Poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eros

The sense of the world is short, -
Long and various the report, -
To love and be beloved;
Men and gods have not outlearned it;
And, how oft soe'er they've turned it,
'Tis not to be improved.

1. To Ellen at the South
2. Hamatreya
3. Woodnotes I
4. The Rhodora
5. Berrying

Robert Bridges Eros ("Why hast thou nothing in thy face?")

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