Poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forbearance

Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk?
At rich men’s tables eaten bread and pulse?
Unarmed, faced danger with a heart of trust?
And loved so well a high behavior,
In man or maid, that thou from speech refrained,
Nobility more nobly to repay?
O, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!

1. To Rhea
2. To J.W.
3. Mithridates
4. Uriel
5. The Problem

Samuel Coleridge Forbearance ("Gently I took that which ungently came")

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