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Ralph Waldo Emerson May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882 Poetry Listing Read More About Ralph Waldo Emerson below poetry list Poem Title First Lines Period # Lines # Reads 1: A Dull Uncertain Brain, A dull uncertain brain, 1831 22 555 2: A Letter Dear brother, would you know the life, 1831 22 512 3: A Mountain Grave Why fear to die And let thy body lie 1831 21 520 4: A.H. High was her heart, and yet was well inclined, 4 536 5: Alphonso Of Castile I, Alphonso, live and learn, 82 458 6: And When I Am Entombed In My Place, And when I am entombed in my place, 1833 12 527 7: April The April winds are magical 20 609 8: Art Give to barrows, trays and pans 28 513 9: Artist Quit the hut, frequent the palace, 4 603 10: Astraea Each the herald is who wrote 48 478 11: Bacchus Bring me wine, but wine which never grew 67 550 12: Be Of Good Cheer, Brave Spirit; Steadfastly Be of good cheer, brave spirit; steadfastly 16 448 13: Beauty Was never form and never face 26 620 14: Berrying May be true what I had heard, 12 480 15: Birds Darlings of children and of bard, 18 539 16: Blight Give me truths; For I am weary of the surfaces, 62 603 17: Borrowing Some of your hurts you have cured, 4 508 18: Boston - Sicut Patribus, Sit Deus Nobis The rocky nook with hilltops three 119 390 19: Boston Hymn The word of the Lord by night 88 424 20: Botanist Go thou to thy learned task, 4 521 21: Brahma If the red slayer think he slays, 16 443 22: Caritas In the suburb, in the town, 8 535 23: Casella Test of the poet is knowledge of love, 4 507 24: Character The sun set, but set not his hope: 10 516 25: Circles Nature centres into balls, 6 594 26: Climacteric I am not wiser for my age, 4 498 27: Compensation Why should I keep holiday 8 455 28: Compensation The wings of Time are black and white, 28 494 29: Concord Hymn By the rude bridge that arched the flood, 16 570 30: Cosmos Who saw the hid beginnings 28 490 31: Culture Can rules or tutors educate 11 506 32: Cupido The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love; 10 488 33: Day By Day Returns Day by day returns The everlasting sun, 1831 8 463 34: Days Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, 11 457 35: Destiny That you are fair or wise is vain, 50 488 36: Dirge I reached the middle of the mount 60 517 37: Each And All Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown 51 510 38: Earth-Song Mine and yours; Mine, not yours. Earth endures; 36 518 39: Epitaph Bethink, poor heart, what bitter kind of jest 8 457 40: Eros The sense of the world is short, 6 514 41: Eros They put their finger on their lip, 5 515 42: Étienne De La Boéce I serve you not, if you I follow, 24 409 43: Excelsior Over his head were the maple buds, 4 551 44: Experience The lords of life, the lords of life, 21 445 45: Fable The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, 19 639 46: Fame Ah Fate, cannot a man 1824 30 467 47: Fate Deep in the man sits fast his fate 16 562 48: Fate Her planted eye to-day controls, 4 532 49: Forbearance Hast thou named all the birds without a gun? 8 415 50: Forerunners Long I followed happy guides, 38 448 51: Forester He took the color of his vest 4 530 52: Fragments On Nature And Life - Life A train of gay and clouded days 146 487 53: Fragments On Nature And Life - Nature The patient Pan, Drunken with nectar, 143 729 54: Fragments On Nature And Life - The Earth Our eyeless bark sails free 4 503 55: Fragments On Nature And Life - The Heavens Wisp and meteor nightly falling, 2 590 56: Fragments On Nature And Life - Transition See yonder leafless trees against the sky, 19 452 57: Fragments On The Poet And The Poetic Gift There are beggars in Iran and Araby, 321 481 58: Freedom Once I wished I might rehearse 24 502 59: Friendship A ruddy drop of manly blood 20 589 60: Friendship Thou foolish Hafiz! Say, do churls 12 457 61: From Alcuin The sea is the road of the bold, 4 600 62: From Ali Ben Abu Taleb He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, 6 430 63: From Hafiz I said to heaven that glowed above, 16 437 64: From Ibn Jemin Two things thou shalt not long for, if thou love a mind serene; 4 424 65: From Omar Khayyam Each spot where tulips prank their state 8 456 66: From The Phi Beta Kappa Poem Ill fits the abstemious Muse a crown to weave 1834 22 425 67: Gardener True Brahmin, in the morning meadows wet, 4 562 68: Gifts Gifts of one who loved me, 4 505 69: Give All To Love Give all to love; Obey thy heart; 49 500 70: Good Hope The cup of life is not so shallow 1827 8 499 71: Good-Bye Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home: 30 472 72: Grace How much, preventing God, how much I owe 8 525 73: Greek: Adakryn Nemontai Aiona A New commandment,' said the smiling Muse, 5 468 74: Guy Mortal mixed of middle clay, 50 588 75: Hafiz Her passions the shy violet 4 487 76: Hamatreya Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Meriam, Flint, 64 446 77: Heri, Cras, Hodie Shines the last age, the next with hope is seen, 4 468 78: Hermione On a mound an Arab lay, 78 465 79: Heroism Ruby wine is drunk by knaves, 10 508 80: Holidays From fall to spring, the russet acorn, 20 482 81: Horoscope Ere he was born, the stars of fate 4 485 82: Hush! Every thought is public, 4 505 83: Hymn We love the venerable house 28 397 84: Hymn There is in all the sons of men 1831 28 448 85: I Bear In Youth The Sad Infirmities I bear in youth the sad infirmities 1827 8 484 86: Illusions Flow, flow the waves hated, 37 488 87: In Memoriam E.B.E. I mourn upon this battle-field, 116 426 88: Initial, Daemonic And Celestial Love Venus, when her son was lost, 413 448 89: Inscription For A Well In Memory Of The Martyrs Of The War Fall, stream, from Heaven to bless; return as well; 2 407 90: Insight Power that by obedience grows, 6 466 91: Intellect Go, speed the stars of Thought 4 547 92: Intellect Gravely it broods apart on joy, 2 472 93: Letters Every day brings a ship, 6 481 94: Limits Who knows this or that? 12 489 95: Lines To Ellen Tell me, maiden, dost thou use 1829 22 400 96: Lines Written By Ellen Louisa Tucker Shortly Before Her Marriage To Mr. Emerson Love scatters oil On Life's dark sea, 28 441 97: Love Love on his errand bound to go 4 587 98: Love And Thought Two well-assorted travellers use 12 491 99: Maia Illusion works impenetrable, 19 465 100: Maiden Speech Of The Aeolian Harp Soft and softlier hold me, friends! 23 448 101: Manners Grace, Beauty and Caprice 20 476 102: May-Day Daughter of Heaven and Earth, coy Spring, 523 439 103: Memory Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall 4 536 104: Merlin I Thy trivial harp will never please 77 503 105: Merlin II The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs; 53 474 106: Merlin's Song Of Merlin wise I learned a song, 40 473 107: Merops What care I, so they stand the same, 12 433 108: Mithridates I cannot spare water or wine, 32 443 109: Monadnoc Thousand minstrels woke within me, 408 418 110: Monadnoc From Afar Dark flower of Cheshire garden, 12 513 111: Music Let me go where'er I will, 18 673 112: Musketaquid Because I was content with these poor fields, 84 463 113: My Garden If I could put my woods in song 64 441 114: Nahant All day the waves assailed the rock, 4 568 115: Nature A subtle chain of countless rings 18 553 116: Nature Boon Nature yields each day a brag which we now first behold, 4 629 117: Nature I Winters know Easily to shed the snow, 21 503 118: Nature II She is gamesome and good, 23 465 119: Nature In Leasts As sings the pine-tree in the wind, 4 577 120: Nemesis Already blushes on thy cheek 16 432 121: Night In June I left my dreary page and sallied forth, 20 488 122: Northman The gale that wrecked you on the sand, 4 493 123: October October woods wherein 11 482 124: Ode - Inscribed To W.H. Channing Though loath to grieve The evil time's sole patriot, 97 378 125: Ode Sung In The Town Hall, Concord, July 4, 1857 O tenderly the haughty day 40 420 126: Ode To Beauty Who gave thee, O Beauty, 99 503 127: Orator He who has no hands 4 493 128: Pan O what are heroes, prophets, men, 12 524 129: Pericles Well and wisely said the Greek, 4 506 130: Peter's Field Knows he who tills this lonely field 40 460 131: Philosopher Philosophers are lined with eyes within, 12 396 132: Poet Ever the Poet from the land 4 492 133: Poet To clothe the fiery thought 4 517 134: Politics Gold and iron are good 26 450 135: Power His tongue was framed to music, 4 466 136: Power Cast the bantling on the rocks, 4 417 137: Prayer When success exalts thy lot, 1826 8 530 138: Promise In countless upward-striving waves 10 485 139: Prudence Theme no poet gladly sung, 6 490 140: Rex The bard and mystic held me for their own, 11 465 141: Riches Have ye seen the caterpillar 12 423 142: Rubies They brought me rubies from the mine, 12 424 143: S.H. With beams December planets dart 4 466 144: Saadi Trees in groves, Kine in droves, 176 470 145: Sacrifice Though love repine, and reason chafe, 4 492 146: Seashore I heard or seemed to hear the chiding Sea 50 502 147: Security Though her eye seek other forms 1829 12 423 148: Self-Reliance Henceforth, please God, forever I forego 5 392 149: September In the turbulent beauty 16 476 150: Shakspeare I see all human wits Are measured but a few; 4 552 151: Solution I am the Muse who sung alway 72 432 152: Song Of Nature Mine are the night and morning, 84 474 153: Song Of Seyd Nimetollah Of Kuhistan Spin the ball! I reel, I burn, 34 413 154: Sonnet Of Michel Angelo Buonarotti Never did sculptor's dream unfold 14 387 155: Spiritual Laws The living Heaven thy prayers respect, 12 451 156: Sunrise Would you know what joy is hid 37 439 157: Sursum Corda Seek not the spirit, if it hide 11 412 158: Suum Cuique Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? 22 397 159: Terminus It is time to be old, To take in sail: 40 550 160: The Adirondacs Wise and polite,--and if I drew 349 447 161: The Amulet Your picture smiles as first it smiled; 12 465 162: The Apology Think me not unkind and rude 20 482 163: The Bell I love thy music, mellow bell, 1823 16 461 164: The Bohemian Hymn In many forms we try 12 512 165: The Chartist's Complaint Day! hast thou two faces, 18 394 166: The Day's Ration When I was born, From all the seas of strength Fate filled a chalice, 32 390 167: The Enchanter In the deep heart of man a poet dwells 15 437 168: The Exile In Farsistan the violet spreads 20 447 169: The Exile The heavy blue chain 5 452 170: The Flute Hark, what, now loud, now low, the pining flute complains, 4 468 171: The Garden Many things the garden shows, 13 396 172: The Harp One musician is sure, 127 444 173: The House There is no architect 24 449 174: The Humble-Bee Burly, dozing humble-bee, 63 392 175: The Informing Spirit There is no great and no small 8 510 176: The Last Farewell Farewell, ye lofty spires 54 464 177: The Little Needle Always Knows The North, The little needle always knows the North, 1832 5 384 178: The Miracle I have trod this path a hundred times 36 432 179: The Nun's Aspiration The yesterday doth never smile, 49 513 180: The Park The prosperous and beautiful 16 443 181: The Past The debt is paid, The verdict said, The Furies laid, 21 440 182: The Poet Right upward on the road of fame 307 424 183: The Problem I like a church; I like a cowl; 72 435 184: The Rhodora: In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, 16 397 185: The River And I behold once more 1827 42 469 186: The Romany Girl The sun goes down, and with him takes 28 425 187: The Snow-Storm Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, 28 433 188: The Sphinx The Sphinx is drowsy, Her wings are furled: 132 354 189: The Summons A sterner errand to the silken troop 1826 24 430 190: The Test I hung my verses in the wind, 14 438 191: The Titmouse You shall not be overbold 104 386 192: The Violet Why lingerest thou, pale violet, to see the dying year; 16 467 193: The Visit Askest, 'How long thou shalt stay?' 30 472 194: The Walk A Queen rejoices in her peers, 8 505 195: The Waterfall A patch of meadow upland 20 434 196: The World-Soul Thanks to the morning light, 112 468 197: Thine Eyes Still Shined Thine eyes still shined for me, though far 12 402 198: Thought I am not poor, but I am proud, 1823 8 434 199: Threnody The South-wind brings 289 459 200: To Ellen And Ellen, when the graybeard years 12 412 201: To Ellen At The South The green grass is bowing, 36 358 202: To Eva O fair and stately maid, whose eyes 12 433 203: To J.W. Set not thy foot on graves; 23 408 204: To Rhea Thee, dear friend, a brother soothes, 75 417 205: To The Shah From Enweri Not in their houses stand the stars, 2 442 206: To The Shah From Enweri From thy worth and weight the stars gravitate, 2 423 207: To The Shah From Hafiz Thy foes to hunt, thy enviers to strike down, 2 397 208: To-Day I rake no coffined clay, nor publish wide 1824 18 375 209: Two Rivers Thy summer voice, Musketaquit, 20 389 210: Una Roving, roving, as it seems, 24 443 211: Unity Space is ample, east and west, 11 455 212: Uriel It fell in the ancient periods 56 431 213: Vast The Realm Of Being Is, Vast the realm of Being is, 1831 5 449 214: Voluntaries Low and mournful be the strain, 122 361 215: Waldeinsamkeit I do not count the hours I spend 48 449 216: Walden In my garden three ways meet, 48 463 217: Water The water understands Civilization well; 12 514 218: Wealth Who shall tell what did befall, 49 426 219: Webster Let Webster's lofty face 1831 6 393 220: Woodnotes I When the pine tosses its cones 146 448 221: Woodnotes II As sunbeams stream through liberal space 318 428 222: Worship This is he, who, felled by foes, 23 436 223: Written At Rome Alone in Rome. Why, Rome is lonely too; 1833 27 430 224: Written In A Volume Of Goethe Six thankful weeks,--and let it be 8 364 225: Written In Naples We are what we are made; each following day 1833 27 344 226: Xenophanes By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave 19 523 About: Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early 19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid 1800s. This page viewed 9881 times.

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