Love
Casella
Love
Test of the poet is knowledge of love,
For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove;
Never was poet, of late or of yore,
Who was not tremulous with love-lore.
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MLA
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Casella.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/emerson/139/.
Chicago
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Casella.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/emerson/139/.
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