Skip directly to:
Main content
Main navigation
University of Virginia Library
Search this document
Poems
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
1.
I POEMS
2.
II MAY-DAY AND OTHER PIECES
3.
III ELEMENTS AND MOTTOES
4.
IV QUATRAINS AND TRANSLATIONS
5.
V APPENDIX
6.
VI POEMS OF YOUTH AND EARLY MANHOOD 1823–1834
THE BELL
THOUGHT
PRAYER
TO-DAY
FAME
THE SUMMONS
THE RIVER
GOOD HOPE
LINES TO ELLEN
SECURITY
[A dull uncertain brain]
A MOUNTAIN GRAVE
A LETTER
[Day by day returns]
HYMN
SELF-RELIANCE
WRITTEN IN NAPLES
WRITTEN AT ROME
WEBSTER
FROM THE PHI BETA KAPPA POEM
[Why did all manly gifts in Webster fail]
Collapse All
|
Expand All
Poems
PRUDENCE
Theme
no poet gladly sung,
Fair to old and foul to young;
Scorn not thou the love of parts,
And the articles of arts.
Grandeur of the perfect sphere
Thanks the atoms that cohere.
Poems