I Thoughts on Modern Literature
    IN our fidelity to the higher truth we need not disown our debt, in our actual state of culture, in the twilights of experience, to these rude helpers. They keep alive the memory and the hope of a better…
Originally published in 1903-04 by Houghton Mifflin and Company, with Notes and Commentary by Emerson’s son Edward. The Centenary edition, was subsequently republished by AMS Press in 1968, with a second edition published in 1979 with a new Introduction by Joel Myerson. Scholars and those interested in the most accurate and recent editions of The Collected Works, are referred to the Belnap Press of the Harvard University Press Series, begun in 1979 and complete now through Volume VI, The Conduct of Life. These editions are not in the public domain and have not been used for this digital format. However, the first six volumes of The Collected Works are available in most libraries and from Harvard University Press.
    IN our fidelity to the higher truth we need not disown our debt, in our actual state of culture, in the twilights of experience, to these rude helpers. They keep alive the memory and the hope of a better…
IN an afternoon in April, after a long walk, I traversed an orchard where boys were grafting apple‑trees, and found the Farmer in his cornfield. He was holding the plough, and his son driving the oxen. This man always…
I. Thoughts on Modern Literature II. Walter Savage Landor III. Prayers IV. Agriculture of Massachusetts V. Europe and European Books VI. Past and Present VII. A Letter VIII. The Tragic
Literature is but a poor trick, you will say, when it busies itself to make words pass for things ; and yet I am far from thinking this subordinate service unimportant. The secondary services of literature may be classed…
Nature (1836) (complete book) by Ralph Waldo Emerson A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm…
IPOEMSGOOD-BYE GOOD-BYE, proud world! I’m going home:Thou art not my friend, and I’m not thine.Long through thy weary crowds I roam;A river-ark on the ocean brine,Long I’ve been tossed like the driven foam;But now, proud world! I’m going home. Good-bye…
IIMAY-DAY AND OTHER PIECES MAY-DAYDAUGHTER of Heaven and Earth, coy Spring,With sudden passion languishing,Teaching barren moors to smile,Painting pictures mile on mile,Holds a cup with cowslip-wreaths,Whence a smokeless incense breathes. The air is full of whistlings bland;What was that I…
I POEMS GOOD-BYE GOOD-BYE, proud world! I’m going home: Thou art not my friend, and I’m not thine. Long through thy weary crowds I roam; A river-ark on the ocean brine, Long I’ve been tossed like the driven foam; But…
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