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Poems
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
1.
I POEMS
2.
II MAY-DAY AND OTHER PIECES
3.
III ELEMENTS AND MOTTOES
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IV QUATRAINS AND TRANSLATIONS
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V APPENDIX
THE POET
FRAGMENTS ON THE POET AND THE POETIC GIFT
FRAGMENTS ON NATURE AND LIFE
NATURE
[The patient Pan]
[Come search the wood for flowers]
[Where the fungus broad and red]
[For Nature, true and like in every place]
[What all the books of ages paint, I have]
[But never yet the man was found]
[Atom from atom yawns as far]
[When all their blooms the meadows flaunt]
[The sun athwart the cloud thought it no sin]
[For joy and beauty planted it]
[What central flowing forces, say]
[Day by day for her darlings to her much she added more]
[She paints with white and red the moors]
[A score of airy miles will smooth]
THE EARTH
THE HEAVENS
TRANSITION
[Parks and ponds are good by day]
[In Walden wood the chickadee]
[The low December vault in June be lifted high]
THE GARDEN
[Solar insect on the wing]
BIRDS
WATER
NAHANT
SUNRISE
NIGHT IN JUNE
[He lives not who can refuse me]
[Seems, though the soft sheen all enchants]
[Put in, drive home the sightless wedges]
MAIA
[Illusions like the tints of pearl]
[The cold gray down upon the quinces lieth]
[Samson stark, at Dagon's knee]
[But Nature whistled with all her winds]
LIFE
THE BOHEMIAN HYMN
GRACE
INSIGHT
PAN
MONADNOC FROM AFAR
SEPTEMBER
EROS
OCTOBER
PETER'S FIELD
MUSIC
THE WALK
COSMOS
THE MIRACLE
THE WATERFALL
WALDEN
THE ENCHANTER
WRITTEN IN A VOLUME OF GOETHE
RICHES
PHILOSOPHER
INTELLECT
LIMITS
INSCRIPTION FOR A WELL IN MEMORY OF THE MARTYRS OF THE WAR
THE EXILE
[I have an arrow that will find its mark]
6.
VI POEMS OF YOUTH AND EARLY MANHOOD 1823–1834
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TRANSITION
See
yonder leafless trees against the sky,
How they diffuse themselves into the air,
And, ever subdividing, separate
Limbs into branches, branches into twigs,
As if they loved the element, and hasted
To dissipate their being into it.
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