The Past (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
The debt is paid,The verdict said,The Furies laid,The plague is stayed,All fortunes made;Turn the key and bolt the door,Sweet is ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems (96 Poems)
Manners (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Grace, Beauty, and CapriceBuild this golden portal;Graceful women, chosen men,Dazzle every mortal.Their sweet and lofty countenanceHis enchanted food;He need not ...
The Chartist’s Complaint (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Day! hast thou two faces,Making one place two places?One, by humble farmer seen,Chill and wet, unlighted, mean,Useful only, triste and ...
Self Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
HENCEFORTH, please God, forever I foregoThe yoke of men's opinions. I will beLight-hearted as a bird, and live with God.I ...
Poems (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
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Character (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
The sun set, but set not his hope:Stars rose; his faith was earlier up:Fixed on the enormous galaxy,Deeper and older ...
Culture (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Can rules or tutors educateThe semigod whom we await?He must be musical,Tremulous, impressional,Alive to gentle influenceOf landscape and of sky,And ...
Grace (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
How much, preventing God! how much I oweTo the defenses thou hast round me set:Example, custom, fear, occasional slow,These scorned ...
Waves (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
ALL day the waves assailed the rock, I heard no church-bell chime;The sea-beat scorns the minster clock And breaks the glass of ...
Merops (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
What care I, so they stand the same,- Things of the heavenly mind,- How long the power to give them ...
To J.W. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Set not thy foot on graves; Hear what wine and roses say; The mountain chase, the summer waves, The crowded ...
Monadnoc (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Merlin II (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs, Balance-loving nature Made all things in pairs. To every foot its ...
Musketaquid (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Because I was content with these poor fields, Low open meads, slender and sluggish streams, And found a home in ...
Merlin I (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Thy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, Free, ...
To Ellen, At The South (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
The green grass is growing, The morning wind is in it, 'Tis a tune worth the knowing, Though it change ...
Threnody (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead ...
Etienne de la Boéce (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
I serve you not, if you I follow, Shadow-like, o'er hill and hollow, And bend my fancy to your leading, ...
The Forerunners (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Long I followed happy guides,- I could never reach their sides. Their step is forth, and, ere the day, Breaks ...
The Sphynx (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
The Sphynx is drowsy, Her wings are furled, Her ear is heavy, She broods on the world.? "Who'll tell me ...
The Day’s Ration (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
When I was born, From all the seas of strength Fate filled a chalice, Saying, This be thy portion, child; ...
To Eva (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
O Fair and stately maid, whose eye Was kindled in the upper sky At the same torch that lighted mine; ...
Ode To William H. Channing (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Though loth to grieve The evil time's sole patriot, I cannot leave My buried thought For the priest's cant, Or ...
Mithridates (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
I cannot spare water or wine, Tobacco-leaf, or poppy, or rose; From the earth-poles to the Line, All between that ...
Tact (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
What boots it, thy virtue, What profit thy parts, While one thing thou lackest, The art of all arts! The ...
Saadi (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Trees in groves, Kine in droves, In ocean sport the scaly herds, Wedge-like cleave the air the birds, To northern ...
Painting And Sculpture (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
The sinful painter drapes his goddess warm, Because she still is naked, being drest; The godlike sculptor will not so ...
Suum Cuique (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
The rain has spoiled the farmer's day; Shall sorrow put my books away? Thereby are two days lost: Nature shall ...
Astræ (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Himself it was who wrote His rank, and quartered his own coat. There is no king nor sovereign state That ...
Uriel (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
IT fell in the ancient periods Which the brooding soul surveys, Or ever the wild Time coin'd itself Into calendar ...