Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here you will find thePoemSelf Relianceof poet Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self Reliance

HENCEFORTH, please God, forever I forego The yoke of men's opinions. I will be Light-hearted as a bird, and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, I hear continually his voice therein. horizontal dotted line The little needle always knows the North, The little bird remembereth his note, And this wise Seer within me never errs. I never taught it what it teaches me; I only follow, when I act aright.