Explore "The Poet" by Ralph Waldo Emerson on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
A moody child and wildly wise / Pursued the game with joyful eyes, / Which chose, like meteors, their way, / And rived the dark with private ray: / They overleapt the horizon's edge, / Searched with Apollo's privilege; / Through man, and woman, and sea, and star / Saw the dance of nature forward far; / Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times / Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes.
Olympian bards who sung / Divine ideas below, / Which always find us young, / And always keep us so.