The Day's Ration

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 Life & Death poems

• Because I could not stop for Death — Emily Dickinson (1863)
• Fire and Ice — Robert Frost (1923)
• Hamlet's Soliloquy: To be or not to be — William Shakespeare
• Crabbed Age and Youth — William Shakespeare (1599)
• Holy Sonnet X: Death Be Not Proud — John Donne
• A Sea Dirge — William Shakespeare
• Crossing the Bar — William Butler Yeats (1889)
• Fidele — William Shakespeare

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