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.)

bacchus.

• • Bring me wine, but wine which never grew
  • In the belly of the grape,
  • Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, reaching through
  • Under the Andes to the Cape,
  • Suffer no savor of the earth to scape.
• • Let its grapes the morn salute
  • From a nocturnal root,
  • Which feels the acrid juice
  • Of Styx and Erebus;
  • And turns the woe of Night,
  • By its own craft, to a more rich delight.
• • We buy ashes for bread;
  • We buy diluted wine;
  • Give me of the true,—
  • Whose ample leaves and tendrils curled
  • Among the silver hills of heaven
  • Draw everlasting dew;
  • Wine of wine,
  • Blood of the world,
  • Form of forms, and mould of statures,
  • That I intoxicated,
  • And by the draught assimilated,
  • May float at pleasure through all natures;
  • The bird-language rightly spell,
  • And that which roses say so well.
• • Wine that is shed
  • Like the torrents of the sun
  • Up the horizon walls,
  • Or like the Atlantic streams, which run
  • When the South Sea calls.
• • Water and bread,
  • Food which needs no transmuting,
  • Rainbow-flowering, wisdom-fruiting,
  • Wine which is already man,
  • Food which teach and reason can.
• • Wine which Music is,—
  • Music and wine are one,—
  • That I, drinking this,
  • Shall hear far Chaos talk with me;
  • Kings unborn shall walk with me;
  • And the poor grass shall plot and plan
  • What it will do when it is man.
  • Quickened so, will I unlock
  • Every crypt of every rock.
• • I thank the joyful juice
  • For all I know;—
  • Winds of remembering
  • Of the ancient being blow,
  • And seeming-solid walls of use
  • Open and flow.
• • Pour, Bacchus! the remembering wine;
  • Retrieve the loss of me and mine!
  • Vine for vine be antidote,
  • And the grape requite the lote!
  • Haste to cure the old despair,—
  • Reason in Nature's lotus drenched,
  • The memory of ages quenched;
  • Give them again to shine;
  • Let wine repair what this undid;
  • And where the infection slid,
  • A dazzling memory revive;
  • Refresh the faded tints,
  • Recut the aged prints,
  • And write my old adventures with the pen
  • Which on the first day drew,
  • Upon the tablets blue,
  • The dancing Pleiads and eternal men.