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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THE AMULET.

 Your picture smiles as first it smiled, The ring you gave is still the same, Your letter tells,O changing child, 	   No tidings  since it came.

 Give me an amulet That keeps intelligence with you, Red when you love, and rosier red, And when you love not, pale and blue.

 Alas, that neither bonds nor vows Can certify possession; Torments me still the fear that love Died in its last expression.