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.)

hermione.

• • On a mound an Arab lay,
  • And sung his sweet regrets
  • And told his amulets:
  • The summer bird
  • His sorrow heard,
  • And, when he heaved a sigh profound,
  • The sympathetic swallow swept the ground,
• • ‘If it be, as they said, she was not fair,
  • Beauty's not beautiful to me,
  • But sceptred genius, aye inorbed,
  • Culminating in her sphere.
• • This Hermione absorbed
  • The lustre of the land and ocean,
  • Hills and islands, cloud and tree,
  • In her form and motion.
• • ‘I ask no bauble miniature,
  • Nor ringlets dead
  • Shorn from her comely head,
  • Now that morning not disdains
  • Mountains and the misty plains
  • Her colossal portraiture;
  • They her heralds be,
  • Steeped in her quality,
  • And singers of her fame
  • Who is their Muse and dame.
• • ‘Higher, dear swallows! mind not what I say.
  • Ah! heedless how the weak are strong,
  • Say, was it just,
  • In thee to frame, in me to trust,
  • Thou to the Syrian couldst belong?
• • I am of a lineage
  • That each for each doth fast engage;
  • In old Bassora's schools, I seemed
  • Hermit vowed to books and gloom,—
  • Ill-bestead for gay bridegroom.
  • I was by thy touch redeemed;
  • When thy meteor glances came,
  • We talked at large of worldly fate,
  • And drew truly every trait.
• • Once I dwelt apar,
  • Now I live with all;
  • As shepherd's lamp on far hill-side
  • Seems, by the traveller espied,
  • A door into the mountain heart,
  • So didst thou quarry and unlock
  • Highways for me through the rock.
• • ‘Now, deceived, thou wanderest
  • In strange lands unblest;
  • And my kindred come to soothe me.
  • Southwind is my next of blood;
  • He is come through fragrant wood,
  • Drugged with spice from climates warm,
  • And in every twinkling glade,
  • And twilight nook,
  • Unveils thy form.
  • Out of the forest way
  • Forth paced it yesterday;
  • And when I sat by the watercourse,
  • Watching the daylight fade,
  • It throbbed up from the brook.
• • ‘River and rose and crag and bird,
  • Frost and sun and eldest night,
  • To me their aid preferred,
  • To me their comfort plight;—
  • “Courage! we are thine allies,
  • And with this hint be wise,—
  • The chains of kind
  • The distant bind;
  • Deed thou doest she must do,
  • Above her will, be true;
  • And, in her strict resort
  • To winds and waterfalls
  • And autumn's sunlit festivals,
  • To music, and to music's thought,
  • Inextricably bound,
  • She shall find thee, and be found.
  • Follow not her flying feet;
  • Come to us herself to meet.”’