The Apology, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think me not unkind and rude
That I walk alone...
Think me not unkind and rude
That I walk alone...
Daughter of Heaven and Earth, coy Spring,
Wi...
Thousand minstrels woke within me,
'Our music...
I
Low and mournful be the strain,
Haugh...
Up with me! Up with me into the clouds!
For th...
Up with me! Up with me into the clouds!
For th...
Whence joyful harvests spring, what heav'nly s...
The gods with priceless jewels were not bought,...
CLEODAMUS. MYRSON. CLEODAMUS.
What sweet for ...
It is dead low tide, and the wasted sea beats ...
Much I desired when Youth did fire my veins,
...
O spirit mine, arouse thee from a sleep
Which...
An india shawl--of texture wondrous fair,
Wro...
Weary with waiting, we climb to the hill-tops ...
Long were the night-times on that slip of shore...
So long the rain-clouds saddening lay
Across t...
Oh what a wonder the palaced path of lazy thoug...
Loves serene, uncarnate Graces!
Born of pure ...
TIRED of the fetid smell that climbs and sticks...