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    Poems
    Poems
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    Poems

    By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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    Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home:

    Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.

    Long through thy weary crowds I roam;

    A river-ark on the ocean brine,

    Long I've been tossed like the driven foam:

    But now, proud world! I'm going home.

    Good-bye to Flattery's fawning face;

    To Grandeur with his wise grimace;

    To upstart Wealth's averted eye;

    To supple Office, low and high;

    To crowded halls, to court and street;

    To frozen hearts and hasting feet;

    To those who go, and those who come;

    Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home.

    I am going to my own hearth-stone,

    Bosomed in yon green hills alone,â

    secret nook in a pleasant land,

    Whose groves the frolic fairies planned;

    Where arches green, the livelong day,

    Echo the blackbird's roundelay,

    And vulgar feet have never trod

    A spot that is sacred to thought and God.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereBookIt.com
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9781456615529
    Poems
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Ralph Waldo Emerson was the leading proponent of the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-nineteenth century. He was ordained as a Unitarian minister at Harvard Divinity School but served for only three years before developing his own spiritual philosophy based on individualism and intuition. His essay Nature is arguably his best-known work and was both groundbreaking and highly controversial when it was first published. Emerson also wrote poetry and lectured widely across the US.

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