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.)

walden.1

• • In my garden three ways meet,
  • Thrice the spot is blest;
  • Hermit thrush comes there to build,
  • Carrier doves to nest.
• • There broad-armed oaks, the copses' maze,
  • The cold sea-wind detain;
  • Here sultry Summer over-stays
  • When Autumn chills the plain.
• • Self-sown my stately garden grows;
  • The winds and wind-blown seed,
  • Cold April rain and colder snows
  • My hedges plant and feed.
• • From mountains far and valleys near
  • The harvests sown to-day
  • Thrive in all weathers without fear,—
  • Wild planters, plant away!
• • In cities high the careful crowds
  • Of woe-worn mortals darkling go,
  • But in these sunny solitudes
  • My quiet roses blow.
• • Methought the sky looked scornful down
  • On all was base in man,
  • And airy tongues did taunt the town,
  • “Achieve our peace who can!”
• • What need I holier dew
  • Than Walden's haunted wave,
  • Distilled from heaven's alembic blue,
  • Steeped in each forest cave?
• • If Thought unlock her mysteries,
  • If Friendship on me smile,
  • I walk in marble galleries,
  • I talk with kings the while.
• • And chiefest thou, whom Genius loved,
  • Daughter of sounding seas,
  • Whom Nature pampered in these groves
  • And lavished all to please,—
• • What wealth of mornings in her year,
  • What planets in her sky!
  • She chose her best thy heart to cheer,
  • Thy beauty to supply.
• • Now younger pilgrims find the stream,
  • The willows and the vine,
  • But aye to me the happiest seem
  • To draw the dregs of wine.

[1.]This poem represents the early form of My Garden, which, in years, grew from this beginning.