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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
THE BELL
THOUGHT
PRAYER
TO-DAY
FAME
THE SUMMONS
THE RIVER
GOOD HOPE
LINES TO ELLEN
SECURITY
[A dull uncertain brain]
A MOUNTAIN GRAVE
A LETTER
[Day by day returns]
HYMN
SELF-RELIANCE
[Henceforth, please God, forever I forego]
[And when I am entombèd in my place]
[Oh what is Heaven but the fellowship]
[The days pass over me]
WRITTEN IN NAPLES
WRITTEN AT ROME
WEBSTER
FROM THE PHI BETA KAPPA POEM
[Why did all manly gifts in Webster fail]
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[And when I am entombèd in my place]
And
when I am entombèd in my place,
Be it remembered of a single man,
He never, though he dearly loved his race,
For fear of human eyes swerved from his plan.
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