May-day and other pieces

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

MAY-DAY

AND OTHER PIECES.

BY

RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

BOSTON:

TICKNOR AND FIELDS.

1867.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by
RALPH WALDO EMERSON,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co.,
Cambridge.

CONTENTS.

	Page
May-Day	1
The Adirondacs	41
Occasional and Miscellaneous Pieces.
Brahma	65
Nemesis	67
Fate	69
Freedom	70
Ode sung in the Town Hall, Concord, July 4, 1857	72
Boston Hymn	75
Voluntaries	81
Love and Thought	89
Lover's Petition	90
Una	92
Letters	94
Rubies	95
Merlin's Song	96
The Test	97
Solution	98
Nature and Life.
Nature	105
The Romany Girl	109
Days	111
The Chartist's Complaint	112
My Garden	114
The Titmouse	119
Sea-Shore	125
Song of Nature	128
Two Rivers	134
Waldeinsamkeit	136
Terminus	140
The Past	143
The Last Farewell	145
In Memoriam	148
Elements.
Experience	157
Compensation	159
Politics	161
Heroism	163
Character	164
Culture	165
Friendship	166
Beauty	168
Manners	170
Art	172
Spiritual Laws	174
Unity	175
Worship	176
Quatrains	179
Translations	193