Literature
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Each and All by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I yielded myself to the perfect whole.” What a lovely find in Emerson’s poetry collection, Poems, Household Edition, published in…
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Give All to Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give All to Love was published in the anthology, The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900), compiled by the author…
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Good-Bye by Ralph Waldo Emerson
From Emerson’s collection, Poems, Household Edition, published in 1867.Good-bye, proud world! I’m going home:Thou art not my friend, and I’m…
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The Problem by Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like a church; I like a cowl;I love a prophet of the soul;And on my heart monastic aislesFall like…
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The World Servant by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Excerpted from Emerson’s collection, Poems, Household Edition, published in 1867. Thanks to the morning light,Thanks to the foaming sea,To the…
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Threnody by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Threnody was Emerson’s tribute poem celebrating the short life of his five year old son, who died of scarlet fever…
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning “Aurora Leigh”
“The worse for being warm: all these things, writOn happy mornings, with a morning heart,That leaps for love, is active…
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Walt Whitman “Song of Myself” (1892 version)
“I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you,And you must not be…
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Count That Day Lost by George Eliot
If you sit down at set of sunAnd count the acts that you have done,And, counting, findOne self-denying deed, one…
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God Needs Antonio by George Eliot
Your soul was lifted by the wings todayHearing the master of the violin:You praised him, praised the great Sabastian tooWho…
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