Ralph Waldo Emerson on Valentine's Day
1803–1882 United States
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The solid, solid universe
Is pervious to Love;
With bandaged eyes he never errs,
Around, below, above.
His blinding light
He flingeth white
On God's and Satan's brood,
And reconciles
By mystic wiles
The evil and the good.
Who gave thee, O Beauty,
The keys of this breast,—
Too credulous lover
Of blest and unblest?
Say, when in lapsed ages
Thee knew I of old?
Or what was the service
For which I was sold?
Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)
These preachers of beauty, which light the world with their admonishing smile.
Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)