Poems - Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson
page 291 of 409 (71%)
page 291 of 409 (71%)
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CASELLA Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove; Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore. SHAKSPEARE I see all human wits Are measured but a few; Unmeasured still my Shakspeare sits, Lone as the blessed Jew. HAFIZ Her passions the shy violet From Hafiz never hides; Love-longings of the raptured bird The bird to him confides. NATURE IN LEASTS |
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