Poems Quotes

“Give all to love;
Obey thy heart....”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems

“When I heard the Earth-song / I was no longer brave; / My avarice cooled / Like lust in the chill of the grave.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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 unseals all tongues, / Should mine alone be dumb? / Ah! late I spoke to silent throngs, / And now their hour is come.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Over the winter glaciers I see the summer glow, And through the wild-piled snow-drift The warm rosebuds below.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems

“In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems

“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. / Far or forgot to me is near; / Shadow and sunlight are the same; / The vanished gods to me appear; / And one to me are shame and fame. / They reckon ill who leave me out; / When me they fly, I am the wings; / I am the doubter and the doubt, / And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. / The strong gods pine for my abode, / And pine in vain the sacred Seven; / But thou, meek lover of the good! / Find me, and turn thy back on heaven.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson