Good-Bye Poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good-Bye
Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home;
Thou art my friend, and I'm not thine.
Long through thy weary crowds I roam;
A river-ark on the ocean brine,
Long I've been tossed like the driven foam;
But now, proud world! I'm going home.
Good-bye to Flattery's fawning face;
To Grandeur with his wise grimace;
To upstart Wealth's averted eye;
To supple Office, low and high;
To crowded halls, to court and street;
To frozen hearts and hasting feet;
To those who go, and those who come;
Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home.
I am going to my own hearth-stone,
Bosomed to yon green hills alone,--
A secret nook in a pleasant land,
Whose groves the frolic fairies planned;
Where arches green, the livelong day,
Echo the blackbird's roundelay,
And vulgar feet have never trod
A spot that is sacred to thought and God.
O, when I am safe in my sylvan home,
I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome;
And when I am stretched beneath the pines,
Where the evening star so holy shines,
I laugh at the lore and the pride of man,
At the sophist schools and the learned clan;
For what are they all, in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?
Found a deep spiritual Oriental thoughts in this beautiful poem
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A very sensitive touching poem wshere God is the Only One we can talk to. Thanks for sharing this great poem
THE LAST PART of my Response: It is a celebration of the speaker's return to nature and his hearth-stone, where he can be alone with his thoughts and commune with God. The poem is a reminder that true happiness and contentment can only be found within oneself and not in the external world
THE NEXT RESPONSE: The speaker is bidding adieu to the "proud world" and its various trappings such as flattery, grandeur, wealth, and office.
My response for this tender-hearted poem Good-Bye by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a farewell to the world and its materialistic pursuits..
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Divine and beautiful thoughts. The final flight begins beautifully in this poem. May he remain in eternal peace in his sylvan home in constant communion with God.