Emerson Book

	From Poems (1847)
	The rhodora	17
	The humble-bee	18
	Fable	21
	Astraea	22
	Etienne de la Boece	24
	Suum Cuique	25
	Compensation	25
	Forbearance	26
	Berrying	26
	Thine eyes still shined	27
	Eros	27
	Loss and gain	28
	Hamatreya	29
	The snow-storm	32
	Painting and sculpture	33
	Holidays	34
	From the Persian of Hafiz	35
	Ghaselle	41
	Xenophanes	43
	The day's ration	44
	Blight	46
	Musketaquid	49
	Hymn ('By the rude bridge that arched the flood')	51
	The sphinx	54
	Each and all	60
	The problem	62
	To Rhea	65
	The visit	68
	Uriel	70
	The world-soul	73
	From May-day and other pieces (1867)
	Brahma	81
	Nemesis	82
	Fate	83
	Freedom	84
	Ode sung in the town hall	85
	Boston hymn	87
	Love and thought	91
	Lover's petition	92
	Una	93
	Letters	94
	Rubies	95
	Merlin's song	96
	The test	97
	Nature I	98
	Nature II	99
	The Romany girl	100
	My garden	102
	The titmouse	105
	Days	109
	Sea-shore	110
	Two rivers	112
	Waldeinsamkeit	113
	Terminus	116
	The past	118
	Experience	119
	Compensation	120
	Culture	121
	Politics	122
	Heroism	123
	Character	123
	Friendship	124
	Beauty	125
	Manners	126
	Art	127
	Spiritual laws	128
	Unity	129
	Worship	130
	Quatrains	131
	From Selected poems (1876)
	The nun's aspiration	141
	Hymn ('we love the venerable house')	143
	Cupido	144
	Boston	145
	Silence	150
	The three dimensions	151
	Motto to 'The poet'	151
	Motto to 'Gifts'	152
	Motto to 'Nature'	152
	Motto to 'Nominalist and realist'	153
	Motto to 'History'	153
	South wind	154
	From The unpublished poems
	'William does thy frigid soul'	157
	'Perhaps thy lot in life is higher'	158
	Song	159
	'I spread my gorgeous sail'	160
	'O what is heaven but the fellowship'	161
	'Ah strange strange strange'	161
	'See yonder leafless trees against the sky'	161
	'Do that which you can do'	161
	'Few are free'	161
	Van Buren	162
	The future	162
	Rex	162
	'And when I am entombed in my place'	162
	'Bard or dunce is blest, but hard'	163
	'It takes philosopher or fool'	163
	'Tell men what they knew before'	163
	'I use the knife'	163
	'There is no evil but can speak'	163
	'The sea reflects the rosy sky'	163
	'In this sour world, o summerwind'	163
	'Look danger in the eye it vanishes'	164
	'As I walked in the wood'	164
	'I sat upon the ground'	165
	'Good Charles the spring's adorer'	165
	'Around the man who seeks a noble end'	165
	'In the deep heart of man a poet dwells'	165
	'O what are heroes prophets men'	166
	'Yet sometime to the sorrow stricken'	167
	'The Bohemian hymn'	167
	'Kind & holy were the words'	167
	'Divine inviters! : I accept'	169
	'Go if thou wilt ambrosial flower'	169
	'In Walden wood the chickadee'	170
	'Star seer Copernicus'	170
	'At last the poet spoke'	170
	'I grieve that better souls than mine'	171
	Nantasket	171
	Water	172
	'Where the fungus broad & red'	172
	From the stores of eldest matter'	175
	'And the best gift of God'	175
	'Stout Sparta shrined the god of laughter'	175
	'Brother, no decrepitude'	175
	'Who knows this or that'	176
	'Saadi loved the new & old'	176
	'And as the light divided the dark'	176
	'When devils bite'	177
	'Comfort with a purring cat'	177
	'I cannot find a place so lonely'	177
	'This shining hour is an edifice'	177
	'The sparrow is rich in her nest'	177
	'Bended to fops who bent to him'	178
	Elizabeth Hoar	178
	'Cloud upon cloud'	179
	'Since the devil hopping on'	180
	'Poets are colorpots'	181
	'Thanks to those who go & come'	181
	'I must not borrow light'	182
	'Comrade of the snow & wind'	182
	'God only knew how Saadi dined'	182
	'Friends to me are frozen wine'	183
	'That each should in his house abide'	183
	New England capitalist	183
	'On a raisin stone'	184
	'Go out into nature and plant trees'	184
	'Pale genius roves alone'	185
	'Burn your literary verses'	185
	'Intellect gravely broods apart on joy'	185
	'The civil world will much forgive'	186
	'Mask thy wisdom with delight'	186
	'Roomy eternity'	187
	Terminus	187
	'More sweet than my refrain'	188
	'O Boston city lecture-hearing'	188
	'A patch of meadow & upland'	188
	'And he like me is not too proud'	190
	'Park & ponds are good by day'	190
	'For Lyra yet shall be the pole'	190
	'A score of airy miles will smooth'	190
	'All things rehearse'	190
	'Pendants all'	191
	'I leave the book, I leave the wine'	191
	'Easy to match what others do'	191
	'If wishes would carry me over the land'	192
	Maia	192
	'Seyd planted where the deluge ploughed'	192
	'Forbore the ant hill, shunned to tread'	192
	'Borrow Urania's subtile wings'	193
	'The comrade or the book is good'	193
	'Is the pace of nature slow?'	193
	'Why honor the new men'	193
	'Think not the gods receive thy prayer'	194
	'Inspired we must forget our books'	194
	'Upon a rock yet uncreate'	194
	Longer poems
	Woodnotes I	197
	May-day	204
	The Adirondacs	230
	From The poet	244