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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) good-bye. - The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 9 (Poems)
good-bye. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 9 (Poems) [1909]Edition used:The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in 12 vols. Fireside Edition (Boston and New York, 1909).
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- 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.)
good-bye.
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- Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home:
- Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.
- Long through thy weary crowds I roam;
- A river-ark on the ocean brine,
- Long I've been tossed like the driven foam;
- But now, proud world! I'm going home.
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- Good-bye to Flattery's fawning face;
- To Grandeur with his wise grimace;
- To upstart Wealth's averted eye;
- To supple Office, low and high;
- To crowded halls, to court and street;
- To frozen hearts and hasting feet;
- To those who go, and those who come;
- Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home.
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- I am going to my own hearth-stone,
- Bosomed in yon green hills alone,—
- A secret nook in a pleasant land,
- Whose groves the frolic fairies planned;
- Where arches green, the livelong day,
- Echo the blackbird's roundelay,
- And vulgar feet have never trod
- A spot that is sacred to thought and God.
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- O, when I am safe in my sylvan home,
- I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome;
- And when I am stretched beneath the pines,
- Where the evening star so holy shines,
- I laugh at the lore and the pride of man,
- At the sophist schools and the learned clan;
- For what are they all, in their high conceit,
- When man in the bush with God may meet?
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