The summer voice, Musketaquid
Repeats the music of the rain
But sweeter rivers pulsing flit
Through thee, as thou through the Concord Plain
Thou in my narrow banks art pent:
The stream I love unbounded goes
Through flood and sea and firmament;
Through light, through life, it foward flows.
I see the inundation sweet,
I hear the spending of the stream
Through years, through men, through nature fleet,
Through love and thought, through power and dream.
Musketaquit, a goblin strong.
Of shard and Flint makes jewels gay;
They lose their grief who hear his song,
And where he winds is the day of day.
So forth and brighter fares my stream,--
Who drink it shall not thirst again;
No darkness taints its equal gleam,
And ages drop in like rain.
- R.W. Emerson
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- Poems (1846)
- May Day and Other Places (1867)
- Selected Poems (1876)
~ In his time, RWE was not always considered for his poetry and remains most famous for his prose work today.
~ RWE is noted for not following the so-called "rules" of poetry that were valued greatly in his time.
~ His poetry ranged from public commemoration, personal elegy, narrative, romantic lyric, political coment, prophetic pronouncement, among others.
~ RWE was first inspired to write poetry after reading the works of Jones Very.
~ Such Poets as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickison, and Robert Frost have been said to have taken ispiration from his works.
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Emerson's Life
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I will not live out of me
I will not see with others' eyes
My good is good, my evil itll
I would be free I cannot be
While I take things as others please to rate them
I dare attempt to lay out my own road.
