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Poems
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
1.
I POEMS
GOOD-BYE
EACH AND ALL
THE PROBLEM
TO RHEA
THE VISIT
URIEL
THE WORLD-SOUL
THE SPHINX
ALPHONSO OF CASTILE
MITHRIDATES
TO J. W.
DESTINY
GUY
HAMATREYA
THE RHODORA:
THE HUMBLE-BEE
BERRYING
THE SNOW-STORM
WOODNOTES I
WOODNOTES II
MONADNOC
FABLE
ODE
ASTRÆA
ÉTIENNE DE LA BOÉCE
COMPENSATION
FORBEARANCE
THE PARK
FORERUNNERS
SURSUM CORDA
ODE TO BEAUTY
GIVE ALL TO LOVE
TO ELLEN AT THE SOUTH
TO ELLEN
TO EVA
THE AMULET
THINE EYES STILL SHINED
EROS
HERMIONE
INITIAL, DÆMONIC AND CELESTIAL LOVE
THE APOLOGY
MERLIN I
MERLIN II
BACCHUS
MEROPS
THE HOUSE
SAADI
HOLIDAYS
XENOPHANES
THE DAY'S RATION
BLIGHT
MUSKETAQUID
DIRGE
THRENODY
CONCORD HYMN
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
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WRITTEN IN A VOLUME OF GOETHE
Six
thankful weeks,—and let it be
A meter of prosperity,—
In my coat I bore this book,
And seldom therein could I look,
For I had too much to think,
Heaven and earth to eat and drink.
Is he hapless who can spare
In his plenty things so rare?
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