Ralph Waldo Emerson

1803-1882 / Male / American
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Good-byGood-by, proud world, I'm going home, / Thou'rt not my friend, and I'm not thine; / Long through thy weary crowds I roam;
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MonadnocThousand minstrels woke within me, / "Our music's in the hills; "— / Gayest pictures rose to win me,
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Loss And GainVirtue runs before the muse / And defies her skill, / She is rapt, and doth refuse
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Give All To LoveGive all to love; / Obey thy heart; / Friends, kindred, days,
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Initial LoveVenus, when her son was lost, / Cried him up and down the coast, / In hamlets, palaces, and parks,
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The ApologyThink me not unkind and rude, / That I walk alone in grove and glen; / I go to the god of the wood
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FateThat you are fair or wise is vain, / Or strong, or rich, or generous; / You must have also the untaught strain
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ThrenodyThe south-wind brings / Life, sunshine, and desire, / And on every mount and meadow
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BlightGive me truths, / For I am weary of the surfaces, / And die of inanition. If I knew
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ForbearanceHast thou named all the birds without a gun; / Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk; / At rich men's tables eaten bread and pulse;
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