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.)

boston hymn.
read in music hall, january 1, 1863.

• • The word of the Lord by night
  • To the watching Pilgrims came,
  • As they sat by the seaside,
  • And filled their hearts with flame.
• • God said, I am tired of kings,
  • I suffer them no more;
  • Up to my ear the morning brings
  • The ontrage of the poor.
• • Think ye I made this ball
  • A field of havoc and war,
  • Where tyrants great and tyrants small
  • Might harry the weak and poor?
• • My angel,—his name is Freedom,—
  • Choose him to be your king;
  • He shall cut pathways east and west
  • And fend you with his wing.
• • Lo! I uncover the land
  • Which I hid of old time in the West,
  • As the sculptor uncovers the statue
  • When he has wrought his best;
• • I show Columbia, of the rocks
  • Which dip their foot in the seas
  • And soar to the air-borne flocks
  • Of clouds and the boreal fleece.
• • I will divide my goods;
  • Call in the wretch and slave:
  • None shall rule but the humble,
  • And none but Toil shall have.
• • I will have never a noble,
  • No lineage counted great;
  • Fishers and choppers and ploughmen
  • Shall constitute a state.
• • Go, cut down trees in the forest
  • And trim the straightest boughs;
  • Cut down trees in the forest
  • And build me a wooden house.
• • Call the people together,
  • The young men and the sires,
  • The digger in the harvest field,
  • Hireling and him that hires;
• • And here in a pine state-house
  • They shall choose men to rule
  • In every needful faculty,
  • In church and state and school.
• • Lo, now! if these poor men
  • Can govern the land and sea
  • And make just laws below the sun,
  • As planets faithful be.
• • And ye shall succor men;
  • 'T is nobleness to serve;
  • Help them who cannot help again:
  • Beware from right to swerve.
• • I break your bonds and masterships,
  • And I unchain the slave:
  • Free be his heart and hand henceforth
  • As wind and wandering wave.
• • I cause from every creature
  • His proper good to flow:
  • As much as he is and doeth,
  • So much he shall bestow.
• • But, laying hands on another
  • To coin his labor and sweat,
  • He goes in pawn to his victim
  • For eternal years in debt.
• • To-day unbind the captive,
  • So only are ye unbound;
  • Lift up a people from the dust,
  • Trump of their rescue, sound!
• • Pay ransom to the owner
  • And fill the bag to the brim.
  • Who is the owner? The slave is owner,
  • And ever was. Pay him.
• • O North! give him beauty for rags,
  • And honor, O South! for his shame;
  • Nevada! coin thy golden crags
  • With Freedom's image and name.
• • Up! and the dusky race
  • That sat in darkness long,—
  • Be swift their feet as antelopes,
  • And as behemoth strong.
• • Come, East and West and North,
  • By races, as snow-flakes,
  • And carry my purpose forth,
  • Which neither halts nor shakes.
• • My will fulfilled shall be,
  • For, in daylight or in dark,
  • My thunderbolt has eyes to see
  • His way home to the mark.