forcelinebreak Whomsoever the lot had doomed
\forcelinebreak To bleed at the heart.
\forcelinebreak A place on which the sole
\forcelinebreak Of thy foot falls
\forcelinebreak Will be the resort
\forcelinebreak Of all reasonable men.
\forcelinebreak From the day when by love
\forcelinebreak I am laid as in the grave
\forcelinebreak Until the Judgment, my eye
\forcelinebreak Will be by thine
\forcelinebreak So long the luck of Hafiz
\forcelinebreak Will be no better
\forcelinebreak The hair of his love
\forcelinebreak Will be in the hands of another.


Hafiz


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\section{To Whom a Glass Full of Red Wine}


To whom a glass full of red wine
\forcelinebreak Was given in the morning
\forcelinebreak To him was a place in heaven
\forcelinebreak By the Lord given.
\forcelinebreak Be no saint; look not
\forcelinebreak Too closely after drunkards
\forcelinebreak To them was on the day of lots
\forcelinebreak The love-bias given.


Hafiz


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\section{In Bounding Youth the Night \& Rain}


In bounding youth the night \& rain
\forcelinebreak Shut toys out vex the brain
\forcelinebreak But later, dark \& rainy skies
\forcelinebreak Give not the cheer the sun supplies


Hafiz?


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\section{The Ninefold Table of Heaven}


The ninefold table of Heaven
\forcelinebreak Its gold \& silver bread
\forcelinebreak Compared with the table of thy grace
\forcelinebreak Are but a morsel


Hafiz


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\section{Should I Shed My Tears}


Should I shed my tears
\forcelinebreak Into the Sinderud,
\forcelinebreak Irak would in a moment
\forcelinebreak Be watered through \& through


Hafiz


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\section{Prince the Ball of Heaven Should}


Prince the ball of heaven should
\forcelinebreak Under thy bat be
\forcelinebreak And the field of time of space
\forcelinebreak Should be thy playground


Hafiz


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\section{Since You Set No Worth on the Heart}


Since you set no worth on the heart
\forcelinebreak Will I on the way instead of small coin
\forcelinebreak Strew eyes.


Hafiz


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\section{Now Tells the Flower}


Now tells the flower
\forcelinebreak Histories of May
\forcelinebreak Who fetters himself with gold
\forcelinebreak He is not wise.


Cheer thy heart with wine:
\forcelinebreak The Earth is only
\forcelinebreak A house to which our bones
\forcelinebreak Give the mortar.


Seek not in thy friend, truth;
\forcelinebreak Truth is dead;
\forcelinebreak Holy fire comes not
\forcelinebreak Out of Church lamps.


Blacken thou not my name
\forcelinebreak For my riot;
\forcelinebreak Who knows what the lot
\forcelinebreak Inscribed on the brow?


Turn not thy steps
\forcelinebreak From the grave of Hafiz,
\forcelinebreak Since though in sins sunken
\forcelinebreak He expects Heaven


Hafiz


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\section{Good is What Goes on the Road of Nature}


Good is what goes on the road of Nature
\forcelinebreak On the straight way never yet erred man


Hafiz


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\section{Reach Me Wine No Counsel Weakens the Conclusion of}


the lot
\forcelinebreak Reach me wine No counsel weakens the conclusion of
\forcelinebreak the lot,
\forcelinebreak None alters what Destiny determines for him.


Hafiz


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\section{Has Thine Enemy Slandered Thy House}


Has thine enemy slandered thy house
\forcelinebreak He shall find his sin in his childs child


Hafiz


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\section{Yet All Comes Out of This, That One Door}


Yet all comes out of this, that one door
\forcelinebreak Opens, when another shuts.


Hafiz


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\section{Hear What the Glass Will Tell Thee}


Hear what the glass will tell thee
\forcelinebreak This again-married world
\forcelinebreak Has had many husbands mighty \& glorious
\forcelinebreak Jam \& Keikobad


Hafiz


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\section{Free Thyself From Wo}


Free thyself from wo
\forcelinebreak Thou drinkest blood when thou enviest others their luck


Hafiz


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\section{And Had Hafiz}


And had Hafiz
\forcelinebreak Ten tongues like the lily,
\forcelinebreak He would be silent
\forcelinebreak Like the rosebud,
\forcelinebreak While thro love his mouth is sealed.


Hafiz


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\section{Thy Songs O Hafiz}


Thy songs O Hafiz
\forcelinebreak Are erst in Paradise
\forcelinebreak On the leaves of the jasmin
\forcelinebreak And the rose bush written


Hafiz


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\section{Who Compares a Poem}


Who compares a poem
\forcelinebreak Of others to mine
\forcelinebreak Compares gold
\forcelinebreak With rush-plaits


Hafiz


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\section{Thy Poems Hafiz Shame the Rose Leaves}


Thy poems Hafiz shame the rose leaves
\forcelinebreak Since they breathe the praise of the rosier cheeks of thy love


Hafiz


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\section{In the Kingdom of Poesy Hafiz Waves Like a Banner}


In the kingdom of Poesy Hafiz waves like a banner
\forcelinebreak Thro’ the Shah’s defending favor


Hafiz


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\section{Where O Where is the Message Which Today}


Where o where is the message which today
\forcelinebreak brought us tidings of joy
\forcelinebreak That instead of silver \& gold I on the earth
\forcelinebreak Might strew souls.


Hafiz


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\section{Come Let Us Strew Roses}


Come let us strew roses
\forcelinebreak And pour wine in the cup
\forcelinebreak Break up the roof of heaven
\forcelinebreak And throw it into new forms


So soon the army of cares
\forcelinebreak Shed the blood of the true
\forcelinebreak So will I with the cupbearer
\forcelinebreak Shatter the building of woe


We will rosewater
\forcelinebreak In winecups pour
\forcelinebreak And sugar in the censer
\forcelinebreak Full of musksmell throw


Thy harping is lovely
\forcelinebreak O play sweet airs
\forcelinebreak That we may sing songs
\forcelinebreak And shake our heads


Bring Eastwind the dust of the body
\forcelinebreak To that great lord
\forcelinebreak That we also may cast our eyes
\forcelinebreak On his beauty


Hafiz


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\section{Who Gave Thy Cheek the Mixed Tint}


Who gave thy cheek the mixed tint
\forcelinebreak Of tulip \& rose
\forcelinebreak Is also in state to give
\forcelinebreak Patience \& rest to me poor
\forcelinebreak Who taught cruelty
\forcelinebreak To thy dark hair
\forcelinebreak Is also in state to give
\forcelinebreak The right against myself
\forcelinebreak I gave up hope of Ferhad
\forcelinebreak Once for all on the day
\forcelinebreak When I learned he had given
\forcelinebreak His heart to Schirin
\forcelinebreak Surely I have no treasure
\forcelinebreak Yet am I richly satisfied
\forcelinebreak God has given that to the Shah
\forcelinebreak And this to the beggar
\forcelinebreak The bride of the world is truly
\forcelinebreak Outwardly richly dressed
\forcelinebreak Who enjoys her must give
\forcelinebreak His soul for a dowry.
\forcelinebreak At the cedar’s foot by the brook
\forcelinebreak Lift I freer my hands
\forcelinebreak When now the blowing of the East
\forcelinebreak Gives tidings of May


Hafiz


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\section{Drink, Hear My Counsel, My Son, That the World Fret Thee}


not
\forcelinebreak Drink, hear my counsel, my son, that the world fret thee
\forcelinebreak not.
\forcelinebreak Tho’ the heart bleed, let thy lips laugh, like the wine cup:
\forcelinebreak Is thy soul hurt, yet dance with the viol-strings:
\forcelinebreak Thou learnest no secret, untl thou knowest friendship,
\forcelinebreak Since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge comes in.


Hafiz


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\section{Ruler After Word \& Thought}


Ruler after word \& thought
\forcelinebreak Which no eye yet saw
\forcelinebreak Which no ear yet heard
\forcelinebreak Remain, until thy young destiny
\forcelinebreak From the old greybeard of the sky
\forcelinebreak His blue coat takes.


Hafiz


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\section{O Follow the Sonnet’s Flight}


O follow the sonnet’s flight
\forcelinebreak Thou seest a fleet career
\forcelinebreak A child begot in a night
\forcelinebreak That travels a thousand year


Hafiz


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\section{O Hafiz, Give Me Thought}


O Hafiz, give me thought
\forcelinebreak In fiery figures cast;
\forcelinebreak For all beside is naught, —
\forcelinebreak All else is din \& blast.


Hafiz


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\section{In Thy Holiday of Life}


In thy holiday of life,
\forcelinebreak Use occasion, work \& climb,
\forcelinebreak The sepulchre has overmuch
\forcelinebreak Unprofitable time.


Hafiz


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\section{The Roguish Wind and I}


The roguish wind and I
\forcelinebreak Are truly an amorous pair;
\forcelinebreak Me burns the sparkle of thine eye,
\forcelinebreak He fans thy scented hair.


Hafiz


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\section{The Treacherous Wind Pipes a Lewd Song}


The treacherous wind pipes a lewd song,
\forcelinebreak Makes saints perverse, \& angels bad;
\forcelinebreak Shall we sit \& see such wrong,
\forcelinebreak And not cry out like mad!
\forcelinebreak Fie! what flute pants in the North?
\forcelinebreak What viol in the west?
\forcelinebreak Steals Virtue not from men of worth?
\forcelinebreak Corrupts he not the best?
\forcelinebreak Shall this pass in silence by?
\forcelinebreak Shall we not make hue \& cry?


Hafiz


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\section{We Would Do Nought but Good}


We would do nought but good,
\forcelinebreak Else shall dishonor come
\forcelinebreak On the day when the flying soul
\forcelinebreak Hies backward to its home.


Hafiz


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\section{Lo! Where From Heaven’s High Roof}


Lo! where from Heaven’s high roof
\forcelinebreak Misfortune staggers down;
\forcelinebreak We, just from harm to stand aloof,
\forcelinebreak Will to the wineshop run.


Hafiz


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\section{Drink Wine, and the Heaven}


Drink wine, and the heaven
\forcelinebreak New lustre diffuses,
\forcelinebreak And doubt not that sinning
\forcelinebreak Has also its uses.


The builder of Heaven
\forcelinebreak Has sundered the earth,
\forcelinebreak So that no footway
\forcelinebreak Leads out of it forth:


On turnpikes of wonder
\forcelinebreak Wine leads the mind forth,
\forcelinebreak Straight, sidewise \& upward
\forcelinebreak Southward and north.


Stands the vault adamantine
\forcelinebreak Until the last day;
\forcelinebreak The wine-cup shall ferry
\forcelinebreak Thee o’er it away.


Hafiz


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\section{A Stately Bride is the Shining World}


A stately bride is the shining world,
\forcelinebreak Yet none can woo that maid to wife.


Hafiz


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\section{Who Ever Suffered as I From Separation?}


Who ever suffered as I from separation?
\forcelinebreak Oh! will punish separation by separation.


Hafiz


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\section{I Shall Go From My Sickbed to Heaven}


I shall go from my sickbed to heaven
\forcelinebreak If, on my last march, thou holdest a torch for me
\forcelinebreak The wind-borne dust is heavy from thy attraction
\forcelinebreak Think on me, I am an older servant.
\forcelinebreak Not every poet sings inspired songs
\forcelinebreak My sly falcon grasps firmly the partridge of song.
\forcelinebreak Believest me not? Go ask the pictures of Sina
\forcelinebreak Whether Mani did not wish a stroke from my ink?
\forcelinebreak The nightingale says, Up cupbearer, good morning,
\forcelinebreak Still rings in my head the lute-tone of yesterday,
\forcelinebreak Ask not Hafiz, ask me, of revelry \& love,
\forcelinebreak Since flask \& cups are to me the moon \& pleiads.


Hafiz


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\section{See \& Hear the Fraud, the Malice of the Change of Fortune}


See \& hear the fraud, the malice of the change of fortune,
\forcelinebreak Every eye is blind, every ear is deaf.
\forcelinebreak Many whom the sun \& the moon had served for a bolster
\forcelinebreak Lay down their head at last in ashes \& dust.
\forcelinebreak Will thy thumb-ring span the bow of Fate?
\forcelinebreak Will a shield ward off the strokes of Destiny?
\forcelinebreak Though thou screen thyself with iron walls, \& brazen gates,
\forcelinebreak Ever the hand of your Fate crashes in.
\forcelinebreak Never mind the trembling light in the lamp of life,
\forcelinebreak Night follows on light, sugar only conceals poison.


Hafiz


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\section{Who Loves His Friend With His Heart of Hearts}


Who loves his friend with his heart of hearts
\forcelinebreak Bends not his head though the sky rain darts,
\forcelinebreak O, our lifetime wastes to no lofty end
\forcelinebreak Till the hero is matched with an equal friend.
\forcelinebreak Poison from the hand of my love were food,
\forcelinebreak The sweet \& the bane do the heart good.
\forcelinebreak Knowst thou shy Saadi sits ever alone?
\forcelinebreak Because he cannot part from the darling one.


Saadi


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\section{Had I the World for My Enemy}


Had I the world for my enemy
\forcelinebreak Yet kept the treasure of a true friend,
\forcelinebreak Never should I ask whether things were
\forcelinebreak Or were not, in this world.
\forcelinebreak A ship on the high seas
\forcelinebreak Doth the state of a lover resemble.
\forcelinebreak Overboard cast they the cargo
\forcelinebreak If so they can save their lives.


Saadi


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\section{Salve Senescentem}


Saadi’s poem on Old Age


Now is the time when weakness comes, — \& strength goes
\forcelinebreak The magic of sweet words — I lose
\forcelinebreak The harvest wind cuts keen: the tender sheen and shade
\forcelinebreak And pink \& purple light upon thy garland fade
\forcelinebreak To my foot fails the power — of manly stride in streets;
\forcelinebreak Happy he who soonest to his orchard hut — retreats.
\forcelinebreak Saadi’s whole power lies — in sweet words
\forcelinebreak Keep this all the rest may go to beast \& birds


Saadi


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\section{The Pain of Love’s a Better Fate}


The pain of love’s a better fate
\forcelinebreak Than the body’s best estate.


Saadi


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\section{In Senahar, My First Born Sleeps}


In Senahar, my first born sleeps;
\forcelinebreak Stunned with the blow, poor Saadi weeps;
\forcelinebreak Tho’ youth more fresh than Jussuf blooms,
\forcelinebreak The charnelworm his cheek consumes.
\forcelinebreak Where is the palm, star-topped, earth-footed,
\forcelinebreak Which the brute storm has not uprooted?
\forcelinebreak I muttered,— “Perish God on high,
\forcelinebreak Since pure youth dies as greybeards die!”
\forcelinebreak I staggered to my darling’s tomb,
\forcelinebreak And tore the sealed stone therefrom,
\forcelinebreak Then frantic, tottering, void of wit,
\forcelinebreak Groped down into that marble pit.
\forcelinebreak When grief was spent, \& reason came,
\forcelinebreak Methought I heard my son exclaim
\forcelinebreak ‘If my dark house thy heart affright
\forcelinebreak ‘Saadi strive upwards to the light
\forcelinebreak ‘Wilt thou give graves the blaze of noon
\forcelinebreak ‘High hearts can work that wonder soon
\forcelinebreak The crowd believe that harvests grow
\forcelinebreak Where never man did barley sow.
\forcelinebreak But Saadi saw the fruit enchanted
\forcelinebreak By bending sower truly planted.


Saadi


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\section{Unbar the Door, Since Thou the Opener Art}


Unbar the door, since thou the Opener art,
\forcelinebreak Show me the forward way, since thou art guide,
\forcelinebreak I put no faith in pilot or in chart,
\forcelinebreak Since they are transient, \& thou dost abide.


Omar Khayyam


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\section{For Two Rewards, \& Nought Beside}


For two rewards, \& nought beside,
\forcelinebreak A prudent man the world would ride;
\forcelinebreak His friend with benefits to crown,
\forcelinebreak And put his adversary down.


Ibn Jemin


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\section{Shah Sandschar, Whose Lowest Slave}


Shah Sandschar, whose lowest slave
\forcelinebreak Is on this earth a king;
\forcelinebreak The mole of his despotic command
\forcelinebreak Adorns men \& daemons.
\forcelinebreak When his wrath burns on earth,
\forcelinebreak Nothing in heaven is secure.
\forcelinebreak Looks he on the world with power,
\forcelinebreak Life mounts in it.
\forcelinebreak Where his name is named,
\forcelinebreak Is the love of gold unknown.
\forcelinebreak Death, out of fear of him, clatters his dry bones.
\forcelinebreak The deep-hid secret is discovered by thy wit;
\forcelinebreak Unrest is stilled by thee, unrest which know no limits.
\forcelinebreak When thy wrath glowed
\forcelinebreak The wolves become tame in the wood,
\forcelinebreak The world would not stand, if thy foot held it not firm,
\forcelinebreak In the desart, his breath restores the equipoise of the air.
\forcelinebreak The Lion of the Zodiack is a picture of the lions of his
\forcelinebreak banner.
\forcelinebreak Hope leads his light bridle,
\forcelinebreak His heavy stirrup leads death.
\forcelinebreak Ambush of destiny lies
\forcelinebreak For all, behind his arrow.
\forcelinebreak When his bow moves,
\forcelinebreak It is already the Last Day.
\forcelinebreak Whom his onset marks out,
\forcelinebreak To him is life not appointed:
\forcelinebreak And the ghost of the Holy Ghost


Were not sure of its time.
\forcelinebreak None holds himself once firm in the stirrup, save Victory.
\forcelinebreak A hundred conquerors heaven strikes dead
\forcelinebreak Before thee, as thy right.
\forcelinebreak O Lord, take him into thy pay. It is his only wish.
\forcelinebreak Is he not of thy circle? Stands he yet at thy door?
\forcelinebreak Buy him, ere thou yet knowest him,
\forcelinebreak Or instantly his price will rise.
\forcelinebreak Once every ten years let him kiss thy hand,
\forcelinebreak Only one day let him stand in thy Forecourts.


Suffer in thy lands, o Shah! a poet, tho’ rough \& rude,
\forcelinebreak But in thy praise is he finer than a hair.
\forcelinebreak Steadily so long as the tongue speaks, sounds thy name in
\forcelinebreak prayer.
\forcelinebreak As long as there is gold, will thy name be coined on it.
\forcelinebreak Of thee, Time stands in need, as Space stands in need of
\forcelinebreak Time;
\forcelinebreak So long as men give \& take, Thou shalt give \& take
\forcelinebreak lordship.
\forcelinebreak Rule thou forever, so will rule subsist.


Enweri


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\section{Wilt Thou Life’s Best Elixir Drain?}


Wilt thou life’s best elixir drain?
\forcelinebreak Be lowliest of the lowly found;
\forcelinebreak The sweetest drop of the sugar-cane
\forcelinebreak Grows nearest to the ground.


Feisi


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\section{The Soul}


I am the falcon of the spirit world,
\forcelinebreak Escaped out of highest heaven
\forcelinebreak Who out of desire of the hunt,
\forcelinebreak Am fallen into earthly form
\forcelinebreak Of the Mount Kaf am I the Simorg,
\forcelinebreak Whom the net of Being holds imprisoned
\forcelinebreak Of Paradise am I the Peacock,
\forcelinebreak Who has escaped from his nest.


(Persian)


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\section{Teach Your Child to Earn His Meal}


Teach your child to earn his meal,
\forcelinebreak Or you bring him up to steal.


Jean Chardin


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\section{Only Three Things Lengthen Life}


Only three things lengthen life, —
\forcelinebreak Fine clothes, fine house, \& comely wife.


Jean Chardin


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\section{For Pearls, Plunge in the Sea}


For pearls, plunge in the sea
\forcelinebreak For greatness, wake all night


Jean Chardin


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\section{Arabian Ballad}


1 — Under the rock on the trail
\forcelinebreak He lies slain
\forcelinebreak Into whose blood
\forcelinebreak No dew falls


2 A great load laid he on me
\forcelinebreak And died;
\forcelinebreak God knows, this load
\forcelinebreak Will I lift.


2 — Heir of my revenge
\forcelinebreak Is my sister’s son,
\forcelinebreak The warlike,
\forcelinebreak The irreconcileable.


4 Mute sweats he poison,
\forcelinebreak As the otter sweats;
\forcelinebreak As the snake breathes venom
\forcelinebreak Against which no enchantment avails


3 — The stern message came to us
\forcelinebreak Of the heavy woe;
\forcelinebreak The stoutest had they
\forcelinebreak Overpowered.


6 Me had Destiny plundered
\forcelinebreak Striking down my friend,
\forcelinebreak Whose dearest friend
\forcelinebreak Was left unhurt.


4 — Sunshine was he
\forcelinebreak On the cold day,
\forcelinebreak And when the dogstar burned
\forcelinebreak He was shade \& coolness.


5 — Dry were his hips
\forcelinebreak Not slow;
\forcelinebreak Moist his hand,
\forcelinebreak Bold \& strong.


9 With firm mind
\forcelinebreak Followed he his aim
\forcelinebreak Until he rested,
\forcelinebreak Then rested also the firm mind.


10 The rain cloud was he
\forcelinebreak Imparting gifts;
\forcelinebreak And, when he attacked,
\forcelinebreak The terrible lion.


11 Stately before men,
\forcelinebreak Black haired, long-robed,
\forcelinebreak When rushing on the foe
\forcelinebreak A lean wolf.


6 — Two cups offered he,
\forcelinebreak Honey and wormwood;
\forcelinebreak Fare of such kind
\forcelinebreak Tasted each.


7 — Terrible rode he alone;
\forcelinebreak No man accompanied him;
\forcelinebreak Like the sword of Yemen,
\forcelinebreak With teeth adorned.


8 — At noon we young men set forth
\forcelinebreak On the war trail
\forcelinebreak Rode all night
\forcelinebreak Like sweeping clouds without rest


9 — Every one was a sword
\forcelinebreak Girt with a sword;
\forcelinebreak Out of the sheath drawn
\forcelinebreak A glancing lightning


10 — They sipped the spirit of sleep,
\forcelinebreak But, when they nodded their heads,
\forcelinebreak We smote them,
\forcelinebreak And they were away


11 — Our vengeance was complete.
\forcelinebreak There escaped of two tribes
\forcelinebreak Quite little,
\forcelinebreak The least.


12 — And when the Hudselite
\forcelinebreak Had broken his lance to kill his man
\forcelinebreak The man with his lance
\forcelinebreak Slew the Hudselite.


19 On a rough resting place
\forcelinebreak They laid him, —
\forcelinebreak On a sharp rock, where the very camels
\forcelinebreak Broke their paws.


13 — When the morning greeted him there,
\forcelinebreak The murdered, on the grim place,
\forcelinebreak Was he robbed,
\forcelinebreak The booty carried away.


14 — But now are murdered by me
\forcelinebreak The Hudseleites with deep wounds;
\forcelinebreak Pity makes me not unhappy
\forcelinebreak Itself is murdered.


15 — The spear’s thirst was assuaged
\forcelinebreak With the first drink;
\forcelinebreak To it was not denied
\forcelinebreak Repeated drinks.


23 Now is wine again permitted
\forcelinebreak Which first was forbidden:
\forcelinebreak With much toil
\forcelinebreak I won this permission.


16 — To sword \& spear,
\forcelinebreak And to horse, gave I
\forcelinebreak This favor,
\forcelinebreak Which is now the good of all.


25 Reach then the bowl,
\forcelinebreak O Sawab Ben Amre!
\forcelinebreak Since my body, at the command of my uncle
\forcelinebreak Is now one great wound.


17 — And the cup of death
\forcelinebreak Reached we to the Hudseleites
\forcelinebreak Whose working is wo,
\forcelinebreak Blindness, \& ruin.


18 — Then laughed the hyenas
\forcelinebreak At the death of the Hudseleites;
\forcelinebreak And thou sawest the wolves
\forcelinebreak Whose faces shone.


19 — The noblest vultures flew thither
\forcelinebreak They stepped from corpse to corpse
\forcelinebreak And from the richly prepared feast
\forcelinebreak They could not rise into the air.


Goethe


\begin{itemize}
\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc755}{Chronological List of Poems}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc764}{Alphabetical List of Poems}




\end{itemize}
\section{Fortune and Hope! I’ve Made My Port}


Fortune and Hope! I’ve made my port,
\forcelinebreak Farewell ye twin deceivers!
\forcelinebreak You’ve trained me many a weary chase,
\forcelinebreak Go cozen new believers.


Prudentius


\begin{itemize}
\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc755}{Chronological List of Poems}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc764}{Alphabetical List of Poems}




\end{itemize}


\bigskip

\chapter{List of Poems in Chronological Order}



\bigskip


\begin{itemize}
\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc756}{Poems of Youth and Early Manhood}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc757}{Poems, 1847}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc758}{May-Day and Other Pieces}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc759}{Elements and Mottoes}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc760}{Quatrains}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc761}{Fragments}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc762}{Uncollected Poems}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc763}{Translations}




\end{itemize}


\bigskip

\section{Poems of Youth and Early Manhood}


\begin{itemize}
\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc5}{The Bell}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc6}{Thought}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc7}{Prayer}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc8}{Cambridge, 1827.}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc9}{To-day}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc10}{Fame}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc11}{The Summons}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc12}{The River}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc13}{Good Hope}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc14}{Lines to Ellen}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc15}{Security}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc16}{A Mountain Grave}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc17}{A Letter}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc18}{Chardon St., Boston, 1831.}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc19}{Hymn}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc20}{Self-reliance}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc21}{Written in Naples}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc22}{Written at Rome}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc23}{Webster}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc24}{From the Phi Beta Kappa Poem}




\end{itemize}
\section{Poems, 1847}


\begin{itemize}
\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc26}{Good-bye}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc27}{Each and All}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc28}{The Problem}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc29}{To Rhea}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc30}{The Visit}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc31}{Uriel}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc32}{The World-soul}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc33}{The Sphinx}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc34}{Alphonso of Castile}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc35}{Mithridates}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc36}{To J.W.}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc37}{Destiny}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc38}{Guy}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc39}{Hamatreya}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc40}{Earth-song}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc41}{The Rhodora: on Being Asked, Whence is the Flower?}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc42}{The Humble-bee}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc43}{Berrying}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc44}{The Snow-storm}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc45}{Woodnotes I}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc46}{Woodnotes II}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc47}{Monadnoc}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc48}{Fable}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc49}{Ode Inscribed to W.H. Channing}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc50}{Astraea}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc51}{Étienne De La Boéce}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc52}{Compensation}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc53}{Forbearance}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc54}{The Park}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc55}{Forerunners}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc56}{Sursum Corda}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc57}{Ode to Beauty}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc58}{Give All to Love}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc59}{To Ellen at the South}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc60}{To Ellen}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc61}{To Eva}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc62}{Lines written by Ellen Louisa Tucker shortly before her marriage to Mr. Emerson}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc63}{The Violet}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc64}{The Amulet}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc65}{Thine Eyes Still Shined}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc66}{Eros}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc67}{Hermione}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc68}{Initial, Daemonic and Celestial Love}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc69}{The Apology}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc70}{Merlin I}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc71}{Merlin II}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc72}{Bacchus}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc73}{Merops}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc74}{The House}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc75}{Saadi}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc76}{Holidays}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc77}{Xenophanes}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc78}{The Day’s Ration}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc79}{Blight}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc80}{Musketaquid}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc81}{Dirge}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc82}{Threnody}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc83}{Concord Hymn}




\end{itemize}
\section{May-Day and Other Pieces}


\begin{itemize}
\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc85}{May-day}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc86}{The Adirondacs}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc87}{Brahma}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc88}{Nemesis}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc89}{Fate}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc90}{Freedom}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc91}{Ode Sung in the Town Hall, Concord, July 4, 1857}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc92}{Boston Hymn Read in Music Hall, January 1, 1863}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc93}{Voluntaries}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc94}{Love and Thought}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc95}{Una}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc96}{Boston}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc97}{Letters}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc98}{Rubies}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc99}{Merlin’s Song}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc100}{The Test}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc101}{Solution}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc102}{Hymn Sung at the Second Church, at the Ordination of Rev. Chandler Robbins}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc103}{Nature I}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc104}{Nature II}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc105}{The Romany Girl}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc106}{Days}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc107}{My Garden}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc108}{The Chartist’s Complaint}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc109}{The Titmouse}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc110}{The Harp}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc111}{Seashore}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc112}{Song of Nature}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc113}{Two Rivers}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc114}{Waldeinsamkeit}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc115}{Terminus}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc116}{The Nun’s Aspiration}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc117}{April}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc118}{Maiden Speech of the Aeolian Harp}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc119}{Cupido}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc120}{The Past}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc121}{The Last Farewell}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc122}{In Memoriam E. B. E.}




\end{itemize}
\section{Elements and Mottoes}


\begin{itemize}
\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc124}{Experience}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc125}{Compensation}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc126}{Politics}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc127}{Heroism}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc128}{Character}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc129}{Culture}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc130}{Friendship}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc131}{Spiritual Laws}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc132}{Beauty}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc133}{Manners}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc134}{Art}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc135}{Unity}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc136}{Worship}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc137}{Prudence}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc138}{Nature}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc139}{The Informing Spirit}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc140}{Circles}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc141}{Intellect}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc142}{Gifts}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc143}{Promise}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc144}{Caritas}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc145}{Power}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc146}{Wealth}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc147}{Illusions}




\end{itemize}
\section{Quatrains}


\begin{itemize}
\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc149}{A.H.}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc150}{Hush!}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc151}{Orator}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc152}{Artist}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc153}{Poet}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc154}{Poet}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc155}{Botanist}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc156}{Gardener}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc157}{Forester}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc158}{Northman}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc159}{From Alcuin}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc160}{Excelsior}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc161}{S.H.}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc162}{Borrowing From the French}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc163}{Nature}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc164}{Fate}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc165}{Horoscope}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc166}{Power}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc167}{Climacteric}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc168}{Heri, Cras, Hodie}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc169}{Memory}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc170}{Love}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc171}{Sacrifice}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc172}{Pericles}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc173}{Casella}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc174}{Shakspeare}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc175}{Hafiz}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc176}{Nature in Leasts}




\end{itemize}
\section{Fragments}


\begin{itemize}
\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc178}{The Poet}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc179}{Fragments on the Poet and the Poetic Gift}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc180}{Fragments on Nature and Life}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc181}{The Earth}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc182}{The Heavens}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc183}{Transition}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc184}{The Garden}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc185}{Birds}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc186}{Water}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc187}{Nahant}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc188}{Sunrise}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc189}{Night in June}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc190}{Maia}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc191}{Life}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc192}{Rex}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc193}{Suum Cuique}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc194}{The Bohemian Hymn}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc195}{Grace}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc196}{Insight}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc197}{Pan}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc198}{Monadnoc From Afar}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc199}{September}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc200}{Eros}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc201}{October}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc202}{Peter’s Field}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc203}{Music}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc204}{The Walk}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc205}{Cosmos}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc206}{The Miracle}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc207}{The Waterfall}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc208}{Walden}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc209}{The Enchanter}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc210}{Written in a Volume of Goethe}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc211}{Riches}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc212}{Philosopher}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc213}{Intellect}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc214}{Limits}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc215}{Inscription for a Well in Memory of the Martyrs of the War}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc216}{The Exile (After Taliessin)}




\end{itemize}
\section{Uncollected Poems}


\begin{itemize}
\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc218}{Silence}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc219}{Fame}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc220}{I Am Owner of the Sphere}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc221}{William Rufus and the Jew}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc222}{Grace}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc223}{The Three Dimensions}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc224}{Motto to “The Poet.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc225}{Motto to “Gifts.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc226}{Mottoes to “History.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc227}{Motto to “Nature.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc228}{Motto to “Circles.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc229}{Motto to “Nominalist and Realist.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc230}{My Thoughts}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc231}{Motto to “Prudence.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc232}{Motto to “Intellect.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc233}{Motto to “Nature.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc234}{Motto to “Considerations by the Way.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc235}{Motto to “New England Reformers.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc236}{Motto to “Fate.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc237}{Motto to “Power.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc238}{Motto to “Illusions.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc239}{The Cup of Life is Not So Shallow}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc240}{Where is Skrymir? Giant Skrymir?}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc241}{South Wind}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc242}{There Are Beggars in Iran and Araby}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc243}{Quoth Saadi, When I Stood Before}




\end{itemize}
\section{Translations}


\begin{itemize}
\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc245}{Dante’s Vita Nuova}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc246}{Sonnet of Michel Angelo Buonarotti}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc247}{The Exile From the Persian of Kermani}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc248}{From Hafiz}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc249}{Epitaph}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc250}{Friendship}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc251}{From Omar Khayyam}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc252}{From Ali Ben Abu Taleb}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc253}{From Ibn Jemin}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc254}{The Flute From Hilali}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc255}{To the Shah From Hafiz}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc256}{To the Shah From Enweri}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc257}{To the Shah From Enweri}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc258}{Song of Seyd Nimetollah of Kuhistan}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc259}{The Principle of All Things; Entrails Made}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc260}{The Secret That Should Not Be Blown}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc261}{On Earth’s Wide Thoroughfares Below}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc262}{Sunshine Was He}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc263}{Go Boldly Forth, and Feast on Being’s Banquet}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc264}{Color, Taste, and Smell, Smaragdus, Sugar, and Musk}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc265}{Loose the Knots of the Heart; Never Think on Thy Fate}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc266}{There Resides in the Grieving}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc267}{I Will Be Drunk and Down With Wine}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc268}{To Be Wise the Dull Brain So Earnestly Throbs}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc269}{The Builder of Heaven}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc270}{I Batter the Wheel of Heaven}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc271}{Tis Writ on Paradise’s Gate}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc272}{The World is a Bride Superbly Dressed}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc273}{I Am: What I Am}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc274}{What Lovelier Forms Things Wear}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc275}{Take My Heart in Thy Hand, O Beautiful Boy of Schiraz!}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc276}{Out of the East, and Out of the West, No Man Understands Me}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc277}{Fit for the Pleiads’ Azure Chord}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc278}{I Have No Hoarded Treasure}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc279}{High Heart, O Hafiz! Though Not Thine}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc280}{O Hafiz! Speak Not of Thy Need}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc281}{Oft Have I Said, I Say It Once More}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc282}{The Phoenix}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc283}{By Breath of Beds of Roses Drawn}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc284}{All Day the Rain}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc285}{O’er the Garden Water Goes the Wind Alone}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc286}{Whilst I Disdain the Populace}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc287}{A Friend is He, Who, Hunted as a Foe}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc288}{The Chemist of Love}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc289}{And Since Round Lines Are Drawn}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc290}{Ah, Could I Hide Me in My Song}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc291}{Fair Fall Thy Soft Heart}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc292}{They Strew in the Path of Kings and Czars}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc293}{I Know This Perilous Love-lane}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc294}{Plunge in Yon Angry’ Waves}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc295}{While Roses Bloomed Along the Plain}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc296}{Body and Soul}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc297}{I Read on the Porch of a Palace Bold}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc298}{The Eternal Watcher, Who Doth Wake}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc299}{Poem From “Bird Conversations.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc300}{Tis Heavy Odds}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc301}{At the Last Day, Men Shall Wear}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc302}{Fooled Thou Must Be, Though Wisest of the Wise}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc303}{Alms}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc304}{No. 13 Hymn Written in Concord Sept. 1814}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc305}{On the Death of Mr. John Haskins}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc306}{Lines on the Death of Miss. M. B. Farnham}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc307}{Poem on Eloquence by R. W. Emerson}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc308}{Original— “Apropos.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc309}{William Does Thy Frigid Soul}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc310}{Song: Shout for Those Whose Course is Done}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc311}{Perhaps Thy Lot in Life is Higher}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc312}{Valedictory Poem}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc313}{From Frodmer’s Drama “The Friends.”}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc314}{Dedication}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc315}{Idealism}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc316}{I Spread My Gorgeous Sail}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc317}{A Shout to the Shepherds}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc318}{I Wear No Badge; No Tinsel Star}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc319}{I Rake No Coffined Clay, Nor Publish Wide}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc320}{O What Have I to Do}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc321}{Have Ye Seen the Caterpillar}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc322}{The Panoply of Paradise is Mine}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc323}{No Fate, Save by the Victim’s Fault, is Low}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc324}{When Success Exalts Thy Lot}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc325}{The Spirits of the Wise, Sit on the Clouds}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc326}{Let Not Conceited Sages Laugh Aloud}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc327}{My Days Roll by Me Like a Train of Dreams}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc328}{One Hand Washes the Other}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc329}{Whoso Alas is Young}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc330}{When Thy Soul}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc331}{The Blackbird’s Song the Blackbird’s Song}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc332}{I Am an Exile From My Home; Heavily}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc333}{St. Augustine}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc334}{Awed I Behold Once More}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc335}{An Ancient Lady Who Dwelt in Rome}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc336}{Be of Good Cheer, Brave Spirit; Steadfastly}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc337}{The Winds Are Cold, the Days Are Dark}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc338}{Written in Sickness}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc339}{Oil \& Wine}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc340}{All That Thy Virgin Soul Can Ask Be Thine}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc341}{That Wandering Fire to Me Appears}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc342}{Though Her Eye Seek Other Forms}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc343}{Dear Ellen, Many a Golden Year}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc344}{I Call Her Beautiful; — She Says}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc345}{I’ve Found the Dainty Malice Out}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc346}{And Do I Waste My Time}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc347}{And Though He Dearly Prized the Bards of Fame}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc348}{And Ellen, When the Greybeard Years}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc349}{The Brave Empedocles Defying Fools}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc350}{Dear Brother, Would You Know the Life}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc351}{Dost Thou Not Hear Me Ellen}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc352}{Teach Me I Am Forgotten by the Dead}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc353}{Why Should I Live}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc354}{Shall the Muse Sing for Thousands \& Not Sing}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc355}{What From This Barren Being Do We Reap}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc356}{Dust Unto Dust! And Shall No More Be Said}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc357}{The Days Pass Over Me}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc358}{Why Fear to Die}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc359}{I Am Alone. Sad is My Solitude}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc360}{On Thee Has God Conferred}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc361}{All the Great \& Good}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc362}{Seemed to Me — Never Maid}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc363}{Where Art Thou}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc364}{I Live Among Ideal Men}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc365}{What Avails It Me}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc366}{She Never Comes to Me}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc367}{Leave Me, Fear! Thy Throbs Are Base}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc368}{If Thou Canst Bear}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc369}{A Dull Uncertain Brain}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc370}{There is in All the Sons of Men}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc371}{I Will Not Live Out of Me}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc372}{Hard is it to persuade the public mind of its plain duty \& true interest}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc373}{Always Day \& Night}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc374}{Hearst Thou, Sweet Spirit, Thou Hast Heard Before}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc375}{None Spares Another Yet It Pleases Me}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc376}{Written in Naples, March, 1833}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc377}{What is It to Sail}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc378}{Alone in Rome! Why Rome is Lonely Too}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc379}{At Sea, September 1833}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc380}{I Will Not Hesitate to Speak the Word}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc381}{The Sun is the Sole Inconsumable Fire}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc382}{Poem, Spoken Before the Society, August, 1834}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc383}{O What is Heaven but the Fellowship}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc384}{Ah Strange Strange Strange}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc385}{See Yonder Leafless Trees Against the Sky}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc386}{Do That Which You Can Do}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc387}{Few Are Free}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc388}{Van Buren}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc389}{The Future}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc390}{Rex}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc391}{Written in a Volume of Goethe}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc392}{I Left My Dreamy Page \& Sallied Forth}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc393}{S. R.}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc394}{Philosophers Are Lined With Eyes Within}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc395}{The Simple People Each With Basket or Tool}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc396}{On Bravely Through the Sunshine \& the Showers}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc397}{Let Me Go Where E’er I Will}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc398}{And When I Am Entombed in My Place}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc399}{Bard or Dunce is Blest, but Hard}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc400}{It Takes Philosopher or Fool}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc401}{Tell Men What They Knew Before}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc402}{I Use the Knife}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc403}{There is No Evil but Can Speak}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc404}{The Sea Reflects the Rosy Sky}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc405}{In This Sour World, O Summerwind}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc406}{Look Danger in the Eye It Vanishes}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc407}{As I Walked in the Wood}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc408}{I Sat Upon the Ground}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc409}{Good Charles the Springs Adorer}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc410}{Around the Man Who Seeks a Noble End}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc411}{In the Deep Heart of Man a Poet Dwells}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc412}{O What Are Heroes Prophets Men}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc413}{Yet Sometime to the Sorrow Stricken}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc414}{When Thou Sittest Moping}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc415}{Woods}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc416}{I Have Supped With the Gods Tonight}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc417}{Once the Priest}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc418}{Natures Web Star Broidered}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc419}{For That a Man is a Mark}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc420}{The Bohemian Hymn}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc421}{Kind \& Holy Were the Words}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc422}{Bluebeard. Let the Gentle Wife Prepare}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc423}{Divine Inviters! I Accept}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc424}{Go if Thou Wilt Ambrosial Flower}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc425}{In Walden Wood the Chickadee}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc426}{Star Seer Copernicus}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc427}{At Last the Poet Spoke}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc428}{The Discontented Poet: a Masque}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc429}{Love}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc430}{Hold of the Maker, Not the Made}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc431}{He Walked the Streets of Great New York}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc432}{The Archangel Hope}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc433}{Atom From Atom Yawns as Far}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc434}{I Grieve That Better Souls Than Mine}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc435}{Nantasket}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc436}{Water}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc437}{Where the Fungus Broad \& Red}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc438}{The Skeptic}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc439}{When Jane Was Absent Edgar’s Eye}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc440}{I Have Found a Nobler Love}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc441}{Fine Presentiments Controlled Him}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc442}{We Sauntered Amidst Miracles}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc443}{This World is Tedious}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc444}{What Are All the Flowers}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc445}{A Pair of Crystal Eyes Will Lead Me}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc446}{Knows He Who Tills This Lonely Field}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc447}{Far Seen the River Glides Below}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc448}{From the Stores of Eldest Matter}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc449}{And the Best Gift of God}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc450}{Stout Sparta Shrined the God of Laughter}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc451}{Brother, No Decrepitude}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc452}{Who Knows This or That}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc453}{Saadi Loved the New \& Old}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc454}{But if Thou Do Thy Best}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc455}{An Ancient Drop of Feudal Blood}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc456}{These Trees Like Tho’ts That to Visions Congeal}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc457}{Vain Against Him Were Hostile Blows}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc458}{Like Vaulters in the Circus Round}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc459}{If He Go Apart}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc460}{Nature Will Not Lose}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc461}{The Crowning Hour When Bodies Vie With Souls}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc462}{And as the Light Divided the Dark}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc463}{When Devils Bite}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc464}{Comfort With a Purring Cat}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc465}{I Cannot Find a Place So Lonely}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc466}{He Whom God Had Thus Preferred}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc467}{Bended to Fops Who Bent to Him}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc468}{On That Night the Poet Went}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc469}{Ye Have Grace}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc470}{The Dervish Whined to Said}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc471}{Life is Great}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc472}{The Husband Has the Nearest Acres}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc473}{From a Far Mountain Creeping Down}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc474}{In Dreamy Woods, What Forms Abound}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc475}{But O to See His Solar Eyes}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc476}{Who Saw the Hid Beginnings}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc477}{What Never Was Not, \& Still Will Be}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc478}{Enough is Done Highminded Friend Go Sleep}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc479}{Thou Shalt Make Thy House}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc480}{The Gods Walk in the Breath of the Woods}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc481}{Would You Know What Joy is Hid}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc482}{Tell Me Maiden Dost Thou Use}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc483}{I Have No Brothers \& No Peers}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc484}{Solar Insect on the Wing}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc485}{And Man of Wit \& Mark}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc486}{I Know the Appointed Hour}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc487}{You Shall Not Love Me for What Daily Spends}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc488}{Nor When in Fair Saloons We Chance to Meet}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc489}{Elizabeth Hoar}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc490}{Each Day a Solid Good; Never Mistook}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc491}{Proteus}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc492}{To Every Creature}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc493}{Cloud Upon Cloud}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc494}{Since the Devil Hopping on}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc495}{Samson Stark at Dagon’s Knee}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc496}{Pour the Wine! Pour the Wine!}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc497}{Heartily Heartily}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc498}{Poets Are Colorpots}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc499}{Thanks to Those Who Go \& Come}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc500}{Is Jove Immortal}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc501}{Heartily Heartily Sing}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc502}{Thank the Gods Thy Governors}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc503}{If Thy Body Pine}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc504}{Scholar is a Ball Thats Spent}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc505}{Ask Not Treasures From His Store}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc506}{King. If Farmers Make My Land Secure}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc507}{Intellect}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc508}{Chladni Strewed on Glass the Sand}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc509}{I Must Not Borrow Light}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc510}{Go Into the Garden}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc511}{But as This Fugitive Sunlight}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc512}{Comrade of the Snow \& Wind}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc513}{God Only Knew How Saadi Dined}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc514}{Friends to Me Are Frozen Wine}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc515}{That Each Should in His House Abide}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc516}{New England Capitalist}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc517}{On a Raisin Stone}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc518}{Go Out Into Nature and Plant Trees}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc519}{But God Will Keep His Promise Yet}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc520}{Poet of Poets}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc521}{See the Spheres Rushing}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc522}{The Patient Pan}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc523}{To Transmute Crime to Wisdom, \& to Stem}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc524}{Pale Genius Roves Alone}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc525}{Burn Your Literary Verses}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc526}{Intellect}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc527}{What All the Books of Ages Paint, I Have}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc528}{The Civil World Will Much Forgive}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc529}{Mask Thy Wisdom With Delight}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc530}{Roomy Eternity}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc531}{Dark Flower of Cheshire Garden}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc532}{Terminus}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc533}{I to My Garden Went}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc534}{More Sweet Than My Refrain}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc535}{Wisp \& Meteor Nightly Falling}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc536}{God the Lord Save Massachusetts}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc537}{A Poet is at Home}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc538}{O Boston City Lecture-hearing}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc539}{A Patch of Meadow \& Upland}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc540}{And He Like Me is Not Too Proud}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc541}{Parks \& Ponds Are Good by Day}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc542}{Cloud Upon Cloud}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc543}{For Lyra Yet Shall Be the Pole}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc544}{A Score of Airy Miles Will Smooth}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc545}{All Things Rehearse}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc546}{Webster}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc547}{The Atom Displaces All Atoms Beside}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc548}{I Have an Arrow That Can Find Its Mark}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc549}{From High to Higher Forces}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc550}{All Day the Waves Assailed the Rock}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc551}{Honor Bright O Muse}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc552}{Such Another Peerless Queen}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc553}{See How Romance Adheres}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc554}{With the Key of the Secret He Marches Faster}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc555}{For What Need I of Book or Priest}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc556}{And Rival Coxcombs With Enamored Stare}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc557}{For Joy \& Beauty Planted It}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc558}{Papas Blondine}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc559}{The Asmodaean Feat Be Mine}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc560}{A Puff of Air or Dry or Damp}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc561}{Coin the Daydawn Into Lines}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc562}{He Loved to Watch \& Wake}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc563}{She Walked in Flowers Around My Field}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc564}{The Bird Was Gone the Ghastly Trees}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc565}{Pedants All}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc566}{If Bright the Sun, He Tarries}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc567}{Teach Me Your Mood, O Patient Stars!}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc568}{O Sun! Take Off Thy Hood of Clouds}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc569}{As the Drop Feeds Its Fated Flower}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc570}{I Leave the Book, I Leave the Wine}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc571}{Gentle Spring Has Charmed the Earth}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc572}{The Coral Worm Beneath the Sea}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc573}{Easy to Match What Others Do}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc574}{If Wishes Would Carry Me Over the Land}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc575}{Maia}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc576}{Seyd Planted Where the Deluge Ploughed}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc577}{For Every God}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc578}{For Genius Made His Cabin Wide}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc579}{He Lives Not Who Can Refuse Me}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc580}{Forbore the Ant Hill, Shunned to Tread}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc581}{By Art, by Music, Overthrilled}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc582}{Borrow Urania’s Subtile Wings}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc583}{The Comrade or the Book is Good}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc584}{Is the Pace of Nature Slow?}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc585}{Why Honor the New Men}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc586}{I Never Knew but One}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc587}{Think Not the Gods Receive Thy Prayer}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc588}{Turtle in Swamp}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc589}{Inspired We Must Forget Our Books}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc590}{She Had Wealth of Mornings in Her Year}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc591}{When Wrath \& Terror Changed Jove’s Regal Port}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc592}{Softens the Air So Cold \& Rude}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc593}{Spices in the Plants That Run}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc594}{She Paints With White \& Red the Moors}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc595}{The Earth}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc596}{The Sun Athwart the Cloud Thought It No Sin}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc597}{October Woods, Wherein}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc598}{How Drearily in College Hall}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc599}{If Curses Be the Wage of Love}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc600}{The Land Was All Electric}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc601}{For Nature True \& Like in Every Place}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc602}{History \& Prophecy Are Alike}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc603}{The Coil of Space the Cones of Light}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc604}{The Heavy Blue Chain}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc605}{This Shining Hour is an Edifice}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc606}{He Could Condense Cerulean Ether}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc607}{The Sparrow is Rich in Her Nest}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc608}{James Russell Lowell}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc609}{From Paques to Noel}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc610}{Ever the Rock of Ages Melts}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc611}{But Never Yet the Man Was Found}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc612}{From Nature’s Beginning}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc613}{A Queen Rejoices in Her Peers}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc614}{By Kinds I Keep My Kinds in Check}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc615}{But Nature Whistled With All Her Winds}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc616}{Dear Are the Pleasant Memories}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc617}{The Genial Spark the Poet Felt}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc618}{One Night He Dreamed of a Palace Fair}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc619}{The Low December Vault in June Be Up-lifted High}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc620}{At Plymouth in the Friendly Crowd}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc621}{Old Age}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc622}{To the Clock}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc623}{Nature Says}



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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc624}{Shun Passion, Fold the Hands of Thrift}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc625}{To the Mizen, the Main, \& the Fore}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc626}{The Rules to Men Made Evident}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc627}{Too Late the Anxious Fire Came}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc628}{His Instant Thought the Poet Spoke}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc629}{Try the Might the Muse Affords}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc630}{Saadi Held the Muse in Awe}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc631}{No Song So Tuneful, Quoth the Fox}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc632}{Life}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc633}{Song of Taliesin}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc634}{Seemed, Tho’ the Soft Sheen All Enchants}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc635}{Nature Saith}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc636}{Illusions Like the Tints of Pearl}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc637}{Inscription on a Well in Memory}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc638}{Letters}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc639}{May}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc640}{The Miracle}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc641}{A Dangerous Gift \& Grace is Mine}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc642}{And Hungry Debt Beseiged My Door}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc643}{Use Will in Man New Grace Reveal}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc644}{Put in, Drive Home the Sightless Wedges}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc645}{What Flowing Central Forces, Say}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc646}{The Best of Life is Presence of a Muse}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc647}{The Pilgrims}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc648}{I Care Not Whither I May Go}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc649}{I Am Not Black in My Mind}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc650}{Trimountain}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc651}{The Rocky Nook With Hilltops Three}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc652}{For Lucifer, That Old Athlete}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc653}{Traitors Tho’ Plumed \& Steel Equipped}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc654}{The Muse}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc655}{In My Garden Three Ways Meet}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc656}{Thermometer}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc657}{Nature}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc658}{Seashore}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc659}{Things Oft Miscalling, as the Hen}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc660}{On the Chamber, on the Stairs}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc661}{Ah! Not to Me These Dreams Belong}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc662}{For Deathless Powers to Verse Belong}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc663}{Upon a Rock Yet Uncreate}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc664}{Alas, Alas, That I Am Betrayed}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc665}{Wo is Me Woe’s Me When I Think}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc666}{Sweet, Sweet, is Sleep, — Ah! Sweeter, to Be Stone}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc667}{The Power of a Beautiful Face Lifts Me to Heaven}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc668}{Boy Bring the Bowl Full of Wine}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc669}{Who Royally Bedded}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc670}{Desire No Bread, Forsake the Guest Hall of the Earth}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc671}{The Red Rose Blooms}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc672}{Many Our Needs, Yet We Spare Prayers}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc673}{Early After the Night Long Revel}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc674}{Thou Who With Thy Long Hair}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc675}{Art Thou Wise, Four Things Resign}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc676}{Knowst Thou the Luck the Friends Face to See}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc677}{Untruth is Become the Mode}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc678}{Novice, Hear Me What I Say}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc679}{Lament Not, O Hafiz, the Distribution}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc680}{Hafiz Thou Art From Eternity}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc681}{Hafiz Since on the World}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc682}{I Said to the East Wind}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc683}{We Wish Like the Glass}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc684}{When in Eternity the Light}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc685}{Secretly to Love \& to Drink, What is It? Tis a Dissolute}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc686}{This Effervescing Gentleman Who Despises a Secret}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc687}{Stand Up, That We May Sacrifice the Soul}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc688}{O Friend Blame Not Hafiz}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc689}{The Way of Love is Unlimited}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc690}{His Learning Truly Lifted Hafiz to Heaven}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc691}{Thousand Dangers of Ruin Has the Street of Love}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc692}{Bring Wine Release Me}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc693}{Blame Me Not Thou Hoarse Preacher}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc694}{I Never Went Out of My Country}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc695}{For His Constant Dwelling Place Has Hafiz}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc696}{Our Shah’s Counsel is the Efflux}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc697}{If Thy Darling Favor Thee}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc698}{No Physician Has a Balsam for My Wo}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc699}{Spare Thou Neither Time Nor Blood for Thy Friend}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc700}{It is Certain That Who His Mind}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc701}{Who Dedicates Himself to the Glass}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc702}{Wine Resembles the Lord Jesus}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc703}{Drink Till the Turbans Are All Unbound}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc704}{So Long as There’s a Trace}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc705}{To Whom a Glass Full of Red Wine}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc706}{In Bounding Youth the Night \& Rain}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc707}{The Ninefold Table of Heaven}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc708}{Should I Shed My Tears}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc709}{Prince the Ball of Heaven Should}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc710}{Since You Set No Worth on the Heart}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc711}{Now Tells the Flower}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc712}{Good is What Goes on the Road of Nature}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc713}{Reach Me Wine No Counsel Weakens the Conclusion of}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc714}{Has Thine Enemy Slandered Thy House}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc715}{Yet All Comes Out of This, That One Door}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc716}{Hear What the Glass Will Tell Thee}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc717}{Free Thyself From Wo}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc718}{And Had Hafiz}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc719}{Thy Songs O Hafiz}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc720}{Who Compares a Poem}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc721}{Thy Poems Hafiz Shame the Rose Leaves}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc722}{In the Kingdom of Poesy Hafiz Waves Like a Banner}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc723}{Where O Where is the Message Which Today}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc724}{Come Let Us Strew Roses}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc725}{Who Gave Thy Cheek the Mixed Tint}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc726}{Drink, Hear My Counsel, My Son, That the World Fret Thee}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc727}{Ruler After Word \& Thought}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc728}{O Follow the Sonnet’s Flight}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc729}{O Hafiz, Give Me Thought}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc730}{In Thy Holiday of Life}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc731}{The Roguish Wind and I}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc732}{The Treacherous Wind Pipes a Lewd Song}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc733}{We Would Do Nought but Good}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc734}{Lo! Where From Heaven’s High Roof}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc735}{Drink Wine, and the Heaven}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc736}{A Stately Bride is the Shining World}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc737}{Who Ever Suffered as I From Separation?}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc738}{I Shall Go From My Sickbed to Heaven}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc739}{See \& Hear the Fraud, the Malice of the Change of Fortune}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc740}{Who Loves His Friend With His Heart of Hearts}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc741}{Had I the World for My Enemy}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc742}{Salve Senescentem}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc743}{The Pain of Love’s a Better Fate}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc744}{In Senahar, My First Born Sleeps}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc745}{Unbar the Door, Since Thou the Opener Art}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc746}{For Two Rewards, \& Nought Beside}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc747}{Shah Sandschar, Whose Lowest Slave}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc748}{Wilt Thou Life’s Best Elixir Drain?}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc749}{The Soul}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc750}{Teach Your Child to Earn His Meal}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc751}{Only Three Things Lengthen Life}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc752}{For Pearls, Plunge in the Sea}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc753}{Arabian Ballad}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc754}{Fortune and Hope! I’ve Made My Port}




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\chapter{List of Poems in Alphabetical Order}



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\begin{itemize}
\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc765}{A-D}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc766}{E-H}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc767}{I-L}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc768}{M-O}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc769}{P-S}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc770}{T-V}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc771}{W-Z}




\end{itemize}


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\section{A-D}


\begin{itemize}
\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc641}{A Dangerous Gift \& Grace is Mine}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc369}{A Dull Uncertain Brain}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc287}{A Friend is He, Who, Hunted as a Foe}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc17}{A Letter}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc16}{A Mountain Grave}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc445}{A Pair of Crystal Eyes Will Lead Me}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc539}{A Patch of Meadow \& Upland}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc537}{A Poet is at Home}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc560}{A Puff of Air or Dry or Damp}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc613}{A Queen Rejoices in Her Peers}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc544}{A Score of Airy Miles Will Smooth}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc317}{A Shout to the Shepherds}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc736}{A Stately Bride is the Shining World}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc149}{A.H.}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc384}{Ah Strange Strange Strange}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc290}{Ah, Could I Hide Me in My Song}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc661}{Ah! Not to Me These Dreams Belong}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc664}{Alas, Alas, That I Am Betrayed}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc284}{All Day the Rain}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc550}{All Day the Waves Assailed the Rock}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc340}{All That Thy Virgin Soul Can Ask Be Thine}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc361}{All the Great \& Good}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc545}{All Things Rehearse}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc303}{Alms}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc378}{Alone in Rome! Why Rome is Lonely Too}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc34}{Alphonso of Castile}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc373}{Always Day \& Night}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc455}{An Ancient Drop of Feudal Blood}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc335}{An Ancient Lady Who Dwelt in Rome}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc462}{And as the Light Divided the Dark}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc346}{And Do I Waste My Time}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc348}{And Ellen, When the Greybeard Years}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc718}{And Had Hafiz}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc540}{And He Like Me is Not Too Proud}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc642}{And Hungry Debt Beseiged My Door}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc485}{And Man of Wit \& Mark}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc556}{And Rival Coxcombs With Enamored Stare}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc289}{And Since Round Lines Are Drawn}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc449}{And the Best Gift of God}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc347}{And Though He Dearly Prized the Bards of Fame}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc398}{And When I Am Entombed in My Place}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc117}{April}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc753}{Arabian Ballad}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc410}{Around the Man Who Seeks a Noble End}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc134}{Art}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc675}{Art Thou Wise, Four Things Resign}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc152}{Artist}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc407}{As I Walked in the Wood}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc569}{As the Drop Feeds Its Fated Flower}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc505}{Ask Not Treasures From His Store}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc50}{Astraea}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc427}{At Last the Poet Spoke}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc620}{At Plymouth in the Friendly Crowd}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc379}{At Sea, September 1833}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc301}{At the Last Day, Men Shall Wear}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc433}{Atom From Atom Yawns as Far}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc334}{Awed I Behold Once More}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc72}{Bacchus}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc399}{Bard or Dunce is Blest, but Hard}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc336}{Be of Good Cheer, Brave Spirit; Steadfastly}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc132}{Beauty}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc467}{Bended to Fops Who Bent to Him}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc43}{Berrying}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc185}{Birds}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc693}{Blame Me Not Thou Hoarse Preacher}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc79}{Blight}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc422}{Bluebeard. Let the Gentle Wife Prepare}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc296}{Body and Soul}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc582}{Borrow Urania’s Subtile Wings}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc162}{Borrowing From the French}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc96}{Boston}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc92}{Boston Hymn Read in Music Hall, January 1, 1863}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc155}{Botanist}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc668}{Boy Bring the Bowl Full of Wine}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc87}{Brahma}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc692}{Bring Wine Release Me}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc451}{Brother, No Decrepitude}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc525}{Burn Your Literary Verses}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc511}{But as This Fugitive Sunlight}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc519}{But God Will Keep His Promise Yet}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc454}{But if Thou Do Thy Best}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc615}{But Nature Whistled With All Her Winds}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc611}{But Never Yet the Man Was Found}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc475}{But O to See His Solar Eyes}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc581}{By Art, by Music, Overthrilled}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc283}{By Breath of Beds of Roses Drawn}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc614}{By Kinds I Keep My Kinds in Check}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc8}{Cambridge, 1827.}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc144}{Caritas}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc173}{Casella}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc128}{Character}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc18}{Chardon St., Boston, 1831.}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc508}{Chladni Strewed on Glass the Sand}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc140}{Circles}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc167}{Climacteric}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc493}{Cloud Upon Cloud}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc542}{Cloud Upon Cloud}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc561}{Coin the Daydawn Into Lines}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc264}{Color, Taste, and Smell, Smaragdus, Sugar, and Musk}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc724}{Come Let Us Strew Roses}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc464}{Comfort With a Purring Cat}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc52}{Compensation}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc125}{Compensation}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc512}{Comrade of the Snow \& Wind}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc83}{Concord Hymn}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc205}{Cosmos}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc129}{Culture}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc119}{Cupido}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc245}{Dante’s Vita Nuova}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc531}{Dark Flower of Cheshire Garden}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc106}{Days}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc616}{Dear Are the Pleasant Memories}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc350}{Dear Brother, Would You Know the Life}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc343}{Dear Ellen, Many a Golden Year}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc314}{Dedication}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc670}{Desire No Bread, Forsake the Guest Hall of the Earth}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc37}{Destiny}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc81}{Dirge}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc423}{Divine Inviters! I Accept}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc386}{Do That Which You Can Do}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc351}{Dost Thou Not Hear Me Ellen}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc703}{Drink Till the Turbans Are All Unbound}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc735}{Drink Wine, and the Heaven}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc726}{Drink, Hear My Counsel, My Son, That the World Fret Thee}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc356}{Dust Unto Dust! And Shall No More Be Said}




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\section{E-H}


\begin{itemize}
\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc27}{Each and All}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc490}{Each Day a Solid Good; Never Mistook}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc673}{Early After the Night Long Revel}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc40}{Earth-song}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc573}{Easy to Match What Others Do}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc489}{Elizabeth Hoar}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc478}{Enough is Done Highminded Friend Go Sleep}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc249}{Epitaph}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc66}{Eros}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc200}{Eros}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc51}{Étienne De La Boéce}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc610}{Ever the Rock of Ages Melts}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc160}{Excelsior}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc124}{Experience}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc48}{Fable}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc291}{Fair Fall Thy Soft Heart}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc10}{Fame}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc219}{Fame}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc447}{Far Seen the River Glides Below}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc89}{Fate}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc164}{Fate}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc387}{Few Are Free}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc441}{Fine Presentiments Controlled Him}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc277}{Fit for the Pleiads’ Azure Chord}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc302}{Fooled Thou Must Be, Though Wisest of the Wise}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc662}{For Deathless Powers to Verse Belong}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc577}{For Every God}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc578}{For Genius Made His Cabin Wide}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc695}{For His Constant Dwelling Place Has Hafiz}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc557}{For Joy \& Beauty Planted It}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc652}{For Lucifer, That Old Athlete}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc543}{For Lyra Yet Shall Be the Pole}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc601}{For Nature True \& Like in Every Place}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc752}{For Pearls, Plunge in the Sea}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc419}{For That a Man is a Mark}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc746}{For Two Rewards, \& Nought Beside}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc555}{For What Need I of Book or Priest}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc53}{Forbearance}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc580}{Forbore the Ant Hill, Shunned to Tread}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc55}{Forerunners}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc157}{Forester}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc754}{Fortune and Hope! I’ve Made My Port}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc180}{Fragments on Nature and Life}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc179}{Fragments on the Poet and the Poetic Gift}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc717}{Free Thyself From Wo}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc90}{Freedom}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc514}{Friends to Me Are Frozen Wine}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc130}{Friendship}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc250}{Friendship}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc473}{From a Far Mountain Creeping Down}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc159}{From Alcuin}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc252}{From Ali Ben Abu Taleb}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc313}{From Frodmer’s Drama “The Friends.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc248}{From Hafiz}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc549}{From High to Higher Forces}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc253}{From Ibn Jemin}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc612}{From Nature’s Beginning}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc251}{From Omar Khayyam}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc609}{From Paques to Noel}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc24}{From the Phi Beta Kappa Poem}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc448}{From the Stores of Eldest Matter}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc156}{Gardener}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc571}{Gentle Spring Has Charmed the Earth}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc142}{Gifts}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc58}{Give All to Love}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc263}{Go Boldly Forth, and Feast on Being’s Banquet}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc424}{Go if Thou Wilt Ambrosial Flower}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc510}{Go Into the Garden}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc518}{Go Out Into Nature and Plant Trees}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc513}{God Only Knew How Saadi Dined}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc536}{God the Lord Save Massachusetts}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc409}{Good Charles the Springs Adorer}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc13}{Good Hope}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc712}{Good is What Goes on the Road of Nature}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc26}{Good-bye}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc195}{Grace}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc222}{Grace}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc38}{Guy}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc741}{Had I the World for My Enemy}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc175}{Hafiz}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc681}{Hafiz Since on the World}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc680}{Hafiz Thou Art From Eternity}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc39}{Hamatreya}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc372}{Hard is it to persuade the public mind of its plain duty \& true interest}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc714}{Has Thine Enemy Slandered Thy House}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc321}{Have Ye Seen the Caterpillar}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc606}{He Could Condense Cerulean Ether}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc579}{He Lives Not Who Can Refuse Me}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc562}{He Loved to Watch \& Wake}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc431}{He Walked the Streets of Great New York}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc466}{He Whom God Had Thus Preferred}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc716}{Hear What the Glass Will Tell Thee}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc374}{Hearst Thou, Sweet Spirit, Thou Hast Heard Before}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc497}{Heartily Heartily}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc501}{Heartily Heartily Sing}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc168}{Heri, Cras, Hodie}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc67}{Hermione}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc127}{Heroism}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc279}{High Heart, O Hafiz! Though Not Thine}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc628}{His Instant Thought the Poet Spoke}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc690}{His Learning Truly Lifted Hafiz to Heaven}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc602}{History \& Prophecy Are Alike}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc430}{Hold of the Maker, Not the Made}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc76}{Holidays}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc551}{Honor Bright O Muse}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc165}{Horoscope}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc598}{How Drearily in College Hall}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc150}{Hush!}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc19}{Hymn}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc102}{Hymn Sung at the Second Church, at the Ordination of Rev. Chandler Robbins}




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\section{I-L}


\begin{itemize}
\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc359}{I Am Alone. Sad is My Solitude}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc332}{I Am an Exile From My Home; Heavily}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc649}{I Am Not Black in My Mind}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc220}{I Am Owner of the Sphere}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc273}{I Am: What I Am}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc270}{I Batter the Wheel of Heaven}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc344}{I Call Her Beautiful; — She Says}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc465}{I Cannot Find a Place So Lonely}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc648}{I Care Not Whither I May Go}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc434}{I Grieve That Better Souls Than Mine}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc548}{I Have an Arrow That Can Find Its Mark}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc440}{I Have Found a Nobler Love}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc483}{I Have No Brothers \& No Peers}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc278}{I Have No Hoarded Treasure}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc416}{I Have Supped With the Gods Tonight}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc486}{I Know the Appointed Hour}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc293}{I Know This Perilous Love-lane}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc570}{I Leave the Book, I Leave the Wine}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc392}{I Left My Dreamy Page \& Sallied Forth}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc364}{I Live Among Ideal Men}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc509}{I Must Not Borrow Light}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc586}{I Never Knew but One}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc694}{I Never Went Out of My Country}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc319}{I Rake No Coffined Clay, Nor Publish Wide}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc297}{I Read on the Porch of a Palace Bold}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc682}{I Said to the East Wind}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc408}{I Sat Upon the Ground}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc738}{I Shall Go From My Sickbed to Heaven}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc316}{I Spread My Gorgeous Sail}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc533}{I to My Garden Went}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc402}{I Use the Knife}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc318}{I Wear No Badge; No Tinsel Star}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc267}{I Will Be Drunk and Down With Wine}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc380}{I Will Not Hesitate to Speak the Word}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc371}{I Will Not Live Out of Me}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc345}{I’ve Found the Dainty Malice Out}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc315}{Idealism}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc566}{If Bright the Sun, He Tarries}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc599}{If Curses Be the Wage of Love}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc459}{If He Go Apart}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc368}{If Thou Canst Bear}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc503}{If Thy Body Pine}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc697}{If Thy Darling Favor Thee}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc574}{If Wishes Would Carry Me Over the Land}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc147}{Illusions}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc636}{Illusions Like the Tints of Pearl}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc706}{In Bounding Youth the Night \& Rain}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc474}{In Dreamy Woods, What Forms Abound}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc122}{In Memoriam E. B. E.}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc655}{In My Garden Three Ways Meet}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc744}{In Senahar, My First Born Sleeps}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc411}{In the Deep Heart of Man a Poet Dwells}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc722}{In the Kingdom of Poesy Hafiz Waves Like a Banner}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc405}{In This Sour World, O Summerwind}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc730}{In Thy Holiday of Life}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc425}{In Walden Wood the Chickadee}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc68}{Initial, Daemonic and Celestial Love}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc215}{Inscription for a Well in Memory of the Martyrs of the War}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc637}{Inscription on a Well in Memory}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc196}{Insight}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc589}{Inspired We Must Forget Our Books}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc141}{Intellect}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc213}{Intellect}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc507}{Intellect}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc526}{Intellect}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc500}{Is Jove Immortal}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc584}{Is the Pace of Nature Slow?}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc700}{It is Certain That Who His Mind}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc400}{It Takes Philosopher or Fool}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc608}{James Russell Lowell}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc421}{Kind \& Holy Were the Words}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc506}{King. If Farmers Make My Land Secure}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc446}{Knows He Who Tills This Lonely Field}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc676}{Knowst Thou the Luck the Friends Face to See}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc679}{Lament Not, O Hafiz, the Distribution}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc367}{Leave Me, Fear! Thy Throbs Are Base}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc397}{Let Me Go Where E’er I Will}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc326}{Let Not Conceited Sages Laugh Aloud}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc97}{Letters}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc638}{Letters}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc191}{Life}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc632}{Life}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc471}{Life is Great}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc458}{Like Vaulters in the Circus Round}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc214}{Limits}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc306}{Lines on the Death of Miss. M. B. Farnham}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc14}{Lines to Ellen}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc62}{Lines written by Ellen Louisa Tucker shortly before her marriage to Mr. Emerson}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc734}{Lo! Where From Heaven’s High Roof}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc406}{Look Danger in the Eye It Vanishes}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc265}{Loose the Knots of the Heart; Never Think on Thy Fate}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc170}{Love}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc429}{Love}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc94}{Love and Thought}




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\section{M-O}


\begin{itemize}
\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc190}{Maia}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc575}{Maia}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc118}{Maiden Speech of the Aeolian Harp}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc133}{Manners}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc672}{Many Our Needs, Yet We Spare Prayers}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc529}{Mask Thy Wisdom With Delight}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc639}{May}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc85}{May-day}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc169}{Memory}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc70}{Merlin I}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc71}{Merlin II}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc99}{Merlin’s Song}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc73}{Merops}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc35}{Mithridates}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc47}{Monadnoc}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc198}{Monadnoc From Afar}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc534}{More Sweet Than My Refrain}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc228}{Motto to “Circles.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc234}{Motto to “Considerations by the Way.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc236}{Motto to “Fate.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc225}{Motto to “Gifts.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc238}{Motto to “Illusions.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc232}{Motto to “Intellect.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc227}{Motto to “Nature.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc233}{Motto to “Nature.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc235}{Motto to “New England Reformers.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc229}{Motto to “Nominalist and Realist.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc237}{Motto to “Power.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc231}{Motto to “Prudence.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc224}{Motto to “The Poet.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc226}{Mottoes to “History.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc203}{Music}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc80}{Musketaquid}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc327}{My Days Roll by Me Like a Train of Dreams}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc107}{My Garden}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc230}{My Thoughts}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc187}{Nahant}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc435}{Nantasket}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc138}{Nature}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc163}{Nature}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc657}{Nature}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc103}{Nature I}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc104}{Nature II}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc176}{Nature in Leasts}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc635}{Nature Saith}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc623}{Nature Says}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc460}{Nature Will Not Lose}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc418}{Natures Web Star Broidered}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc88}{Nemesis}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc516}{New England Capitalist}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc189}{Night in June}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc323}{No Fate, Save by the Victim’s Fault, is Low}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc698}{No Physician Has a Balsam for My Wo}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc631}{No Song So Tuneful, Quoth the Fox}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc304}{No. 13 Hymn Written in Concord Sept. 1814}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc375}{None Spares Another Yet It Pleases Me}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc488}{Nor When in Fair Saloons We Chance to Meet}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc158}{Northman}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc678}{Novice, Hear Me What I Say}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc711}{Now Tells the Flower}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc538}{O Boston City Lecture-hearing}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc728}{O Follow the Sonnet’s Flight}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc688}{O Friend Blame Not Hafiz}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc729}{O Hafiz, Give Me Thought}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc280}{O Hafiz! Speak Not of Thy Need}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc568}{O Sun! Take Off Thy Hood of Clouds}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc412}{O What Are Heroes Prophets Men}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc320}{O What Have I to Do}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc383}{O What is Heaven but the Fellowship}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc285}{O’er the Garden Water Goes the Wind Alone}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc201}{October}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc597}{October Woods, Wherein}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc49}{Ode Inscribed to W.H. Channing}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc91}{Ode Sung in the Town Hall, Concord, July 4, 1857}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc57}{Ode to Beauty}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc281}{Oft Have I Said, I Say It Once More}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc339}{Oil \& Wine}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc621}{Old Age}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc517}{On a Raisin Stone}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc396}{On Bravely Through the Sunshine \& the Showers}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc261}{On Earth’s Wide Thoroughfares Below}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc468}{On That Night the Poet Went}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc660}{On the Chamber, on the Stairs}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc305}{On the Death of Mr. John Haskins}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc360}{On Thee Has God Conferred}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc417}{Once the Priest}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc328}{One Hand Washes the Other}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc618}{One Night He Dreamed of a Palace Fair}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc751}{Only Three Things Lengthen Life}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc151}{Orator}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc308}{Original— “Apropos.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc696}{Our Shah’s Counsel is the Efflux}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc276}{Out of the East, and Out of the West, No Man Understands Me}




\end{itemize}
\section{P-S}


\begin{itemize}
\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc524}{Pale Genius Roves Alone}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc197}{Pan}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc558}{Papas Blondine}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc541}{Parks \& Ponds Are Good by Day}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc565}{Pedants All}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc311}{Perhaps Thy Lot in Life is Higher}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc172}{Pericles}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc202}{Peter’s Field}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc212}{Philosopher}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc394}{Philosophers Are Lined With Eyes Within}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc294}{Plunge in Yon Angry’ Waves}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc299}{Poem From “Bird Conversations.”}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc307}{Poem on Eloquence by R. W. Emerson}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc382}{Poem, Spoken Before the Society, August, 1834}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc153}{Poet}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc154}{Poet}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc520}{Poet of Poets}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc498}{Poets Are Colorpots}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc126}{Politics}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc496}{Pour the Wine! Pour the Wine!}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc145}{Power}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc166}{Power}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc7}{Prayer}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc709}{Prince the Ball of Heaven Should}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc143}{Promise}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc491}{Proteus}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc137}{Prudence}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc644}{Put in, Drive Home the Sightless Wedges}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc243}{Quoth Saadi, When I Stood Before}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc713}{Reach Me Wine No Counsel Weakens the Conclusion of}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc192}{Rex}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc390}{Rex}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc211}{Riches}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc530}{Roomy Eternity}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc98}{Rubies}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc727}{Ruler After Word \& Thought}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc393}{S. R.}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc161}{S.H.}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc75}{Saadi}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc630}{Saadi Held the Muse in Awe}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc453}{Saadi Loved the New \& Old}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc171}{Sacrifice}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc742}{Salve Senescentem}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc495}{Samson Stark at Dagon’s Knee}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc504}{Scholar is a Ball Thats Spent}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc111}{Seashore}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc658}{Seashore}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc685}{Secretly to Love \& to Drink, What is It? Tis a Dissolute}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc15}{Security}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc739}{See \& Hear the Fraud, the Malice of the Change of Fortune}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc553}{See How Romance Adheres}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc521}{See the Spheres Rushing}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc385}{See Yonder Leafless Trees Against the Sky}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc362}{Seemed to Me — Never Maid}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc634}{Seemed, Tho’ the Soft Sheen All Enchants}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc20}{Self-reliance}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc199}{September}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc576}{Seyd Planted Where the Deluge Ploughed}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc747}{Shah Sandschar, Whose Lowest Slave}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc174}{Shakspeare}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc354}{Shall the Muse Sing for Thousands \& Not Sing}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc590}{She Had Wealth of Mornings in Her Year}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc366}{She Never Comes to Me}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc594}{She Paints With White \& Red the Moors}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc563}{She Walked in Flowers Around My Field}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc708}{Should I Shed My Tears}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc624}{Shun Passion, Fold the Hands of Thrift}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc218}{Silence}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc494}{Since the Devil Hopping on}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc710}{Since You Set No Worth on the Heart}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc704}{So Long as There’s a Trace}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc592}{Softens the Air So Cold \& Rude}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc484}{Solar Insect on the Wing}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc101}{Solution}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc112}{Song of Nature}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc258}{Song of Seyd Nimetollah of Kuhistan}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc633}{Song of Taliesin}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc310}{Song: Shout for Those Whose Course is Done}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc246}{Sonnet of Michel Angelo Buonarotti}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc241}{South Wind}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc699}{Spare Thou Neither Time Nor Blood for Thy Friend}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc593}{Spices in the Plants That Run}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc131}{Spiritual Laws}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc333}{St. Augustine}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc687}{Stand Up, That We May Sacrifice the Soul}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc426}{Star Seer Copernicus}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc450}{Stout Sparta Shrined the God of Laughter}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc552}{Such Another Peerless Queen}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc188}{Sunrise}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc262}{Sunshine Was He}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc56}{Sursum Corda}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc193}{Suum Cuique}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc666}{Sweet, Sweet, is Sleep, — Ah! Sweeter, to Be Stone}




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\section{T-V}


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\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc275}{Take My Heart in Thy Hand, O Beautiful Boy of Schiraz!}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc352}{Teach Me I Am Forgotten by the Dead}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc567}{Teach Me Your Mood, O Patient Stars!}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc750}{Teach Your Child to Earn His Meal}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc482}{Tell Me Maiden Dost Thou Use}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc401}{Tell Men What They Knew Before}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc115}{Terminus}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc532}{Terminus}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc502}{Thank the Gods Thy Governors}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc499}{Thanks to Those Who Go \& Come}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc515}{That Each Should in His House Abide}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc341}{That Wandering Fire to Me Appears}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc86}{The Adirondacs}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc64}{The Amulet}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc69}{The Apology}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc432}{The Archangel Hope}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc559}{The Asmodaean Feat Be Mine}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc547}{The Atom Displaces All Atoms Beside}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc5}{The Bell}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc646}{The Best of Life is Presence of a Muse}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc564}{The Bird Was Gone the Ghastly Trees}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc331}{The Blackbird’s Song the Blackbird’s Song}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc194}{The Bohemian Hymn}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc420}{The Bohemian Hymn}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc349}{The Brave Empedocles Defying Fools}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc269}{The Builder of Heaven}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc108}{The Chartist’s Complaint}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc288}{The Chemist of Love}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc528}{The Civil World Will Much Forgive}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc603}{The Coil of Space the Cones of Light}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc583}{The Comrade or the Book is Good}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc572}{The Coral Worm Beneath the Sea}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc461}{The Crowning Hour When Bodies Vie With Souls}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc239}{The Cup of Life is Not So Shallow}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc78}{The Day’s Ration}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc357}{The Days Pass Over Me}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc470}{The Dervish Whined to Said}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc428}{The Discontented Poet: a Masque}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc181}{The Earth}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc595}{The Earth}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc209}{The Enchanter}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc298}{The Eternal Watcher, Who Doth Wake}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc216}{The Exile (After Taliessin)}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc247}{The Exile From the Persian of Kermani}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc254}{The Flute From Hilali}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc389}{The Future}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc184}{The Garden}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc617}{The Genial Spark the Poet Felt}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc480}{The Gods Walk in the Breath of the Woods}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc110}{The Harp}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc182}{The Heavens}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc604}{The Heavy Blue Chain}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc74}{The House}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc42}{The Humble-bee}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc472}{The Husband Has the Nearest Acres}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc139}{The Informing Spirit}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc600}{The Land Was All Electric}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc121}{The Last Farewell}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc619}{The Low December Vault in June Be Up-lifted High}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc206}{The Miracle}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc640}{The Miracle}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc654}{The Muse}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc707}{The Ninefold Table of Heaven}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc116}{The Nun’s Aspiration}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc743}{The Pain of Love’s a Better Fate}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc322}{The Panoply of Paradise is Mine}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc54}{The Park}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc120}{The Past}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc522}{The Patient Pan}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc282}{The Phoenix}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc647}{The Pilgrims}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc178}{The Poet}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc667}{The Power of a Beautiful Face Lifts Me to Heaven}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc259}{The Principle of All Things; Entrails Made}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc28}{The Problem}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc671}{The Red Rose Blooms}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc41}{The Rhodora: on Being Asked, Whence is the Flower?}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc12}{The River}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc651}{The Rocky Nook With Hilltops Three}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc731}{The Roguish Wind and I}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc105}{The Romany Girl}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc626}{The Rules to Men Made Evident}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc404}{The Sea Reflects the Rosy Sky}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc260}{The Secret That Should Not Be Blown}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc395}{The Simple People Each With Basket or Tool}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc438}{The Skeptic}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc44}{The Snow-storm}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc749}{The Soul}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc607}{The Sparrow is Rich in Her Nest}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc33}{The Sphinx}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc325}{The Spirits of the Wise, Sit on the Clouds}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc11}{The Summons}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc596}{The Sun Athwart the Cloud Thought It No Sin}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc381}{The Sun is the Sole Inconsumable Fire}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc100}{The Test}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc223}{The Three Dimensions}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc109}{The Titmouse}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc732}{The Treacherous Wind Pipes a Lewd Song}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc63}{The Violet}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc30}{The Visit}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc204}{The Walk}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc207}{The Waterfall}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc689}{The Way of Love is Unlimited}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc337}{The Winds Are Cold, the Days Are Dark}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc272}{The World is a Bride Superbly Dressed}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc32}{The World-soul}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc242}{There Are Beggars in Iran and Araby}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc370}{There is in All the Sons of Men}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc403}{There is No Evil but Can Speak}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc266}{There Resides in the Grieving}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc656}{Thermometer}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc456}{These Trees Like Tho’ts That to Visions Congeal}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc292}{They Strew in the Path of Kings and Czars}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc65}{Thine Eyes Still Shined}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc659}{Things Oft Miscalling, as the Hen}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc587}{Think Not the Gods Receive Thy Prayer}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc686}{This Effervescing Gentleman Who Despises a Secret}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc605}{This Shining Hour is an Edifice}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc443}{This World is Tedious}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc479}{Thou Shalt Make Thy House}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc674}{Thou Who With Thy Long Hair}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc342}{Though Her Eye Seek Other Forms}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc6}{Thought}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc691}{Thousand Dangers of Ruin Has the Street of Love}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc82}{Threnody}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc721}{Thy Poems Hafiz Shame the Rose Leaves}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc719}{Thy Songs O Hafiz}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc300}{Tis Heavy Odds}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc271}{Tis Writ on Paradise’s Gate}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc268}{To Be Wise the Dull Brain So Earnestly Throbs}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc60}{To Ellen}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc59}{To Ellen at the South}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc61}{To Eva}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc492}{To Every Creature}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc36}{To J.W.}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc29}{To Rhea}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc622}{To the Clock}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc625}{To the Mizen, the Main, \& the Fore}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc256}{To the Shah From Enweri}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc257}{To the Shah From Enweri}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc255}{To the Shah From Hafiz}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc523}{To Transmute Crime to Wisdom, \& to Stem}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc705}{To Whom a Glass Full of Red Wine}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc9}{To-day}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc627}{Too Late the Anxious Fire Came}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc653}{Traitors Tho’ Plumed \& Steel Equipped}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc183}{Transition}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc650}{Trimountain}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc629}{Try the Might the Muse Affords}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc588}{Turtle in Swamp}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc113}{Two Rivers}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc95}{Una}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc745}{Unbar the Door, Since Thou the Opener Art}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc135}{Unity}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc677}{Untruth is Become the Mode}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc663}{Upon a Rock Yet Uncreate}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc31}{Uriel}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc643}{Use Will in Man New Grace Reveal}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc457}{Vain Against Him Were Hostile Blows}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc312}{Valedictory Poem}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc388}{Van Buren}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc93}{Voluntaries}




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\section{W-Z}


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\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc114}{Waldeinsamkeit}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc208}{Walden}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc186}{Water}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc436}{Water}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc442}{We Sauntered Amidst Miracles}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc683}{We Wish Like the Glass}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc733}{We Would Do Nought but Good}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc146}{Wealth}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc23}{Webster}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc546}{Webster}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc527}{What All the Books of Ages Paint, I Have}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc444}{What Are All the Flowers}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc365}{What Avails It Me}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc645}{What Flowing Central Forces, Say}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc355}{What From This Barren Being Do We Reap}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc377}{What is It to Sail}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc274}{What Lovelier Forms Things Wear}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc477}{What Never Was Not, \& Still Will Be}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc463}{When Devils Bite}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc684}{When in Eternity the Light}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc439}{When Jane Was Absent Edgar’s Eye}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc324}{When Success Exalts Thy Lot}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc414}{When Thou Sittest Moping}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc330}{When Thy Soul}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc591}{When Wrath \& Terror Changed Jove’s Regal Port}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc363}{Where Art Thou}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc240}{Where is Skrymir? Giant Skrymir?}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc723}{Where O Where is the Message Which Today}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc437}{Where the Fungus Broad \& Red}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc295}{While Roses Bloomed Along the Plain}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc286}{Whilst I Disdain the Populace}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc720}{Who Compares a Poem}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc701}{Who Dedicates Himself to the Glass}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc737}{Who Ever Suffered as I From Separation?}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc725}{Who Gave Thy Cheek the Mixed Tint}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc452}{Who Knows This or That}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc740}{Who Loves His Friend With His Heart of Hearts}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc669}{Who Royally Bedded}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc476}{Who Saw the Hid Beginnings}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc329}{Whoso Alas is Young}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc358}{Why Fear to Die}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc585}{Why Honor the New Men}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc353}{Why Should I Live}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc309}{William Does Thy Frigid Soul}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc221}{William Rufus and the Jew}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc748}{Wilt Thou Life’s Best Elixir Drain?}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc702}{Wine Resembles the Lord Jesus}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc535}{Wisp \& Meteor Nightly Falling}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc554}{With the Key of the Secret He Marches Faster}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc665}{Wo is Me Woe’s Me When I Think}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc45}{Woodnotes I}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc46}{Woodnotes II}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc415}{Woods}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc136}{Worship}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc481}{Would You Know What Joy is Hid}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc22}{Written at Rome}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc210}{Written in a Volume of Goethe}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc391}{Written in a Volume of Goethe}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc21}{Written in Naples}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc376}{Written in Naples, March, 1833}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc338}{Written in Sickness}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc77}{Xenophanes}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc469}{Ye Have Grace}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc715}{Yet All Comes Out of This, That One Door}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc413}{Yet Sometime to the Sorrow Stricken}



\item\relax 
\href{https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\#toc487}{You Shall Not Love Me for What Daily Spends}




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