Poems (Emerson, Household Edition, 1904)/Eros

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For other versions of this work, see Eros (Emerson, "The sense of the world is short").

EROS

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,
Not to be improved.