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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What potent blood hath modest May!
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May-Day
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A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs, The world uncertain comes and goes; The lover rooted stays.
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Friendship
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Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never arrived!
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Borrowing From the French
6 months 2 weeks ago
The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech.
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Merlin's Song, II
6 months 2 weeks ago
Ever from one who comes to-morrow Men wait their good and truth to borrow.
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Merlin's Song, II
6 months 2 weeks ago
In the vaunted works of Art The master stroke is Nature's part.
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Art
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They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt; And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
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Brahma, st. 3
6 months 2 weeks ago
Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.
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Brahma, st. 2
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If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again.
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Brahma, st. 1 | Composed in July 1856 this poem is derived from a major passage of the Bhagavad Gita, one of the most popular of Hindu scriptures, and portions of it were likely a paraphrase of an existing translation. Though titled "Brahma" its expressio
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Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — "'T is man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die."
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Sacrifice
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