Ralph Waldo Emerson Quatrain Signed.

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.

Item Number: 38046

Ralph Waldo Emerson Autograph quatrain signed, from Emerson’s poem, Sacrifice. It reads, “Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, Tis man’s perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die. R.W. Emerson.” Matted and framed with a photograph of Emerson. The entire piece measures 8.5 inches by 13 inches. Rare and desirable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.