Ralph+Waldo+Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson = =
 * By Krystal, Ashlyn, Gabe, and Lizeth**


 * Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in the year 1803
 * Was born in Boston, Massachusetts [[image:thepoetryplace/RWEmerson.jpg align="right" caption="Ralph Waldo Emerson, older"]]
 * Married a woman named, Ellen Tucker
 * Settled in Concord, Massachusetts in 1833
 * Died in the year 1882
 * Was a Unitarian pastor at the Second Church of Boston in 1831
 * Was an essayist, a philosopher, and a poet
 * Was an orator and a popular philosopher
 * Influenced the work of Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, and Robert Frost
 * Emerson’s father died in the year 1811
 * Mother had five sons, and was left to raise them on her own when her husband died
 * One of Emerson’s brothers was mental and died in 1836 of tuberculosis
 * Suffered from blindness when he was thirty years old
 * Entered Harvard University at age fourteen
 * Graduated at Harvard University at age eighteen

**__Poems by Ralp__****__h Waldo Emerson__**
**__// Song of Nature //__** ** By Ralph Waldo Emerson ** Mine are the night and morning,
 * // A Nation’s Strength //
 * // Brahma //
 * // Concord Hymn //
 * // Days //
 * // Fable //
 * // See How the Roses Burn //
 * // Song of Nature //
 * // Fate //
 * // Give all to Love //
 * // Celestial Love //
 * // Two Rivers //

The pits of air, the gulf of space,

The sportive sun, the gibbous moon,

The innumerable days.

I hid in the solar glory,

I am dumb in the pealing song,

I rest on the pitch of the torrent,

In slumber I am strong.

No numbers have counted my tallies,

No tribes my house can fill,

I sit by the shining Fount of Life,

And pour the deluge still;

And ever by delicate powers

Gathering along the centuries

From race on race the rarest flowers,

My wreath shall nothing miss.

And many a thousand summers

My apples ripened well,

And light from meliorating stars

With firmer glory fell.

I wrote the past in characters

Of rock and fire the scroll,

The building in the coral sea,

The planting of the coal.

And thefts from satellites and rings

And broken stars I drew,

And out of spent and aged things

I formed the world anew;

What time the gods kept carnival,

Tricked out in star and flower,

And in cramp elf and saurian forms

They swathed their too much power.

Time and Thought were my surveyors,

They laid their courses well,

They boiled the sea, and baked the layers

Or granite, marl, and shell.

But he, the man-child glorious,--

Where tarries he the while?

The rainbow shines his harbinger,

The sunset gleams his smile.

My boreal lights leap upward,

Forthright my planets roll,

And still the man-child is not born,

The summit of the whole.

Must time and tide forever run?

Will never my winds go sleep in the west?

Will never my wheels which whirl the sun

And satellites have rest?

Too much of donning and doffing,

Too slow the rainbow fades,

I weary of my robe of snow,

My leaves and my cascades;

I tire of globes and races,

Too long the game is played;

What without him is summer's pomp,

Or winter's frozen shade?

I travail in pain for him,

My creatures travail and wait;

His couriers come by squadrons,

He comes not to the gate.

Twice I have moulded an image,

And thrice outstretched my hand,

Made one of day, and one of night,

And one of the salt sea-sand.

One in a Judaean manger,

And one by Avon stream,

One over against the mouths of Nile,

And one in the Academe.

I moulded kings and saviours,

And bards o'er kings to rule;--

But fell the starry influence short,

The cup was never full.

Yet whirl the glowing wheels once more,

And mix the bowl again;

Seethe, fate! the ancient elements,

Heat, cold, wet, dry, and peace, and pain.

Let war and trade and creeds and song

Blend, ripen race on race,

The sunburnt world a man shall breed

Of all the zones, and countless days.

No ray is dimmed, no atom worn,

My oldest force is good as new,

And the fresh rose on yonder thorn

Gives back the bending heavens in dew. Bibliography

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