The Apology

About Ralph Waldo Emerson

American essayist, philosopher, and poet. Leader of the Transcendentalist movement whose verse celebrates nature and self-reliance.

More poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Concord Hymn — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1837)
• Each And All — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
• Forbearance — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
• Compensation — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
• Merlin I — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
• Initial, Daemonic And Celestial Love — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
• Eros — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
• Étienne De La Boéce — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)

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More Solitude & Reflection poems

• After Apple-Picking — Robert Frost (1916)
• Ode To A Nightingale. — John Keats
• A Servant to Servants — Robert Frost (1916)
• An Old Man's Winter Night — Robert Frost (1923)
• Good Hours — Robert Frost
• Great Streets of silence led away — Emily Dickinson
• Come Sleep, O Sleep! The Certain Knot Of Peace — Sir Philip Sidney
• I was in the darkness — Stephen Crane

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