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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
4.
IV QUATRAINS AND TRANSLATIONS
5.
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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[In Walden wood the chickadee]
In
Walden wood the chickadee
Runs round the pine and maple tree
Intent on insect slaughter:
O tufted entomologist!
Devour as many as you list,
Then drink in Walden water.
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