Poems Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems Table of Contents Poems...................................................................................................................................................................1 Ralph Waldo Emerson.............................................................................................................................1 PREFACE................................................................................................................................................5 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.................................................................................................................12 I. POEMS............................................................................................................................................................18 GOOD−BYE..........................................................................................................................................18 EACH AND ALL..................................................................................................................................19 THE PROBLEM....................................................................................................................................20 TO RHEA..............................................................................................................................................22 THE VISIT.............................................................................................................................................23 URIEL....................................................................................................................................................24 THE WORLD−SOUL...........................................................................................................................25 THE SPHINX........................................................................................................................................28 ALPHONSO OF CASTILE...................................................................................................................32 MITHRIDATES....................................................................................................................................34 TO J.W...................................................................................................................................................35 DESTINY..............................................................................................................................................36 GUY.......................................................................................................................................................37 HAMATREYA......................................................................................................................................38 THE RHODORA:..................................................................................................................................40 THE HUMBLE−BEE............................................................................................................................40 BERRYING...........................................................................................................................................42 THE SNOW−STORM...........................................................................................................................42 WOODNOTES I....................................................................................................................................43 WOODNOTES II...................................................................................................................................46 MONADNOC........................................................................................................................................53 FABLE...................................................................................................................................................62 ODE.......................................................................................................................................................63 ASTRAEA.............................................................................................................................................65 ETIENNE DE LA BOECE....................................................................................................................66 COMPENSATION................................................................................................................................67 FORBEARANCE..................................................................................................................................67 THE PARK............................................................................................................................................68 FORERUNNERS...................................................................................................................................68 SURSUM CORDA................................................................................................................................69 ODE TO BEAUTY................................................................................................................................69 GIVE ALL TO LOVE...........................................................................................................................72 TO ELLEN AT THE SOUTH...............................................................................................................73 TO ELLEN.............................................................................................................................................74 TO EVA.................................................................................................................................................75 LINES....................................................................................................................................................75 THE VIOLET........................................................................................................................................76 THE AMULET......................................................................................................................................77 THINE EYES STILL SHINED.............................................................................................................77 EROS.....................................................................................................................................................78 HERMIONE..........................................................................................................................................78 INITIAL, DAEMONIC AND CELESTIAL LOVE..............................................................................80 II. THE DAEMONIC LOVE.................................................................................................................84 i Poems Table of Contents Poems III. THE CELESTIAL LOVE................................................................................................................87 THE APOLOGY....................................................................................................................................90 MERLIN I..............................................................................................................................................90 MERLIN II.............................................................................................................................................92 BACCHUS.............................................................................................................................................94 MEROPS...............................................................................................................................................95 THE HOUSE.........................................................................................................................................96 SAADI...................................................................................................................................................97 HOLIDAYS.........................................................................................................................................101 XENOPHANES...................................................................................................................................102 THE DAY'S RATION.........................................................................................................................102 BLIGHT...............................................................................................................................................103 MUSKETAQUID................................................................................................................................104 DIRGE.................................................................................................................................................106 THRENODY........................................................................................................................................108 CONCORD HYMN.............................................................................................................................114 II. MAY−DAY AND OTHER PIECES...........................................................................................................115