Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and love much;
To win the respect of intelligent persons
And the affection of ch...

(Musa loquitur.) I hung my verses in the wind,
Time and tide their faults may find.
All were ...

The Sphinx is drowsy,
Her wings are furled:
Her ear is heavy,
She broods on the world.
"Wh...

It is time to be old,
To take in sail: --
The god of bounds,
Who sets to seas a shore,
Cam...

Seek not the spirit, if it hide
Inexorable to thy zeal:
Trembler, do not whine and chide:
...

The living Heaven thy prayers respect,
House at once and architect,
Quarrying man's rejected ...

Mine are the night and morning,
The pits of air, the gulf of space,
The sportive sun, the...

I am the Muse who sung alway
By Jove, at dawn of the first day.
Star-crowned, sole-sitting, ...

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,
S...

I heard or seemed to hear the chiding Sea
Say, Pilgrim, why so late and slow to come?
Am I ...

Trees in groves,
Kine in droves,
In ocean sport the scaly herds,
Wedge-like cleave the air ...

They brought me rubies from the mine,
And held them to the sun;
I said, they are drops of fr...

Who gave thee, O Beauty,
The keys of this breast, --
Too credulous lover
Of blest and unbles...

The debt is paid,
The verdict said,
The Furies laid,
The plague is stayed.
All fortune...

The prosperous and beautiful
To me seem not to wear
The yoke of conscience masterful,
Which g...