Early Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson / [by Ralph Waldo Emerson] ; with an introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole [electronic text]

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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 24, 2025.

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FORBEARANCE.

 Hast thou named all the birds without a gun; Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk; At rich men's tables eaten bread and pulse; Unarmed, faced danger with a heart of trust; And loved so well a high behavior In man or maid, that thou from speech refrained, Nobility more nobly to repay?— O be my friend, and teach me to be thine!