The Poetry Of Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
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Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft and cement their place in our heritage. In this volume we look at the works of the American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. Many samples of his work can be found at our youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee Many of these poems are in an audiobook by our sister company and can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores. Among the readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe
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The Poetry Of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 25, 1803, son of Ruth Haskins and the Rev. William Emerson, a Unitarian minister.
The young Ralph's father died from stomach cancer on May 12, 1811, less than two weeks before Emerson's eighth birthday.
Emerson's formal schooling began at the Boston Latin School in 1812 when he was nine. In October 1817, at 14, Emerson went to Harvard College and was appointed freshman messenger for the president, requiring Emerson to fetch delinquent students and send messages to faculty.
By his senior year, Emerson decided to go by his middle name, Waldo. Emerson served as Class Poet; as was custom, he presented an original poem on Harvard's Class Day, a month before his official graduation on August 29, 1821, when he was 18.
After Harvard, Emerson assisted his brother William in a school for young women established in their mother's house. Over the next several years, Emerson made his living as a schoolmaster, before going to Harvard Divinity School.
In 1826, faced with poor health, Emerson went to seek out warmer climates. He first went to Charleston, South Carolina and then further south, to St. Augustine, Florida, where he began writing poetry in earnest.
Over the next fifty years his stature as a poet would increase immeasurably and certainly by the time of his death on April 27th, 1882 he was acknowledged as America’s greatest poet.
Emerson is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts.
Index of Poems
Alphonso Of Castile
Art
Astræ
Bacchus
Beauty
Berrying
Blight
Boston Hymn
Brahma
Celestial Love
Character
Compensation
Culture
Dæmonic Love
Dirge
Days
Each And All
Experience
Fable
Fate
Forerunners
Freedom
Friendship
Give All To Love
Grace
Guy
Heroism
Initial Love
Loss And Gain
Love And Thought
Lover's Petition
Manners
Merlin's Song
My Garden
Nature
Nemesis
Painting And Sculpture
Poems
Politics
Seashore
Self Reliance
Solution
Spiritual Laws
The Amulet
The Apology
The Bell
The Day's Ration
The Earth
The Humble Bee
The Lords Of Life
The Park
The Past
The Problem
The River Note
The Romany Girl
The Snow Storm
The Sphinx
The Test
The Titmouse
The Visit
The World-Soul
Two Rivers
Voluntaries
Waves
Wealth
Worship
Ralph Waldo Emerson – A Concise bibliography
Alphonso Of Castile
I Alphonso live and learn,
Seeing nature go astern.
Things deteriorate in kind,
Lemons run to leaves and rind,
Meagre crop of figs and limes,
Shorter days and harder times.
Flowering April cools and dies
In the insufficient skies;
Imps at high Midsummer blot
Half the sun's disk with a spot;
'Twill not now avail to tan
Orange cheek, or skin of man:
Roses bleach, the goats are dry,
Lisbon quakes, the people cry.
Yon pale scrawny fisher fools,
Gaunt as bitterns in the pools,
Are no brothers of my blood,—
They discredit Adamhood.
Eyes of gods! ye must have seen,
O'er your ramparts as ye lean,
The general debility,
Of genius the sterility,
Mighty projects countermanded,
Rash ambition broken-handed,
Puny man and scentless rose
Tormenting Pan to double the dose.
Rebuild or ruin: either fill
Of vital force the wasted rill,
Or, tumble all again in heap
To weltering chaos, and to sleep.
Say, Seigneurs, are the old Niles dry,
Which fed the veins of earth and sky,
That mortals miss the loyal heats
Which drove them erst to social feats,
Now to a savage selfness grown,
Think nature barely serves for one;
With. science poorly mask their hurt,
And vex the gods with question pert,
Immensely curious whether you
Still are rulers, or Mildew.
Masters, I'm in pain with you;
Masters, I'll be plain with you.
In my palace of Castile,
I, a king, for kings can feel;
There my thoughts the matter roll,
And solve and oft resolve the whole,
And, for I'm styled Alphonse the Wise,
Ye shall not fail for sound advice,
Before ye want a drop of rain,
Hear the sentiment of Spain.
You have tried famine: no more try it;
Ply us now with a full diet;
Teach your pupils now with plenty,
For one sun supply us twenty:
I have thought it thoroughly over,
State of hermit, state of lover;
We must have society,
We cannot spare variety.
Hear you, then, celestial fellows!
Fits not to be over zealous;
Steads not to work on the clean jump,
Nor wine nor brains perpetual pump;
Men and gods are too extense,—
Could you slacken and condense?
Your rank overgrowths reduce,
Till your kinds abound with juice;
Earth crowded cries, Too many men,
—
My counsel is, Kill nine in ten,
And bestow the shares of all
On the remnant decimal.
Add their nine lives to this cat;
Stuff their nine brains in his hat;
Make his frame