Eros in  General   

The sense of the world is short,
Long and various the report,—
To love and be beloved;
Men and gods have not outlearned it,
And how oft soe'er they've turned it,
'Tis not to be improved.

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Other poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson:

• Account Of A Visit From St. Nicholas
• Alphonso Of Castile
• Astræ
• Bacchus
• Berrying
• Blight
• Brahma
• Celestial Love
• Compensation
• Concord Hymn
• Dæmonic Love
• Days
• Dirge
• Each And All
• Eros
• Etienne de la Boéce
• Fable
• Fate
• Forbearance
• Give All To Love
• Good-by
• Initial Love
• Loss And Gain
• Merlin
• Merlin I
• Merlin II
• Merops
• Mithridates
• Monadnoc
• Musketaquid
• Ode To Beauty
• Ode To William H. Channing
• Painting And Sculpture
• Saadi
• Sursum Corda
• Suum Cuique
• Tact
• The Amulet
• The Apology
• The Barberry Bush
• The Bell
• The Forerunners
• The Park
• The Problem
• The Rhodora
• The Snow-Storm
• The Sphinx
• The Sphynx
• Threnody
• To Ellen, At The South
• To Eva
• To J.W.
• Two Rivers
• Uriel