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Ralph Waldo Emerson's Poetry, by title

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  • Alphonso Of Castile
    I Alphonso live and learn,
    Seeing nature go astern.
    82 lines, 1 comment
  • Art
    Give to barrows, trays, and pans
    Grace and glimmer of romance;
    27 lines
  • Astræ
    Himself it was who wrote
    His rank, and quartered his own coat.
    48 lines, 1 comment
  • Bacchus
    BRING me wine, but wine which never grew
    In the belly of the grape,
    67 lines
  • Beauty
    Was never form and never face
    So sweet to SEYD as only grace
    25 lines
  • Berrying
    May be true what I had heard,
    Earth's a howling wilderness
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Blight
    Give me truths,
    For I am weary of the surfaces,
    63 lines, 1 comment
  • Boston
    The rocky nook with hilltops three
    Looked eastward from the farms,
    106 lines
  • Boston Hymn
    The word of the Lord by night
    To the watching Pilgrims came,
    108 lines
  • Brahma
    If the red slayer think he slays,
    Or if the slain think he is slain,
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Celestial Love
    Higher far,
    Upward, into the pure realm,
    107 lines
  • Character
    The sun set, but set not his hope:
    Stars rose; his faith was earlier up:
    9 lines
  • Compensation
    Why should I keep holiday,
    When other men have none?
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • Concord Hymn
    By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
    Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
    18 lines, 2 comments
  • Culture
    Can rules or tutors educate
    The semigod whom we await?
    10 lines
  • Days
    Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,
    Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
    11 lines
  • Dirge
    Knows he who tills this lonely field
    To reap its scanty corn,
    52 lines
  • Dæmonic Love
    Man was made of social earth,
    Child and brother from his birth;
    160 lines
  • Each And All
    Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown,
    Of thee, from the hill-top looking down;
    51 lines
  • Eros
    The sense of the world is short, -
    Long and various the report, -
    6 lines, 1 comment
  • Etienne de la Boéce
    I serve you not, if you I follow,
    Shadow-like, o'er hill and hollow,
    24 lines
  • Experience
    The lords of life, the lords of life,—-
    I saw them pass,
    21 lines
  • Fable
    The mountain and the squirrel
    Had a quarrel;
    19 lines, 1 comment
  • Fate
    Deep in the man sits fast his fate
    To mould his fortunes, mean or great:
    16 lines
  • Forebearance
    Hast thou named all the birds without a gun;
    Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk;
    8 lines, 2 comments
  • Forerunners
    LONG I followed happy guides,
    I could never reach their sides;
    37 lines
  • Freedom
    Once I wished I might rehearse
    Freedom's paean in my verse,
    23 lines
  • Friendship
    A ruddy drop of manly blood
    The surging sea outweighs,
    20 lines
  • From the Persian of Hafiz I
        Butler, fetch the ruby wine,
        Which with sudden greatness fills us;
    161 lines
  • From the Persian of Hafiz II
        Of Paradise, O hermit wise,
        Let us renounce the thought.
    33 lines
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