Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The Test, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The Sphinx, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Terminus, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Sursum Corda, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Spiritual Laws, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Song of Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Solution, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The Snow-Storm, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Seashore, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Saadi, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Rubies, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ode to Beauty, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The Past, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The Park, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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