May-Day (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Daughter of Heaven and Earth, coy Spring,With sudden passion languishing,Maketh all things softly smile,Painteth pictures mile on mile,Holds a cup ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems (96 Poems)
Woodnotes (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
IWHEN the pine tosses its conesTo the song of its waterfall tones,Who speeds to the woodland walks?To birds and trees ...
The Adirondacs (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
A JOURNAL.DEDICATED TO MY FELLOW-TRAVELLERS IN AUGUST, 1858.Wise and polite,--and if I drewTheir several portraits, you would ownChaucer had no ...
Quatrains (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
S. H.With beams December planets dartHis cold eye truth and conduct scanned,July was in his sunny heart,October in his liberal ...
D (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Man was made of social earth,Child and brother from his birth;Tethered by a liquid cordOf blood through veins of kindred ...
Voluntaries (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
I.Low and mournful be the strain,Haughty thought be far from me;Tones of penitence and pain,Moanings of the tropic sea;Low and ...
The World-Soul (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the seething sea,To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free;Thanks to each ...
Boston (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Sicut Patribus, sit Deus Nobis)The rocky nook with hilltops threeLooked eastward from the farms,And twice each day the flowing seaTook ...
Gnothi Seauton (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
IIf thou canst bearStrong meat of simple truthIf thou durst my words compareWith what thou thinkest in my soul's free ...
The Titmouse (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
You shall not be overboldWhen you deal with arctic cold,As late I found my lukewarm bloodChilled wading in the snow-choked ...
Song of Nature (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Mine are the night and morning,The pits of air, the gulf of space,The sportive sun, the gibbous moon,The innumerable days.I ...
Boston Hymn (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
The word of the Lord by nightTo the watching Pilgrims came,As they sat by the seaside,And filled their hearts with ...
Solution (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
I am the Muse who sung alwayBy Jove, at dawn of the first day.Star-crowned, sole-sitting, long I wroughtTo fire the ...
To Rhea (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Thee, dear friend, a brother soothes,Not with flatteries, but truths,Which tarnish not, but purifyTo light which dims the morning's eye.I ...
The River Note (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
And I behold once moreMy old familiar haunts; here the blue river,The same blue wonder that my infant eyeAdmired, sage ...
Waldeinsamkeit (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
I do not count the hours I spendIn wandering by the sea;The forest is my loyal friend,Like God it useth ...
The Cumberland (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
At anchor in Hampton Roads we lay,On board of the Cumberland, sloop-of-war;And at times from the fortress across the bayThe ...
Astr (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Himself it was who wroteHis rank, and quartered his own coat.There is no king nor sovereign stateThat can fix a ...
Guy (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Mortal mixed of middle clay,Attempered to the night and day,Interchangeable with things,Needs no amulets nor rings.Guy possessed the talismanThat all ...
Ode (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
O tenderly the haughty dayFills his blue urn with fire;One morn is in the mighty heaven,And one in our desire.The ...
Good-bye (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home;Thou art my friend, and I'm not thine.Long through thy weary crowds I roam;A river-ark ...
The Snowstorm (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,Seems nowhere to alight: the whited ...
Worship (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
This is he, who, felled by foes, Sprung harmless up, refreshed by blows He to captivity was sold, But him ...
Beauty (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Was never form and never faceSo sweet to SEYD as only graceWhich did not slumber like a stone,But hovered gleaming ...
The Visit (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Askest "How long thou shall stay?"Devastator of the day!Know, each substance and relationThorough nature's operation,Hath its unit, bound, and metre,And ...
Art (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Give to barrows, trays, and pansGrace and glimmer of romance;Bring the moonlight into noonHid in gleaming piles of stone;On the ...
Una (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Roving, roving, as it seems,Una lights my clouded dreams;Still for journeys she is dressed;We wander far by east and west.In ...
The Rhodora: On Being Asked, Whence Is The Flower? (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes,I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods,Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp ...
Politics (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Gold and iron are goodTo buy iron and gold;All earth's fleece and foodFor their like are sold.Hinted Merlin wise,Proved Napoleon ...
Friendship (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
A ruddy drop of manly bloodThe surging sea outweighs,The world uncertain comes and goes;The lover rooted stays.I fancied he was ...