Breadcrumb Home > Homework Help > Language Arts > Poetry and Poets Cite Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Flute The FluteFrom HilaliHark, what, now loud, now low, the pining flute complains,Without tongue, yellow-cheeked, full of winds that wail and sigh;Saying, Sweetheart! the old mystery remains,—If I am I; thou, thou; or thou art I? Ralph Waldo Emerson: From Ibn Jemin <a id="idp5918032"></a>Quatrains and Translations Ralph Waldo Emerson: To the Shah See also: Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Violet
The FluteFrom HilaliHark, what, now loud, now low, the pining flute complains,Without tongue, yellow-cheeked, full of winds that wail and sigh;Saying, Sweetheart! the old mystery remains,—If I am I; thou, thou; or thou art I? Ralph Waldo Emerson: From Ibn Jemin <a id="idp5918032"></a>Quatrains and Translations Ralph Waldo Emerson: To the Shah