Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, RALPH WALDO EMERSON, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR


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RALPH WALDO EMERSON, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Monadnock calls the winds from peak to sea
Last Line: Nor plato nearer to the empyrean!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Poetry & Poets


MONADNOCK calls the winds from peak to sea —
The clarion north wind and the full-choired west —
And bids the streams their cliff-born melody
Blend with the airy chants above his rest;
And wakes the pines to hymn his hundred years
In the weird symphonies he loved so well;
And listens — if perchance from starry spheres
Some echo of a kindred song should swell.

Poet whose lofty quest no creed could bar;
To whom the secret springs of life were known;
One with the wild rose and the evening star;
The mountain and the mart alike thy throne; —
For thee, from Nature's myriad voices now
And the deep heart of man, ascends a pæan:
Pan was not closer to the earth than thou,
Nor Plato nearer to the empyrean!





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