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.)

dirge.
concord, 1838.

• • I reached the middle of the mount
  • Up which the incarnate soul must climb,
  • And paused for them, and looked around,
  • With me who walked through space and time.
• • Five rosy boys with morning light
  • Had leaped from one fair mother's arms,
  • Fronted the sun with hope as bright,
  • And greeted God with childhood's psalms.
• • Knows he who tills this lonely field
  • To reap its scanty corn,
  • What mystic fruit his acres yield
  • At midnight and at morn?
• • In the long sunny afternoon
  • The plain was full of ghosts;
  • I wandered up, I wandered down,
  • Beset by pensive hosts.
• • The winding Concord gleamed below,
  • Pouring as wide a flood
  • As when my brothers, long ago,
  • Came with me to the wood.
• • But they are gone,—the holy ones
  • Who trod with me this lovely vale;
  • The strong, star-bright companions
  • Are silent, low and pale.
• • My good, my noble, in their prime,
  • Who made this world the feast it was,
  • Who learned with me the lore of time,
  • Who loved this dwelling-place!
• • They took this valley for their toy,
  • They played with it in every mood;
  • A cell for prayer, a hall for joy,—
  • They treated nature as they would.
• • They colored the horizon round;
  • Stars flamed and faded as they bade,
  • All echoes hearkened for their sound,—
  • They made the woodlands glad or mad.
• • I touch this flower of silken leaf,
  • Which once our childhood knew;
  • Its soft leaves wound me with a grief
  • Whose balsam never grew.
• • Hearken to yon pine-warbler
  • Singing aloft in the tree!
  • Hearest thou, O traveller,
  • What he singeth to me?
• • Not unless God made sharp thine ear
  • With sorrow such as mine,
  • Out of that delicate lay could'st thou
  • Its heavy tale divine.
• • ‘Go, lonely man,’ it saith;
  • 'They loved thee from their birth;
  • Their hands were pure, and pure their faith,—
  • There are no such hearts on earth.
• • ‘Ye drew one mother's milk,
  • One chamber held ye all;
  • A very tender history
  • Did in your childhood fall.
• • ‘You cannot unlock your heart,
  • The key is gone with them;
  • The silent organ loudest chants
  • The master's requiem,’