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Poems
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
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I POEMS
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II MAY-DAY AND OTHER PIECES
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III ELEMENTS AND MOTTOES
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IV QUATRAINS AND TRANSLATIONS
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V APPENDIX
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VI POEMS OF YOUTH AND EARLY MANHOOD 1823–1834
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[Day by day for her darlings to her much she added more]
Day
by day for her darlings to her much she added more;
In her hundred-gated Thebes every chamber was a door,
A door to something grander,—loftier walls, and vaster floor.
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