THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY

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RALPH WALDO EMERSON


From a photogravure after life-photograph.


DINA M. MULOCK CRAIK
From a life-photograph by Elliott and Fry, London.


THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN
"Two went to pray? O, rather say,
One went to brag, the other to pray;
One nearer to God's altar trod,
The other to the altar's God."


From engraving by Brend'amour, after a design by Alexander Bida.


DANTE ALIGHIERI
After a photograph from the fresco by His friend Giotto, discovered
under the whitewash on a watt of the Bargello palace; now in the Museo
Nazionale, Florence, Italy.


POEMS OF THE HIGHER LIFE


POEMS OF THE HIGHER LIFE


I.


THE DIVINE ELEMENT.




SONG.


FROM "PIPPA PASSES."


The year's at the spring,
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;

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