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CASELLA by RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: TEST OF THE POET IS KNOWLEDGE OF LOVE
Last Line: WHO WAS NOT TREMULOUS WITH LOVE-LORE.
Subject(s): 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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