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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: emerson, ralph Matches Found: 573 Emerson, Ralph Waldo Poet's Biography 573 poems available by this author A DANGEROUS GIFT & GRACE IS MINE A DULL UNCERTAIN BRAIN A LETTER Poem Text First Line: Dear brother, would you know the life Last Line: And aim a telescope at the inviolate sun. Subject(s): Towns A MOUNTAIN GRAVE Poem Text First Line: Why fear to die Last Line: Of nature's child the common fate. Subject(s): Graves; Marriage; Mourning; Tombs; Tombstones; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement A NATION'S STRENGTH Poem Text First Line: Not gold, but only man can make Last Line: And lift them to the sky. Subject(s): Religion; Theology A PAIR OF CRYSTAL EYES WILL LEAD ME A POET IS AT HOME A PUFF OF AIR OR DRY OR DAMP A SCORE OF AIRY MILES WILL SMOOTH A SHOUT TO THE SHEPHERDS Poem Text First Line: Freshly, gaily, the rivulet flows Last Line: Good bye. Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses A.H. Poem Text First Line: High was her heart, and yet was well inclined Last Line: Minstrels, and kings, and high-born dames, and of the best that be. Subject(s): Hooper, Anne Sturgis ABRAHAM LINCOLN First Line: President lincoln stood before us as a man of the people AH STRANGE STRANGE STRANGE AH! NOT TO ME THESE DREAMS BELONG ALL THAT THY VIRGIN SOUL CAN ASK BE THINE ALL THE GREAT & GOOD ALL THINGS REHEARSE ALPHONSO OF CASTILLE Poem Text First Line: I, alphonso, live and learn Last Line: Fit to grace the solar year. ALWAYS DAY & NIGHT AN ANCIENT DROP OF FEUDAL BLOOD AN ANCIENT LADY WHO DWELT IN ROME AND DO I WASTE MY TIME AND HE LIKE ME IS NOT TOO PROUD AND HUNGRY DEBT BESIEGED MY DOOR AND MAN OF WIT & MARK AND RIVAL COXCOMBS WITH ENAMORED STARE AND THE BEST GIFT OF GOD AND THOUGH HE DEARLY PRIZED THE BARDS OF FAME AND WHEN I AM ENTOMBED IN MY PLACE APRIL Poem Text First Line: The april winds are magical Last Line: The lore we care to know. Subject(s): April AROUND THE MAN WHO SEEKS A NOBLE END ART Poem Text First Line: Give to barrows, trays and pans Last Line: Of human sense doth overfill. Variant Title(s): Make Tomorrow A New Morn! Subject(s): Justice ARTIST Poem Text First Line: Quit the hut, frequent the palace Last Line: Huntsmen find the easiest way. AS I WALKED IN THE WOOD AS THE DROP FEEDS ITS FATED FLOWER ASK NOT TREASURES FROM HIS STORE ASTRAEA (1) First Line: Each the herald is who wrote Last Line: But justice, journeying in the sphere, %daily stoops to harbour there ASTRAEA (2) Poem Text First Line: Himself it was who wrote / his rank, and quartered his own coat Last Line: Daily stoops to harbor there. AT LAST THE POET SPOKE AT PLYMOUTH IN THE FRIENDLY CROWD AT SEA, SEPTEMBER 1833 Poem Text First Line: Oft as I paced the deck Last Line: Has the star-bearing squadron left leghorn?' Subject(s): Sea Voyages ATOM FROM ATOM YAWNS AS FAR BACCHUS Poem Text First Line: Bring me wine, but wine which never grew / in the belly of the grape Last Line: The dancing pleiads and eternal men. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bacchus; Mythology - Classical; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse BARD OR DUNCE IS BLEST, BUT HARD BE OF GOOD CHEER, BRAVE SPIRIT; STEADFASTLY BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Was never form and never face Last Line: To die for beauty, than live for bread. Subject(s): Beauty BENDED TO FOPS WHO BENT TO HIM BERRYING Poem Text First Line: May be true what I had heard Last Line: No wisdom to our berries went?' Subject(s): Blackberries BLIGHT Poem Text First Line: Give me truths; / for I am weary of the surfaces Last Line: Of the toy's purchase with the length of life. Subject(s): Truth BLUEBEARD Poem Text First Line: Bluebeard. Let the gentle wife prepare Last Line: How to spoil her relish for it. BORROW URANIA'S SUBTILE WINGS BOSTON Poem Text First Line: The rocky nook with hilltops three Last Line: Or union nevermore again. Subject(s): Boston Tea Party BOSTON HYMN; READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863 Poem Text First Line: The word of the lord by night Last Line: His way home to the mark. Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Patriotism; Pilgrim Fathers; United States - History; United States; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; America BOTANIST Poem Text First Line: Go thou to thy learned task Last Line: What me the hours will bring. Subject(s): Botany & Botanists BRAHMA Poem Text First Line: If the red slayer think he slays Last Line: Find me, and turn thy back on heaven. Subject(s): Brahma; God; Religion; Theology BROTHER, NO DECREPITUDE BURN YOUR LITERARY VERSES BUT AS THIS FUGITIVE SUNLIGHT BUT GOD WILL KEEP HIS PROMISE YET BUT IF THOU DO THY BEST BUT NATURE WHISTLED WITH ALL HER WINDS BUT NEVER YET THE MAN WAS FOUND BUT O TO SEE HIS SOLAR EYES BY ART, BY MUSIC, OVERTHRILLED BY KINDS I KEEP MY KINDS IN CHECK BY THE UNACKNOWLEDGED TIE CARITAS Poem Text First Line: In the suburb, in the town Last Line: Him an angel whom she leads. Variant Title(s): Motto To 'new England Reformers' CASELLA Poem Text First Line: Test of the poet is knowledge of love Last Line: Who was not tremulous with love-lore. Subject(s): Love CELESTIAL LOVE First Line: But god said CELESTIAL LOVE First Line: And they serve men austerely CHARACTER; EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: The sun set, but set not his hope Last Line: As hid all measure of the feat. CHLADNI STREWED ON GLASS THE SAND CIRCLES Poem Text First Line: Nature centres into balls Last Line: A new genesis were here. Variant Title(s): Motto To 'circles' CLIMACTERIC Poem Text First Line: I am not wiser for my age Last Line: Ah! Could we turn the leaf. CLOUD UPON CLOUD (1) Poem Text First Line: Cloud upon cloud Last Line: The solitude sing CLOUD UPON CLOUD (2) Poem Text First Line: Cloud upon cloud Last Line: Virtue is a cockney grown COIN THE DAYDAWN INTO LINES COMFORT WITH A PURRING CAT COMPENSATION (1) Poem Text First Line: The wings of time are black and white Last Line: And, like thy shadow, follow thee. COMPENSATION (2) Poem Text First Line: Why should I keep holiday Last Line: And now their hour is come. COMRADE OF THE SNOW & WIND CONCORD HYMN; SUNG AT COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, 1836 Poem Text First Line: By the rude bridge that arched the flood Last Line: The shaft we raise to them and thee. Variant Title(s): The Concord Fight;hymn: Sung At The Completion Of The Concord Mounument Subject(s): American Revolution; Americans; Concord, Massachusetts; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Massachusetts; Monuments; Mourning; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Patriotism; Soldiers; United States; War; Independence Day; Liberty; Bereavement; America COSMOS Poem Text First Line: Who saw the hid beginnings Last Line: On its own first of may. CULTURE Poem Text First Line: Can rules or tutors educate Last Line: And the world's flowing fates in his own mould recast. CUPIDO Poem Text First Line: The solid, solid universe Last Line: The evil and the good. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros DAY BY DAY RETURNS DAYS Poem Text First Line: Daughters of time, the hypocritic days Last Line: Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn. Subject(s): Day; Time DEAR ARE THE PLEASANT MEMORIES DEAR ELLEN,MANY A GOLDEN YEAR DESTINY Poem Text First Line: That you are fair or wise is vain Last Line: Carries the eagles, and masters the sword. Variant Title(s): Fate (3) DIRGE First Line: I reached the middle of the mount Last Line: The silent organ loudest chants %the master's requiem' Subject(s): Brothers; Childhood Memories; Death; Love - Loss Of DIRGE First Line: In the long sunny afternoon DIRGE (1) Poem Text First Line: Knows he who tills this lonely field Last Line: "the master's requiem." Variant Title(s): Peter's Field Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts DIRGE, SELS. First Line: Hearken to yon pine-warbler DIVINE INVITERS! I ACCEPT DO THAT WHICH YOU CAN DO DOST THOU NOT HEAR ME ELLEN DUST UNTO DUST! AND SHALL NO MORE BE SAID EACH AND [OR, IN] ALL Poem Text First Line: Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown Last Line: I yielded myself to the perfect whole. Subject(s): Beauty; God; Humanity; Nature EARTH SONG First Line: Hear what the earth says- Last Line: But I hold them? EASY TO MATCH WHAT OTHERS DO ELIZABETH HOAR Poem Text First Line: Almost I am tempted to essay Last Line: Never a poor return on self. Subject(s): Aunts ENOUGH IS DONE HIGHMINDED FRIEND GO SLEEP EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: That each should in his house abide Last Line: Therefore was the world so wide EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: And as the light divided the dark Last Line: With adamantine words. EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Try the might the muse affords Last Line: Hang roses on the stony fate EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Pale genius roves alone Last Line: The wheat thou strew'st be souls. EPIGRAM First Line: If thought unlock her mysteries Last Line: I talk with kings the while EPIGRAM First Line: Not his the feaster's wine Last Line: Till his elected hour EROS (1) Poem Text First Line: The sense of the world is short Last Line: Tis not to be improved. Subject(s): Love EROS (2) Poem Text First Line: They put their finger on their lip Last Line: They love but name not love. Variant Title(s): Silence Subject(s): Love; Silence ETERNAL PAN Poem Text First Line: All the forms are fugitive Subject(s): Transcendentalism ETIENNE DE LA BOECE Poem Text First Line: I serve you not, if you I follow Last Line: That were freedom's whitest chart. Subject(s): Etienne De La Boetie (1530-1563) EVE ROVED IN PARADISE, I'VE HEARD EVER FIND ME DIM REGARDS Last Line: Hated mist if it came near Subject(s): Fame EVER THE ROCK OF AGES MELTS EXCELSIOR Poem Text First Line: Over his head were the maple buds Last Line: That drop from the angel's shoon. EXPERIENCE Poem Text First Line: The lords of life, the lords of life Last Line: "the founder thou; these are thy race!" FABLE: THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SQUIRREL Poem Text First Line: The mountain and the squirrel / had a quarrel Last Line: Neither can you crack a nut.' Subject(s): Mountains; Religion; Squirrels; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Theology FAME Poem Text First Line: Ah fate, cannot a man Last Line: And die to fame an honored martyr. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation FAR SEEN THE RIVER GLIDES BELOW FATE Poem Text First Line: Deep in the man sits fast his fate Last Line: Is the same genius that creates. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny FEW ARE FREE FINE PRESENTIMENTS CONTROLLED HIM FLOWER CHORUS Poem Text First Line: O such a commotion under the ground Last Line: Yes, millions beginning to grow. Subject(s): Flowers; March (month); Nature FOR DEATHLESS POWERS TO VERSE BELONG FOR EVERY GOD FOR GENIUS MADE HIS CABIN WIDE FOR JOY & BEAUTY PLANTED IT FOR LUCIFER, THAT OLD ATHLETE FOR LYRA YET SHALL BE THE POLE FOR NATURE TRUE & LIKE IN EVERY PLACE FOR THAT A MAN IS A MARK FOR WHAT NEED I OF BOOK OR PRIEST FORBEARANCE Poem Text First Line: Hast thou named all the birds without a gun? Last Line: O, be my friend, and teach me to be thine! FORBORE THE ANT HILL, SHUNNED TO TREAD FORERUNNERS Poem Text First Line: Long I followed happy guides, / I could never reach their sides Last Line: Peace that hallows rudest ways. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity FORESTER Poem Text First Line: He took the color of his vest Last Line: So walks the woodman, unespied. Subject(s): Lumber & Lumbering; Woodsmen FRAGMENTS ON NATURE AND LIFE Poem Text First Line: Daily the bending skies solicit man FRAGMENTS ON THE POET AND THE POETIC GIFT Poem Text First Line: There are beggars in iran and araby Last Line: Fenced by form and ceremony. FRAGMENTS ON THE POET AND THE POETIC GIFT Poem Text First Line: The gods walk in the breath of the woods Last Line: Whom kings & lords obey. FREEDOM Poem Text First Line: Once I wished I might rehearse / freedom's paean in my verse Last Line: Right thou feelest, rush to do.' Subject(s): Freedom; Science; Liberty; Scientists FRIENDS TO ME ARE FROZEN WINE FRIENDSHIP Poem Text First Line: A ruddy drop of manly blood Last Line: Are through thy friendship fair. Subject(s): Friendship FROM A FAR MOUNTAIN CREEPING DOWN FROM FRODMER'S DRAMA 'THE FRIENDS' Poem Text First Line: Malcolm, I love thee more than women love Last Line: Of ancient memories FROM HIGH TO HIGHER FORCES FROM NATURE'S BEGINNING FROM THE STORES OF ELDEST MATTER GARDENER Poem Text First Line: True bramin, in the morning meadows wet Last Line: See the plum redden, and the beurre stoop. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening GENTLE SPRING HAS CHARMED THE EARTH GIVE ALL TO LOVE Poem Text GIVE ALL TO LOVE GO IF THOU WILT AMBROSIAL FLOWER GO INTO THE GARDEN GO OUT INTO NATURE AND PLANT TREES GOD ONLY KNEW HOW SAADI DINED GOD THE LORD SAVE MASSACHUSETTS GOD'S ALTAR Poem Text First Line: There is in all the sons of men Last Line: Thyself dost give forevermore Subject(s): Religion; Theology GOOD CHARLES THE SPRINGS ADORER GOOD HOPE Poem Text First Line: The cup of life is not so shallow Last Line: Than angelo released. Subject(s): Hope; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Optimism GOOD-BYE Poem Text First Line: Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home Last Line: When man in the bush with god may meet? Variant Title(s): Goodbye Subject(s): God; Home; Religion; Solitude; Theology; Loneliness GRACE Poem Text First Line: How much, preventing god! How much I owe Last Line: Had not these me against myself defended. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving GUY Poem Text First Line: Mortal mixed of middle clay Last Line: And venture, and to guy the oil. HAFIZ Poem Text First Line: Her passions the shy violet Last Line: The bird to him confides. Subject(s): Hafez (1326-1390); Hafiz (1326-139) HAMATREYA Poem Text First Line: Minott, lee, willard, hosmer, meriam, flint / possessed the land Last Line: Like lust in the chill of the grave. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World HAMATREYA [DIFFERENT VERSION] Poem Text First Line: Minott, lee, willard, hosmer, meriam, flint / possessed the land which rendered Last Line: Like lust in the chill of the grave. HARD Poem Text First Line: Hard is it to persuade the public mind of its plain duty & true interest Last Line: Hang back behind the charitable will. Subject(s): Truth HE WHOM GOD HAD THUS PREFERRED HE COULD CONDENSE CERULEAN ETHER HE LIVES NOT WHO CAN REFUSE ME HE LOVED TO WATCH & WAKE HE MUST HAVE HE WALKED THE STREETS OF GREAT NEW YORK HEARST THOU, SWEET SPIRIT, THOU HAST HEARD BEFORE HEARTILY HEARTILY HEARTILY HEARTILY SING HERI, CRAS, HODIE Poem Text First Line: Shines the last age, the next with hope is seen Last Line: O friendless present! Than thy bosom holds. HERMIONE Poem Text First Line: On a mound an arab lay Last Line: "come to us herself to meet.""'" HEROISM Poem Text First Line: Ruby wine is drunk by knaves Last Line: And head-winds right for royal sails. Variant Title(s): The Hero Subject(s): Heroism; Heroes; Heroines HIS INSTANT THOUGHT THE POET SPOKE HISTORY Poem Text First Line: There is no great and no small / to the soul that maketh all Last Line: And it cometh everywhere. Variant Title(s): The Informing Spirit;no Great Nor Small;mottoes To 'history' HISTORY & PROPHECY ARE ALIKE HOLD OF THE MAKER, NOT THE MADE HOLIDAYS Poem Text First Line: From fall to spring, the russet acorn Last Line: Tis the turning of the tide. HONOR BRIGHT O MUSE HOROSCOPE Poem Text First Line: Ere he was born, the stars of fate Last Line: The gate of gifts behind him closed. HOW DREARILY IN COLLEGE HALL HUSH! Poem Text First Line: Every thought is public Last Line: And the gods from side to side. HYMN: 13, WRITTEN IN CONCORD SEPT. 1814 Poem Text First Line: Come heavenly muse my voice inspire Last Line: To save mankind from death and shame. I AM ALONE. SAD IS MY SOLITUDE I AM AN EXILE FROM MY HOME; HEAVILY I AM NOT BLACK IN MY MIND I AM OWNER OF THE SPHERE I CALL HER BEAUTIFUL; -- SHE SAYS I CANNOT FIND A PLACE SO LONELY I CARE NOT WHITHER I MAY GO I GRIEVE THAT BETTER SOULS THAN MINE I HAVE AN ARROW THAT CAN FIND ITS MARK I HAVE FOUND A NOBLER LOVE I HAVE NO BROTHERS AND NO PEERS I HAVE SUPPED WITH THE GODS TONIGHT I KNOW THE APPOINTED HOUR I LEAVE THE BOOK, I LEAVE THE WINE I LIVE AMONG IDEAL MEN I MUST NOT BORROW LIGHT I NEVER KNEW BUT ONE I SAT UPON THE GROUND I SPREAD MY GORGEOUS SAIL I TO MY GARDEN WENT I USE THE KNIFE I WEAR NO BADGE; NO TINSEL STAR I WILL NOT HESITATE TO SPEAK THE WORD I WILL NOT LIVE OUT OF ME I'VE FOUND THE DAINTY MALICE OUT IDEALISM Poem Text First Line: Deep in the soul a strong delusion dwells Last Line: Joy in the guileless heart his welcome will prepare Subject(s): Idealism IF BRIGHT THE SUN, HE TARRIES IF CURSES BE THE WAGE OF LOVE IF HE GO APART IF THY BODY PINE IF WISHES WOULD CARRY ME OVER THE LAND ILLUSIONS Poem Text First Line: Flow, flow the waves hated Last Line: And to endurance. Variant Title(s): Motto To 'illusions' Subject(s): Science; Scientists ILLUSIONS LIKE THE TINTS OF PEARL IMMANENT GOD First Line: Ever fresh the broad creation Subject(s): Religion IN DREAMY WOODS, WHAT FORMS ABOUND IN MEMORIAM; E.B.E. Poem Text First Line: I mourn upon this battle-field Last Line: Root in the blood of heroes old. Subject(s): Emerson, Edward Bliss (1805-1834) IN THE NAME OF GOD First Line: The american presidemt and the cabinet Last Line: The sweet omen of religion and liberty, %will stink to the world Subject(s): Native Americans; Social Protest IN THIS SOUR WORLD, O SUMMERWIND INITIAL, DAEMONIC, AND CELESTIAL LOVE: 1. THE INITIAL LOVE Poem Text First Line: Venus, when her son was lost Last Line: Yet melted would be twain. INITIAL, DAEMONIC, AND CELESTIAL LOVE: 2. DAEMONIC AND CELESTIAL LOVE Poem Text First Line: Man was made of social earth Last Line: And the parent of remorse. INITIAL, DAEMONIC, AND CELESTIAL LOVE: 3 Poem Text First Line: Higher far Last Line: He serves all who dares be true. INSCRIPTION FOR A WELL IN MEMORY OF THE MARTYRS OF THE WAR Poem Text First Line: Fall, stream, from heaven to bless; return as well Last Line: So did our sons; heaven met them as they fell. Subject(s): American Civil War; Fountains; Martyrs; United States - History INSIGHT First Line: Power that by obedience grows INSPIRED WE MUST FORGET OUR BOOKS INTELLECT Poem Text First Line: Rule which by obeying grows Last Line: Makes him to his own blood strange Subject(s): Knowledge INTELLECT Poem Text First Line: Intellect / gravely broods apart on joy Subject(s): Knowledge INTELLECT; EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Go, speed the stars of thought Last Line: The wheat thou strew'st be souls. Variant Title(s): Motto To 'intellect' IS JOVE IMMORTAL IS THE PACE OF NATURE SLOW? IT TAKES PHILOSOPHER OR FOOL JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text First Line: As I left my door Last Line: And parry & deal the thunderstroke. Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets KIND & HOLY WERE THE WORDS KING Poem Text First Line: If farmers make my land secure Last Line: Once in a year their company KNOW THYSELF' First Line: If thou canst bear LEAVE ME FEAR! THY THROBS ARE BASE LET MAN SERVE LAW FOR MAN Subject(s): Justice LET NOT CONCEITED SAGES LAUGH ALOUD LETTERS (1) Poem Text First Line: Every day brings a ship Last Line: Is the word they wish to hear. Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Separation; Isolation LETTERS (2) Poem Text First Line: My tongue is prone to lose the way Last Line: But surely put them better. Subject(s): Letters LIFE Poem Text First Line: A train of gay and clouded days Last Line: Escort us to a little grave. Subject(s): Life LIFE IS GREAT LIKE VAULTERS IN THE CIRCUS ROUND LIMITS Poem Text First Line: Who knows this or that Last Line: Is cruelty to thy cruelty. Subject(s): Rats LINES (WRITTEN BY ELLEN LOUISA TUCKER BEFORE HER MARRIAGE) Poem Text First Line: Love scatters oil LINES ON THE DEATH OF MISS M.B. FARNHAM Poem Text First Line: Come heavenly muse a suppliant asks thine aid Last Line: And bid thee leave the mansions of the dead. LINES TO ELLEN Poem Text First Line: Tell me maiden dost thou use Last Line: Or made what other purlieus proud? LOOK DANGER IN THE EYE IT VANISHES LOSS AND GAIN Poem Text First Line: Virtue runs before the muse Last Line: And better his desire. Subject(s): Virtue LOVE (1) Poem Text First Line: Love on his errand bound to go Last Line: And eat through alps its home to find. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE (2) Poem Text First Line: Love / asks nought his brother cannot give Last Line: Himself & his love intervene. Subject(s): Love LOVE AND THOUGHT Poem Text First Line: Two well-assorted travellers use Last Line: The pilgrims have each other lost. LOVE REIGNS FOREVER First Line: Ever in the strife of your own thoughts LOVE'S NOBILITY First Line: For this is love's nobility LOVER'S PETITION Poem Text First Line: Good heart, that ownest all! Last Line: The world were better left alone. MAIA Poem Text First Line: Illusion works impenetrable Last Line: By man who thirsts to be deceived. Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions; Reality MAIDEN SPEECH OF THE AEOLIAN HARP Poem Text First Line: Soft and softlier hold me, friends Last Line: And charm the anguish of the worst. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres MANNERS Poem Text First Line: Grace, beauty and caprice Last Line: Slips behind a tomb. MASK THY WISDOM WITH DELIGHT MAY Poem Text First Line: When all their blooms the meadows flaunt Last Line: On its own first of may. Subject(s): May (month) MAY-DAY Poem Text First Line: Daughter of heaven and earth, coy spring Last Line: Through earth to ripen, through heaven endure. Subject(s): Animals; Spring MEMORY Poem Text First Line: Night-dreams trace on memory's wall Last Line: The bias of the will betray. Subject(s): Memory MERLIN'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Of merlin wise I learned a song Last Line: And take their youth again. MERLIN: 1 Poem Text First Line: Thy trivial harp will never please Last Line: What they conceal. MERLIN: 2 Poem Text First Line: The rhyme of the poet Last Line: Fold us music-drunken in. MEROPS Poem Text First Line: What care I, so they stand the same Last Line: One word, no more, to say. MITHRIDATES Poem Text First Line: I cannot spare water or wine Last Line: But sun me in the capitol. Subject(s): Mithridates Vi Eupator (d. 63 B.c.); Mithrodates The Great MONADNOC Poem Text First Line: Thousand minstrels woke within me Last Line: "and forget me if he can." Subject(s): Monadnock (mountain), New Hampshire MONADNOCK FROM AFAR Poem Text First Line: Dark flower of cheshire garden Last Line: To draw all fancies to this spot. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Monadnock (mountain), New Hampshire MORE SWEET THAN MY REFRAIN MOTTO TO 'CONSIDERATIONS BY THE WAY' Poem Text First Line: Hear what british merlin sung Last Line: But for a friend is life too short. Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence MOTTO TO 'FATE' Poem Text First Line: Delicate omens traced in air Last Line: Is the same genius that creates. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny MOTTO TO 'GIFTS' Poem Text First Line: Gifts of one who loved me Last Line: Time they stopped for shame. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Love - Complaints MOTTO TO 'NATURE' Poem Text First Line: The rounded world is fair to see, / nine times folded in mystery Last Line: And hints the future which it owes. Subject(s): Nature MOTTO TO 'THE POET' Poem Text First Line: A moody child and wildly wise Last Line: Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets MUSIC Poem Text First Line: Let me go where'er I will, / I hear a sky-born music still Last Line: There alway, alway something sings. Variant Title(s): Something Sings;there Alway, Alway Something Sings;the Sky-born Music Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Religion; Theology MUSKETAQUID Poem Text First Line: Because I was content with these poor fields Last Line: "yet envies none, none are unenviable." Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts MY DAYS ROLL BY ME LIKE A TRAIN OF DREAMS MY GARDEN Poem Text First Line: If I could put my woods in song Last Line: He will spell in the sculpture, 'stay!' Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening MY THOUGHTS Poem Text First Line: Many are the thoughts that come to me Last Line: To their home elysian. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking NANTASKET Poem Text First Line: Lobster-car, boat, or fishbasket Last Line: Thee the fair haunts from whence they came! Subject(s): Nantasket, Massachusetts NATURE (1) Poem Text First Line: A subtle chain of countless rings Last Line: Mounts through all the spires of form. Variant Title(s): Motto To 'nature' Subject(s): Nature NATURE (2) Poem Text First Line: The patient pan Last Line: High as fly falcons, fancy builds Subject(s): Nature NATURE (3) Poem Text First Line: Day by day for her darlings to her much she added more Last Line: A door to something grander, -- loftier walls, & vaster floor. Variant Title(s): Science Subject(s): Nature NATURE IN LEASTS Poem Text First Line: As sings the pine-tree in the wind Last Line: Shed in each drop of wine. Subject(s): Nature NATURE SAITH NATURE SAYS Poem Text First Line: Nature says, / these craggy hills that front the dawn Last Line: Charged with my genius forth Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) NATURE WILL NOT LOSE NATURE: 1 Poem Text First Line: Winters know / easily to shed the snow Last Line: And feats achieve before they're named. Subject(s): Nature NATURE: 2 Poem Text First Line: She is gamesome and good, / but of mutuable mood Last Line: The master-stroke is still her part. Subject(s): Nature NATURES WEB STAR BROIDERED NEMESIS Poem Text First Line: Already blushes in thy cheek Last Line: Tighter wind the giant coils. NEW ENGLAND CAPITALIST Poem Text First Line: What are his machines Last Line: Now let him make a harp! Subject(s): Capitalism; New England NIGHT IN JUNE Poem Text First Line: I left my dreamy page and sallied forth Last Line: In fairy groves of herds grass Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NO FATE, SAVE BY THE VICTIM'S FAULT, IS LOW NO SONG SO TUNEFUL, QUOTH THE FOX NONE SPARES ANOTHER YET IT PLEASES ME NORTHMAN Poem Text First Line: The gale that wrecked you on the sand Last Line: And drives me where I go. Subject(s): Wind O BOSTON CITY LECTURE-HEARING O SUN! TAKE OFF THY HOOD OF CLOUDS O WHAT HAVE I TO DO O WHAT IS HEAVEN BUT THE FELLOWSHIP OCTOBER Poem Text First Line: October woods, wherein Last Line: Beyond the best conceit of pomp or power Subject(s): Forests; Woods ODE INSCRIBED TO W.H. CHANNING Poem Text First Line: Though loath to grieve / the evil time's sole patriot Last Line: The astonished muse finds thousands at her side. Subject(s): Channing, William Henry (1810-1884); Napoleon I (1769-1821); Social Protest ODE SUNG IN THE TOWN HALL, CONCORD, JULY 4, 1857 Poem Text First Line: O tenderly the haughty day Last Line: Ere freedom out of man. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Patriotism; Independence Day; Liberty ODE TO BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Who gave thee, o beauty Last Line: Unmake me quite, or give thyself to me! Subject(s): Beauty OIL & WINE OLD AGE Poem Text First Line: The brook sings on the selfsame strain Last Line: But finds no echo in my brain Subject(s): Old Age ON A RAISIN STONE ON BRAVELY THROUGH THE SUNSHINE & THE SHOWERS ON THAT NIGHT THE POET WENT ON THE CHAMBER, ON THE STAIRS ON THE DEATH OF MR. JOHN HASKINS Poem Text First Line: See the calm exit of the aged saint Last Line: A golden harp his hands immortal hold. ON THEE HAS GOD CONFERRED ONCE THE PRIEST ONE HAND WASHES THE OTHER ONE NIGHT HE DREAMED OF A PALACE FAIR ONE WHO MOBS THE MOB First Line: Do you understand how to infuse your reason - among thieves Last Line: He is a wit and a bully himself Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Social Protest ORATOR Poem Text First Line: He who has no hands Last Line: Because they are not strong. ORIGINAL - 'APROPOS' Poem Text First Line: Night slowly stretches o'er the changing skies Last Line: Nought through the mist could mortal sight descry. PAINTING AND SCULPTURE Poem Text First Line: The sinful painter drapes his goddess warm Last Line: Beauty, which limbs and flesh enough invest. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Sculpture & Sculptors PAN Poem Text First Line: O what are heroes, prophets, men Last Line: Races & planets its enchanted foam. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology) PAPAS BLONDINE PARKS AND PONDS Poem Text First Line: Parks & ponds are good by day Last Line: The sleeps of trees or dreams of herbs Subject(s): Night; Bedtime PEDANTS ALL PERHAPS THY LOT IN LIFE IS HIGHER PERICLES Poem Text First Line: Well and wisely said the greek Last Line: The furies wait beyond. Subject(s): Pericles (490-429 B.c.) PETER'S FIELD Poem Text First Line: Knows he who tills this lonely field Last Line: As a man unto his friend. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PHILOSOPHER Poem Text First Line: Philosophers are lined with eyes within Last Line: Scarce freed from her embraces Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers POEM ON ELOQUENCE BY R.W. EMERSON Poem Text First Line: When oer the world the son of genius rose Last Line: And stript of laurels quit the long-fought field Subject(s): Eloquence POEM, SPOKEN BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, AUGUST, 1934 Poem Text First Line: Is not this house a harp whose living chords Last Line: Shall greet with joy sublime the angel death. Subject(s): United States; America POET Poem Text First Line: To clothe the fiery thought Last Line: To mask a king in weeds. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POET Poem Text First Line: Ever the poet from the land Last Line: New worlds to find in pinnace frail. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POET First Line: Right upward on the road of fame POET OF POETS POETS ARE COLORPOTS POLITICS Poem Text First Line: Gold and iron are good Last Line: The republican at home. Subject(s): Politics & Government POUR THE WINE! POUR THE WINE! POWER Poem Text First Line: His tongue was framed to music Last Line: And his heart the throne of will. Variant Title(s): Motto To 'power' PRAYER Poem Text First Line: When success exalts thy lot Last Line: Are registered & answered still. Subject(s): Prayer PROMISE Poem Text First Line: In countless upward-striving waves Last Line: Fills for his proper sake. Variant Title(s): Nominalist And Realist;motto To 'nominalist And Realist' PROTEUS Poem Text First Line: Poet bred in saadi's school Last Line: Of dust of abasement. PRUDENCE Poem Text First Line: Theme no poet gladly sung Last Line: Thanks the atoms that cohere. Variant Title(s): Motto To 'prudence' Subject(s): Prudence; Caution PUBLIC SERVANT OF THE GODS First Line: I am primarily engaged to myself Subject(s): Justice PUT IN, DRIVE HOME THE SIGHTLESS WEDGES QUATRAIN: FATE Poem Text First Line: Her planted eye to-day controls Last Line: That curse her when they come. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny QUATRAIN: NATURE Poem Text First Line: Boon nature yields each day a brag which we now first behold Last Line: Too busied with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. Subject(s): Nature QUATRAIN: SELF-RELIANCE Poem Text First Line: Cast the bantling on the rocks Last Line: Power and speed be hands and feet. Variant Title(s): Power Subject(s): Self-reliance QUOTH SAADI, WHEN I STOOD BEFORE REBUKE First Line: Chide me not, laborious band Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening REX Poem Text First Line: The bard & mystic held me for their own Last Line: The honor done to me as done to them. RICHES Poem Text First Line: Have ye seen the caterpillar Last Line: He laugheth at his foes. Subject(s): Wealth; Riches; Fortunes ROOMY ETERNITY RUBIES Poem Text First Line: They brought me rubies from the mine Last Line: When shall that sun arise? S.H. Poem Text First Line: With beams december planets dart Last Line: October in his liberal hand. Subject(s): Hoar, Samuel (1778-1856) S.R. Poem Text First Line: Demure apothecary Last Line: Fill with new hopes, & shake with grand desire? Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Reed, Sampson (1800-1880) SAADI Poem Text First Line: Trees in groves Last Line: Plied for thee thy household tasks.' Subject(s): Sadi (1213-1292); Saadi SAADI HELD THE MUSE IN AWE SAADI LOVED THE NEW & OLD SACRIFICE Poem Text First Line: Though love repine, and reason chafe Last Line: When for the truth he ought to die.' Variant Title(s): The Safest Way Subject(s): Courage; Religion; Valor; Bravery; Theology SAMSON STARK AT DAGON'S KNEE SCHOLAR IS A BALL THATS SPENT SEA TOSSES AND FOAMS TO FIND Subject(s): Sea SEASHORE (1) Poem Text First Line: I heard or seemed to hear the chiding sea Last Line: To distant men, who must go there, or die. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEASHORE (2) Poem Text First Line: Here chimes no clock, no pedant calendar Last Line: And give my guest eternal afternoon. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore SECURITY Poem Text First Line: Though her eye seek other forms Last Line: And learn of love a new degree Subject(s): Courtship SEE HOW ROMANCE ADHERES SEE YONDER LEAFLESS TREES AGAINST THE SKY SEEMED TO ME -- NEVER MAID SEEMED, THO' THE SOFT SHEEN ALL ENCHANTS SELF-RELIANCE First Line: Henceforth, please god, forever I forego Subject(s): Self-reliance SEPTEMBER Poem Text First Line: In the turbulent beauty Last Line: To a man and to a maid. Variant Title(s): South Wind SEYD PLANTED WHERE THE DELUGE PLOUGHED SHAKESPEARE Poem Text First Line: I see all human wits Last Line: Lone as the blessed jew. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHALL THE MUSE SING FOR THOUSANDS & NOT SING SHE HAD WEALTH OF MORNINGS IN HER YEAR SHE NEVER COMES TO ME SHE PAINTS WITH WHITE & RED THE MOORS SHE WALKED IN FLOWERS AROUND MY FIELD SHUN PASSION, FOLD THE HANDS OF THRIFT SINCE THE DEVIL HOPPING ON SOFTENS THE AIR SO COLD & RUDE SOLAR INSECT ON THE WING SOLUTION Poem Text First Line: I am the muse who sung alway Last Line: And verses that all verse outlive. SONG Poem Text First Line: Shout for those whose course is done Last Line: O'er columbia Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Patriotism; Independence Day SONG OF NATURE Poem Text First Line: Mine are the night and morning Last Line: Gives back the bending heavens in dew. Subject(s): Nature SONG OF TALIESIN Poem Text First Line: Vain bards! I can discover all Last Line: All gates unbar, all bonds unbind. Subject(s): Taliesin SOUL'S PROPHECY Poem Text First Line: All before us lies the way SPEAK NOT THY SPEECH, FR. WOODNOTES Poem Text SPICES IN THE PLANTS THAT RUN SPIRITUAL LAWS Poem Text First Line: The living heaven thy prayers respect Last Line: The silver seat of innocence. ST. AUGUSTINE Poem Text First Line: For fifteen winter days Last Line: Of a good name, & pleasant memory! Subject(s): Augustine, Saint (354-430); Saints; Augustine Of Hippo STAR SEER COPERNICUS STOUT SPARTA SHRINED THE GOD OF LAUGHTER SUCH ANOTHER PEERLESS QUEEN SUMMONS First Line: A sterner errand to the silken troop SURSUM CORDA Poem Text First Line: Seek not the spirit, if it hide Last Line: For only it can absolutely deal. SUUM CUIQUE (1) Poem Text First Line: Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Last Line: Pay every debt, as if god wrote the bill. SUUM CUIQUE (2) Poem Text First Line: The rain has spoiled the farmer's day Last Line: In rain, or sun, or frost. Subject(s): Rain TACT Poem Text First Line: What boots it, thy virtue Last Line: It ends with to-day. TEACH ME I AM FORGOTTEN BY THE DEAD TEACH ME YOUR MOOD, O PATIENT STARS! TELL MEN WHAT THEY KNEW BEFORE TERMINUS (1) Poem Text First Line: It is time to be old Last Line: "and every wave is charmed." Subject(s): Aging; Death; Dead, The TERMINUS (2) Poem Text First Line: For thought & not praise Last Line: Into substance into law THANK THE GODS THY GOVERNORS THANKS TO THOSE WHO GO & COME THANKSGIVING First Line: For each new morning with its light THAT WANDERING FIRE TO ME APPEARS THE ADIRONDACS; A JOURNAL Poem Text First Line: We crossed champlain to keeseville with our friends Last Line: As if one riddle of the sphinx were guessed. Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York; Friendship; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE AMULET Poem Text First Line: Your picture smiles as first it smiled Last Line: Died in its last expression. Subject(s): Love THE APOLOGY Poem Text First Line: Think me not unkind and rude Last Line: Which I gather in a song. THE ARCHANGEL HOPE THE ASMODAEAN FEAT BE MINE THE ATOM DISPLACES ALL ATOMS BESIDE THE BELL Poem Text First Line: I love thy music, mellow bell Last Line: That sweeps my native shore. Subject(s): Bells THE BEST OF LIFE IS PRESENCE OF A MUSE THE BIRD WAS GONE -- THE GHASTLY TREES THE BLACKBIRD'S SONG THE BLACKBIRD'S SONG THE BOHEMIAN HYMN Poem Text First Line: In many forms we try / to utter god's infinity Last Line: Nor hymn, nor prayer, nor church. Subject(s): God THE BRAVE EMPEDOCLES DEFYING FOOLS THE CHARTIST'S COMPLAINT Poem Text First Line: Day! Hast thou two faces Last Line: Back, back to chaos, harlot day! THE CHICKADEE Poem Text First Line: Piped a tiny voice hard by Last Line: "when january brings new faces!" Subject(s): Chickadees THE CIVIL WORLD WILL MUCH FORGIVE THE COIL OF SPACE THE CONES OF LIGHT THE COMRADE OR THE BOOK IS GOOD THE CORAL WORM BENEATH THE SEA THE COSMIC EGG Poem Text First Line: Upon a rock, yet uncreate Last Line: But the alligator was potentator. Subject(s): Ingenuity THE CROWNING HOUR WHEN BODIES VIE WITH SOULS THE DAY'S RATION Poem Text First Line: When I was born Last Line: The nearest matters for a thousand days? THE DAYS PASS OVER ME THE DERVISH WHINED TO SAID THE DISCONTENT POET; A MASQUE Poem Text First Line: Lonely he sat, the men were strange Last Line: By the waters of life to seraphs heeding. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE EARTH Poem Text First Line: Our eyeless bark sails free Last Line: Strikes never moon or star. Subject(s): Earth; World THE ENCHANTER Poem Text First Line: In the deep heart of man a poet dwells Last Line: And gives persuasion to a gentle deed. THE FUTURE Poem Text First Line: How many big events to shake the earth Last Line: Lie packed in silence waiting for their birth. Subject(s): Future THE GENIAL SPARK THE POET FELT THE HARP Poem Text First Line: One musician is sure Last Line: Wherein was dropped the mortal spoil. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres THE HEAVY BLUE CHAIN THE HOUSE Poem Text First Line: There is no architect Last Line: Outlive the newest stars. Subject(s): Houses THE HOUSE OF GOD Poem Text First Line: We love the venerable house Last Line: Thou heart that lovest all. Variant Title(s): Hymn Sung At The Second Church, Boston ... Ordination Of Rev. Chandler Robbins Subject(s): Clergy; Religion; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology THE HUMBLE-BEE Poem Text First Line: Burly, dozing humble-bee, / where thou art is clime for me Last Line: Thy sleep makes ridiculous. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE HUSBAND HAS THE NEAREST ACRES THE LAND WAS ALL ELECTRIC THE LOW DECEMBER VAULT IN JUNE BE UP-LIFTED HIGH THE MIRACLE Poem Text First Line: I have trod this path a hundred times Last Line: Nay, heaven be witness, -- gave the names. Subject(s): Animals THE MUSE THE NUN'S ASPIRATION Poem Text First Line: The yesterday doth never smile Last Line: How lame the other limped away. Subject(s): Nuns THE PANOPLY OF PARADISE IS MINE THE PARK Poem Text First Line: The prosperous and beautiful Last Line: Leads all souls to the good. Subject(s): Parks THE PAST Poem Text First Line: The debt is paid Last Line: Alter or mend eternal fact. Subject(s): Past THE PILGRIMS Poem Text First Line: Behold I make partition Last Line: As they had been of yore. Subject(s): Pilgrim Fathers THE PROBLEM Poem Text First Line: I like a church; I like a cowl; / I like a prophet of the soul Last Line: I would not the good bishop be. Subject(s): Clergy; Soul; Taylor, Jeremy (1613-1667); Worship; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE RHODORA: ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER? Poem Text First Line: In may, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes Last Line: The self-same power that brought me there brought you. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Religion; Rhodora; Theology THE RIVER Poem Text First Line: Awed I behold once more Last Line: And soon may give my dust their funeral shade. Subject(s): Children; Growth; Nature; Rivers; Trees; Childhood THE ROMANY GIRL Poem Text First Line: The sun goes down, and with him takes Last Line: But without glass we fathom you. Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies THE RULES TO MEN MADE EVIDENT THE SEA Poem Text First Line: Behold the sea Last Line: Men to all shores that front the hoary main. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SEA REFLECTS THE ROSY SKY THE SIMPLE PEOPLE EACH WITH BASKET OR TOOL THE SKEPTIC Poem Text First Line: Madness, madness Last Line: Who terrifieth is afraid THE SNOW-STORM Poem Text First Line: Announced by all the trumpets 0f the sky, / arrives the snow Last Line: The frolic architecture of the snow. Variant Title(s): The Snowstorm Subject(s): Nature; Snow; Storms; Wind THE SPARROW IS RICH IN HER NEST THE SPHINX Poem Text First Line: The sphinx is drowsy, / her wings are furled Last Line: "is master of all I am." Subject(s): Egypt; Sphinx THE SPIRITS OF THE WISE, SIT ON THE CLOUDS THE SUN ATHWART THE CLOUD THOUGHT IT NO SIN THE SUN IS THE SOLE INCONSUMABLE FIRE THE TEST Poem Text First Line: I hung my verses in the wind Last Line: Which five hundred did survive? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE THREE DIMENSIONS Poem Text First Line: Room for the spheres!' -- then first they shined Last Line: And found it in variety. THE TITMOUSE Poem Text First Line: You shall not be overbold Last Line: Paean! Veni, vidi, vici. Subject(s): Birds; Chickadees THE VISIT Poem Text First Line: Askest, 'how long thou shalt stay' Last Line: Hatred's swift repulsions play. THE WALK Poem Text First Line: A queen rejoices in her peers Last Line: Will find with glass in ten times ten. Subject(s): Nature THE WATERFALL Poem Text First Line: A patch of meadow & upland Last Line: At the tread of the jubilant soul. Subject(s): Waterfalls THE WINDS ARE COLD, THE DAYS ARE DARK THE WORLD-SOUL Poem Text First Line: Thanks to the morning light Last Line: The warm rosebuds below. Subject(s): Civilization THERE IS NO EVIL BUT CAN SPEAK THERMOMETER Poem Text First Line: Mine to watch the sun at work Last Line: At the mean point of 54 Subject(s): Thermometers THESE TREES LIKE THO'TS THAT TO VISIONS CONGEAL THEY ENJOY A TEARLESS AGE' First Line: A new commandment,' said the smiling muse THINE EYES STILL SHINED FOR ME, THOUGH FAR THINGS OFT MISCALLING, AS THE HEN THINK NOT THE GODS RECEIVE THY PRAYER THIS NOBLE HEAD First Line: The very conditions of the game must always be Last Line: Werever they may wander in the earth Subject(s): Social Protest; Sumner, Charles (1811-1874) THIS SHINING HOUR IS AN EDIFICE THIS WORLD IS TEDIOUS THOU SHALT MAKE THY HOUSE THOU WERT THE MORNING STAR AMONG THE LIVING THOUGHT First Line: I am not poor, but I am proud Last Line: But thought will glow when the sun grows cold, %and mix with deity Subject(s): Reason THRENODY Poem Text First Line: The south-wind brings / life, sunshine, and desire Last Line: "lost in god, in godhead found." Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO ELLEN Poem Text First Line: And ellen, when the greybeard years Last Line: And all but deathless reason gone TO ELLEN, AT THE SOUTH Poem Text First Line: The green grass is bowing Last Line: Sings a tune that's worth the knowing.' Variant Title(s): The Wind In The Grass TO EVA Poem Text First Line: O fair and stately maid, whose eyes Last Line: With fire that draws while it repels. TO EVERY CREATURE TO J. W. Poem Text First Line: Set not thy foot on graves Last Line: God speed the mark! Subject(s): Weiss, John (1818-1879) TO RHEA Poem Text First Line: Thee, dear friend, a brother soothes Last Line: Is freed forever from his thrall. TO THE CLOCK Poem Text First Line: Hail requiem of departed time Last Line: The shuttles quiver as the loom's beams are shaken Subject(s): Clocks; Time TO THE MIZEN, THE MAIN, & THE FORE TO TRANSMUTE CRIME TO WISDOM, & TO STEM TODAY Poem Text First Line: I rake no coffined clay, nor publish wide Last Line: The fault that boys & nations soonest mend. TOO LATE THE ANXIOUS FIRE CAME TRAITORS THO' PLUMED & STEEL EQUIPPED TRIMOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: The land that has no song Last Line: Thou darling town of ours! Subject(s): Boston TURTLE IN SWAMP TWO RIVERS Poem Text First Line: Thy summer voice, musketaquit, / repeats the music of the rain Last Line: And ages drop in it like rain. Subject(s): Concord River, Massachusetts; Rivers UNA Poem Text First Line: Roving, roving, as it seems Last Line: He is hidden and unknown. UNITY Poem Text First Line: Space is ample, east and west Last Line: That works its will on age and hour. URIEL Poem Text First Line: It fell in the ancient periods Last Line: And the gods shook, they knew not why. Subject(s): Uriel USE WILL IN MAN NEW GRACE REVEAL VAIN AGAINST HIM WERE HOSTILE BLOWS VALEDICTORY POEM Poem Text First Line: Gambol and song and jubilee are done Last Line: And may god speed our perilous career! Subject(s): Commencement; Harvard University; Graduation VAN BUREN Poem Text First Line: The towers that generations did combine Last Line: To build & grace, a rat may undermine. VICTORIOUS First Line: Stainless soldier on the walls VIOLET (BY ELLEN LOUISA TUCKER) First Line: Why lingerest thou, pale violet, to see the dying year VOLUNTARIES Poem Text First Line: Low and mournful be the strain Last Line: All are ghosts beside. Subject(s): Freedom; Religion; Liberty; Theology WALDEINSAMKEIT Poem Text First Line: I do not count the hours I spend Last Line: Crowns all thy mean affairs. Subject(s): Forests; Woods WALDEN Poem Text First Line: In my garden three ways meet Last Line: To draw the dregs of wine. Variant Title(s): In My Garden Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Walden Pond, Massachusetts WALDEN WOOD Poem Text First Line: In walden wood the chickadee Last Line: Then drink in walden water. Subject(s): Walden Pond, Massachusetts WATER Poem Text First Line: The water understands Last Line: Elegantly destroy. Subject(s): Water WAVES Poem Text First Line: All day the waves assailed the rock Last Line: And breaks the glass of time. Subject(s): Time; Waves WE SAUNTERED AMIDST MIRACLES WE THANK THEE Poem Text First Line: For flowers that bloom about our feet Last Line: Father in heaven, we thank thee. Variant Title(s): Spring Prayer;thanksgiving Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day WEALTH Poem Text First Line: Who shall tell what did befall Last Line: To the conscience of a child. WEBSTER Poem Text First Line: Why did all manly gifts in webster fail? Last Line: He wrote on nature's grandest brow, for sale. Subject(s): Nature; Social Protest; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) WEBSTER First Line: Ill fits the abstemious muse a crown to weave Last Line: And burned in noble hearts proverb and profecy Subject(s): Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) WHAT ALL THE BOOKS OF AGES PAINT, I HAVE WHAT ARE ALL THE FLOWERS WHAT AVAILS IT ME WHAT FLOWING CENTRAL FORCES, SAY WHAT FROM THIS BARREN BEING DO WE REAP WHAT IS IT TO SAIL WHAT IS SUCCESS? Poem Text First Line: To laugh often and love much, to win Last Line: This is to have succeeded Subject(s): Life Change Events WHAT NEVER WAS NOT, & STILL WILL BE WHEN DEVILS BITE WHEN JANE WAS ABSENT EDGAR'S EYE WHEN THOU SITTEST MOPING WHEN THY SOUL WHEN WRATH & TERROR CHANGED JOVE'S REGAL PORT WHERE ART THOU WHERE IS SKRYMIR? GIANT SKRYMIR WHERE THE FUNGUS BROAD & RED WHILE THESE IS A COUNTRY TO SHARE First Line: We hear the screams of hunted wives and children Last Line: And depart to some land where freedom exists Subject(s): Social Protest; Sumner, Charles (1811-1874) WHOSO ALAS IS YOUNG WHY HONOR THE NEW MEN WHY SHOULD I LIVE WILLIAM DOES THY FRIGID SOUL WILLIAM RUFUS AND THE JEW Poem Text First Line: May it please my lord the king, -- there's a jew at the door Last Line: "quoth he, ""I think I'll keep the thirty for the payment of my pains." Subject(s): Jews; William Ii, King Of England (1056-1100); Judaism WISP & METEOR NIGHTLY FALLING WITH THE KEY OF THE SECRET HE MARCHES FASTER WOODNOTES: 1, 1 Poem Text First Line: For this present, hard / is the future of the bard Last Line: Coming and past eternities? WOODNOTES: 1, 2 Poem Text First Line: And such I knew, a forest seer Last Line: And at his bidding seemed to come. WOODNOTES: 1, 3 Poem Text First Line: In unploughed maine he sought the lumberers' gang Last Line: By god's own light illumined and foreshowed. WOODNOTES: 1, 4 Poem Text First Line: Twas one of the charmed days / when the genius of god doth flow Last Line: "the clay of their departed lover." Variant Title(s): The Heart Of All The Scene WOODNOTES: 2 Poem Text First Line: As sunbeams stream through liberal space Last Line: Than all it holds more deep, more high.' Variant Title(s): A Wood-note Subject(s): Holidays WOODS; A PROSE SONNET Poem Text First Line: Wise are ye, o ancient woods! Last Line: Always new, like time itself, or like love. Subject(s): Forests; Woods WORSHIP Poem Text First Line: This is he, who, felled by foes Last Line: Which is human, which is divine. WOULD YOU KNOW WHAT JOY IS HID WRITTEN AT ROME Poem Text First Line: Alone in rome. Why, rome is lonely too Last Line: The hour of heaven Subject(s): Rome, Italy WRITTEN IN A VOLUME OF GOETHE Poem Text First Line: Six thankful weeks, -- and let it be Last Line: In his plenty things so rare? Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832) WRITTEN IN NAPLES, MARCH, 1833 Poem Text First Line: We are what we are made; each following day Last Line: Thine elegy, sweet singer, sainted wife! Subject(s): God WRITTEN IN SICKNESS Poem Text First Line: I bear in youth the sad infirmities Last Line: And bid each awful muse drive the damned harpies hence. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness XENOPHANES Poem Text First Line: By fate, not option, frugal nature gave Last Line: Repeats one note. YE HAVE GRACE YET SOMETIME TO THE SORROW STRICKEN YOU SHALL NOT LOVE ME FOR WHAT DAILY SPENDS |
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