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November 1909 Issue
November 1909 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Confessions of a "Best-Seller"
  • The Diary of Gideon Welles
  • The Coming O' the King
    Ruth Sawyer
  • Learn of the Earth
    Schuyler Van Rensselaer
  • The City's Noise
    Hollis Godfrey
  • The Making of a Professor
    Grant Showerman
Poem

Emotion

By Richard Watson Gilder
November 1909 Issue
Saved Stories
IN each pure rose of art, — earth’s richest dower, —
Lives an emotion moulded to a flower;
In every soul that wins through valorous strife
Trembles emotion moulded to a life.