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Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 - 1882
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A Dull Uncertain Brain,
A dull uncertain brain, / But gifted yet to know / That God has cherubim who go
A Mountain Grave
Why fear to die / And let thy body lie / Under the flowers of June,
A.H
High was her heart, and yet was well inclined, / Her manners made of bounty well refined; / Far capitals and marble courts, her eye still seemed to see,
Alphonso Of Castile
I, Alphonso, live and learn, / Seeing Nature go astern. / Things deteriorate in kind;
And When I Am Entombed In My Place,
And when I am entombed in my place, / Be it remembered of a single man, / He never, though he dearly loved his race,
Artist
Quit the hut, frequent the palace, / Reck not what the people say; / For still, where'er the trees grow biggest,
Bacchus
Bring me wine, but wine which never grew / In the belly of the grape, / Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, reaching through,
Be Of Good Cheer, Brave Spirit; Steadfastly
Be of good cheer, brave spirit; steadfastly / Serve that low whisper thou hast served; for know, / God hath a select family of sons
Berrying
'May be true what I had heard,-- / Earth's a howling wilderness, / Truculent with fraud and force,'
Birds
Darlings of children and of bard, / Perfect kinds by vice unmarred, / All of worth and beauty set
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