POEMS
Reading edition
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
HOUSEHOLD EDITION
1867, 1876, 1883, 1895, 1904 AND 1911
CONTENTS
PREFACE
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
I — POEMS
GOOD-BYE
EACH AND ALL
THE PROBLEM
TO RHEA
THE VISIT
URIEL
THE WORLD-SOUL
THE SPHINX
ALPHONSO OF CASTILE
MITHRIDATES
TO J.W.
DESTINY
GUY
HAMATREYA
THE RHODORA:
THE HUMBLE-BEE
BERRYING
THE SNOW-STORM
WOODNOTES I
WOODNOTES II
MONADNOC
FABLE
ODE
ASTRAEA
COMPENSATION
FORBEARANCE
THE PARK
FORERUNNERS
SURSUM CORDA
ODE TO BEAUTY
GIVE ALL TO LOVE
TO ELLEN AT THE SOUTH
TO ELLEN
TO EVA
LINES
THE VIOLET
THE AMULET
THINE EYES STILL SHINED
EROS
HERMIONE
INITIAL, DAEMONIC AND CELESTIAL LOVE
II. THE DAEMONIC LOVE
III. THE CELESTIAL LOVE
THE APOLOGY
MERLIN I
MERLIN II
BACCHUS
MEROPS
THE HOUSE
SAADI
HOLIDAYS
XENOPHANES
THE DAY'S RATION
BLIGHT
MUSKETAQUID
DIRGE
THRENODY
CONCORD HYMN
II — MAY-DAY AND OTHER PIECES
MAY-DAY
THE ADIRONDACS
BRAHMA
NEMESIS
FATE
FREEDOM
ODE
BOSTON HYMN
VOLUNTARIES
LOVE AND THOUGHT
UNA
BOSTON
LETTERS
RUBIES
MERLIN'S SONG
THE TEST
SOLUTION
HYMN
NATURE I
NATURE II
THE ROMANY GIRL
DAYS
MY GARDEN
THE CHARTIST'S COMPLAINT
THE TITMOUSE
THE HARP
SEASHORE
SONG OF NATURE
TWO RIVERS
WALDEINSAMKEIT
TERMINUS
THE NUN'S ASPIRATION
APRIL
MAIDEN SPEECH OF THE AEOLIAN HARP
CUPIDO
THE PAST
THE LAST FAREWELL
IN MEMORIAM E.B.E.
III — ELEMENTS AND MOTTOES
EXPERIENCE
COMPENSATION
POLITICS
HEROISM
CHARACTER
CULTURE
FRIENDSHIP
SPIRITUAL LAWS
BEAUTY
MANNERS
ART
UNITY
WORSHIP
PRUDENCE
NATURE
THE INFORMING SPIRIT
CIRCLES
INTELLECT
GIFTS
PROMISE
CARITAS
POWER
WEALTH
ILLUSIONS
IV — QUATRAINS AND TRANSLATIONS
QUATRAINS
HUSH!
ORATOR
ARTIST
POET
POET
BOTANIST
GARDENER
FORESTER
NORTHMAN
FROM ALCUIN
EXCELSIOR
BORROWING
NATURE
FATE
HOROSCOPE
POWER
CLIMACTERIC
HERI, CRAS, HODIE
MEMORY
LOVE
SACRIFICE
PERICLES
CASELLA
SHAKSPEARE
HAFIZ
NATURE IN LEASTS
TRANSLATIONS
SONNET OF MICHEL ANGELO BUONAROTTI
THE EXILE
FROM HAFIZ
EPITAPH
FRIENDSHIP
FROM OMAR KHAYYAM
FROM ALI BEN ABU TALEB
FROM IBN JEMIN
THE FLUTE
TO THE SHAH
TO THE SHAH
TO THE SHAH
SONG OF SEYD NIMETOLLAH OF KUHISTAN
V — APPENDIX
THE POET
FRAGMENTS ON THE POET AND THE POETIC GIFT
FRAGMENTS ON NATURE AND LIFE
NATURE
THE EARTH
THE HEAVENS
TRANSITION
THE GARDEN
BIRDS
WATER
NAHANT
SUNRISE
NIGHT IN JUNE
MAIA
LIFE
REX
SUUM CUIQUE
THE BOHEMIAN HYMN
GRACE
INSIGHT
PAN
MONADNOC FROM AFAR
SEPTEMBER
EROS
OCTOBER
PETER'S FIELD
MUSIC
THE WALK
COSMOS
THE MIRACLE
THE WATERFALL
WALDEN
THE ENCHANTER
WRITTEN IN A VOLUME OF GOETHE
RICHES
PHILOSOPHER
INTELLECT
LIMITS
INSCRIPTION FOR A WELL IN MEMORY OF THE MARTYRS OF THE WAR
THE EXILE
VI — POEMS OF YOUTH AND EARLY MANHOOD
THE BELL
THOUGHT
PRAYER
TO-DAY
FAME
THE SUMMONS
THE RIVER
GOOD HOPE
LINES TO ELLEN
SECURITY
A MOUNTAIN GRAVE
A LETTER
HYMN
SELF-RELIANCE
WRITTEN IN NAPLES
WRITTEN AT ROME
WEBSTER
FROM THE PHI BETA KAPPA POEM
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