Poets/Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If the red slayer think he slays, …

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, …

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, …

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, …

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lords of life, the lords of life,— …

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mountain and the squirrel …

Ralph Waldo Emerson

That you are fair or wise is vain, …

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give all to love; …

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home: …

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Meriam, Flint, …

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who knows this or that? …

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who gave thee, O Beauty, …

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though loath to grieve …

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Parks and ponds are good by day; …

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is time to be old, …

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The debt is paid, …

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, …

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The water understands …

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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