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.)

hymn
sung at the second church, boston, at the ordination of rev. chandler robbins.

• • We love the venerahle house
  • Our fathers built to God;—
  • In heaven are kept their grateful vows,
  • Their dust endears the sod.
• • Here holy thoughts a light have shed
  • From many a radiant face,
  • And prayers of humble virtue made
  • The perfume of the place.
• • And anxious hearts have pondered here
  • The mystery of life,
  • And prayed the eternal Light to clear
  • Their doubts, and aid their strife.
• • From humble tenements around
  • Came up the pensive train,
  • And in the church a blessing found
  • That filled their homes again;
• • For faith and peace and mighty love
  • That from the Godhead flow,
  • Showed them the life of Heaven above
  • Springs from the life below.
• • They live with God; their homes are dust;
  • Yet here their children pray,
  • And in this fleeting lifetime trust
  • To find the narrow way.
• • On him who by the altar stands,
  • On him thy blessing fall,
  • Speak through his lips thy pure commands,
  • Thou heart that lovest all.

nature.

i.

• • Winters know
  • Easily to shed the snow,
  • And the untaught Spring is wise
  • In cowslips and anemonies.
  • Nature, hating art and pains,
  • Baulks and baffles plotting brains;
  • Casualty and Surprise
  • Are the apples of her eyes;
  • But she dearly loves the poor,
  • And, by marvel of her own,
  • Strikes the loud pretender down.
  • For Nature listens in the rose
  • And hearkens in the berry's bell
  • To help her friends, to plague her foes,
  • And like wise God she judges well.
  • Yet doth much her love excel
  • To the souls that never fell,
  • To swains that live in happiness
  • And do well because they please,
  • Who walk in ways that are unfamed,
  • And feats achieve before they're named.