Poetry Codex

American

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1803–1882

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet from Concord, Massachusetts, and the leading voice of the Transcendentalist movement, which prized intuition, nature, and individual conscience over inherited tradition.

Best known for essays such as ‘Self-Reliance’ and ‘Nature’, he also wrote compact, philosophical verse — including ‘Concord Hymn’, ‘The Rhodora’, and ‘Brahma’ — that distilled his ideas into poetic form.

Poems (227)

  1. Good-Bye
  2. Each And All
  3. The Problem
  4. To Rhea
  5. The Visit
  6. Uriel
  7. The World-Soul
  8. The Sphinx
  9. Alphonso Of Castile
  10. Mithridates
  11. Destiny
  12. Guy
  13. Hamatreya
  14. The Rhodora
  15. The Humble-Bee
  16. Berrying
  17. The Snow-Storm
  18. Woodnotes I
  19. Woodnotes II
  20. Monadnoc
  21. Fable
  22. Ode (1)
  23. Astraea
  24. Étienne De La Boéce
  25. Compensation (1)
  26. Forbearance
  27. The Park
  28. Forerunners
  29. Sursum Corda
  30. Ode To Beauty
  31. Give All To Love
  32. To Ellen At The South
  33. To Ellen
  34. To Eva
  35. Lines
  36. The Violet
  37. The Amulet
  38. Thine Eyes Still Shined
  39. Eros (1)
  40. Hermione
  41. Initial, Daemonic And Celestial Love
  42. The Apology
  43. Merlin I
  44. Merlin II
  45. Bacchus
  46. Merops
  47. The House
  48. Saadi
  49. Holidays
  50. Xenophanes
  51. The Day's Ration
  52. Blight
  53. Musketaquid
  54. Dirge
  55. Threnody
  56. Concord Hymn
  57. May-Day
  58. The Adirondacs
  59. Brahma
  60. Nemesis
  61. Fate (1)
  62. Freedom
  63. Ode (2)
  64. Boston Hymn
  65. Voluntaries
  66. Love And Thought
  67. Una
  68. Boston
  69. Letters
  70. Rubies
  71. Merlin's Song
  72. The Test
  73. Solution
  74. Hymn (1)
  75. Nature I
  76. Nature II
  77. The Romany Girl
  78. Days
  79. My Garden
  80. The Chartist's Complaint
  81. The Titmouse
  82. The Harp
  83. Seashore
  84. Song Of Nature
  85. Two Rivers
  86. Waldeinsamkeit
  87. Terminus
  88. The Nun's Aspiration
  89. April
  90. Maiden Speech Of The Aeolian Harp
  91. Cupido
  92. The Past
  93. The Last Farewell
  94. Experience
  95. Compensation (2)
  96. Politics
  97. Heroism
  98. Character
  99. Culture
  100. Friendship
  101. Spiritual Laws
  102. Beauty
  103. Manners
  104. Art
  105. Unity
  106. Worship
  107. Prudence
  108. Nature (1)
  109. The Informing Spirit
  110. Circles
  111. Intellect (1)
  112. Gifts
  113. Promise
  114. Caritas
  115. Power (1)
  116. Wealth
  117. Illusions
  118. Hush!
  119. Orator
  120. Artist
  121. Poet (1)
  122. Poet (2)
  123. Botanist
  124. Gardener
  125. Forester
  126. Northman
  127. From Alcuin
  128. Excelsior
  129. Borrowing
  130. Nature (2)
  131. Fate (2)
  132. Horoscope
  133. Power (2)
  134. Climacteric
  135. Heri, Cras, Hodie
  136. Memory
  137. Love
  138. Sacrifice
  139. Pericles
  140. Casella
  141. Shakspeare
  142. Hafiz
  143. Nature In Leasts
  144. The Poet
  145. Chorus Of Spirits
  146. Poet (3)
  147. Spirits (1)
  148. Poet (4)
  149. Spirits (2)
  150. Fragments On The Poet And The Poetic Gift
  151. Nature (3)
  152. The Earth
  153. The Heavens
  154. Transition
  155. The Garden
  156. Birds
  157. Water
  158. Nahant
  159. Sunrise
  160. Night In June
  161. Maia
  162. Life
  163. Rex
  164. Suum Cuique
  165. The Bohemian Hymn
  166. Grace
  167. Insight
  168. Pan
  169. Monadnoc From Afar
  170. September
  171. Eros (2)
  172. October
  173. Peter's Field
  174. Music
  175. The Walk
  176. Cosmos
  177. The Miracle
  178. The Waterfall
  179. Walden
  180. The Enchanter
  181. Written In A Volume Of Goethe
  182. Riches
  183. Philosopher
  184. Intellect (2)
  185. Limits
  186. Inscription For A Well In Memory Of The Martyrs Of The War
  187. The Exile
  188. The Bell
  189. Thought
  190. When success exalts thy lot
  191. Be of good cheer, brave spirit; steadfastly
  192. To-Day
  193. Fame
  194. The Summons
  195. The River
  196. The cup of life is not so shallow
  197. Lines To Ellen
  198. Security
  199. A Mountain Grave
  200. Dear brother, would you know the life
  201. Hymn (2)
  202. Henceforth, please God, forever I forego
  203. And when I am entombed in my place
  204. Written In Naples
  205. Alone in Rome. Why, Rome is lonely too;--
  206. Webster
  207. From The Phi Beta Kappa Poem
  208. Adakryn Nemontai Aiona
  209. Sonnet Of Michel Angelo Buonaroti
  210. The Exile (Kermani)
  211. From Hafiz
  212. If my darling should depart
  213. Epitaph
  214. They say, through patience, chalk
  215. Friendship (From Hafiz)
  216. Dearest, where thy shadow falls
  217. On prince or bride no diamond stone
  218. From Omar Khayyam
  219. Unbar the door, since thou the Opener art
  220. From Ali Ben Abu Taleb
  221. On two days it steads not to run from thy grave
  222. From Ibn Jemin
  223. The Flute
  224. To The Shah (1)
  225. To The Shah (2)
  226. To The Shah (3)
  227. Song Of Seyd Nimetollah Of Kuhistan

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