The Online Library of Liberty

A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.

• Biographical Sketch.
• I.: Poems.
• The Sphinx.
• Each and All.
• The Problem.
• To Rhea.
• The Visit.
• Uriel.
• The World-soul.
• Alphonso of Castile.
• Mithridates.
• To J. W.
• Destiny.
• Guy.
• Hamatreya.
• Earth-song.
• Good-bye.
• The Rhodora: On Being Asked, Whence Is the Flower?
• The Humble-bee.
• Berrying.
• The Snow-storm.
• Woodnotes.
• Woodnotes.
• Monadnoc.
• Fable.
• Ode. Inscribed to W. H. Channing.
• Astræ
• étienne De La Boéce.
• Compensation.
• Forbearance.
• The Park.
• Forerunners.
• Sursum Corda.
• Ode to Beauty.
• Give All to Love.
• To Ellen At the South.
• To Eva.
• The Amulet.
• Thine Eyes Still Shined.
• Eros.
• Hermione.
• Initial, Dæmonic, and Celestial Love
• The Apology.
• Merlin.
• Merlin.
• Bacchus.
• Merops.
• Saadi.
• Holidays.
• Xenophanes.
• The Day's Ration.
• Blight.
• Musketaquid.
• Dirge. Concord, 1838.
• Threnody.
• Concord Hymn: Sung At the Completion of the Battle Monument, April 19, 1836.
• II.: May-day and Other Pieces.
• May-day.
• The Adirondacs. a Journal.
• Occasional and Misc. Pieces: Brahma.
• Fate.
• Freedom.
• Ode. Sung In the Town Hall, Concord, July 4, 1857.
• Boston Hymn. Read In Music Hall, January 1, 1863.
• Voluntaries
• Boston. Sicut Patribus, Sit Deus Nobib. [read In Faneuil Hall, On December 16, 1873, the Centennial Anniverary At the Destruction of the Tea In Roston Harbor.]
• Letters.
• Rubies.
• The Test. (musa Loquitur.)
• Solution.
• Hymn Sung At the Second Church, Boston, At the Ordination of Rev. Chandler Robbins.
• Nature and Life: Nature.
• Nature.
• The Romany Girl.
• Days.
• The Chartist's Complaint.
• My Garden.
• The Titmouse.
• The Harp.
• Sea-shore.
• Song of Nature.
• Two Rivers.
• Waldeinsamkeit.
• Terminus.
• The Nun's Aspiration.
• April.
• Maiden Speech of the æolian Harp.
• Cupido.
• The Past.
• The Last Farewell. Lines Written By the Author's Brother, Edward Bliss Emerson, Whilst Sailing Out of Boston Harbor, Bound For the Island of Porto Rico, In 1832.
• In Memoriam. Edward Bliss Emerson.
• Elements: Experience.
• Compensation.
• Politics.
• Heroism.
• Character. 1
• Culture.
• Friendship.
• Beauty.
• Manners.
• Art.
• Spiritual Laws.
• Unity.
• Worship.
• Quatrains.
• Translations.
• III.: Appendix.
• The Poet. 1
• Fragments On the Poet and the Poetic Gift. 1
• Fragments On Nature and Life.
• The Bohemian Hymn.
• Prayer.
• Grace.
• Eros.
• Written In Naples, March 1833.
• Written At Rome, 1833.
• Peter's Field. 1
• The Walk.
• May Morning.
• The Miracle.
• The Waterfall.
• Walden. 1
• Pan.
• Monadnoc From Afar.
• The South Wind.
• Fame.
• Webster. From the Phi Beta Kappa Poem, 1834.
• Written In a Volume of Goethe.
• The Enchanter.
• Philosopher.
• Limits.
• Inscription For a Well In Memory of the Martyrs of the War.
• The Exile. (after Taliessin.)

uriel.

• • It fell in the ancient periods
  • Which the brooding soul surveys,
  • Or ever the wild Time coined itself
  • Into calendar months and days.
• • This was the lapse of Uriel,
  • Which in Paradise befell.
  • Once, among the Pleiads walking,
  • Seyd overheard the young gods talking;
  • And the treason, too long pent,
  • To his ears was evident.
  • The young deities discussed
  • Laws of form, and metre jusi,
  • Orb, quintessence, and sunbeams,
  • What subsisteth, and what seems.
  • One, with low tones that decide,
  • And doubt and reverend use defied,
  • With a look that solved the sphere,
  • And stirred the devils everywhere,
  • Grave his sentiment divine
  • Against the being of a line.
  • ‘Line in nature is not found;
  • Unit and universe are round;
  • In vain produced, all rays return;
  • Evil will bless, and ice will burn;
  • As Uriel spoke with piercing eye,
  • A shudder ran around the sky;
  • The stern old war-gods shook their heads,
  • The seraphs frowned from myrtle-beds;
  • Seemed to the holy festival
  • The rash word boded ill to all;
  • The balance-beam of Fate was bent;
  • The bounds of good and ill were rent;
  • Strong Hades could not keep his own,
  • But all slid to confusion.
• • A sad self-knowledge, withering, fell
  • On the beauty of Uriel;
  • In heaven once eminent, the god
  • Withdrew, that hour, into his cloud;
  • Whether doomed to long gyration
  • In the sea of generation,
  • Or by knowledge grown too bright
  • To hit the nerve of feebler sight.
  • Straightway, a forgetting wind
  • Stole over the celestial kind,
  • And their lips the secret kept,
  • If in ashes the fire-seed slept.
  • But now and then, truth-speaking things
  • Shamed the angels’ veiling wings;
  • And, shrilling from the solar course,
  • Or from fruit of chemic force,
  • Procession of a soul in matter,
  • Or the speeding change of water,
  • Or out of the good of evil born,
  • Came Uriel's voice of cherub scorn,
  • And a blush tinged the upper sky,
  • And the gods shook, they knew not why.