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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poems

  • Jabberwocky
  • The Conqueror Worm
  • The City in the Sea
  • Eldorado
  • Dream Within Dream
  • Annabel Lee
  • The Haunted Palace
  • The Bells
  • The Road Not Taken
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls
  • A Poison Tree
  • O Captain! My Captain!
  • The New Poetry
  • To My Wife
  • And the Moon and the Stars
  • Fast Rode the Knight
  • The Tree
  • Nothing Gold Can Stay
  • Stopping By Woods
  • The World Will End In Fire
  • The Lockless Door
  • Bowery Blues
  • The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock
  • All The World's A Stage
  • To Be Not
  • Iliad Segment
  • Prologue in Heaven
  • Eulalie
  • The Lake
  • Sancta Maria
  • Serenade
  • Song
  • The Valley of Unrest
  • Invictuals
  • I wandered lonely as a cloud
  • Don't Be Gentle
  • That's Cool
  • Alone With Everyone
  • Bright Star
  • Tiger
  • Death Be Not Proud
  • Carpe Diem
  • A Moment Indulged
  • Don't Pay No Mind
  • Dungeon
  • I Cast Unexpect from the Sea
  • The Arrow and The Sling
  • Alone and Drinking under the Moon
  • A Mountain Revelry
  • About Tu Fu
  • Nefarious War
  • Question on the Mountain
  • The Hermitage
  • Leaving White King City
  • A Strange Song
  • The Lobster-Quadrille
  • The Crocodile
  • Little Birds
  • Panther Girl
  • Good-by
  • Fable of a Squirrel
  • The Humble Bee
  • The Spyinx
  • Author's Note

Fable by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Squirrel said to the Mountain
you are very tall

and the Mountain said
to the Squirrel
and you are very small

and so they had recognized
a fundamental difference
in their sizings

but in stature
they were the same

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