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    The Poetry Of Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
    The Poetry Of Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
    The Poetry Of Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
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    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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    Release dateAug 20, 2013
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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

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