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And filled their hearts with flame - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Boston Hymn"

A field of havoc and war - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Boston Hymn"

And make just laws below the sun - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Boston Hymn"

Give him beauty for rags - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Boston Hymn"

The vanished gods to me appear - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Brahma"

Fixed on the enormous galaxy - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Character"

Words more soft than rain - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Character"

To April's breeze unfurled - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Concord Hymn"

Forgot my morning wishes - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Days"

Took a few herbs and apples - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Days"

Turned and departed silent - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Days"

The sparrow's note from heaven - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Each and All"

Bring home the river and sky - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Each and All"

Beauty through my senses stole - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Each and All"

That you are fair or wise is vain - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"

The untaught strain that sheds beauty on the rose - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"

Which melts the world into a sea - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"

The fire which drives me mad with sweet desire - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"

Another is born to make the sun forgotten - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"

Carries a talisman under his tongue - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"

Whether it dazzle me with light - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"

Whether your jewel be of pure water - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"

And dress up nature in your favor - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"

Dear to the Eumenides, and to all the heavenly brood - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"

Carries the eagles, and masters the sword - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"

Faced danger with a heart of trust - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Forbearance"

The fountains of my hidden life - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Friendship"

Voyager of light and noon - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Humble-Bee"

Gulfs of sweetness without bound - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Humble-Bee"

Columbine with horn of honey - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Humble-Bee"

Voice of meteor lost in day - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

This elastic air convey - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Tidings of the starry sphere - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

The cannonade of the pent and darkened lake - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Through tracts and provinces of sky - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Pebble loosened from the frost - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Mix polar night with tropic glow - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Wanton skip with bacchic dance - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Heat under east winds crossed with sleet - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Bring back the tulip's pride - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

The blackbirds make the maples ring - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

What fiery force the earth renews - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

All seeds of beauty to be born - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Hear the uproar of their joy - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Frog and lizard in holiday coats - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Grains beyond the price of gold - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Redeem the vanished rose of evening's dream - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Unhurt by a thousand storms - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

When magic wine for bards is brewed - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Faithful through a thousand years - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Best gems of Nature's cabinet - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Poets praise that hidden wine - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Milk we drew at the barrier of Time - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

With the gods on mallows dined - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Note of horn in valleys heard - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Flutes which passing angels blew - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Echo waits with art and care - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Soothsayer of the eldest gods - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

The inmost powers Prometheus proffered - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Speaking by the tongues of flowers - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

With sudden passion languishing - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

To wear the yoke of conscience - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Park"

Your gold makes you seem wise - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Park"

The morning mist within your grounds - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Park"

Can shake the past - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"

No thief so politic - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"

Alter or mend eternal Fact - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"

Turn the key and bolt the door - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"

Not the gods can shake the Past - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"

The adamantine door bolted down - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"

Overhead the ancient crows - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The River"

Crows hold their sour conversation - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The River"

These trees and stones are audible - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The River"

That tremble in the wind - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The River"

And all their sad significance - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The River"

Give my dust their funeral shade - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The River"

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Snow Storm"

The courier's feet delayed - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Snow Storm"

Enclosed in a tumultuous privacy of storm - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Snow Storm"

Come see the north wind's masonry - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Snow Storm"

Wrote the past in characters of rock and fire - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Song of Nature"

What time the gods kept carnival - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Song of Nature"

Too slow my rainbow fades - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Song of Nature"

His couriers come by squadrons - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Song of Nature"

The fresh rose on yonder thorn - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Song of Nature"

Known fruit of the unknown - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Sphinx"

Under these pictures of time - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Sphinx"

Rue, myrrh, and cummin for the Sphinx - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Sphinx"

And crouched no more in stone - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Sphinx"

Nor with ambition break the peace - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Teach me I am forgotten by the dead"

Hung my verses in the wind - Ralph Waldo Emerson (uncredited) "The Test" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]

Time and tide their faults may find - Ralph Waldo Emerson (uncredited) "The Test" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]

These the Siroc could not melt - Ralph Waldo Emerson (uncredited) "The Test" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow - Ralph Waldo Emerson (uncredited) "The Test" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]

Not with flatteries, but truths - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

And murmuring waters counselled me - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

Bandages of purple light - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

The gods in their cloudless periods - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

Forget never their command - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

Written on the iron leaf - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

Ransack earth for riches rare - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

Fetch her stars to deck her hair - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

Mixes music with her thoughts - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

The hostages I pawn for my release - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

Freed forever from his thrall - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

Repeats the music of the rain - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Two Rivers"

Through flood and sea and firmament - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Two Rivers"

The spending of the steam through years - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Two Rivers"

Of shard and flint makes jewels gay - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Two Rivers"

They lose their grief who hear this song - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Two Rivers"

No darkness taints its equal gleam - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Two Rivers"

And ages drop in it like rain - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Two Rivers"

The balance-beam of Fate was bent - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Uriel"

Strong Hades could not keep his own - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Uriel"

Speeding Saturn cannot halt - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Visit"

Far in the deeps of history - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The World-Soul"

Hold all the hidden wonders - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The World-Soul"

The cipher that's writ upon our cell - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The World-Soul"

Stars taunt us by a mystery - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The World-Soul"

Stars weave eternal rings - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The World-Soul"

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