ol-teaching, study for the ministry and exercise
of that office, his sickness, bereavement, travel abroad and return to
the new life. This sad period of probation is illuminated by the
episode of his first love. Not for their poetical merit, except in
flashes, but for the light they throw on the growth of his thought and
character are they included.

In this volume the course of the Muse, as Emerson tells it, is pursued
with regard to his own poems.

I hang my verses in the wind,
Time and tide their faults will find.

EDWARD W. EMERSON.

March 12, 1904.

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CONTENTS

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

POEMS

GOOD-BYE
EACH AND ALL
THE PROBLEM
TO RHEA
THE VISIT
URIEL
THE WORLD-SOUL
THE SPHINX
ALPHONSO OF CASTILE
MITHRIDATES
TO J.W.
DESTINY
GUY
HAMATREYA
THE RHODORA
THE HUMBLE-BEE
BERRYING
THE SNOW-STORM
WOODNOTES I
WOODNOTES II
MONADNOC
FABLE
ODE
ASTRAEA
ETIENNE DE LA BOECE
COMPENSATION
FORBEARANCE
THE PARK
FORERUNNERS
SURSUM CORDA
ODE TO BEAUTY
GIVE ALL TO LOVE
TO ELLEN AT THE SOUTH
TO ELLEN
TO EVA
LINES
THE VIOLET
THE AMULET
THINE EYES STILL SHINED
EROS
HERMIONE
INITIAL, DAEMONIC AND CELESTIAL LOVE
I. THE INITIAL LOVE
II. THE DAEMONIC LOVE
III. THE CELESTIAL LOVE
THE APOLOGY
MERLIN I
MERLIN II
BACCHUS
MEROPS
THE HOUSE
SAADI
HOLIDAYS
XENOPHANES
THE DAY'S RATION
BLIGHT
MUSKETAQUID
DIRGE
THRENODY
CONCORD HYMN

MAY-DAY AND OTHER PIECES

MAY-DAY
THE ADIRONDACS
BRAHMA
NEMESIS
FATE
FREEDOM
ODE
BOSTON HYMN
VOLUNTARIES
LOVE AND THOUGHT
UNA
BOSTON
LETTERS
RUBIES
MERLIN'S SONG
THE TEST
SOLUTION
HYMN
NATURE I
NATURE II
THE ROMANY GIRL
DAYS
MY GARDEN
THE CHARTIST'S COMPLAINT
THE TITMOUSE
THE HARP
SEASHORE
SONG OF NATURE
TWO RIVERS
WALDEINSAMKEIT
TERMINUS
THE NUN'S ASPIRATION
APRIL
MAIDEN SPEECH OF THE AEOLIAN HARP
CUPIDO
THE PAST
THE LAST FAREWELL
IN MEMORIAM E.B.E.

ELEMENTS AND MOTTOES

EXPERIENCE
COMPENSATION
POLITICS
HEROISM
CHARACTER
CULTURE
FRIENDSHIP
SPIRITUAL LAWS
BEAUTY
MANNERS
ART
UNITY
WORSHIP
PRUDENCE
NATURE
THE INFORMING SPIRIT
CIRCLES
INTELLECT
GIFTS
PROMISE
CARITAS
POWER
WEALTH
ILLUSIONS

QUATRAINS AND TRANSLATIONS

QUATRAINS
TRANSLATIONS

APPENDIX

THE POET
FRAGMENTS ON THE POET AND THE POETIC GIFT
FRAGMENTS ON NATURE AND LIFE
NATURE
LIFE
THE BOHEMIAN HYMN
GRACE
INSIGHT
PAN
MONADNOC FROM AFAR
SEPTEMBER
EROS
OCTOBER
PETER'S