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“1854 Why did all manly gifts in Webster fail?”
Why did all manly gifts in Webster fail?
He wrote on Nature’s grandest brow, For Sale.
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A Letter
Dear brother, would you know the life,
Please God, that I would lead?
On the first wheels that quit this weary town … Continue Reading …
A Letter
Day by day returns
The everlasting sun,
Replenishing material urns … Continue Reading …
A Mountain Grave
Why fear to die
And let thy body lie
Under the flowers of June, … Continue Reading …
Alphonso of Castile
I, Alphonso, live and learn,
Seeing Nature go astern.
Things deteriorate in kind; … Continue Reading …
April
The April winds are magical
And thrill our tuneful frames;
The garden walks are passional … Continue Reading …
Art
Give to barrows, trays and pans
Grace and glimmer of romance;
Bring the moonlight into noon … Continue Reading …
Artist (Quatrain)
Quit the hut, frequent the palace,
Reck not what the people say; … Continue Reading …
Astraea
Each the herald is who wrote
His rank, and quartered his own coat.
There is no king nor sovereign state … Continue Reading …
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Bacchus
Bring me wine, but wine which never grew
In the belly of the grape,
Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, reaching through, … Continue Reading …
Beauty
Was never form and never face
So sweet to SEYD as only grace
Which did not slumber like a stone, … Continue Reading …
Berrying
‘May be true what I had heard,—
Earth’s a howling wilderness,
Truculent with fraud and force,’ … Continue Reading …
Birds (Fragments On Nature And Life)
Darlings of children and of bard,
Perfect kinds by vice unmarred,
All of worth and beauty set … Continue Reading …
Blight
Give me truths;
For I am weary of the surfaces,
And die of inanition. If I knew … Continue Reading …
Borrowing (Quatrain)
Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived, … Continue Reading …
Boston
The rocky nook with hilltops three
Looked eastward from the farms,
And twice each day the flowing sea … Continue Reading …
Boston Hymn, read in Music Hall, January 1, 1863
The word of the Lord by night
To the watching Pilgrims came,
As they sat by the seaside, … Continue Reading …
Botanist (Quatrain)
Go thou to thy learned task,
I stay with the flowers of Spring:… Continue Reading …
Brahma
If the red slayer think he slays,
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways … Continue Reading …
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Caritas
In the suburb, in the town,
On the railway, in the square,
Came a beam of goodness down … Continue Reading …
Casella (Quatrain)
Test of the poet is knowledge of love,
For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove; … Continue Reading …
Character
The sun set, but set not his hope:
Stars rose; his faith was earlier up:
Fixed on the enormous galaxy, … Continue Reading …
Circles
Nature centres into balls,
And her proud ephemerals,
Fast to surface and outside, … Continue Reading …
Climacteric (Quatrain)
I am not wiser for my age,
Nor skilful by my grief; … Continue Reading …
Compensation
Why should I keep holiday
When other men have none?
Why but because, when these are gay, … Continue Reading …
Compensation
The wings of Time are black and white,
Pied with morning and with night.
Mountain tall and ocean deep … Continue Reading …
Concord Hymn
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood … Continue Reading …
Cosmos (Fragments On Nature And Life)
Who saw the hid beginnings
When Chaos and Order strove,
Or who can date the morning. … Continue Reading …
Culture
Can rules or tutors educate
The semigod whom we await?
He must be musical, … Continue Reading …
Cupido
The solid, solid universe
Is pervious to Love;
With bandaged eyes he never errs, … Continue Reading …
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Days
Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,
Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
And marching single in an endless file, … Continue Reading …
Destiny
That you are fair or wise is vain,
Or strong, or rich, or generous;
You must add the untaught strain … Continue Reading …
Dirge
I reached the middle of the mount
Up which the incarnate soul must climb,
And paused for them, and looked around, … Continue Reading …
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Each and All
Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown
Of thee from the hill-top looking down;
The heifer that lows in the upland farm,… Continue Reading…
Eros
The sense of the world is short,—
Long and various the report,—
To love and be beloved; … Continue Reading …
Eros (Fragments On Nature And Life)
They put their finger on their lip,
The Powers above:
The seas their islands clip, … Continue Reading …
Étienne de la Boéce
I serve you not, if you I follow,
Shadowlike, o’er hill and hollow;
And bend my fancy to your leading, … Continue Reading …
Excelsior (Quatrain)
Over his head were the maple buds,
And over the tree was the moon, … Continue Reading …
Experience
The lords of life, the lords of life,—
I saw them pass
In their own guise, … Continue Reading …
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Fable
The mountain and the squirrel
Had a quarrel,
And the former called the latter ‘Little Prig; … Continue Reading …
Fame
Ah Fate, cannot a man
Be wise without a beard?
East, West, from Beer to Dan, … Continue Reading …
Fate
Deep in the man sits fast his fate
To mould his fortunes, mean or great:
Unknown to Cromwell as to me … Continue Reading …
Fate (Quatrain)
Her planted eye to-day controls,
Is in the morrow most at home, … Continue Reading …
Forbearance
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk?
At rich men’s tables eaten bread and pulse? … Continue Reading …
Forerunners
Long I followed happy guides,
I could never reach their sides;
Their step is forth, and, ere the day … Continue Reading …
Forester (Quatrain)
He took the color of his vest
From rabbit’s coat or grouse’s breast; … Continue Reading …
Fragments on the Poet and the Poetic Gift
There are beggars in Iran and Araby,
SAID was hungrier than all;
Hafiz said he was a fly … Continue Reading …
Freedom
Once I wished I might rehearse
Freedom’s paean in my verse,
That the slave who caught the strain … Continue Reading …
Friendship
A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs,
The world uncertain comes and goes; … Continue Reading …
From Alcuin (Quatrain)
The sea is the road of the bold,
Frontier of the wheat-sown plains, … Continue Reading …
From the Phi Beta Kappa Poem
Ill fits the abstemious Muse a crown to weave
For living brows; ill fits them to receive:
And yet, if virtue abrogate the law, … Continue Reading …
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Gardener (Quatrain)
True Brahmin, in the morning meadows wet,
Expound the Vedas of the violet, … Continue Reading …
Gifts
Gifts of one who loved me,—
‘T was high time they came; … Continue Reading …
Give all to Love
Give all to love;
Obey thy heart;
Friends, kindred, days, … Continue Reading …
Good-bye
Good-bye, proud world! I’m going home:
Thou art not my friend, and I’m not thine.
Long through thy weary crowds I roam; … Continue Reading …
Good Hope
The cup of life is not so shallow
That we have drained the best,
That all the wine at once we swallow … Continue Reading …
Grace (Fragments On Nature And Life)
How much, preventing God, how much I owe
To the defences thou hast round me set;
Example, custom, fear, occasion slow,— … Continue Reading …
Guy
Mortal mixed of middle clay,
Attempered to the night and day,
Interchangeable with things, … Continue Reading …
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Hafiz (Quatrain)
Her passions the shy violet
From Hafiz never hides; … Continue Reading …
Hamatreya
Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Meriam, Flint,
Possessed the land which rendered to their toil
Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood. … Continue Reading …
Heri, Cras, Hodie (Quatrain)
Shines the last age, the next with hope is seen,
To-day slinks poorly off unmarked between: … Continue Reading …
Hermione
On a mound an Arab lay,
And sung his sweet regrets
And told his amulets: … Continue Reading …
Heroism
Ruby wine is drunk by knaves,
Sugar spends to fatten slaves,
Rose and vine-leaf deck buffoons; … Continue Reading …
High was her heart, and yet was well inclined (Quatrains)
High was her heart, and yet was well inclined,
Her manners made of bounty well refined; … Continue Reading …
Holidays
From fall to spring, the russet acorn,
Fruit beloved of maid and boy,
Lent itself beneath the forest, … Continue Reading …
Horoscope (Quatrain)
Ere he was born, the stars of fate
Plotted to make him rich and great: … Continue Reading …
Hush! (Quatrains)
Every thought is public,
Every nook is wide; … Continue Reading …
Hymn sung at the Second Church, at the Ordination of Boston
We love the venerable house
Our fathers built to God;—
In heaven are kept their grateful vows, … Continue Reading …
Hymn
There is in all the sons of men
A love that in the spirit dwells,
That panteth after things unseen, … Continue Reading …
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Illusions
Flow, flow the waves hated,
Accursed, adored,
The waves of mutation; … Continue Reading …
In Memoriam E.B.E.
I mourn upon this battle-field,
But not for those who perished here.
Behold the river-bank … Continue Reading …
Initial, Daemonic and Celestial Love
Venus, when her son was lost,
Cried him up and down the coast,
In hamlets, palaces and parks, … Continue Reading …
Inscribed To W.H. Channing (Ode)
Though loath to grieve
The evil time’s sole patriot,
I cannot leave … Continue Reading …
Inscription for a Well in Memory of the Martyrs of the War (Fragments On Nature And Life)
Fall, stream, from Heaven to bless; return as well;
So did our sons; Heaven met them as they fell.
Insight (Fragments On Nature And Life)
Power that by obedience grows,
Knowledge which its source not knows,
Wave which severs whom it bears … Continue Reading …
Intellect
Go, speed the stars of Thought
On to their shining goals;— … Continue Reading …
Intellect (Fragments On Nature And Life)
Gravely it broods apart on joy,
And, truth to tell, amused by pain.
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Letters
Every day brings a ship,
Every ship brings a word; … Continue Reading …
Life (Fragments On Nature And Life)
A train of gay and clouded days
Dappled with joy and grief and praise,
Beauty to fire us, saints to save, … Continue Reading …
Limits (Fragments On Nature And Life)
Who knows this or that?
Hark in the wall to the rat:
Since the world was, he has gnawed; … Continue Reading …
Lines
Love scatters oil
On Life’s dark sea,
Sweetens its toil— … Continue Reading …
Lines to Ellen
Tell me, maiden, dost thou use
Thyself thro’ Nature to diffuse?
All the angles of the coast … Continue Reading …
Love (Quatrain)
Love on his errand bound to go
Can swim the flood and wade through snow, … Continue Reading …
Love and Thought
Two well-assorted travellers use
The highway, Eros and the Muse.
From the twins is nothing hidden, … Continue Reading …
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Maia (Fragments On Nature And Life)
Illusion works impenetrable,
Weaving webs innumerable,
Her gay pictures never fail, … Continue Reading …
Maiden Speech of the Aeolian Harp
Soft and softlier hold me, friends!
Thanks if your genial care
Unbind and give me to the air. … Continue Reading …
Manners
Grace, Beauty and Caprice
Build this golden portal;
Graceful women, chosen men, … Continue Reading …
May-Day
Daughter of Heaven and Earth, coy Spring,
With sudden passion languishing,
Teaching Barren moors to smile, … Continue Reading …
Memory (Quatrain)
Night-dreams trace on Memory’s wall
Shadows of the thoughts of day, … Continue Reading …
Merlin I
Thy trivial harp will never please
Or fill my craving ear;
Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, … Continue Reading …
Merlin II
The rhyme of the poet
Modulates the king’s affairs;
Balance-loving Nature … Continue Reading …
Merlin’s Song
Of Merlin wise I learned a song,—
Sing it low or sing it loud,
It is mightier than the strong, … Continue Reading …
Merops
What care I, so they stand the same,—
Things of the heavenly mind,—
How long the power to give them name … Continue Reading …
Mithridates
I cannot spare water or wine,
Tobacco-leaf, or poppy, or rose;
From the earth-poles to the Line, … Continue Reading …
Monadnoc
Thousand minstrels woke within me,
‘Our music’s in the hills;’—
Gayest pictures rose to win me, … Continue Reading …
Monadnoc from afar (Fragments On Nature And Life)
Dark flower of Cheshire garden,
Red evening duly dyes
Thy sombre head with rosy hues … Continue Reading …
Music (Fragments On Nature And Life)
Let me go where’er I will,
I hear a sky-born music still:
It sounds from all things old, … Continue Reading …
Musketaquid
Because I was content with these poor fields,
Low, open meads, slender and sluggish streams,
And found a home in haunts which others scorned, … Continue Reading …
My Garden
If I could put my woods in song
And tell what’s there enjoyed,
All men would to my gardens throng, … Continue Reading …
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Nahant (Fragments On Nature And Life)
All day the waves assailed the rock,
I heard no church-bell chime, … Continue Reading …
Nature
A subtle chain of countless rings
The next unto the farthest brings;
The eye reads omens where it goes, … Continue Reading …
Nature (Fragments On Nature And Life)
The patient Pan,
Drunken with nectar,
Sleeps or feigns slumber, … Continue Reading …
Nature (Quatrain)
Boon Nature yields each day a brag which we now first behold,
And trains us on to slight the new, as if it were the old: … Continue Reading …
Nature I
Winters know
Easily to shed the snow,
And the untaught Spring is wise … Continue Reading …
Nature II
She is gamesome and good,
But of mutable mood,—
No dreary repeater now and again, … Continue Reading …
Nature in Leasts (Quatrain)
As sings the pine-tree in the wind,
So sings in the wind a sprig of the pine; … Continue Reading …
Nemesis
Already blushes on thy cheek
The bosom thought which thou must speak;
The bird, how far it haply roam … Continue Reading …
Night in June (Fragments On Nature And Life)
I left my dreary page and sallied forth,
Received the fair inscriptions of the night;
The moon was making amber of the world, … Continue Reading …
Northman (Quatrain)
The gale that wrecked you on the sand,
It helped my rowers to row; … Continue Reading …
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October (Fragments On Nature And Life)
October woods wherein
The boy’s dream comes to pass,
And Nature squanders on the boy her pomp, … Continue Reading …
Ode, sung in the Town Hall, Concord, July 4, 1857
O tenderly the haughty day
Fills his blue urn with fire;
One morn is in the mighty heaven, … Continue Reading …
Ode to Beauty
Who gave thee, O Beauty,
The keys of this breast,—
Too credulous lover … Continue Reading …
Orator (Quatrain)
He who has no hands
Perforce must use his tongue; … Continue Reading …
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Pan (Fragments On Nature And Life)
O what are heroes, prophets, men,
But pipes through which the breath of Pan doth blow
A momentary music. Being’s tide … Continue Reading …
Pericles (Quatrain)
Well and wisely said the Greek,
Be thou faithful, but not fond; … Continue Reading …
Peter’s Field (Fragments On Nature And Life)
[Knows he who tills this lonely field
To reap its scanty corn,
What mystic fruit his acres yield … Continue Reading …
Philosopher (Fragments On Nature And Life)
Philosophers are lined with eyes within,
And, being so, the sage unmakes the man.
In love, he cannot therefore cease his trade; … Continue Reading …
Poet (Quatrain)
To clothe the fiery thought
In simple words succeeds, … Continue Reading …
Politics
Gold and iron are good
To buy iron and gold;
All earth’s fleece and food … Continue Reading …
Power
His tongue was framed to music,
And his hand was armed with skill; … Continue Reading …
Power (Quatrain)
Cast the bantling on the rocks,
Suckle him with the she-wolf’s teat, … Continue Reading …
Prayer
When success exalts thy lot,
God for thy virtue lays a plot:
And all thy life is for thy own, … Continue Reading …
Promise
In countless upward-striving waves
The moon-drawn tide-wave strives;
In thousand far-transplanted grafts … Continue Reading …
Prudence
Theme no poet gladly sung,
Fair to old and foul to young; … Continue Reading …
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Quatrains
High was her heart, and yet was well inclined,
Her manners made of bounty well refined; … Continue Reading …
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Rex (Fragments On Nature And Life)
The bard and mystic held me for their own,
I filled the dream of sad, poetic maids,
I took the friendly noble by the hand, … Continue Reading …
Riches (Fragments On Nature And Life)
Have ye seen the caterpillar
Foully warking in his nest?
‘T is the poor man getting siller, … Continue Reading …
Rubies
They brought me rubies from the mine,
And held them to the sun;
I said, they are drops of frozen wine … Continue Reading …
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Saadi
Trees in groves,
Kine in droves,
In ocean sport the scaly herds, … Continue Reading …
Sacrifice (Quatrain)
Though love repine, and reason chafe,
There came a voice without reply,— … Continue Reading …
Seashore
I heard or seemed to hear the chiding Sea
Say, Pilgrim, why so late and slow to come?
Am I not always here, thy summer home? … Continue Reading …
Security
Though her eye seek other forms
And a glad delight below,
Yet the love the world that warms … Continue Reading …
Security (Fragments On Nature And Life)
A dull uncertain brain,
But gifted yet to know
That God has cherubim who go … Continue Reading …
Self-Reliance
Henceforth, please God, forever I forego
The yoke of men’s opinions. I will be
Light-hearted as a bird, and live with God. … Continue Reading …
Self-Reliance
And when I am entombed in my place,
Be it remembered of a single man,
He never, though he dearly loved his race, … Continue Reading …
September (Fragments On Nature And Life)
In the turbulent beauty
Of a gusty Autumn day,
Poet on a sunny headland … Continue Reading …
Shakspeare (Quatrain)
I see all human wits
Are measured but a few; … Continue Reading …
Solution
I am the Muse who sung alway
By Jove, at dawn of the first day.
Star-crowned, sole-sitting, long I wrought … Continue Reading …
Song of Nature
Mine are the night and morning,
The pits of air, the gulf of space,
The sportive sun, the gibbous moon, … Continue Reading …
Spiritual Laws
The living Heaven thy prayers respect,
House at once and architect,
Quarrying man’s rejected hours, … Continue Reading …
Sunrise (Fragments On Nature And Life)
Would you know what joy is hid
In our green Musketaquid,
And for travelled eyes what charms … Continue Reading …
Sursum Corda
Seek not the spirit, if it hide
Inexorable to thy zeal:
Trembler, do not whine and chide: … Continue Reading …
“Suum Cuique” (Fragments On Nature And Life)
Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?
Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill. … Continue Reading …
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Terminus
It is time to be old,
To take in sail:—
The god of bounds, … Continue Reading …
The Adirondacs
Wise and polite,—and if I drew
Their several portraits, you would own
Chaucer had no such worthy crew, … Continue Reading …
The Amulet
Your picture smiles as first it smiled;
The ring you gave is still the same;
Your letter tells, O changing child! … Continue Reading …
The Apology
Think me not unkind and rude
That I walk alone in grove and glen;
I go to the god of the wood … Continue Reading …
The Bell
I love thy music, mellow bell,
I love thine iron chime,
To life or death, to heaven or hell, … Continue Reading …
The Bohemian Hymn (Fragments On Nature And Life)
In many forms we try
To utter God’s infinity,
But the boundless hath no form, … Continue Reading …
The Celestial Love
But God said,
‘I will have a purer gift;
There is smoke in the flame; … Continue Reading …
The Chartist’s Complaint
Day! hast thou two faces,
Making one place two places?
One, by humble farmer seen, … Continue Reading …
The Daemonic Love
Man was made of social earth,
Child and brother from his birth,
Tethered by a liquid cord … Continue Reading …
The Day’s Ration
When I was born,
From all the seas of strength Fate filled a chalice,
Saying, ‘This be thy portion, child; this chalice, … Continue Reading …
The Earth (Fragments On Nature And Life)
Our eyeless bark sails free
Though with boom and spar … Continue Reading …
The Enchanter (Fragments On Nature And Life)
In the deep heart of man a poet dwells
Who all the day of life his summer story tells;
Scatters on every eye dust of his spells, … Continue Reading …
The Exile (Fragments On Nature And Life)
The heavy blue chain
Of the boundless main
Didst thou, just man, endure. … Continue Reading …
The Garden (Fragments On Nature And Life)
Many things the garden shows,
And pleased I stray
From tree to tree … Continue Reading …
The Harp
One musician is sure,
His wisdom will not fail,
He has not tasted wine impure, … Continue Reading …
The Heavens (Fragments On Nature And Life)
Wisp and meteor nightly falling,
But the Stars of God remain.
The House
There is no architect
Can build as the Muse can;
She is skilful to select … Continue Reading …
The Humble-Bee
Burly, dozing humble-bee,
Where thou art is clime for me.
Let them sail for Porto Rique, … Continue Reading …
The Informing Spirit
There is no great and no small
To the Soul that maketh all:
And where it cometh, all things are; … Continue Reading …
The Last Farewell
Farewell, ye lofty spires
That cheered the holy light!
Farewell, domestic fires … Continue Reading …
The Miracle (Fragments On Nature And Life)
I have trod this path a hundred times
With idle footsteps, crooning rhymes.
I know each nest and web-worm’s tent, … Continue Reading …
The Nun’s Aspiration
The yesterday doth never smile,
The day goes drudging through the while,
Yet, in the name of Godhead, I … Continue Reading …
The Park
The prosperous and beautiful
To me seem not to wear
The yoke of conscience masterful, … Continue Reading …
The Past
The debt is paid,
The verdict said,
The Furies laid, … Continue Reading …
The Poet
Right upward on the road of fame
With sounding steps the poet came;
Born and nourished in miracles, … Continue Reading …
The Problem
I like a church; I like a cowl;
I love a prophet of the soul;
And on my heart monastic aisles … Continue Reading …
The Rhodora
In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes,
I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods,
Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook,… Continue Reading …
The River
And I behold once more
My old familiar haunts; here the blue river,
The same blue wonder that my infant eye … Continue Reading …
The Romany Girl
The sun goes down, and with him takes
The coarseness of my poor attire;
The fair moon mounts, and aye the flame … Continue Reading …
The Snow-Storm
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air … Continue Reading …
The Sphinx
The Sphinx is drowsy,
Her wings are furled:
Her ear is heavy, … Continue Reading …
The Summons
A sterner errand to the silken troop
Has quenched the uneasy blush that warmed my cheek;
I am commissioned in my day of joy … Continue Reading …
The Test
I hung my verses in the wind,
Time and tide their faults may find.
All were winnowed through and through, … Continue Reading …
The Titmouse
You shall not be overbold
When you deal with arctic cold,
As late I found my lukewarm blood … Continue Reading …
The Violet
Why lingerest thou, pale violet, to see the dying year;
Are Autumn’s blasts fit music for thee, fragile one, to hear;
Will thy clear blue eye, upward bent, still keep its chastened glow, … Continue Reading …
The Visit
Askest, ‘How long thou shalt stay?’
Devastator of the day!
Know, each substance and relation, … Continue Reading …
The Walk (Fragments On Nature And Life)
A Queen rejoices in her peers,
And wary Nature knows her own
By court and city, dale and down, … Continue Reading …
The Waterfall (Fragments On Nature And Life)
A patch of meadow upland
Reached by a mile of road,
Soothed by the voice of waters, … Continue Reading …
The World-Soul
Thanks to the morning light,
Thanks to the foaming sea,
To the uplands of New Hampshire, … Continue Reading …
Thine Eyes still Shined
Thine eyes still shined for me, though far
I lonely roved the land or sea:
As I behold yon evening star, … Continue Reading …
Thought
I am not poor, but I am proud,
Of one inalienable right,
Above the envy of the crowd,— … Continue Reading …
Threnody
The South-wind brings
Life, sunshine and desire,
And on every mount and meadow … Continue Reading …
To-Day
I rake no coffined clay, nor publish wide
The resurrection of departed pride.
Safe in their ancient crannies, dark and deep, … Continue Reading …
To Ellen
And Ellen, when the graybeard years
Have brought us to life’s evening hour,
And all the crowded Past appears … Continue Reading …
To Ellen at the South
The green grass is bowing,
The morning wind is in it;
‘T is a tune worth thy knowing, … Continue Reading …
To Eva
O fair and stately maid, whose eyes
Were kindled in the upper skies
At the same torch that lighted mine; … Continue Reading …
To J.W.
Set not thy foot on graves;
Hear what wine and roses say;
The mountain chase, the summer waves, … Continue Reading …
To Rhea
Thee, dear friend, a brother soothes,
Not with flatteries, but truths,
Which tarnish not, but purify … Continue Reading …
Transition (Fragments On Nature And Life)
See yonder leafless trees against the sky,
How they diffuse themselves into the air,
And, ever subdividing, separate … Continue Reading …
Two Rivers
Thy summer voice, Musketaquit,
Repeats the music of the rain;
But sweeter rivers pulsing flit … Continue Reading …
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Una
Roving, roving, as it seems,
Una lights my clouded dreams;
Still for journeys she is dressed; … Continue Reading …
Unity
Space is ample, east and west,
But two cannot go abreast,
Cannot travel in it two: … Continue Reading …
Uriel
It fell in the ancient periods
Which the brooding soul surveys,
Or ever the wild Time coined itself … Continue Reading …
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Voluntaries
Low and mournful be the strain,
Haughty thought be far from me;
Tones of penitence and pain, … Continue Reading …
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Waldeinsamkeit
I do not count the hours I spend
In wandering by the sea;
The forest is my loyal friend, … Continue Reading …
Walden (Fragments On Nature And Life)
In my garden three ways meet,
Thrice the spot is blest;
Hermit-thrush comes there to build, … Continue Reading …
Water (Fragments On Nature And Life)
The water understands
Civilization well;
It wets my foot, but prettily … Continue Reading …
Wealth
Who shall tell what did befall,
Far away in time, when once,
Over the lifeless ball, … Continue Reading …
Webster
Let Webster’s lofty face
Ever on thousands shine, … Continue Reading …
Woodnotes (I, II)
When the pine tosses its cones
To the song of its waterfall tones,
Who speeds to the woodland walks? … Continue Reading …
Worship
This is he, who, felled by foes,
Sprung harmless up, refreshed by blows:
He to captivity was sold, … Continue Reading …
Written at Rome, 1883
Alone in Rome. Why, Rome is lonely too;—
Besides, you need not be alone; the soul
Shall have society of its own rank. … Continue Reading …
Written in a Volume of Goethe (Fragments On Nature And Life)
Six thankful weeks,—and let it be
A meter of prosperity,—
In my coat I bore this book, … Continue Reading …
Written in Naples, March, 1883
We are what we are made; each following day
Is the Creator of our human mould
Not less than was the first; the all-wise God … Continue Reading …
Xenophanes
By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave
One scent to hyson and to wall-flower,
One sound to pine-groves and to waterfalls, … Continue Reading …
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