Lover's Petition
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Lover's Petition
Good Heart, that ownest all!
I ask a modest boon and small:
Not of lands and towns the gift,--
Too large a load for me to lift,--
But for one proper creature,
Which geographic eye,
Sweeping the map of Western earth,
Or the Atlantic coast, from Maine
To Powhatan's domain,
Could not descry.
Is't much to ask in all thy huge creation,
So trivial a part,--
A solitary heart?
Yet count me not of spirit mean,
Or mine a mean demand,
For 't is the concentration
And worth of all the land,
The sister of the sea,
The daughter of the strand,
Composed of air and light,
And of the swart earth-might.
So little to thy poet's prayer
Thy large bounty well can spare.
And yet I think, if she were gone,
The world were better left alone.
About Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ode Sung in the Town Hall
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Love and Thought
Lover's Petition
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Merlin's Song
The Test
Solution
Nature and Life
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My Garden
The Titmouse
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Song of Nature
Two Rivers
Waldeinsamkeit
Terminus
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The Last Farewell
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Compensation
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Friendship
Beauty
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The Exile
From Hafiz
Epitaph
Friendship
From Omar Chiam
From Ibn Jemin
The Flute
To the Shah
Song of Seid Nimetollah of Kuhistan
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