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Ralph Waldo Emerson: To the Shah
To the ShahFrom HafizThy foes to hunt, thy enviers to strike down, Poises Arcturus aloft morning and evening his spear.From EnweriNot in their houses stand the stars, But o'er the pinnacles…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transition
TransitionSee yonder leafless trees against the sky, How they diffuse themselves into the air, And, ever subdividing, separate Limbs into branches, branches into twigs. As if they loved the…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Una
UnaRoving, roving, as it seems, Una lights my clouded dreams; Still for journeys she is dressed; We wander far by east and west. In the homestead, homely thought, At my work I ramble not; If…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Unity
UnitySpace is ample, east and west, But two cannot go abreast, Cannot travel in it two: Yonder masterful cuckoo Crowds every egg out of the nest, Quick or dead, except its own; A spell is…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Uriel
UrielIt fell in the ancient periods Which the brooding soul surveys, Or ever the wild Time coined itself Into calendar months and days. This was the lapse of Uriel, Which in Paradise…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Voluntaries
VoluntariesILow and mournful be the strain, Haughty thought be far from me; Tones of penitence and pain, Meanings of the tropic sea; Low and tender in the cell Where a captive sits in chains…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Waldeinsamkeit
WaldeinsamkeitI do not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me. In plains that room for shadows make Of skirting hills to lie,…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Walden
WaldenIn my garden three ways meet, Thrice the spot is blest; Hermit-thrush comes there to build, Carrier-doves to nest. There broad-armed oaks, the copses' maze, The cold sea-wind…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Water
WaterThe water understands Civilization well; It wets my foot, but prettily It chills my life, but wittily, It is not disconcerted, It is not broken-hearted: Well used, it decketh joy,…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Wealth
WealthWho shall tell what did befall, Far away in time, when once, Over the lifeless ball, Hung idle stars and suns? What god the element obeyed? Wings of what wind the lichen bore, Wafting…Trending
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