Ralph Waldo Emerson

1803-1882 / Male / American
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Alphonso Of CastileI Alphonso live and learn, / Seeing nature go astern. / Things deteriorate in kind,
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AstræHimself it was who wrote / His rank, and quartered his own coat. / There is no king nor sovereign state
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BacchusBring me wine, but wine which never grew / In the belly of the grape, / Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, reaching through
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Berrying"May be true what I had heard, / Earth's a howling wilderness / Truculent with fraud and force,"
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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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BrahmaIf the red slayer think he slays, / Or if the slain think he is slain, / They know not well the subtle ways
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Celestial LoveHigher far, / Upward, into the pure realm, / Over sun or star,
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CompensationWhy should I keep holiday, / When other men have none? / Why but because when these are gay,
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Concord HymnSung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, / April 19th, 1836 / By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
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Dæmonic LoveMan was made of social earth, / Child and brother from his birth; / Tethered by a liquid cord
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