Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–188219th centuryWestern philosophy Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity. Friedrich Nietzsche thought he was "the most gifted of the Americans", and Walt Whitman called Emerson his "master".
Poems
148 poems- ALPHONSO OF CASTILE82 lines
- And in the lines of Omar:—44 lines
- APPENDIX28 lines
- ASTRAEA73 lines
- BACCHUS67 lines
- BERRYING12 lines
- BRAHMA.16 lines
- BY ELLEN LOUISA TUCKER16 lines
- Celestial Love107 lines
- Chief of song where poets feast144 lines
- COMPENSATION28 lines
- DAYS.11 lines
- DESTINY50 lines
- E. B. E.116 lines
- EACH AND ALL51 lines
- EARTH-SONG37 lines
- ELEMENTS AND MOTTOES24 lines
- EROS6 lines
- EXPERIENCE.21 lines
- FABLE19 lines
- FATE.16 lines
- FORBEARANCE8 lines
- FORERUNNERS38 lines
- FREEDOM.24 lines
- GIVE ALL TO LOVE49 lines
- GOOD-BYE30 lines
- GUY50 lines
- HAMATREYA27 lines
- HERMIONE78 lines
- HOLIDAYS20 lines
- I.34 lines
- I.21 lines
- I.4 lines
- I. THE INITIAL LOVE150 lines
- II.24 lines
- II.23 lines
- II.4 lines
- II.14 lines
- II. THE DAEMONIC LOVE131 lines
- III.16 lines
- III.4 lines
- III. THE CELESTIAL LOVE132 lines
- In FitzGerald's version the verses appear thus:—31 lines
- INSCRIBED TO W.H. CHANNING97 lines
- IV.35 lines
- IV.4 lines
- IX.4 lines
- L.4 lines
- LI.4 lines
- LIFE OF EDWARD FITZGERALD.91 lines
- LINES WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR'S BROTHER, EDWARD BLISS EMERSON, WHILST45 lines
- Loss And Gain16 lines
- LOVE AND THOUGHT.12 lines
- LOVER'S PETITION.25 lines
- MAY-DAY AND OTHER PIECES38 lines
- MERLIN I77 lines
- MERLIN II53 lines
- MERLIN'S SONG.28 lines
- MEROPS12 lines
- Mithridates34 lines
- MY GARDEN.64 lines
- NEMESIS.16 lines
- ODE SUNG IN THE TOWN HALL, CONCORD, JULY 4, 1857.40 lines
- Ode To Beauty99 lines
- ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER?16 lines
- POEMS60 lines
- POEMS OF YOUTH AND EARLY MANHOOD17 lines
- READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863.88 lines
- RENDERED INTO ENGLISH VERSE8 lines
- RUBIES.12 lines
- SEA-SHORE.50 lines
- SOLUTION.72 lines
- SONG OF NATURE.84 lines
- SURSUM CORDA11 lines
- TERMINUS.40 lines
- THE AMULET12 lines
- THE APOLOGY20 lines
- THE CHARTIST'S COMPLAINT.18 lines
- THE HOUSE24 lines
- THE HUMBLE-BEE63 lines
- The MS. runs thus:—4 lines
- THE PARK16 lines
- THE PAST.21 lines
- THE PROBLEM72 lines
- THE ROMANY GIRL.28 lines
- THE SNOW-STORM28 lines
- THE SPHINX132 lines
- THE TITMOUSE.104 lines
- THE VISIT30 lines
- THE WORLD-SOUL112 lines
- THINE EYES STILL SHINED12 lines
- TO E. FITZGERALD.24 lines
- TO ELLEN12 lines
- TO ELLEN AT THE SOUTH36 lines
- To Eva24 lines
- TO J.W.23 lines
- TO RHEA75 lines
- TWO RIVERS.20 lines
- UNA.24 lines
- URIEL56 lines
- V.17 lines
- V.4 lines
- VI.4 lines
- VII.4 lines
- VIII.4 lines
- WALDEINSAMKEIT.52 lines
- WOODNOTES I150 lines
- WRITTEN BY ELLEN LOUISA TUCKER SHORTLY BEFORE28 lines
- X.4 lines
- XI.28 lines
- XII.42 lines
- XIII.18 lines
- XIV.36 lines
- XIX.81 lines
- XL.4 lines
- XLI.4 lines
- XLII.4 lines
- XLIII.4 lines
- XLIV.4 lines
- XLIX.4 lines
- XLV.4 lines
- XLVI.4 lines
- XLVII.4 lines
- XLVIII.4 lines
- XV.13 lines
- XVI.41 lines
- XVII.16 lines
- XVIII.40 lines
- XX.33 lines
- XXI.39 lines
- XXII.31 lines
- XXIII.23 lines
- XXIV.56 lines
- XXIX.4 lines
- XXV.21 lines
- XXVI.38 lines
- XXVII.26 lines
- XXVIII.52 lines
- XXX.68 lines
- XXXI.4 lines
- XXXII.4 lines
- XXXIII.4 lines
- XXXIV.4 lines
- XXXIX.4 lines
- XXXV.4 lines
- XXXVI.4 lines
- XXXVII.4 lines
- XXXVIII.4 lines