Early Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson / [by Ralph Waldo Emerson] ; with an introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole [electronic text]
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Early Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson / [by Ralph Waldo Emerson] ; with an introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole [electronic text]
Author
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
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New York; Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell and Company
c.1899
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"Early Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson / [by Ralph Waldo Emerson] ; with an introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAC5599.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 3, 2024.
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TACT.
What boots it, thy virtue,What profit thy parts,While one thing thou lackest,The art of all arts!The only credentials,Passport to success,Opens castle and parlor,—Address, man, Address.
The maiden in dangerWas saved by the swain,His stout arm restored herTo Broadway again:
The maid would reward him,—Gay company come,—They laugh, she laughs with them,He is moonstruck and dumb.
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This clenches the bargain,Sails out of the bay,Gets the vote in the Senate,Spite of Webster and Clay;
Has for genius no mercy,For speeches no heed,—It lurks in the eyebeam,It leaps to its deed.
Church, tavern, and market,Bed and board it will sway;It has no to-morrow,It ends with to-day.
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