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.)

waldeinsamkeit.

• • I do not count the hours I spend
  • In wandering by the sea:
  • The forest is my loyal friend,
  • Like God it useth me.
• • In plains that room for shadows make
  • Of skirting hills to lie,
  • Bound in by streams which give and take
  • Their colors from the sky;
• • Or on the mountain-crest sublime,
  • Or down the oaken glade,
  • O what have I to do with time?
  • For this the day was made.
• • Cities of mortals woe-begone
  • Fantastic care derides,
  • But in the serious landscape lone
  • Stern benefit abides.
• • Sheen will tarnish, honey cloy,
  • And merry is only a mask of sad,
  • But, sober on a fund of joy,
  • The woods at heart are glad.
• • There the great Planter plants
  • Of fruitful worlds the grain,
  • And with a million spells enchants
  • The souls that walk in pain.
• • Still on the seeds of all he made
  • The rose of beauty burns;
  • Through times that wear and forms that fade,
  • Immortal youth returns.
• • The black ducks mouuting from the lake,
  • The pigeon in the pines,
  • The bittern's boom, a desert make
  • Which no false art refines.
• • Down in yon watery nook,
  • Where bearded mists divide,
  • The gray old gods whom Chaos knew,
  • The sires of Nature, hide.
• • Aloft, in secret veins of air,
  • Blows the sweet breath of song,
  • O, few to scale those uplands dare,
  • Though they to all belong!
• • See thou bring not to field or stone
  • The fancies found in books;
  • Leave authors' eyes, and fetch your own,
  • To brave the landscape's looks.
• • Oblivion here thy wisdom is,
  • Thy thrift, the sleep of cares;
  • For a proud idleness like this
  • Crowns all thy mean affairs.