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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Initial Love

Initial Love
Venus, when her son was lost,
Cried him up and down the coast,
In hamlets, palaces, and parks,
And told the truant by his marks,
Golde…

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Grace

Grace
How much, preventing God! how much I owe
To the defenses thou hast round me set:
Example, custom, fear, occasional slow,
These scorned bondmen were…

396
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good-by

Good-by
Good-by, proud world, I'm going home,
Thou'rt not my friend, and I'm not thine;
Long through thy weary crowds I roam;
A river-ark on the ocean br…

414
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forebearance

Forebearance
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun;
Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk;
At rich men's tables eaten bread and pulse;
Unar…

305
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eros

Eros
The sense of the world is short, -
Long and various the report, -
To love and be beloved;
Men and gods have not outlearned it;
And, how oft so…

426
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fable

Fable
The mountain and the squirrel
Had a quarrel;
And the former called the latter "Little Prig."
Bun replied,
"You are doubtless very big;

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dirge

Dirge
Knows he who tills this lonely field
To reap its scanty corn,
What mystic fruit his acres yield
At midnight and at morn?
In the long sunny af…

324
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dæmonic Love

Dæmonic Love
Man was made of social earth,
Child and brother from his birth;
Tethered by a liquid cord
Of blood through veins of kindred poured,
Ne…

336
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Compensation

Compensation
Why should I keep holiday,
When other men have none?
Why but because when these are gay,
I sit and mourn alone.
And why when mirth uns…

282
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Brahma

Brahma
If the red slayer think he slays,
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again.
Fa…

420
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Astræ

Astræ
Himself it was who wrote
His rank, and quartered his own coat.
There is no king nor sovereign state
That can fix a hero's rate;
Each to all i…

355
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Berrying

Berrying
"May be true what I had heard,
Earth's a howling wilderness
Truculent with fraud and force,"
Said I, strolling through the pastures,
And a…

384
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore

Where The Mind Is Without Fear

Where The Mind Is Without Fear

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up in…

541
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have tried famine: no more try it;

You have tried famine: no more try it;
Ply us now with a full diet;
Teach your pupils now with plenty,
For one sun supply us twenty:
I have thought it th…

332
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore

When The Two Sisters Go To Fetch Water

When The Two Sisters Go To Fetch Water

WHEN the two sisters go to fetch water, they come to this spot and they smile.
They must be aware of somebody who stands…

631
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore

When Day Is Done

When Day Is Done

If the day is done,
if birds sing no more,
if the wind has flagged tired,
then draw the veil of darkness thick upon me,
even…

651
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore

Vocation

Vocation


When the gong sounds ten in the morning and I walk to school by our
lane.
Every day I meet the hawker crying, "Bangles, crystal
bang…

629
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore

We Are To Play The Game Of Death

We Are To Play The Game Of Death

WE are to play the game of death to-night, my bride and I.
The night is black, the clouds in the sky are capricious, and the w…

506
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore

Untimely Leave

Untimely Leave

No more noisy, loud words from me---such is my master's will.
Henceforth I deal in whispers.
The speech of my heart will be carried on in …

505
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore

Unending Love

Unending Love

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made…

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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore

The Unheeded Pageant

The Unheeded Pageant

Ah, who was it coloured that little frock, my child, and covered
your sweet limbs with that little red tunic?

You have come ou…

569
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore

Threshold

Threshold


I was not aware of the moment
when I first crossed the threshold of this life.


What was the power that made me open out into …

583
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore

The Sailor

The Sailor

The boat of the boatman Madhu is moored at the wharf of Rajgunj.

It is uselessly laden with jute, and has been lying there idle
for ever…

641
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore

The Rainy Day

The Rainy Day

Sullen clouds are gathering fast over the black fringe of the

forest.

O child, do not go out!

The palm trees in a r…

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