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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EMERSON, RALPH WALDO (1803-1882) Matches Found: 43 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BRAHMA, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the wild bowler thinks he bowls Last Line: The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all. Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) CARLYLE AND EMERSON, by MONTGOMERY SCHUYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A balefire kindled in the night Last Line: The star that beams above the seas. Subject(s): Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881); Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Writing & Writers EMERSON, by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Misfortune to have lived not knowing thee! Last Line: A scholar in thy university. Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) EMERSON, by CRAVEN LANGSTROTH BETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Voice of the deeps thou art! But not the wild Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) EMERSON, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We took it to the woods, we two Last Line: Went sauntering through the wood. Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) EMERSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall we say? In quietude Last Line: Our silence, best applause. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Grief; Life; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness EMERSON, by FRANKLIN BENJAMIN SANBORN Poem Source First Line: Lonely these meadows green Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Transcendentalism EMERSON; CONCORD, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farther horizons every year' Last Line: Content with nothing short of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Writing & Writers FROM THE GROVE PRESS, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Higgledy-piggledy / ralph waldo emerson Last Line: Based on a volume of / japanese prints Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) FROM THE GROVE PRESS, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Higgledy-piggledy %ralph waldo emerson Last Line: Based on a volume of %japanese prints Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 1. HIS SMILE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over peoria we lost the sun Last Line: When I was a boy I had a wart on the fight finger Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 1. HIS SMILE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over peoria we lost the sun Last Line: When I was a boy I had a wart on the right forefinger Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 2. THE WART, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At 38,000 feet you had better Last Line: At 38,000 feet that is hard to remember Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 2. THE WART, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At 38,000 feet you had better Last Line: At 38,000 feet that is hard to remember Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 3. THE SPIDER, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spider has more eyes than I have money Last Line: All you have to do it not argue Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 3. THE SPIDER, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spider has more eyes than I have money Last Line: All you have to do is not argue Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 4. ONE DRUNK ALLEGORY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not argue, unless, that is, you are the kind Last Line: To my right, far over kentucky, the stars are shining Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 4. ONE DRUNK ALLEGORY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not argue, unless, that is, you are the kind Last Line: To my right, far over kentucky, the stars are shining Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 5. MULTIPLICATION, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the christmas tree at rockefeller center were Last Line: In a room, somewhere, a telephone keeps ringing Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 5. MULTIPLICATION, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the christmas tree at rockefeller center were Last Line: In a room, somewhere, a telephone keeps ringing Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 6. WIND, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind comes off the sound, smelling Last Line: The wind gouges its knuckles into my eye. No wonder there are tears Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 6. WIND, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind comes off the sound, smelling Last Line: The wind gouges its knuckles into my eye. No wonder there are tears Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 7. DOES THE WILD ROSE?, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you reach home tonight you will see Last Line: Is it merely a delusion that they seem about to smile? Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 7. DOES THE WILD ROSE?, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you reach home tonight you will see Last Line: Is it merely a delusion that they seem about to smile? Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) LECTURES ON LOVE: 6. RALPH WALDO EMERSON (VARIANT OF 'ON LOVE'), by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you for coming to this lecture on love Last Line: Come lie down with me and devour the world Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) MY UPPER SHELVES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close at my feet in stolid rows they sit Last Line: So long as love is love and blooms a sole red rose! Subject(s): Books; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Graves; Love; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Tombs; Tombstones NATURE, by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: The earth has started her Last Line: With this butcher block of a world? Subject(s): Earth; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Nature NEW ENGLAND, SPRINGTIME, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Emerson thought the bride had one eye Last Line: Cattle cars rattling by at sunset. Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Missionaries & Missions; New England; Spring ON LOVE: RALPH WALDO EMERSON, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's devour the blessed apple of love Last Line: Come lie down with me and devour the world Variant Title(s): The Lectures On Love: 6. Ralph Waldo Emerson Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Love ON LOVE: RALPH WALDO EMERSON, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's devour the blessed apple of love Last Line: Come lie down with me and devour the world Variant Title(s): The Lectures On Love: 6. Ralph Waldo Emerso Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) R.W.E., by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Doors hast thou opened for us, thinker, seer! Last Line: A sense of widening worlds and ampler air. Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Freedom; Life; Nature; Soul; Liberty RALPH WALDO EMERSON, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the cloud that dimmed his sunset light Last Line: Itself, and stamps it with the seal of heaven. Subject(s): Death; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Life; Philosophy & Philosophers; Soul; Teaching & Teachers; Dead, The; Educators; Professors RALPH WALDO EMERSON, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His soul was one with nature everywhere Last Line: What heavenly glories opened on his sight? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) RALPH WALDO EMERSON, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text 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 RALPH WALDO EMERSON ADDRESSES THE ICBM SILO AT MINOT, by ROY BENTLEY Poem Source First Line: Great power, it would seem, does not make us happy Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) ROMANTICISM, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is to emerson I have turned now Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Death - Wives; Loss; Corpses; Cadavers SHIPWRECK, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three chinese in yellow coats stood on dunes, waist-high Last Line: Feeding everywhere. Subject(s): Disasters; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850); Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); James, Henry (1843-1916); Refugees; Shipwrecks; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) TO EMERSON, ON HIS 77TH BIRTHDAY, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! What to him our trivial praise or blame Last Line: Flashed the white splendor of god's grace from heaven? Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) TO R. W. E., by ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dry lighted soul, the ray that shines in thee Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) TO RALPH WALDO EMERSON, ON THE DEATH OF GARFIELD, SEPTEMBER, 1881, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Poet of every soul that grieves Last Line: This burden from the people's heart! Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881) TWO MOUNTAINS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Monadnock looms against the pale blue dome Last Line: Like emerson midst shifts of humankind. Subject(s): Earth; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Freedom; Mountains; New England; Sky; World; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain) WRITTEN IN EMERSON'S ESSAYS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O monstrous, dead, unprofitable world Last Line: Dumb judges, answer, truth or mockery? Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) WRITTEN IN EMERSON'S POEMS (FOR A CHILD), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight or morning, eve or noon Last Line: For morning shall proclaim you man. Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) |
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