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The Earth Our eyeless bark sails free, Though with boom and spar Andes, Alp, or Himmalee Strikes never moon or star. Poet: Ralph Waldo Emerson	Hymn of the Earth My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless Stars, And men my giant arms upbear,— My arms unstained and free from scars. I rest forever on my way, Rolling around the happy Sun; My children love the sunny day, But noon and... Poet: William Ellery Channing	O Earth! Art Thou Not Weary? O earth! art thou not weary of thy graves? Dear, patient mother Earth, upon thy breast How are they heaped from farthest east to west! From the dim north, where the wild storm-wind raves O’er the cold surge that chills the shore it laves, To sunlit isles... Poet: Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr	Poet of Earth Oh, be not ether-borne, poet of earth; Stretch not thy wings to such a cloudless height As ne’er to know the darkness of the night, As ne’er to feel the touch of grief or mirth That lives in human sympathy, whose birth Is longed for in this world of love... Poet: Stephen Henry Thayer
The Sharing of the Earth From the German by Lord Bulwer-Lytton “TAKE the world,” cried the God from his heaven To men—“I proclaim you its heirs; To divide it amongst you ’t is given: You have only to settle the shares.” Each takes for himself as it pleases, Old and... Poet: Friedrich von Schiller	Earth, Ocean, Air From “Alastor”; Preface “Nondum amabam, et amare amabam, quærebam quid amarem, amans amare.”—Confessions of Saint Augustine. EARTH, ocean, air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel Your love,... Poet: Percy Bysshe Shelley	As from the earth the light Balloon As from the earth the light Balloon Asks nothing but release — Ascension that for which it was, Its soaring Residence. The spirit looks upon the Dust That fastened it so long With indignation, ... Poet:	Delia, th' unkindest girl on earth Delia, th' unkindest girl on earth, When I besought the fair, That favour of intrinsic worth, A ringlet of her hair, - Refus'd that instant to comply With my absurd request, For reasons she... Poet:
High from the earth I heard a bird, High from the earth I heard a bird, He trod upon the trees As he esteemed them trifles, And then he spied a breeze, And situated softly Upon a pile of wind Which in a perturbation Nature had... Poet:	Somewhere upon the general Earth Somewhere upon the general Earth Itself exist Today — The Magic passive but extant That consecrated me — Indifferent Seasons doubtless play Where I for right to be — Would pay each Atom that I am... Poet: