In the essay "Friendship", this transcendentalist observed, "Thou art to me a delicious torment"
[DOC] [TLE] Ralph Waldo Emerson - Christian Classics Ethereal Library ... [PAR] (1803-1882), Transcendentalist essayist, poet, and philosopher ... and he 
disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 
1,500... [DOC] [TLE] The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of ... [PAR] May 15, 2004 ... Manly Love: Romantic Friendship in American Fiction ..... all his life," and though 
Richardson is careful to observe that "most of them would .... poem by Emerson, "
Dedication," and his essay "Friendship," which Crain links as ... essay a letter 
from his journals, which ends: "Thou art to me a delicious torment.